California women's gymnastics will compete on the national stage this weekend at the Sprouts Farmers Market Collegiate Quad at Maverik Center in West Valley, Utah. The Golden Bears will feature in the second session on Saturday - televised by ESPN2 - as they square off against Michigan, Michigan State and Kentucky at 5 p.m. PT. Reigning national champion Oklahoma, LSU, UCLA and Utah will compete in the first session.
 
The Bears enter week two of the NCAA season ranked fifth in the Road To Nationals rankings. Cal places second as a team on uneven bars, fifth on both vault and balance beam and holds a 10th-place ranking on floor.
 
SPROUTS FARMERS MARKET COLLEGIATE QUAD MEET
Date: Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026
Time: 5 p.m. PT                                                                 
Location: Maverik Center | West Valley, UT
Streaming/TV: ESPN2
 
LAST TIME OUT
Cal took home a second-place finish at the Best of the West Quad meet hosted by Washington last Saturday in Seattle. The Bears (196.000) finished behind UCLA (196.975) and outscored Washington (195.625) and Oregon State (195.550) in the season opener. Junior Annalise Newman-Achee was awarded second-place in the all-around while sophomore Sage Melkonian finished third.
 
BEARS DUO COLLECTS CONFERENCE WEEKLY HONORS
California women's gymnastics collected its first Atlantic Coast Conference weekly recognitions of 2026, with Golden Bears Annalise Newman-Achee and Tonya Paulsson being named the ACC's Gymnast of the Week and Newcomer of the Week, respectively. This is 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 also 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 ties 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.
 
ACC YEAR TWO ON THE HORIZON
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.
 
PAULSSON NAMED TO ACC PRESEASON NEWCOMER WATCHLIST
Tonya Paulsson, a freshman from Malmo, Sweden, was named to the ACC Preseason Newcomer Watchlist. She made her collegiate debut for the Bears at the Best of the West Quad last week. Paulsson has been a member of the Swedish National Team since 2019 and won the Sweden all-around championship in back-to-back seasons in 2019 and 2020, in addition to balance beam and floor exercise titles and a silver medal on uneven bars in 2020. Paulsson is a two-time European all-around finalist (2021 & 2023) and helped lead Team Sweden to the European Championship final in 2023. In 2024, she had a gold-medal performance on balance beam and floor exercise and a silver-medal performance on uneven bars at the World Challenge Cup of Szombathely.
 
MELKONIAN, NEWMAN-ACHEE GET ACC PRESEASON WATCHLIST NODS
Returners Sage Melkonian and Annalise Newman-Achee were both named to the ACC Preseason Watchlist.
 
Newman-Achee, a junior from Brooklyn, New York, made her collegiate debut last season swinging uneven bars and broke her way into the Bears' everyday rotation. She competed 11 uneven bars routines and had two podium finishes. Ten of her routines scored a 9.825 or better, including a career-high 9.95 at the 2025 ACC Championships to clinch an All-Championship team recognition.
 
Melkonian, a sophomore from Mission Viejo, made her collegiate debut last week at the Best of the West Quad. She competed a handful of exhibition routines as a freshman last year and was named a WCGA Scholastic All-American for her excellent work in the classroom. Prior to Cal, Melkonian was a two-time national qualifier (2022 & 2023).
 
GOLDEN BEAR GREATS RETURN TO BERKELEY IN COACHING ROLES
California women's gymnastics added the Bears' most decorated gymnast in program history, Mya Lauzon, to its coaching staff as an assistant coach for the 2026 season, in addition to welcoming back Maddie Williams as a graduate student assistant.
 
Lauzon racked up the accolades in her time as a student-athlete in Berkeley, claiming back-to-back bronze medals in the balance beam with a 9.95 at the NCAA Championships in 2024 and 2025. She earned four WCGA All-American honors (First Team: AA, FX - Second Team: UB, BB) and took home a share of the 2025 NCAA Tuscaloosa Regional beam title.
 
Lauzon was crowned Atlantic Coast Conference Gymnast of the Year in 2025, making her the first Bear to ever earn the title in Cal's inaugural season as a member of the conference. Lauzon was one of just two gymnasts to be named All-ACC in all five disciplines and earned a record six ACC Gymnast of the Week awards. She ended the regular season ranked in the top 25 in every event and led the Bears with 32 event wins and 52 podium finishes in 2025. Highlights of her senior season included two walk-off wins on floor, which included a perfect 10 over rival Stanford; it was her first-ever 10 on floor, which brought her just a perfect bar routine shy of a career gym slam.
 
Williams also finished her career at Cal as one of the most decorated gymnasts in Cal history. She was a five-time NCAA second team All-American (2x AA, 2x V, BB), three-time WCGA first-team All-American in uneven bars and a WCGA second-team All-American in the all-around. In her senior season in 2025, she qualified for the NCAA Championship in bars and was named All-ACC in both bars and floor exercise, in addition to claiming one ACC Gymnast of the Week honor. Williams had the second-most event wins of the Bears with 17, eight of which were bars titles, and 41 podium finishes. She won the NCAA Regional title on bars and earned a share of the floor title at the ACC Championships with teammate Lauzon. She finished the regular season ranked nationally in the top-35 in three events (UB – 4th, FX – 34th, AA – 15th).
 
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