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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
YearVaultBarsBeamFloorAll-Around
2017 Season Highs9.825--9.9009.825--
2018 Season Highs----9.800----
2019 Season Highs----9.800----
2020 Season Highs9.525--9.875----
Career Highs9.825--9.9009.825--
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2018
Vault, Beam, Floor
5-3 / -
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2019
Vault, Beam, Floor
5-3 / -
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2020
Vault, Beam, Floor
5-3 / -