California women's gymnastics will open Atlantic Coast Conference competition this weekend as the Golden Bears head across the country to the University of Pittsburgh for a dual meet. The Bears and the Panthers will square off Sunday at 1 p.m. PT in a meet streamed live on ACC Network Extra.
 
The Bears enter week three of the NCAA season ranked 19th in the Road To Nationals rankings. Cal remains in the nation's Top-20 on two events, placing sixth on uneven bars and 19th on balance beam.
 
AT PITT
Date: Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026
Time: 1 p.m. PT                                                                 
Location: Fitzgerald Field House | Pittsburgh, PA
Streaming/TV: ACC Network Extra
 
LAST TIME OUT
Cal brought home its second runner-up finish of the season after the Sprouts Farmers Market Collegiate Quad last Saturday. The Bears improved their overall team score by 0.350 in addition to three of the four team event scores (V - 49.000, UB - 49.425 and FX - 49.025). Cal and meet-winners Michigan tied for event wins on vault and uneven bars.
 
FRESHMAN STANDOUT PAULSSON COLLECTS EVENT WINS
Freshman standout Tonya Paulsson led the Bears with two event titles at the Sprouts Farmers Market Collegiate Quad. She performed a career-high 9.950 on uneven bars to clinch her second-consecutive title in the event, and added a share of the floor exercise title with her career-high 9.875 score. She ranks fifth in the nation in uneven bars and is at the top on the event in the west.
 
ALL-AROUNDER ANNALISE
Annalise Newman-Achee has collected podium finishes in each of Cal's meets this season, taking silver at the Best of the West and bronze at the Sprouts Farmers Market Collegiate Quad. She began competing in the all-around this season after primarily featuring on uneven bars last season.
 
BROWN HITS 9.925 ON UNEVEN BARS
Casey Brown received a season-high 9.925 for her uneven bars routine at the Sprouts Farmers Market Collegiate Quad. Brown was the second-to-last in the Bears' rotation and helped lift the squad to a share of the team title on the event.
 
BEARS DUO COLLECTS CONFERENCE WEEKLY HONORS
California women's gymnastics collected its first Atlantic Coast Conference weekly recognitions of 2026 after week one, with Annalise Newman-Achee and Tonya Paulsson being named the ACC's Gymnast of the Week and Newcomer of the Week, respectively, on Jan. 6, 2026. It was the first conference weekly award of each of their careers.
 
Newman-Achee had a podium finish in the all-around in her first-ever meet competing on all four events, claiming silver with a 39.200 at the Best of the West Quad. She earned a share of second place on vault with a 9.850 and recorded a career-high 9.900 balance beam routine, which tied for fourth at the meet. After week one, Newman-Achee is tied for fourth in the Road To Nationals rankings, making her the highest-ranked ACC gymnast in the all-around. She also ranks in the top-10 nationally on vault (T-7th) and beam (T-5th).
 
Paulsson began her collegiate career with a 9.925 on uneven bars in her first-ever routine as an NCAA gymnast. Her score tied with UCLA's Jordan Chiles and Oregon State's Taylor DeVries for the event win and helped lift Cal's squad to the top team score on the event. She tied with Chiles and DeVries for the No. 1 ranking in the nation on uneven bars after week one. Paulsson also competed on vault (9.775) and floor exercise (9.750) in her collegiate debut, earning a share of 12th place in each event and helping the Bears to a second-place team finish on vault.
 
THE STACK-EATON ERA HAS ARRIVED
First-time head coach Geralen Stack-Eaton was named the 14th leader of the Cal women's gymnastics program on June 12, 2025. Prior to Cal, she was an assistant coach at Minnesota for 11 seasons. Stack-Eaton had a decorated career as a gymnast for Alabama, where she led the Crimson Tide to back-to-back NCAA championships in 2011 and 2012. She collected two straight individual national titles as well winning the floor exercise championship in 2011 and a balance beam championship in 2012. The 2012 NCAA DI Gymnast of the Year earned 12 All-America selections during her four-year career, including first-team honors in the all-around, vault, uneven bars, and floor exercise.
 
YEAR TWO IN THE ACC
Cal enters year two as a member of the ACC as the conference's reigning regular-season champions. In their inaugural season in 2025, the Bears posted a perfect 6-0 conference mark and saw Mya Lauzon tabbed ACC Gymnast of the Year, the first gymnast in Cal history to receive the conference's top individual honor. Cal gymnasts won nine of the 11 ACC Gymnast of the Week Awards, six of which were claimed by Lauzon, and all four of the Bears' all-arounders won the award at least once. Cal tallied 13 All-ACC honors and four ACC individual event titles in addition to placing second at the ACC Championships to tie its highest finish in a conference championship in program history. The Bears were picked to finish third in the 2026 ACC Preseason Coaches Poll.
 
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