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Women's Gymnastics

Valentine's Day Meeting with the Flippin' Birds

The two programs meet for the first time in head-to-head dual meet competition since 2017

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  • No. 13 Stanford heads to Cedar City, Utah for its second road meet in so many weeks, taking on the Southern Utah Flippin' Birds Feb. 14 at America First Event Center.
  • The meeting between Stanford and Southern Utah is scheduled for a 5:30 p.m. PT start and will be streamed on Overnght. Live scoring can be found on Virtius. 
  • A new season-best team score was not enough for the No. 13 Cardinal to upset No. 7 California on their home turf as the 2024 NCAA Runner-Up secured a 197.550-197.400 victory over Stanford Friday evening inside Haas Pavilion. Stanford earned shares of two event titles throughout the evening, as senior Brenna Neault and junior Claire Dean shared the beam title while Neault earned a part of the vault title (tied with Mya Lauzon) with a new career-best mark.  Neault finished second in the all-around competition with a season-best total of 39.575.
  • Stanford's beam rotation at Berkeley was a historic one, as the Cardinal's 49.625 on the apparatus on Feb, 7, 2025 tied for the second-best beam rotation in the nation in 2025 as well as the tied-for-fourth best beam team score in program history. Career-best marks were matched or set by four of the six Cardinal gymnasts, including a new collegiate-best mark of 9.950 for junior Claire Dean in the leadoff position. Dean's score is the best by any gymnast in the NCAA when competing in the leadoff position.
  • The Cardinal and Flippin' Birds meet for the first time in dual-meet competition since 2017, but the two programs met just last season in Berkeley, Calif. at the 2024 NCAA Regionals Second Round Meet on April 5.  Led by the best team score at NCAA Regionals meet in program history, then-No. 19 Stanford topped No. 14 Auburn and Southern Utah in the meet to earn a spot in the NCAA Regional Finals with a score of 197.600 to Auburn's 196.800 and Southern Utah's 196.475. In the two programs' last head-to-head dual meet, Southern Utah topped Stanford 196.150-194.150 on its home turf early in the season, Jan. 20, 2017.
  • Through five outings, Stanford gymnasts have secured 18 of 25 possible (includes all-around) individual event titles (includes ties), or 72% of the total individual top awards so far in the 2025 season.