Seniors Mya Lauzon and Maddie Williams of the California women's gymnastics team are set for the NCAA Championships on Thursday at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas. The two Golden Bears will compete in the evening session, slated for 6 p.m. PT on ESPN2.
 
Lauzon will compete in the balance beam and floor exercise, while Williams will go for the uneven bars title. Both Bears will rotate with UCLA and perform their routines once the Bruins have finished their team rotation. Scores from both sessions will be used to determine the standings.
 
Lauzon captured 32 individual event titles this season, six of which came on beam and 14 of which came on floor. On those two events combined, she tallied 13 scores of 9.95 or better, a mark that was good for a podium finish in all four events at last year's championship. Lauzon hit a 9.95 on beam to earn the bronze medal last season.
 
Williams won 17 events this year with eight coming on bars. Six of her last seven routines have notched a 9.95 and she hasn't scored below a 9.9 since February. She received two 10s from the four judges for her nearly flawless routine at the Tuscaloosa Regional Final.
 
NCAA Championships
Date: Thursday, April 17, 2025
Time: 6 p.m. PT/8 p.m. CT
Location: Dickies Arena | Fort Worth, TX
Streaming/TV: ESPN2/ESPN+
Live Scoring: Virtius
 
LAUZON, WILLIAMS NAMED WCGA ALL-AMERICANS
Lauzon and Williams hauled in a total of six WCGA All-America honors on March 31.
 
Lauzon was named a First Team All-American in the all-around and floor exercise, while earning second-team accolades for the balance beam and uneven bars. The seventh-ranked all-arounder in the country has 10 career regular season All-America selections, including three for beam and two for floor. Lauzon has an NQS of 9.92 or higher on three events she was honored for.
 
Williams took home first-team honors on bars for a third straight year, as she currently ranks fourth in the nation with a 9.945 NQS. She is the highest ranked ACC gymnast in any single event. It is the first time in Williams' career that she has earned multiple regular season honors, having also been named a Second Team All-American in the all-around. Both seniors had successful outings at the ACC Championships with Lauzon winning a share of the all-around, beam, and floor titles, and Williams sharing the gold medal with her on floor.
 
LAUZON, COACHES EARN MAJOR AWARDS
Lauzon was named the ACC Gymnast of the Year and Justin Howell and Liz Crandall-Howell were named Co-Head Coaches of the Year with Danna Durante of UNC following the conclusion of the ACC Championship. It was the first conference GOW award in Cal's history. Crandall-Howell's third and Howell's fifth career Coach of the Year awards come after leading the Bears to their fourth straight regular season conference title. It was Cal's second straight year with a perfect conference record and second straight outright title.
 
4 BEARS NAMED ALL-ACC
Four Bears earned a conference-best 13 All-ACC honors. Lauzon and junior eMjae Frazier were the only two gymnasts to be named All-ACC in all five disciplines. 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.
 
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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