BERKELEY, Calif. – 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. The Cardinal picked up a victory over Sacramento State, 197.675-195.400, but fell to No. 3 California, 197.925-197.675.
Sunday's team total is Stanford's ninth-best score in program history and second-best performance this season.
The Cardinal dominated the event titles, taking four of the meet's individual event awards. 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.
Stanford started the meet on bars, recording a 49.200 event total. Neault and Roberts led the way with scores of 9.925, with Roberts' effort setting a new personal collegiate-best mark. Senior Ira Alexeeva added a 9.850 while sophomore Ava Sorrento posted a 9.800 and junior Anapaula Gutierrez led off with a 9.700.
The Cardinal then went to beam where the meet truly started to take off, as Stanford totaled a 49.550 team score on the apparatus, its second-best of the season. Neault and Widner's event-winning totals spearheaded the rotation while Nguyen added a new collegiate-best total of 9.900. Sophomore Claire Dean, freshman Sienna Robinson and Alexeeva each posted scores of 9.875.
The momentum of beam stayed with Stanford as it took on floor, earning the same team total behind 9.950 scores from Roberts and Widner. Neault added a career-best matching total of 9.925 and Dean led off the rotation with a 9.875. Nguyen posted the final scoring routine of the event with a 9.850.
The meet ended with the Cardinal's best vault rotation of the season as Stanford earned a 49.375 in its final event of the day. Nguyen's title-winning 9.950 paced the Cardinal while Gutierrez added a 9.925 and Neault posted a 9.850. Roberts and Widner each earned marks of 9.825 to round out all scoring routines.
Stanford now looks to postseason action, traveling to West Valley City, Utah Saturday, March 23 for the 2024 Pac-12 Championship.
