Quick Sticks
- No. 10 Stanford returns home for the first time in 29 days, welcoming No. 5 UCLA to The Farm March 7 for a top-10 battle of former Pac-12 Conference members.
- The battle between the Bruins and Cardinal is set for a 2 p.m. start on ACCNX with Jenna Becerra and Casey Magnuson on the call.
- Stanford women’s gymnastics history was made in Corvallis Friday, Feb. 27. For the first time since 2004 and only the second time in program history, Stanford women’s gymnastics broke the 198.000 barrier with a 198.150-197.250 victory against No. 26 Oregon State inside Gill Coliseum. The score is Stanford’s second-best team total in program history, its best-ever score on the road and matches the third-best team total by any program in the NCAA this season. The Cardinal’s historic mark was bolstered by two perfect scoring vaults, a program record-matching vault team score, and season-high bars and floor rotations, alongside senior Anna Roberts’ 39.875 all-around total, which ties for the best all-around score in the nation this season and is the best individual all-around performance in Stanford women's gymnastics history.
- After a historic performance Friday evening at Oregon State, Anna Roberts has been named Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Gymnast of the Week for the third consecutive week, while sophomore Ui Soma earned conference Specialist of the Week honors for the first time in her career. The duo’s performances were integral in Stanford’s achieving its first 198.000+ score in 22 years.
- Roberts led the Cardinal’s historic performance with a 39.875 all-around score, setting a new career-best all-around total for the second straight meet. Her efforts matched the best all-around score in the nation this season and established a new program record for all-around totals. Roberts also scored her first career 10.000 on any event with a perfect vault score, leading Stanford to a program-record-matching 49.600 vault team total. Her perfect score is just the eighth on the apparatus this season and marked the first Stanford perfect vault since Elizabeth Price achieved it against Oregon State on Jan. 26, 2015. Her career-best efforts on vault and bars (9.975) led her to capture all four event titles and the all-around crown, as the senior currently leads all Cardinal with 17 titles this season.
- Soma earned her first weekly honor of the 2026 season with two scores of 9.950 on vault and bars. Her vault total of 9.950 is considered a perfect score for her vault, the Yurchenko Full, which holds a 9.950 start value in the NCAA Code of Points. Her performance preceded Roberts’ perfect 10.000 and was key in the Cardinal’s program-record-matching vault rotation of 49.600, while her 9.950 on bars anchored Stanford’s 49.600 rotation, matching the fourth-best lineup in Stanford history and a season-best for the Cardinal.
- With six weekly honors in 2026, Roberts has now matched the second-most weekly awards won in a single season in the ACC's young history (Mya Lauzon, 6, 2025 season). The record sits at seven wins in a season, set by NC State's Emily Shepard in 2024.
- With its NQS of 197.096, the Cardinal held its top-10 ranking for a seventh consecutive week. It marks the second time in the last two seasons that Stanford has first recorded an NQS above 197.000 in Week 9 of the regular season.
- 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. Stanford has two home meets and two away meets (includes ACC Championships) left to help bolster their NQS and will look to score above 197.100 to increase its current total of 197.096.
- Stanford's current NQS Calculation:
- Five away scores: 198.150 (A), 197.725 (A), 197.225 (A), 196.475 (A), 196.400 (A)
- Three home scores: 197.100 (H), 197.075 (H), 196.975 (H)
- Remove the highest (198.150) and lowest (196.400) scores and average the remaining six = 197.096.
- Stanford's current NQS Calculation: