Sunday, February 4
Berkeley, Calif.
2:00 PM
California
vs
Arizona
2/3/2018 11:29 AM | Women's Gymnastics
Cal vs. Arizona
Sunday, Feb. 4 | 2 PM PT | Haas Pavilion | Berkeley, Calif.
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After four weeks on the road, California opens its home slate this Sunday against the No.19 Arizona Wildcats. Meet time is set for 2 p.m. in Haas Pavilion.Sunday's meet is the first chance to catch the Bears inside their home arena this season, with exciting performers including 2016 Olympian Toni-Ann Williams, who owns a team-high seven event titles this season, as well as a number of Bay Area gymnastics products in Sofie and Sylvie Seilnacht, Yuleen Sternberg and Nina Schank.
Last week, the Bears improved their vault and floor season-high scores, but fell to then-No.14 Arizona State in their fourth-straight road meet. Cal pushed through an early slow start to earn a season-high 49.250 on vault in the second rotation. Williams matched a career-best on floor with a 9.975, winning the floor title and also notching an individual victory on beam (9.90) while claiming the all-around crown with a 39.575.
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39.575
Toni-Ann Williams tallied a 39.575 all-around at Arizona State, matching the fifth-highest all-around total in program history. Williams also owns the program's best-ever all-around total of 39.700.19TH
Cal is ranked 19th in the nation on vault after improving its total on the event each of the four weeks of season. Last week, Cal set a season-high 49.250 on the event against the Sun Devils, led by Sylvie Seilnacht's title-winning and career-hihg 9.90.9.975
Williams' 9.975 on floor at Arizona State matched a program-record total. The Bears have seen just three 9.975s on floor in the history of Cal gymnastics, with two belonging to Williams.LAST TIME OUT: CAL'S SEASON-BEST VAULT AND FLOOR SCORES WEREN'T ENOUGH AGAINST NO. 14 ARIZONA STATE
The Bears took home four event titles, but were unable to top No.14 Arizona State, 196.800-194.850, in their second Pac-12 loss this season.• The Bears again notched their highest vault score of the season, following the season trend of improvement, with a 49.250.
• Cal took home four event titles, with strong performances from Toni-Ann Williams on beam (9.90), floor (9.975) and all-around (39.575), plus Sylvie Seilnacht's season-high vault total (9.90).
• Williams' 9.975 on floor matched her career-best score on the event.
• Kyana George set her career-high vault score with a 9.85, winning second place in the event.
• Nina Schank won second on bars with a 9.90.
WILLIAMS MAKES HER MARK
Toni-Ann Williams' 2017 season may have ended with an Achilles injury, but the Olympian has come back stronger than ever to lead the 2018 Golden Bears. The senior's scores have improved each week of the season, setting season-high totals on bars, beam, floor and all-around this past weekend. With her 9.975 performance on floor at Arizona State, she matched her career-best score on the event and won the individual title, while matching the top floor score in school history. Williams has won three event titles in back-to-back weeks, leading the team with seven individual event title wins and top-50 rankings in four of five events.RANKED ON THE ROAD TO NATIONALS
The Golden Bears opened 2018 at No. 11 in the Road to Nationals preseason coaches poll, the program's second-highest ranking in school history. Cal's No. 11 ranking was just one spot behind last season's best-ever No. 10 ranking.Cal is set to face four opponents ranked in the Road to Nationals preseason top 25 this season, and nearly every single program the Bears will face this season is ranked or received votes in the preseason poll, including two top-three programs in Utah (No. 5) and UCLA (6), and seven top 30 programs, including Washington (15), Stanford (18), Arizona (26), Minnesota (27) and Central Michigan (30).
Cal's results against top 25 ranked opponents in 2018 (using rankings at time of competition):
No. 18 Stanford -- W, 195.475-194.925
No. 21 BYU -- L, 196.025-194.350
No. 13 Washington -- L, 196.325-194.850
No. 14 Arizona State -- L, 196.800-194.850
NEXT ROTATION
California continues its home stand with a visit from the Top 10 UCLA Bruins on Sat. Feb 10 at 11:30 a.m. in Berkeley, Calif.ALL-ACCESS PASS
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