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Women's Gymnastics

No. 20 Cardinal Takes On 2024 Pac-12 Championships

  • No. 20 Stanford starts postseason action Saturday, competing in the afternoon session of the 2024 Pac-12 Championships against No. 21 Arizona State, No. 22 Arizona and No. 27 Washington at the Maverik Center in West Valley City, Utah. 
  • The Cardinal enters as the top seed of the afternoon session, scheduled to begin at 12 p.m. PT. Stanford will start on vault, while Arizona State will begin on bars, Washington will start on beam and Arizona will begin on floor. Both sessions of the meet are slated to be broadcast on the Pac-12 Network with Jim Watson and JaNay Honest on the call. 
  • No. 25 Stanford ended the 2024 regular season on a high note, earning its best road score of the season Sunday at the California tri meet with a final team total of 197.675. Sunday's team total was Stanford's ninth-best score in program history and second-best performance this season. 
  • Two days earlier, Stanford took second at the Utah tri meet, scoring a 196.500 led by fifth-year Chloe Widner's return to the all-around competition for the first time since January. 
  • At California, the Cardinal took home four of the five possible event titles and led the meet's team event scoring on both the beam and floor. Junior Brenna Neault won the all-around title with a career-best matching total of 39.650, highlighted by her career-best matching beam score of 9.950. Neault's effort won her a share of the beam title with fifth-year Chloe Widner. Widner also won a share of the floor title with sophomore Anna Roberts, both scoring a 9.950. Roberts' score on floor matched her career-best mark. Fellow sophomore Taralyn Nguyen set a new collegiate-best effort on vault, scoring a 9.950 to take home the event's title. 
  • For the fouth consecutive week, the Cardinal boosted its NQS and secured its spot at the 2024 NCAA Regional Championships. Stanford's NQS of 196.930 is currently calculated by these six team scores:
    • 197.975- home vs. California, dropped (highest score dropped from calculation) (March 10, 2024)
    • 197.675- road score at California Tri Meet (March 17, 2024)
    • 196.875- home vs. Arizona State (Feb. 9, 2024)
    • 196.875- home vs. Washington (Feb. 5, 2024)
    • 196.625- road score at Utah (Feb. 23, 2024)
    • 196.600- road score at Oregon State (Feb. 17, 2024)
      • Stanford's maximum 2024 NQS: 197.205
      • Stanford's possible regionals seeding: 15-25
  • The last time/conference championship records:
    • The Cardinal scored a 197.000-or-better at Pac-12s:  March 21, 2015 at Pac-10 Championships (197.175)
    • A Cardinal gymnast won a conference championship: 2021- Kyla Bryant, Floor (9.950)
    • Stanford won a conference title:  2008 Pac-10 Championships
    • A Stanford gymnast earned a score of 10.000 at conference championships:  March 20, 2004- Natalie Foley, Vault
    • Top Stanford team score at conference championship: March 20, 2004-  197.900 (1st place)
  • Stanford's trips to the Pac-12 Championships under head coach Tabitha Yim:
    • 2023: 195.875, 8th
    • 2022: 196.000, 8th
    • 2021: 195.175, 7th
    • 2020: Canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic
    • 2019: 195.925, 7th
    • 2018: 196.350, 7th