STANFORD, Calif. — For the second consecutive season, Rodgers Family Director of Women’s Gymnastics Tabitha Yim has been named the Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association West Region Co-Head Coach of the Year, the association announced Wednesday morning. Yim shares the 2026 honor with UCLA head coach Janelle McDonald.
Yim, in her ninth season leading the Cardinal, guided Stanford to a No. 7 national ranking at the end of the regular season, the highest regular-season finish of her tenure. The Cardinal held a top-10 ranking since Week 3, marking the most weeks the program has spent in the top 10 in a single season since 2011. In 2026 Stanford captured its first ACC regular-season title with a perfect 6-0 conference record. At the Baton Rouge Regional Championships, Stanford earned its second NCAA Championship berth in the past three seasons— the first such appearance streak since reaching nationals five straight years from 2012 to 2016.
Stanford’s 2026 highlights include four regular-season WCGA All-America honors, three ACC individual titles (Sienna Robinson and Temple Landry on beam, Ana Bărbosu on floor), 14 All-ACC honors by seven student-athletes, three perfect 10.000 scores from senior Anna Roberts, and the program’s first 198.000-plus total since 2004—its first ever on the road.
The Cardinal now looks ahead to the 2026 NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championships in Fort Worth, Texas. Stanford will compete in Semifinal Session I on Thursday, April 16, alongside No. 2 LSU, No. 3 Florida, and No. 6 Georgia. The meet, slated for 1:30 p.m. Pacific time, will be broadcast on ESPN2, with team streams available on ESPN+