Cal vs pitts now on ACC live stream (via ESPN syreaming). After 1 rotation, Cal 49.175 (bars) & Pitt 48.650 (vault). 2nd rotation they switch routines. Bars definitely one of our stronger events but they have done better.

Cal wins the meet, but has a lot of work to do. Not a single 9.9 in any event.
Lee may have been a top recruit, but today she had the lowest/dropped score on vault and beam and a not great score on floor that normally would have been dropped except for Silvers.
Pitt outsccored Cal on Beam and Floor but Cal got big lead on Bars.

Scores here: Cal-Pitt Scores

Cal had the lowest team score in quite a while: 195.550. The only strong event that the Bears had was uneven bars. In the other three events, they had two gymnasts score in the 9.8s each. Zero 9.9 or above scores performed by Cal on the day. Frosh Sara Lee is competing at a different level than the rest of her team. She was in the 9.5s on three events and in the 9.6 range on the other. Seniors Casey Brown and Miki Aderinto performed well, both scoring 9.8 or above on both of their individual events. Casey had the highest score on the uneven bars with a 9.875. Junior Annalise Newman-Achee had the best All-Around total of 39.2.

Florida is ranked number one with a 19 7.750 score. Nobody's cracked 198 yet. Are they scoring meets tighter this year. Our top score is 196.350. Hertz in Clemson are .200 more. Obviously a bit of improvement will be required, to win ACC. Coach back loaded the schedule (after the ACC concluded) with Quad meets with the cupcakes or
.194.xxx schools, so 20 wins is still achievable.

To be an NCAA qualifier, the Bears need to be scoring 197s.

Cal's former coaches are off to a rough start at Clemson with losses to Alabama (197.475-196.550) and to Cal's next opponent, NC State (196.125 - 195.925)
However, Clemson has had two home meets and is averaging 7135 attendance.

Stanford defeated NC state (our next opponet 197.225 to 196.400. NC score better than our best of 196.350. Our match with NCS will be at home, so hopefully we have some home cooking. Cal team is still very young and our frosh our still adjusting.

Ccajon2 said:

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Florida is ranked number one with a 19 7.750 score. Nobody's cracked 198 yet. Are they scoring meets tighter this year. Our top score is 196.350. Hertz in Clemson are .200 more. Obviously a bit of improvement will be required, to win ACC. Coach back loaded the schedule (after the ACC concluded) with Quad meets with the cupcakes or
.194.xxx schools, so 20 wins is still achievable.

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Florida has former Bear eMjae Frazier and she have had a number of 9.9+ this year in floors, bars, and beam.

Cal's team is not that young. Four freshmen, four sophomores, three juniors & four seniors. The loss of soph Ondine Achampong from England might keep the Bears from the postseason. She was projected to be Cal's top All-Arounder this season.

Btw-eMjae Frazier is not the best gymnast on Florida. She might be 3rd or 4th right now. Ella Cesario was the high scorer for Clemson when I checked one of their meets. The former Cal recruit that they have on their roster is not good enough, yet, to participate as a frosh.

Experience from the CalBears website:

Scanlon - 5th year - but injured first three and a half. Only competed on beam last year.

Silvers - Senior - one meet as junior, 14 vaults as sophomore, no events as frosh. Only did floor against Pitt and had score dropped

Brown - Senior - 19 routines as junior. Had team high scores on vault and bars yesterday, Did not compete on floor and beam

Aderinto - Senior - one routine as frosh, one routine as soph, two routines as junior. Only did bars/beam at Pitt

Newman-Achee - Junior - 11 bars as soph, no routines as frosh - only AA for Cal

Mayhew - Junior - competed in all meets as soph

Kikuno - Junior - did not compete as frosh or soph nor so far this year

Wiley - Soph - 13 meets as frosh - mostly on vault + 3 bars routines. Only did vault/bars at pitt

Taurek - Soph - one floor routine as frosh and then injured - has not competed this year

Melkonian - Soph - only exhibitions as frosh

Keuneke - Soph - 10 Floor routines as frosh - only did floor at Pitt and not well

Achampong - Soph - injured out all season

Rest are freshmen.

FWIW, sounds like incompetence at best, shenanigans at worst with Pitts sound/music system that is supposed to play music for their routines. Implies that the mishaps only happened one way.

Frrrrr https://t.co/OERxXFnlX1

— Tonya Paulsson (@PaulssonTonya) January 19, 2026

Thank you for your recap. Was hoping that Mayhew would be leading this squad but had not found her consistency yet.

