California women's gymnastics (17-5, 4-2 ACC) will travel East for the 2026 ACC Championships on Saturday night at the First Horizon Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina. The No. 2 seed Golden Bears will be a part of session two, alongside No. 1 seed Stanford, No. 3 seed Clemson and No. 4 NC State. The meet will begin at 4 p.m. PT/7 p.m. ET and will be shown live on the ACC Network.
 
The Bears ended the regular season in 14th in the Week 11 Road To Nationals rankings. Cal is in the top 22 on all four events, sitting in ninth on uneven bars, 18th on balance beam, 21st on vault, and 22nd on floor exercise.
 
ACC CHAMPIONSHIPS
Date: Saturday, March 21, 2026
Time: 4 p.m. PT / 7 p.m. ET                                                     
Location: First Horizon Coliseum (Greensboro, North Carolina)
Streaming/TV: ACC Network
Broadcast: Bart Conner, Bridget Sloan, Taylor Tannebaum
 
2026 ACC Championships Seeding
1. Stanford
2. California
3. NC State
4. Clemson
5. North Carolina
6. Pitt
 
LAST TIME OUT
Cal is coming off a double meet week last week, with the Bears taking second place at the Cal Tri Meet last Friday, falling to Stanford and beating San Jose State. Cal won the Cal Quad Meet two days later, outscoring Washington, Pennsylvania and UC Davis on Sunday's Senior Day celebration. The Bears put together their highest floor score of the season with a 49.500 at the Cal Tri Meet before setting a season best on beam with a 49.425. Cal is now on a streak of three meets scoring higher than a 197 overall.
 
BEARS ON BARS
Cal continues to excel on uneven bars, now sitting in ninth nationally on the event and seeing all six gymnasts in the lineup ranked in the top 100 as individuals, four of which are placed in the top 60. Paulsson paces the Bears with a share of fifth in the nation, while Annalise Newman-Achee ranks tied for 48th and Casey Brown and Sage Melkonian each have a portion of 58th place.
 
MAKING STRIDES ON FLOOR EXERCISE
Cal set a new season high on floor exercise this past Friday at the Cal Tri Meet, compiling a 49.500 on the event. The Bears ran a streak of improving their season best on the event every week for eight consecutive weeks. Cal's current No. 22 ranking on the event is its highest placement in the Road To Nationals weekly rankings this season since an early-season 10th-place ranking in Week 1. 
 
SHOWING OFF ON SENIOR DAY
Cal's seniors were shining bright on senior day last Sunday, with Jayden Silvers, Miki Aderinto and Casey Brown each setting or matching career highs on several different events. Aderinto stuck both her dismounts on bars and beam, and she capped her final routine in Haas Pavilion with a career-high tying 9.900 on beam. Brown matched her career-high 9.875 on floor while Silvers also set her personal-best 9.900 on floor.
 
PAULSSON WINS 5TH ACC NEWCOMER OF THE WEEK TITLE
Freshman Tonya Paulsson was named the ACC'S Newcomer of the Week for the fifth time this season, in what was the final iteration of the weekly conference honors in the 2026 season. Paulsson was also recognized as the conference's top newcomer in Weeks 1, 5, 7 and 9 and won the award the most times out of any ACC newcomer in 2026.
 
Paulsson set career highs on three of the four disciplines this past weekend. Her highlight of the weekend was a 9.975 on uneven bars at the Cal Tri Meet to win the event title and record her eighth bars score that has gone 9.925 or higher this season. She improved that number to nine just two days later when she received a 9.925 at the Cal Quad Meet and added another bars title. Paulsson ties for fifth in the nation with a 9.940 national qualifying score (NQS) on bars. She is the highest-rated ACC gymnast and the second-highest ranked gymnast in the West on the event, only behind UCLA's Jordan Chiles.
 
Paulsson also added two more floor exercise titles to her resume this weekend, first matching her career high with a 9.925 at the Cal Tri Meet to help the Bears total their highest floor rotation of the season (49.500). She then set a new personal-best 9.950 on the event at the Cal Quad Meet. Paulsson ties for 36th in the nation with a 9.910 NQS on floor, which is the fourth highest by any ACC gymnast. On beam, Paulsson performed a personal-best 9.900 at the Cal Quad Meet.
 
NEWMAN-ACHEE, PAULSSON PICK UP ALL-ACC NODS
Junior Annalise Newman-Achee and freshman Tonya Paulsson were each named twice to the All-ACC Gymnastics Team at the end of the 2026 regular season. Newman-Achee was one of two gymnasts awarded All-ACC in the all-around and also added a balance beam recognition, while Paulsson was honored on the uneven bars and floor exercise teams. These are the first all-conference honors of each of their collegiate careers.
 
Newman-Achee made an immediate impact for the Golden Bears as an all-arounder in 2026 after primarily competing on uneven bars the first two years of her collegiate career. She has set career highs on all five disciplines this season and compiled 29 podium finishes, nine of which were first-place titles. She medaled in the all-around in all 12 of the Bears' meets this season and stood atop the podium at three. Newman-Achee ties for 13th in the nation in the all-around with a 39.435 national qualifying score (NQS).
 
On beam, Newman-Achee paces the Bears with a 9.900 NQS, which ties for 27th in the nation. She has recorded five beam routines that scored 9.900 or higher, highlighted by a personal-best 9.950 at the Sacramento State Tri Meet. She was named to the ACC's Preseason Watch List in December 2025 and was honored as the conference's Gymnast of the Week after Week 1.
 
Paulsson made a statement in her first season of NCAA competition, earning a 9.925 on bars in her first-ever routine as a collegiate gymnast to set the tone for a standout debut campaign. Paulsson has tallied nine bars routines that have gone 9.925 or higher, punctuated by a 9.975 at the Cal Tri Meet.
 
On floor, Paulsson has recorded six 9.9+ routines this season, including four straight in the Bears' final four meets of the regular season as Cal's anchor. She leads the Bears with a 9.910 NQS, which is good for a share of 36th in the nation.
 
Paulsson has earned 19 individual event titles this season and totaled 29 podium finishes overall, in addition to winning the most ACC Newcomer of the Week awards of any gymnast in the conference this season with five total.
 
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