Senior Day Showdown with No. 2 CaliforniaSenior Day Showdown with No. 2 California
Women's Gymnastics

Senior Day Showdown with No. 2 California

 
  • No. 22 Stanford competes at home for the final time in the 2024 season Sunday, welcoming No. 2 California to Maples Pavilion for the final Pac-12 edition of the Big Meet. 
  • The Sunday afternoon dual meet between the Cardinal and Golden Bears is set for a 2 p.m. PT start and will be broadcast on Pac-12 Networks with Jim Watson and JaNay Honest on the call. 
  • Sunday afternoon is the Cardinal's Senior Day and will celebrate the Stanford careers of Ira Alexeeva, Sandra Jessen, and Amanda Zeng in a post-meet ceremony. 
  • Although the then-No. 24 Cardinal posted its second-best team total of the season, No. 10 UCLA topped Stanford 197.175-196.725 Friday evening in the final Pac-12 conference dual meet matchup between the two programs in Maples Pavilion. Alexeeva walked away with her first event title of the season with a career-best performance on beam of 9.950, while fifth-year Chloe Widner took home shares of both the bars and floor titles with scores of 9.900 and 9.925, respectively. 
  • Friday's meet against UCLA saw the return of sophomore Anna Roberts to Stanford's vault and bars lineups, her first appearances of the 2024 season after a preseason injury. Roberts posted scores of 9.825 on both events and looks to add more routines to the Cardinal's lineups as the program heads into the finals meets of regular season and postseason action. 
  • The future of Stanford women's gymnastics is bright and the current gymnastics produced by the Cardinal is benefitting from Stanford's youth-- the Cardinal's roster boasts 10 underclassmen and 13 routines against UCLA were put up by gymnasts in their first or second year on The Farm. Looking at all other Pac-12 program's most recent competition lineups, the Cardinal leads the Pac(k) by two in underclassmen competition routines put up in the last meet: 
    • Stanford- 13 (March 1 vs. UCLA)
    • Washington- 11 (March 3 vs. Arizona)
    • Arizona- 9 (March 3 at Washington)
    • UCLA- 9 (March 1 at Stanford) 
    • Utah- 9 (March 2 at California)
    • Oregon State- 9 (March 1 vs. Arizona State)
    • California- 7 (March 2 vs. Utah)
    • Arizona State- 7 (March 1 at Oregon State)
  • For the second consecutive week, the Cardinal boosted its NQS, this time with its second-best score of the entire season. Stanford's NQS of 196.585 is currently calculated by these six team scores:
    • 196.875- home vs. Washington, dropped (highest score dropped from calculation) (Feb. 5, 2024) 
    • 196.875- home vs. Arizona State (Feb. 9, 2024) 
    • 196.725- home vs. UCLA (March 1, 2024) 
    • 196.625- road score at Utah (Feb. 23, 2024) 
    • 196.600- road score at Oregon State (Feb. 17, 2024) 
    • 196.100- road score at Denver (Jan. 21, 2024) 
  • Stanford can increase its NQS this weekend with any team score above a 196.725.
    • Minimum Week 10 NQS: 196.585 (achieved by a team score of 196.725 or less) 
    • Maximum Week 10 NQS: 196.615 (achieved by a team score of 196.875 or better)