WGYM3/20/2025 9:08 AM | By: Cal Athletics
Top-Seeded Cal Set For ACC Championship
Bears Seeking First Conference Title
The top-seeded California women's gymnastics team is set to compete in its inaugural ACC Championship this Saturday at First Horizon Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina. First routine is set for 4 p.m. PT on ACC Network.
The Golden Bears (24-2, 6-0), who went undefeated in conference contests to win the ACC regular title, are in search of their first conference championship in program history.
vs No. 14 Stanford, No. 19 NC State, No. 25 North Carolina
Date: Sunday, March 22, 2025
Time 4 p.m. PT
Location: Haas Pavilion | Berkeley, CA
Streaming/TV: ACC Network
Broadcasters: Bart Conner (PXP), Bridget Sloan (Color), Taylor Tannebaum (Reporter)
Live Scoring: Virtius
RANKINGS (based on national qualifying score)
Team: 6th
Vault: 11th
Uneven Bars: 5th
Balance Beam: 9th
Floor Exercise: 8
th
4 BEARS NAMED ALL-ACC
Four Bears earned a conference-best 13 All-ACC honors this past Monday. Senior
Mya Lauzon and junior
eMjae Frazier were the only two gymnasts to be named All-ACC in all five disciplines. Senior
Maddie Williams earned the honor for the uneven bars and floor exercise and sophomore
Kyen Mayhew was given the nod for vault.
Lauzon has now tallied 12 all-conference honors in her career and continues to expand her expertise by earning the nod on bars for the first time. The senior is the conference's highest ranked all-arounder, currently sixth in the nation, and its top beam (8th) and floor (4th) competitor.
This is the second year in a row that Frazier has been honored in all five disciplines and now has 11 all-conference designations to her name. The junior ranks 14th in the country in the all-around and has an NQS of 9.880 or better in all four events.
Williams wraps up her Cal career with her fourth straight bars recognition and her first honor on floor. The third-ranked bars competitor in the country boasts an NQS of 9.940 on the event, which is the highest of any Bear on any event this season.
Mayhew owns the top vault score on the team this year, a 9.925 that won her the event in the Bears dual with Pitt on Feb. 23. She has three scores of 9.9 or better and an NQS of 9.860 that earned her the first all-conference selection of her career.
LAUZON EARNS SIXTH ACC GOW AWARD
Lauzon closed out the regular season with her 6th ACC Gymnast of the Week Award last Tuesday. The senior has now won the award five times in seven weeks. Cal won Gymnast of the Week nine out 11 weeks and totaled 10 weekly honors collected by five different gymnasts. The Bears ended the regular season with a pair of wins in two home quad meets this past weekend thanks in part to Lauzon's five event wins and seven podium finishes. On Friday she won the balance beam (9.95) and the floor exercise (9.925) while finishing second in the all-around (39.55). Lauzon followed that up with a phenomenal Senior Day performance Sunday by winning the all-around (39.675), beam (9.975) and floor (9.95).
MILESTONES MET
This past weekend both co-head coaches reached career milestones with Justin Howell hitting 250 and Liz Crandall-Howell surpassing 150. Howell has the most wins in program history and Crandall-Howell has the highest win percentage (.758).
ALL-AROUND GREATNESS
Cal's four everyday all-arounders rank in the top 40 in the country based on national qualifying score.
Mya Lauzon (39.650) leads the way in 6th, followed by junior
eMjae Frazier (39.510) in 14
th, senior
Maddie Williams (39.500) in 18th, and senior
Ella Cesario (39.355) in 34th. The Bears and No. 1 Oklahoma are the only two teams in the country with four ranked all-arounders.
FIRST SEASON, FIRST TITLE
With a win over Stanford (2/28) on The Farm the Bears secured their first ACC regular season title in their inaugural season. They are the first Cal program to be dubbed ACC regular season champs and just the second team to hoist the women's gymnastics trophy as the conference is only its second season of sponsoring the sport.
Cal already has its name all over the conference record book with the two highest team scores (197.775, 197.750) in ACC history, the highest NQS (197.515), and the highest individual all-around score (
Mya Lauzon - 39.775).
The Bears have won at least a share of their conference title in four straight seasons and are back-to-back outright champions. They are the first team in the history of the sport to have undefeated conference records in back-to-back seasons in two different conferences.
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