Aleeza Yu Season 2017

In The News

• 4/15/20: Perspectives: Aleeza Yu (GoStanford.com)
• 8/23/19: Chalk Talk with Aleeza Yu (GoStanford.com)

Career Accolades

• WCGA Academic All-American (2020)
• Pac-12 All-Academic Honor Roll (2020)
• Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention (2019)

As a Senior (2020)

• WCGA Academic All-American
• Pac-12 All-Academic Honor Roll
• Missed season due to injury

As a Junior (2019)

• Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention
• Competed in all 12 meets on vault and bars
• Totaled career-high 9.875 on bars at UCLA (March 10)
• Captured event title at Arizona State (Feb. 10)

As a Sophomore (2018) 

• Did not compete

As a Freshman (2017) 

• Competed in 11 of 12 meets on bars, eight on vault and three on beam
• Established career-high 9.925 on vault at No. 5 UCLA (Feb. 11)

Prior to Stanford

• 2016 graduate of R.S. McLaughlin C.V.I in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
• Member of the Canadian Senior National Team since 2014
• Member of the 2014 World Championships Team (Nanning, China)
• Helped lead team to silver medal and won the bronze on floor at the 2014 Pacific Rim Championships
• Member of the 2014 Pan American Championships Team (Mississauga, Canada)
• Represented Canada at the 2013 Japan Junior International competition
• Competed with the 2012 Massilia Cup Team (Marseille, France)
• Competed at the 2012 Junior Pan American Championships (Medellin, Columbia)
• Trained at Gemini Gymnastics
• Helped lead team to the 2013 Nadia Comaneci International Invitational championship
• Finished third on beam at the 2016 Elite Canada meet
• Placed second in the all-around, first on floor, second on beam and third on bars at the 2014 Elite Canada meet
• Earned second-place finishes in the all-around and bars at the 2013 Canadian National Championships
• Won bars and finished second in the all-around at the 2013 Nadia Comaneci International Invitational
• Finished first on bars and third in the all-around at the 2013 Elite Canada competition

Personal

• Daughter of Gordon Yu and Sheree Wong
• Has an older sister, Tiffany
• Four-year honor roll student
• Has participated in fundraisers for retirement homes with her hometown dance studio
• Volunteered with World Vision and Lucille Packard Children's Hospital 
• In the summer of 2018, participated in the ACE program in South Africa and spent three weeks running a sports camp for a local primary school and participated in a women's empowerment workshop 
• Worked as a research assistant with the department of linguistics and studied the reading patterns of fourth graders
• In the summer of 2018, worked as a marketing intern for a startup launching a journalism app and as a research intern on the Impact of Tobacco Research