2021-22 Women's Gymnastics Roster

Robert Edwards/klcfotos

Emi Watterson

  • Position All-Around
  • Height 5-1
  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Last School(s) St. Margaret's Anglican Girls School
  • Hometown Brisbane, Australia
  • Major Psychology

Biography

Career Highlights:
- 2022 Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll 
- 2021 WCGA Second Team All-American (Balance Beam)
- 2021 Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll 
- 2020 All-Pac-12 Uneven Bars Honorable Mention 
- 2019 All-Pac-12 Uneven Bars Second Team 
- 2019 Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention 
- Pac-12 Specialist of the Week (1/22/20, 3/9/21)

As a Super Senior (2022):
Finished the season with two top-two finishes... Tied for second on beam with a 9.875 in Cal’s win at Stanford... Returned to the team against OSU after being away for three weeks in Australia to attend her dad’s funeral...  With less than a week of practice, recorded a 9.925 and won the beam competition in her first meet of the year and received the Pac-12 Coaches Choice Award... Received an extra year of eligibility due to the COVID-19 pandemic... Named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll. 

As a Senior (2021):
Named to the WCGA Second Team All-American on the balance beam with a 9.9125 score and a 10th place finish at the NCAA Championships... Named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll... Named Pac-12 Specialist of the Week as she posted the fourth perfect 10.0 in school history and second on the uneven bars while also recording a career-high 9.95 on the balance beam in Cal’s win over UCLA... Posted a 9.975 on the uneven bars at the NCAA Regional Semifinal and a 9.95 at the NCAA Regional Final... She has three of the six bars scores at 9.975+ that the Bears have recorded on the uneven bars in school history... Notched a 9.90 on the balance beam at the NCAA Regional Semifinal... Recorded a 9.90 on uneven bars at the Pac-12 Championship... Hit on 15-of-19 routines during the 2021 season (5-8 on bars and 10-11 on beam)... Notched eight scores of 9.90+ during the season including all five of her hit bars routines... Collected a 9.925 on the uneven bars in Cal’s win over Washington... Posted a score of 9.875 on the balance beam at Utah as she was part of the lineup with had the second-best beam score in school history... Made her season debut vs. Arizona as she tallied a score of 9.825 on the beam. 

As a Junior (2020):
All-Pac-12 Uneven Bars Honorable Mention…Third among the Bears with 6 event titles (4 bars, 2 beam)…9 Top 3 finishes while hitting 17 of 19 routines (8-10 on bars, 9-9 on beam)… Beam champion with her career-high 9.90 against Oregon State…Won bars with a 9.925 at Stanford and set a career-high 9.90 on beam…Bars champion at Washington with a 9.925…Earned her first Pac-12 Specialist of the Week award after a stellar outing against Stanford…Set career-highs on both of her events against Stanford, including a near-perfect 9.975 on bars plus a 9.875 on beam to win both event titles...Won the bars title at the NorCal Classic with a 9.875, and made her second collegiate appearance on beam, upping her personal best from 8.150 to 9.725 in a crucial anchor set to help Cal win the meet…Performed as a bars specialist in her season debut at the Collegiate Challenge, scoring a 9.825.
 
As a Sophomore (2019):
All-Pac-12 Uneven Bars Second Team…Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention…Appeared in 19 lineups, primarily as a bars specialist (13-14), but went 4-4 on vault and 0-1 on beam…Took eight Top 3 finishes and claimed four event titles – all on bars…Scored a career-high 9.95 on bars in the NCAA Regional final to take third on the event…Matched her career-best 9.95 on bars for the third time in four meets to take second at the Pac-12 Championships…Took her second consecutive bars title with a 9.925 at San Jose State, and upped her career high once again to 9.825 on vault…Produced a stunning 9.95 bar routine at the Sac State tri meet to take the event title, and set a career-high 9.775 on vault…Matched her career-best 9.875 at Oregon State to win the uneven bars title…Second on bars at Utah with a 9.85…Made her collegiate debut on vault in the Cal tri meet, posting a 9.75…Collegiate debut on balance beam came at Arizona…Second on bars vs Stanford with a 9.85…Started her sophomore season by matching her career-best 9.875 on bars at LSU
 
As a Freshman (2018):
Went 5-5 on bars after joining the Bears late in the preseason on Dec. 27, 2017...Contributed to the lineup at the NCAA Championships semifinal (4/20), registering a 9.8375 on bars…Scored a 9.825 in her first regional appearance at the NCAA Salt Lake City Regional (4/7)…Delivered a career-high 9.875 as the anchor of the bars lineup at Pac-12 Championships (3/24)…Made her Golden Bear debut on bars at the Sac State quad meet (3/9), recording a 9.80, then followed it up just two days later with a 9.85 at UC Davis (3/11)
 
High School/Club:
Represented Australia at the Elite Gym Massilia in Marseille, France in 2016, where she took fourth on vault and seventh on bars…Also competed at Olympic Hopes and City of Jesolo Trophy…Member of Delta Gymnastics, coached by Olga and Sasha Belooussov…Received Delta’s Excellence Award five times (2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2010)….Attended St. Margaret’s Anglican Girls School and graduated in 2017, where she received the Excellence Award in 2016 and 2017
 
Personal:
Joined the Bears just two weeks before the 2018 season in Dec. 2017…Born in Brisbane, Australia…Hobbies include music and travel…Parents are Robert and Linda Watterson…
 
Major:
Psychology

Historical Player Information

  • 2017-18Freshman

    All-Around
    5'1"
  • 2018-19Sophomore

    All-Around
    5'1"
  • 2019-20Junior

    All-Around
    5'1"
  • 2020-21Senior

    All-Around
    5'1"
  • 2021-22Redshirt Senior

    All-Around
    5'1"