QUICK STICKS
- After posting its first 197.000 or better score in January for the first time since the 2015 season, No. 15 Stanford travels to Pittsburgh for its first Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) dual meet on the road against No. 25 Pitt on Sunday, Jan. 26.
- The in-conference top-25 matchup is set for a 1 p.m. PT start and will be televised by the ACC Network, with John Roethlisberger and Sam Peszek (Analyst) on the call. Live scoring can be found on Virtius.
- Stanford's home opener brought the Maples Magic back to The Farm, as the then-No. 18 Cardinal topped No. 21 NC State 197.025-195.925 in its inaugural ACC dual meet.
- Junior Anna Roberts shined with a career-best all-around-title-winning total of 39.650, led by event wins on bars and floor. Senior Brenna Neault secured the beam title with a career-best matching score of 9.950 and earned a season-best all-around score of 39.400. Sophomore Sienna Robinson won the first event title of her collegiate career with her career-best 9.925 on floor.
- Stanford’s team total of 197.025 against NC State is its best in the month of January since the 2014 season, when the Cardinal earned a score of 197.275 in a win over UC Davis, San Jose State, and Utah State on Jan. 26, 2014.
- Did You Know? The last time the Cardinal scored 197.000 or better in January was during the 2015 season in a meet on The Farm, a win over Oregon State, 197.000-196.450. Freshman Elizabeth Price made her Maples debut and scored the first perfect 10.000 of her collegiate career in the anchor position on vault. Stanford would go on to its seventh Super Six appearance in 14 years and finish the season fifth in the nation-- and Price would win her first of two NCAA Individual titles (on vault).
- A 2015 NCAA Individual Champion reunion is in the works at this Sunday's meet, as the meet's television analyst Sam Peszek was the 2015 NCAA Beam Champion and co-All-Around Champion and ESPN's timeout coordinator for the meet, Elizabeth Price, was the 2015 NCAA Vault Champion.
- Stanford women’s gymnastics swept the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Weekly Awards, the conference announced Tuesday. Junior Anna Roberts was named Gymnast of the Week, while sophomore Sienna Robinson was named Specialist of the Week and freshman Alana Walker was honored as Newcomer of the Week. The three awards mark the first conference award for any Cardinal gymnasts in the ACC. All three gymnasts earn the first weekly honors of their collegiate careers.
- Roberts had a career-best night in Stanford’s 197.025-195.925 victory over then-No. 21 NC State, recording the highest all-around total by an ACC gymnast this season, scoring a 39.650. Her efforts marked a new collegiate-best total and the sixth-best all-around total seen nationally this season. She matched her career-best effort on bars of 9.925 to bring home the apparatus title while also scoring a 9.925 on beam (new career-best) and floor and a team-best 9.875 on vault. As of Jan. 20, Roberts ranks top-30 on three of four events and in the all-around, as the Seattle, Wash. native holds the nation’s tied-for-fifth-best average on floor (9.925), tied-for-12th-best vault average (9.887), tied-for-23rd-best bars average (9.875) and the NCAA’s tied-for-24th-best all-around average (39.300).
- Robinson has had a stellar 2025 season, anchoring the Cardinal’s first two beam rotations and earning spots in both of Stanford’s floor lineups so far this year. Robinson’s performance on floor against NC State earned her first-ever event title as a Cardinal, as the Las Vegas, Nev. native earned a new career-best total on floor of 9.925 to match the best score on the event by a conference athlete in the 2025 season. Her 9.900 on beam earned her a third-place finish, behind only teammates senior Brenna Neault and Roberts. Saturday’s performances from Robinson marked the first time in her young career scoring 9.900-or-better on two events in the same meet.
- Walker has impressed in her first two collegiate meets, acting as a vault and floor specialist for the Cardinal. Against NC State, the West Orange, N.J. native recorded a new career-best total on floor of 9.875, marking the second straight meet in which she improved her collegiate-best score on the event. She ranks as the conference’s sixth-best floor worker and the ACC’s second-best freshman floor performer.
- The Cardinal and Panthers meet for the first time in head-to-head competition in both program's storied histories. During both the 2015 and 2016 seasons, members of Pitt's program were at the same regional championship competition as the Stanford team (Morgantown, 2015; Ann Arbor, 2016).