Two-Meet Weekend Ahead for No. 13 Stanford

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• No. 13 Stanford takes on a two-meet weekend for the final week of regular-season action, hosting No. 18 Denver for Senior Night in Maples Friday evening and traveling across the bay to No. 6 California for a quad meet against the Golden Bears, Arizona State Sun Devils and San Jose State Spartans Sunday, March 16.
• Friday's competition celebrating seniors Anapaula Gutierrez and Brenna Neault is set for a 6 p.m. start and will be streamed on ACC Network Extra (ACCNX) with Jenna Becerra and Casey Magnuson on the call. Stanford's final regular-season competition at California is slated for a 2 p.m. start and will be streamed on ACCNX.  
• Then-No. 12 Stanford posted its second-best road score of the season Sunday but fell to No. 3 UCLA, 197.675-197.100, on senior night at Pauley Pavilion. Senior Brenna Neault led the Cardinal with its only event title, matching her career-best 9.950 on beam in Stanford’s strongest rotation of the night. 
• Senior Anapaula Gutierrez won her first weekly award of the 2025 season as the Highlands Ranch, Colo. native was named ACC Specialist of the Week Tuesday. Gutierrez's leadoff bars routine, the first of any Cardinal at its meet against UCLA, matched her career-best score of 9.925 and her vault performance was Stanford's best of the evening in Los Angeles, scoring a 9.875. The senior's efforts led to the Cardinal's third-best vault and bars rotations of the season Sunday inside Pauley Pavilion.  
• Stanford and Denver meet for the first time in the 2025 season after meeting twice in the 2024 season, most memorably at the 2024 NCAA Regional Finals where the Cardinal became the first unseeded team to make the NCAA Championships with a walk-off victory over the Pioneers. Down .100 going into the final rotation, the Cardinal came through and matched its best floor rotation of the year to secure the victory inside Haas Pavilion. Fifth-year Chloe Widner stepped up to the floor anchoring the rotation with Stanford needing a 9.875 to tie and came through with her first career 10.000 on the event for the perfect storybook ending to the meet. 
• Stanford meets Cal for the third time this season. The Golden Bears took the win in both meetings, topping the Cardinal 197.550-197.400 in Berkeley Feb. 7 and winning the Stanford Quad 197.675-197.025 Feb. 28. The Cardinal takes on quad meet participants Arizona State and San Jose State for the first time this season, last meeting the Sun Devils at the 2024 NCAA Regional Final April 7, 2024 alongside Denver and Cal and last battling the Spartans in head-to-head competition Jan. 14, 2023. 
• The Cardinal enters week ten of the women's gymnastics season ranked 13th in the country with an NQS of 197.065. Stanford's current ranking is its best week 10 all-around status since the 2015 season when the Cardinal was ranked 11th in the nation with an NQS of 196.530. The Cardinal's 197.065 is its second-best Week 10 NQS total dating back to at least 1998, bested only by Stanford's NQS of 197.350 in Week 10 of the 2004 season. 
• Stanford has earned a 197.000-or-better score in five meets this season. It marks the first time since the 2004 season that the Cardinal posted five marks of 197.000 or better before week 10 of the regular season. The Cardinal's record for scores of 197.000 or better in a single season is seven, earned in 2004. In that season, Stanford finished the year tied for third place at NCAAs, as the program made its second-ever appearance at the NCAA Super Six. 
• Stanford continues to sit in a great position to continue to grow its NQS throughout the final weeks of the regular season and conference championship competition. Including the week's two meets, the Cardinal competes three more times before the NCAA Regional Championship selections are made, including three away meets. NQS averages a program's top six scores, dropping the highest, with the caveat that three of the calculated scores must have been earned on the road. As of Week 10 of NCAA competition, the Cardinal can replace up to three of the six counted scores before the regional section show. 
  • The Cardinal's NQS through seven competitions-- 197.065
    • 197.400 at Berkeley (Away)- dropped (highest score), locked into Stanford's NQS
    • 197.250 vs. UNC (Home)- locked into Stanford's NQS 
    • 197.100 at UCLA (Away)-  locked into Stanford's NQS
    • 197.025 vs. NC State (Home)- can be replaced by any remaining meet
    • 197.025 vs. Stanford Quad (Home)- can be replaced by any remaining meet
    • 196.925 at Clemson (Away) - can only be replaced by an away meet score (two chances left: at California Quad, at ACC Championships)