2025 Men's Gymnastics Roster

Kelley Cox/klcfotos

Aidan Li

  • Position Pommel Horse
  • Height 5-10
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Ottawa, Ontario
  • Last School(s) John McCrae Secondary School

Biography

Collegiate PRs
Pommel Horse: 14.650

Collegiate PRs (2021-24)
Pommel Horse:
14.800

CAREER HONORS
  • 2x Canadian Champion (2024-25 - Pommel Horse)
  • 2025 Elite Canada Champion (Pommel Horse)
  • 2025 NCAA Pommel Horse Runner-Up
  • 2x All-American (2024-25 - Pommel Horse)
  • 2025 CGA Regular Season All-American (Pommel Horse)
  • 3x NCAA Finals Qualifier (2023-25 - Pommel Horse)
  • 2024 All-MPSF (Pommel Horse)
  • 1x CGA Specialist of the Week (2025)
  • 1x MPSF Specialist of the Week (2025)
  • Owns the school record on pommel horse (2017-24 scoring system)
  • Owns the top score on pommel horse in the modern scoring system
  • 2x CGA First-Team Academic All-American (2024-25)
  • 2x CGA Second-Team Academic All-American (2021, 23)
  • 2025 recipient of the Weaver-James-Corrigan-Swofford Award
  • 4x MPSF All-Academic (2022-25)
  • 2024-25 ACC Academic Honor Roll
  • 3x Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2021-22, 2024)

As a Graduate Student (2025): Canadian Pommel Horse Champion... named to the Canadian Senior National Team… Elite Canada Pommel Horse Champion… NCAA Pommel Horse Runner-Up… All-American (Pommel Horse)… Regular Season All-American (Pommel Horse)… MPSF Pommel Horse Bronze Medalist… posted a score of 14.700 in Session II of the Canadian Championships to win his second national title with a two-day total of 29.066... ranked fifth in the nation on pommel horse... placed second with a score of 14.466 at the NCAA Championships Final… qualified for the NCAA Final with a score of 14.433 in the NCAA Championships Qualifier… took third place at the MPSF Championships with a score of 14.400… claimed a share of the pommel horse title in Cal’s last meet at Stanford with a score of 13.750… at the Stanford International Collegiate, posted a score of 14.600… tied for a share of the pommel horse title on Senior Day with a score of 13.950… claimed the win on pommel horse at Elite Canada… scored 14.650 on pommel horse – the best of any Bear that year – to win at The Big Flip, after which he was named the CGA and MPSF Specialist of the Week… tied for the win on pommel horse at the Stanford Open with a score of 14.350… won on pommel horse at the season opener against Stanford (13.850)… CGA First-Team Academic All-American... MPSF All-Academic... ACC Academic Honor Roll.

As a Senior (2024): Canadian Champion (Pommel Horse)… All-American (Pommel Horse)… All-MPSF (Pommel Horse)… scored 14.300 in the second round of the Canadian Championships for a two-day total of 27.133 to clinch his first national title... posted a score of 14.266 at the NCAA Championships Final to tie for seventh place and become Cal’s first All-American on pommel horse since 2014… broke his own modern program record with a score of 14.800 at the NCAA Championships Qualifier… finished second on pommel horse at the MPSF Championships with a then-school record of 14.700… posted a 14.300 on pommel horse at Oklahoma… CGA First-Team Academic All-American... Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll… MPSF All-Academic.

As a Junior (2023): Posted four top-10 pommel scores on the modern program list, including a No. 2 14.333 at the NCAA Qualifier to move on to the finals... scored 14.050 at a home meet with Army and William & Mary... the previous week, led the Bears with a score of 14.000 at Stanford... recorded a score of 14.100 at the Air Force Academy... CGA Second Team All-America Scholar Athlete and MPSF All-Academic.

As a Sophomore (2022): Competed in 10 meets… posted the third-best pommel horse score (14.000) in modern Cal history, which was also a career-high… MPSF All-Academic and Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll selection.

As a Freshman (2021): Paced Cal on pommel horse twice, including a 12.900 at the NCAA Championships...season-best score on horse, the only event he competed in, was a 13.500 in the season opener...Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll selection and a CGA Second Team All-America Scholar-Athlete.

CLUB: Competed for Loyalist Gymnastics Club...took first on pommel at the 2016 Eastern Canadian Gymnastics Championships...finished in second in the same event at the 2017 and 2018 events, and fourth all-around in 2017...made his school's Honor Roll.

PERSONAL: Majored in mechanical engineering... member of Formula Electric at Berkeley on the Chassis Subteam and was a team representative on the Student Athlete Advisory Committee for two years... son of Quinn and Mei Li.

Historical Player Information

  • 2021Freshman

    All-Around
    5'10"
  • 2022Sophomore

    PH, PB, HB
    5'10"
  • 2023Junior

    PH, PB, HB
    5'10"
  • 2024Senior

    PH, PB, HB
    5'10"
  • 2025Graduate Student

    Pommel Horse
    5'10"