Year in Review: Women's Gymnastics

STANFORD, Calif. –  Led by the university’s first conference team title in any sport as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, Stanford’s 2025 season continued its storied history with a perfect first chapter in a new conference and its fourth consecutive top-20 national finish. The team upheld its values of trust, commitment, grace, and joy, as each member of the 2025 squad fulfilled their unique individual roles on the program’s path to its first conference championship title since 2008.

It was such an honor for some of the members of our program to share the university’s first @theACC team championship trophy with @stanford President Jon Levin and Provost Jenny Martinez earlier this week!

Thank you both for the invitation to present our conference championship… pic.twitter.com/tGbO2FQ6Ww

— Stanford Gymnastics (@StanfordWGym) March 28, 2025

The year was highlighted at the Cardinal’s first-ever appearance at the 2025 ACC Championships in Greensboro, N.C., as the team won the event with the best team score of the conference championship meet's history and its sixth-best team total in school history. Not only did Stanford bring home a team title, but the Cardinal earned shares or sole possession of all five event titles handed out at the annual event. Stanford's five individual titles marked just the second time in program history that the Cardinal has swept all apparatus and all-around event crowns (last done in 1984). The team's performance was one of only two conference championship individual event title sweeps of the 2025 season (Utah accomplished the same feat in the 2025 Big 12 Championship). 

THE FIRST TEAM @theACC TITLE FOR @GoStanford #HTL | #GoStanford pic.twitter.com/cTJqnKsjMO

— Stanford Gymnastics (@StanfordWGym) March 23, 2025

Junior Taralyn Nguyen earned sole ownership of the vault title with a career-best 9.975, freshman Ui Soma won a share of the bars title with a perfect 10.000, sophomore Temple Landry won a share of the beam event crown with a 9.900, and junior Anna Roberts secured a share of the floor’s top honor with a career-best matching 9.950. Roberts also brought home a share of the all-around title, scoring a 39.625 to tie with California’s Mya Lauzon. Nguyen, Roberts, Soma, senior Anapaula Gutierrez, Landry, junior Claire Dean, freshman Alana Walker and sophomore Sienna Robinson were all named to the All-Championship Team for their incredible performances in Greensboro.

 

 

 

 

 

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Soma’s 10.000 on bars at the conference championships was the program’s first perfect score on the event since 2018, and marked only the second time in school history that a freshman has recorded a perfect score (Elizabeth Price, 2015, vault). 

 

 

 

 

 

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Throughout the entirety of the 2025 season, Stanford earned a 197.000-or-better team score in seven meets, matching the program's record for scores topping the 197.000 threshold in a single campaign set in 2004. The Cardinal also marked its first season since at least 1999 posting scores of 197.000-or-better in every single home competition. 

 

 

 

 

 

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Stanford’s regular-season efforts were a true catalyst to its conference-championship success. Six of Stanford’s seven team totals of 197.000-or-better were earned throughout the regular season, leading to its best regular-season record in over 10 seasons (18-4). After opening the season with 10 consecutive victories, its best record through 10 head-to-head battles since 2014, the Cardinal only posted six total losses throughout the year, its fewest defeats in a single campaign since the 2006 season (19-6).  

The Cardinal’s performances in the 2025 regular season were noticed and lauded by the national gymnastics community, as three members of the program were named WCGA Regular Season Second Team All-Americans, five were selected to the All-ACC Gymnastics Team (seven total honors), and the program collected seven total weekly ACC honors.  

WCGA Regular-Season Second Team All-Americans

All-ACC Gymnastics Team

ACC Weekly Honors

Stanford’s coaching staff was lauded for its success throughout the 2025 season, named the WCGA Regional Coach of the Year (Rodgers Family Director of Women’s Gymnastics Tabitha Yim) and WCGA Regional Co-Assistant Coaches of the Year (associate head coach Vince Smurro, Fontaine and Langenfeld Women’s Gymnastics First Assistant Coach Hallie Mossett, and assistant coach Caleb Rickard). 

Following the 2025 season, 12 Cardinal were named to the ACC All-Academic Team. Stanford’s 12 honorees were tied for the most among conference opponents as Clemson and UNC also had 12 awardees. Academic requirements for selection to the All-ACC Academic Team are a 3.0-grade point average for the previous semester and a 3.0 cumulative average during one’s academic career. In addition, student-athletes must compete in at least 50 percent of their team’s contests.

ACC All-Academic Team

Looking ahead to 2026, the Cardinal will look to replace only six routines from this year’s lineups with the departures of Brenna Neault (all-around) and Anapaula Gutierrrez (vault, bars). Stanford’s prospects are bright, as Ana Bărbosu (Unirea, Romania), Summer Gronski (Newport Beach, Calif.), Maeya Sagna (New York, N.Y.), Natalie Siljander (Encinitas, Calif.), and Jennifer Williams (Stockholm, Sweden) will head to The Farm for the 2025-26 season.