That's what i thought ... Here is my tweet as i watched the meet

Pitt home cooking? Back to back music issues with #Cal routines and two miscues by Cal gymnasts

— GoBears96 (@calderon11) January 18, 2026

Today at 4pm vs NC. ST

Cal 196.050 NCS 195.575
Stats

Still no Cal gymnast with a 9.9 (no gymnast for NCS scored a 9.9 either). So, if Bears start hitting, it seems that a 197 might be attainable.
Lots of mixing - S.Lee reduced to two events and two exhibitions. Brown did two exhibitions as well.
Achee and Paulsson both did four events.

Cal pulled that meet out of the fire with four 9.8s on their worst event, floor exercise. Several gymnasts choked on events that they usually excel at this afternoon. NC State stuck virtually every landing. Cal missed the majority of their landings, taking a step forward or backwards. On uneven bars, the Bears had a couple meets when every score was 9.8 or better. Today, three competitors tallied 9.7s or below. I thought that was going to cost the outcome of the close competition, but Cal squeaked out on all four rotations. GO BEARS!

Only saw the last half of the last rotation, but Stanfurd opened the door for Cal with some earlier errors on beam. Cal finished on beam but Stanford finished on its best team event - floor.
Cal comes up short scoring top team score for the year 196.825 to Stanford's 196.975

Cal got some 9.9 scores today -

Brown and Paulsson on Bars
Mayhew on Vault
Paulsson on Floor
and Newman-Achee on Beam trying to will Cal over the line.

But Stanford scores 196.975 overall.
Cal had season highs on Vault, Floor and Beam. Stanford won the meet by bigger scores on Bars and Floor.
Cal had #2 and #3 All Around
Cal had top vault performer and even floor performer.
But, it's a team sport.

Scores here: https://scores.virti.us/session?s=mAaey25UeT

Next up away at Clemson with their new familiar coaches, 7000 fans, and maybe some home cooking as Clemson scored 197.0250 tonite against North Carolina.

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Only saw the last half of the last rotation, but Stanfurd opened the door for Cal with some earlier errors on beam. Cal finished on beam but Stanford finished on its best team event - floor.
Cal comes up short scoring top team score for the year 196.825 to Stanford's 196.975

Cal got some 9.9 scores today -

Brown and Paulsson on Bars
Mayhew on Vault
Paulsson on Floor
and Newman-Achee on Beam trying to will Cal over the line.

But Stanford scores 196.975 overall.
Cal had season highs on Vault, Floor and Beam. Stanford won the meet by bigger scores on Bars and Floor.
Cal had #2 and #3 All Around
Cal had top vault performer and even floor performer.
But, it's a team sport.

Scores here: https://scores.virti.us/session?s=mAaey25UeT

Next up away at Clemson with their new familiar coaches, 7000 fans, and maybe some home cooking as Clemson scored 197.0250 tonite against North Carolina.

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Cal improving with the best score for the year! Good showing especially on the road. Hope they will be sky high against Clemson.

I watched the meet last night. I would say that was Cal's best performance by far. Stanford has taken Cal's place as the #6 team in the nation. The Cardinal had three freshmen lead off their initial event that blew me away. They looked like future stars. Several Bears excelled last evening and that was good to see. I keep thinking that if only we had Ondine Achampong as an All-Around performer that we would be competitive.

I hope that Cal can upset Clemson in South Carolina next weekend. The Tigers scored 197 for the first time in defeating UNC. GO BEARS!

Schroeder71 said:

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I would say that was Cal's best performance by far. Stanford has taken Cal's place as the #6 team in the nation.

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WHat? Stanford has always been ranked higher. The last time I saw the ranking CAL was #18.

I am referencing the last couple of seasons when Cal was ranked in the top half dozen programs nationally. Now Stanford's program has supplanted the Cal program as elite. The Cardinal is absolutely loaded with talent.

Tmrrw Sat the team will be competing on the road against Clemson who are now coached by our former coaches the Howells. The meet will be shown on the ACc network at 3pm (pst). Check out the team.

Oops posted on wrong thread

Cal with 49.400 on bars just off season high if 49.425. Melkonian and Paulson with 9.9+ scores

Clemson scores 49.175 on vault for a new season high

Ugh. Mayhew, Cal's top vaulter, falls on her vault. Cal only scores 49.075z

Clemson scores 49.350 on their bars rotation, another season high.

Clemson leads 98.525 - 98.475

But Cal goes to its two weakest rotations beam and floor. First is floor for Bears

Cal floor routines have "go bears" and C-A-L chants included

Season high in floor 49.200 but could have been higher. Dont understand Paulson score

Cal leads 147.675 - 149.625 into final rotation.

You can see why Howells moved. That was a great crowd. But I didnt know there could be nonstop music through all events

Scores here https://scores.virti.us/?s=Pw3hhPDw8B