Quick Sticks
- No. 10 Stanford heads to Raleigh, N.C. to take on No. 22 NC State Saturday, Feb. 21.
- The battle between the Cardinal and Wolfpack is set for a 1 p.m. PT start and will be streamed on ACCNX. Live scoring updates can be found through Virti.us.
- No. 10 Stanford finished third at the Metroplex Challenge with a team total of 196.400 Saturday evening at the Fort Worth Convention Center. No. 6 Georgia won the quad meet with a score of 197.650, followed by No. 20 California with a score of 196.875. No. 42 Air Force placed fourth with a total of 195.750.
- Senior Anna Roberts was honored with her fourth weekly honor of the year Tuesday, being named the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Gymnast of the Week after her performance at the Metroplex Challenge Feb. 14.
- Roberts continued her steady presence in the all-around competition in Fort Worth, posting a 39.500 with three scores of 9.900 on bars, beam and floor, finishing second in the all-around battle, tied for fifth on bars, tied for fourth on beam and tied for third on floor. Through five appearances in the all-around in 2026, she has yet to score below a 39.325 total score and averages a total of 39.490, good for an average score of 9.8725 on each event. She has posted 12 performances of 9.900 or better throughout the first six meets of the 2026 campaign and leads all Cardinal with eight event titles.
- Rankings switched to using team NQS (National Qualifying Score) this week and will use this statistic moving forward. The formula for calculating this score has changed for the 2026 season: a minimum of nine meets will be taken into account, with a maximum of five scores from home meets and a minimum of five away meets used in calculations. Once the scores counting towards NQS are determined, the high and low scores will be dropped and the remaining scores averaged. Until nine meets are met, rankings will be calculated by dropping the high and low scores of all meets and averaging all remaining scores.
- The Cardinal has held a top-10 ranking for five consecutive weeks so far in the 2026 season. The last time a Stanford team had a top-10 ranking for five straight weeks was in the 2014 season from Week 8 to Week 12. That team finished 18th overall.
- Stanford ranks in the top-10 nationally on both bars (7) and floor (6) through six meets this season. The last time the Cardinal held top-10 rankings on two events in week 7 of a season was in the 2016 season, when Stanford ranked 10th in the nation on bars (49.129 average) and eighth on beam (49.029 average). Stanford finished 10th in the nation in 2016 after winning a share of its regional's team title and making the preliminary rounds at the NCAA Championships for the fifth consecutive season.