Regular Season Champions, Conference Championship Seeds Decided as Postseason Nears
As the regular season wound down, multiple conferences crowned regular-season champions this weekend. UCLA and Utah, among other programs, will be able to enter their conference championships with titles already under their belts. Elsewhere, we saw perfect scores out of both a 10.000 and a 9.950 for start values on vault.
Meet of the Week
Stanford at Oregon State
Stanford earned its first 198+ team total since 2004 in Corvallis, highlighted by a knockout 49.600 vault rotation, tied for Stanford’s best ever, which included a 10.000 from Anna Roberts, a perfect 9.950 from Ui Soma, and a 9.950 from Taralyn Nguyen. The Beavers also saw perfection, with junior Sophia Esposito earning a perfect 9.950 score on her Yurchenko full vault.
Other contenders: Arizona State, Fisk, and Florida at Texas Woman’s; Alabama at LSU
Gymnast of the Week
Anna Roberts, Stanford
Roberts played arguably the biggest role in Stanford’s record-breaking outing at Oregon State. She earned her first career 10.000 on vault with a textbook stuck Yurchenko one and a half, a 9.975 on bars, and 9.950s on beam and floor. Her 39.875 all-around total matches the best to be scored in the nation in 2026 and is a program record for Stanford.
Other contenders: Konnor McClain (LSU), who scored 9.900 on vault and bars and 9.975 on beam on Friday after not competing last week, then earned a 9.925 on vault on Sunday; Arianna Ostrum (Minnesota), who went 9.925 on bars, beam, and floor, and tied Jordan Chiles’s all-around score this week of 39.625.
Performance of the Week
Florida’s beam rotation at TWU
The Gators set the 2026 NCAA season-high score on beam with a massive 49.800 at the Texas Woman’s quad. The highlight of the impressive rotation was Skye Blakely’s 10.000 on the event, the first of her career, and scored just down the road from her hometown of Frisco; her reaction was just as perfect as the routine.
Other contenders: Kailin Chio’s 10.000 beam routines on Friday and Sunday, her third and fourth perfect scores on the event this season; Azaraya Ra-Akbar’s 9.975 on bars
Outrageous Moment of the Week
Denver senior Kiley Rorich made her season floor debut at Sunday’s senior night meet. All went according to plan until her Wicked-themed music cut out midway through her routine; Rorich was unfazed, however, and still hit for a 9.900.
Other contenders: Bowling Green going 49.125 on floor, then 46.725 on beam at Kent State; one judge giving Victoria Roberts’s vault on Friday a 9.500 when she fell and put her hands down
Hidden Gem of the Week
Whitewater had a dominant performance in every way on Senior Night against Hamline. The Warhawks earned their second-highest score in program history with a 194.025, which was made up of top ten program history scores on all four events and Whitewater gymnasts taking the top three spots on each event as well.
Other contenders: Towson’s 49.450 floor rotation, the second highest in program history; Yale’s 48.900 vault rotation, a new program record
Viral Moment of the Week
Pauley Pavilion often boasts a star-studded attendance, and this weekend was no exception: Ashton Kutcher was on hand to watch his former school, Iowa, take second at the UCLA Big Four meet, and met with the team afterwards to celebrate.
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Article by Katherine Weaver
