2020 Women's Gymnastics Roster

Jeff Bartee

Ashley Tai

  • Position Vault, Beam, Floor
  • Height 5-3
  • Class Senior
  • High School Oak Ridge
  • Hometown El Dorado Hills, Calif.
  • Major Product Design

Biography

In The News

Career Accolades

  • WCGA Academic All-American (2020)
  • Pac-12 All-Academic Honor Roll (2020)
  • Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention (2018)
As a Senior (2020)
  • WCGA Academic All-American
  • Pac-12 All-Academic Honor Roll
  • Competed in six meets
  • Contributed season-best 9.875 on beam at Oklahoma (Feb. 21)
As a Junior (2019)
  • Rebounded from injury to compete in five meets on beam
  • Posted season-high totals of 9.800 on beam
As a Sophomore (2018)
  • Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention
  • Competed in seven meets on beam 
  • Totaled season-high 9.800 on beam at the NorCal Classic (Jan. 8)
As a Freshman (2017) 
  • Competed in 11 meets on beam, 10 on floor and nine on vault
  • Established career-high 9.900 on beam, tying for seventh at Pac-12 Championships (March 18)
  • Claimed event title by posting career-best 9.825 on vault at Arizona State (Feb. 18)
High School
  • 2016 graduate of Oak Ridge High School
  • Trained at Technique Gymnastics in Rancho Cordova, California, for 13 years
  • Named club Gymnast of the Year in 2016
  • Region I Silver Medal Team member in 2016
  • Three-time Junior Olympic National Qualifier (2011, 2012, 2016)
  • NorCal State vault and floor Champion in 2016
  • Named 2015 Most Valuable Gymnast
  • National Invitational Tournament all-around champion in 2014
  • Region I Bronze Medal Team member in 2011
  • Junior Olympics national beam champion in 2010
  • Helped lead club to third-place finishes at the NorCal State Championships in 2011 and 2012, and a fourth-place result in 2010
Personal
  • Daughter of Morris and Fanny Tai
  • Has two younger siblings, Collin and Everett
  • Aunt, Mae Tai O’Malley, was a coxswain on the Stanford men’s crew team
  • Father, Morris, was an Olympic weightlifter throughout college
  • National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches/Women Scholastic All-American
  • Member of the Stanford Student-Athlete Advisory Committee 
  • Volunteers at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and for Children's Champions
  • Earned the Educational Excellence Award during the 2015-16 school year
  • In 2019, conducted research with the Mechanical Engineering Summer Undergraduate Research Institute, working in the Interdisciplinary Research Lab in Sustainable Design
Career Scores
Year Vault Bars Beam Floor All-Around
2017 Season Highs 9.825 -- 9.900 9.825 --
2018 Season Highs -- -- 9.800 -- --
2019 Season Highs -- -- 9.800 -- --
2020 Season Highs 9.525 -- 9.875 -- --
Career Highs 9.825 -- 9.900 9.825 --

Historical Player Information

  • 2017Freshman

    Vault, Beam
    5'3"

  • 2018Sophomore

    Vault, Beam, Floor
    5'3"

  • 2019Junior

    Vault, Beam, Floor
    5'3"

  • 2020Senior

    Vault, Beam, Floor
    5'3"