No. 7 Cardinal Readies for 2026 ACC Championship

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• No. 7 Stanford kicks off the postseason at the 2026 ACC Championship March 21, held in Greensboro, N.C. at the First Horizon Coliseum. The defending conference champion Cardinal is the No. 1 seed and will take on No. 2 seed California. No. 3 seed Clemson and No. 4 seed NC State in Session II.
• The second session of the title chase between the Cardinal, Golden Bears, Tigers and Wolfpack is set for a 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT start on ACC Network with Bart Conner, Bridget Sloan and Taylor Tannebaum on the call. 
• The Cardinal is coming off a successful two-meet weekend, posting scores of 197.625 and 197.775 in victories at the California Tri Meet and against Boise State on Senior Day, respectively. The win over the Golden Bears and Spartans clinched the program’s first-ever regular-season ACC title Friday evening, finishing the 2026 regular-season slate with a perfect 6-0 conference record. Sunday saw Stanford tie its seventh-best team total in program history behind two 10.000s from senior Anna Roberts in her final appearance at Maples Pavilion.
• After winning five event titles and posting two scores of 10.000 over the two-meet weekend, senior Anna Roberts has been named Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Gymnast of the Week for a record-setting eighth time this season, the league announced on Tuesday. With this week’s award, Roberts breaks the previous record of seven weekly honors in a single season, set by NC State’s Emily Shepard in 2024. She won the conference’s weekly award in all but two weeks of the season, earning eight of ten possible honors in 2026. In the final two meets of the regular season, Roberts continued to excel in the all-around competition, winning all-around titles at the California Tri Meet on March 13 with a total of 39.550 and at the Cardinal’s Senior Day meet against Boise State on March 15, where she scored 39.725. Against the Broncos, she also won titles on vault, beam, and floor, posting perfect scores of 10.000 on both vault and floor, with a 9.925 on beam. She became just the second Stanford gymnast in program history to earn two 10.000s in a single meet, and the first in over 20 years, a feat first accomplished by Lise Leville in 2004.
• Roberts finishes the 2026 regular season with 23 event titles, top-18 rankings nationally on all four events, and currently ranks as the nation’s fourth-best all-around competitor with a national qualifying score (NQS) of 39.630.
• Roberts is one of seven finalists for the AAI Award – presented to the nation's most outstanding senior women's gymnast – as announced by the organization Wednesday. Roberts joins Kyla Bryant (2022 AAI Award Finalist), Ivana Hong (2016 AAI Award Finalist) and Elizabeth Price (2018 AAI Award Winner) as recent Stanford gymnasts honored by the organization for excellence during their college careers.
• Seven Stanford women's gymnasts were named to the 2026 All-ACC Teams Tuesday. The Cardinal leads the conference in both athletes honored (7) and total awards (14), with no other program having more than three athletes awarded and four honors total. The All-ACC Team consists of the top six ranked ACC performers on each of the four events - vault, bars, beam and floor - along with the top two all-around scorers. All rankings are based on the National Qualifying Scores (NQS).
  • Honorees:
    • Seniors: Anna Roberts- VT, UB, BB, FX, AA; Taralyn Nguyen- VT
    • Juniors: Temple Landry- BB, Sienna Robinson- UB, BB
    • Sophomore: Ui Soma- UB
    • Redshirt Freshman/Freshman: Ana Bărbosu- BB, FX; Levi Jung-Ruivivar- UB, FX
    • The NQS calculation changed prior to the 2026 season. The new equation uses a minimum of nine scores, with a maximum of five home scores (if competing in more than five home meets, the five lowest scores are counted) and all away scores included in the calculation. After identifying the home scores and confirming five away meet scores, all scores will be ordered in descending order from highest to lowest. Then the highest and lowest scores will be dropped, and the remaining scores will be averaged. The ACC Championship is the Cardinal's final chance to bolster its NQS and will look for a score above 197.300 to increase its current total of 197.267.
      • Six away scores: 198.150 (A), 197.725 (A), 197.625 (A) 197.225 (A), 196.475 (A), 196.400 (A)
      • Five home scores: 197.775 (H), 197.425 (H), 197.100 (H), 197.075 (H), 196.975 (H)
      • Remove the highest (198.150) and lowest (196.400) scores and average the remaining nine = 197.267.