Quick Sticks
- No. 10 Stanford wraps up a three-meet road swing Friday, Feb. 27, taking on former conference member Oregon State inside Gill Coliseum.
- The matchup of the Cardinal and the Beavers is set for a 7 p.m. start and will be streamed on Pac-12 Insider with Rich Burk and Alisa Mowe on the call.
- Collegiate-best all-around totals from senior Anna Roberts and freshman Ana Bărbosu led the No. 10 Cardinal to its season-best team score at No. 22 NC State Saturday afternoon, topping the Wolfpack 197.725-196.575 inside Valvano Arena at William Neal Reynolds Coliseum. The Cardinal’s team total of 197.725 matches its eighth-best score in program history. With the win in Raleigh, Stanford clinched at least a share of the ACC regular-season title for the first time in program history.
- For the first time this season, Stanford has three gymnasts receiving weekly awards from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), the league announced Tuesday. Senior Anna Roberts has been named Gymnast of the Week for the fifth time this season, while freshman Ana Bărbosu earned Newcomer of the Week honors for the fourth time this campaign and junior Sienna Robinson was selected as Co-Specialist of the Week for the second time in 2026.
- Bărbosu recorded a new collegiate-best all-around total of 39.500 in North Carolina, highlighted by a career-best matching 9.850 on vault and matching scores of 9.925 on beam and floor to secure top-five finishes on all apparatuses and in the all-around competition. Her performance is the second-best conference all-around performance in 2026 (behind only Sydney Seabrooks, 39.525) and sits as the third-best all-around total in the nation this season (Ra-Akbar, Alabama, 39.600; Seabrooks, UNC, 39.525).
- Roberts also set a new career-best in the all-around competition at NC State, posting a 39.700 backed by 9.950s on both beam and floor. She brought home the vault, beam and floor titles against the Wolfpack while matching the nation’s fourth-best all-around total by an athlete this season.
- Robinson posted three 9.900 or better scores at NC State: a 9.925 on bars (2nd) 9.900s on beam (T3rd) and floor (3rd). Her efforts made her the only conference event specialist (non-all-around athlete) to register more than one 9.900 or better performance this past week. She leads the conference in the beam rankings and holds NQS scores at or above 9.870 on all three of her specialties: 9.870 on bars and floor, and 9.895 on beam.
- The Cardinal's season-best score of 197.725 set in Raleigh last weekend also marked the first time since the 2004 season that Stanford has surpassed the 197.700 barrier by week eight of the regular season. In fact, Stanford has only surpassed a team total of 197.500 by week eight three times since at least the 1998 season: 2026, 2023 (197.575), and 2004 (198.875).
- With its NQS of 196.970, the Cardinal held its top-10 ranking for a sixth consecutive week. It marks the first time since the 2011 season that Stanford has held a top-10 regular-season ranking for six weeks in a single season. In 2011, Stanford was a top-four-ranked program for the entirety of the pre-championship campaign.
- Individually, Stanford has two all-around gymnasts ranked in the NCAA's top-25 NQS standings: Anna Roberts (6th, 39.490 NQS) and Ana Bărbosu (23rd, 39.280 NQS). The Cardinal is one of only four programs nationwide to have two top-25 ranked all-arounders, alongside UCLA (Chiles, Sumanasekera), Iowa (Aurelie Tran, Sophie Schriever) and Michigan State (Smith, Tucker).
- Bărbosu ranks as the third-best first-year athlete in the current all-around NQS standings with only Tiana Sumanasekera (UCLA, 11th, 39.375 NQS) and Sophie Schriever (Iowa, T12th, 39.335 NQS). Only Schriever has a higher all-around NQS than Bărbosu when counting only six all-around totals (Sumanasekera has seven outings).