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SUNDAY, MARCH 14 • 2 PM PT • HAAS PAVILION • BERKELEY, CALIF. CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS 197.456 198.050 6th NQS SEASON HIGH RANK SCHEDULE 194.788 196.525 44th NQS SEASON HIGH RANK OVERALL: 6-1 • PAC-12: 5-1 WASHINGTON HUSKIES DATE OPPONENT (TV) TIME/RESULT 1/30 AIR FORCE W, 195.750-188.950 2/6 at #21 Arizona* W, 196.075-194.875 Live Stream: Calbears.com/Pac-12 App • Live Stats: CalBears.com 2/14 #14 ARIZONA STATE* W, 197.100-196.650 2/21 at #Oregon State* (P12BA) W, 197.425-196.200 2/26 at Utah* (P12N) L, 197.125-197.325 NO. 6 CAL FACES OFF WITH WASHINGTON ON SENIOR DAY 3/3 at Stanford* Canceled 3/6 UCLA* W, 198.050-196.925 The sixth-ranked California women’s gymnastics team will compete in Haas Pavil- 3/10 at Washington W, 197.225-196.525 ion for the final time during the 2021 season as they host Washington on Sunday 3/14 WASHINGTON* 2 P.M. PT afternoon. It will be the second time that Cal takes on Washington this week, after 3/20 at Pac-12 Championships # TBA the Bears defeated the Huskies, 197.225-196.525, on Wednesday afternoon in 4/3 at NCAA Regionals TBA Seattle. 4/16-17 at NCAA Championships $ TBA The Bears will honor Kyana George, Alma Kuc, Victoria Salem, Nina Schank and Emi Watterson on Sunday. The quintet has helped the Cal women’s gymnastics program rise into a national powerhouse, moving up to sixth in the national rankings, the # West Valley City, Utah | $ Fort Worth, Texas highest Cal has ever been ranked. * indicates Pac-12 opponent Home meets in BOLD George was a 2020 WCGA Regular Season Second Team All-American and earned All times listed subject to change All-Pac-12 honors in the all-around, vault and balance beam. Schank is a two-time WCGA Scholastic All-American and an All-Pac-12 performer on the uneven bars. Watterson is a multi-time All-Pac-12 honoree for her unven bars work while also a Pac-12 All-Academic honoree and she just recorded the fourth-ever 10.0 score in program history last week vs. UCLA. Kuc is a Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention selection and has been part of the team’s bars lineup throughout her Cal tenure. Salem has battled injuries throughout her Cal tenure, but has been an instrumental part of the team. FOLLOW THE ACTION FROM AFAR: Sunday’s meet vs. Washington will be streamed on Calbears.com and the Pac-12 Now app. Links to live stats for the meet can be accessed on the Cal Women’s Gymnas- tics schedule page on CalBears.com. Follow @CalWGym on Twitter and Instagram for scoring updates, behind-the-scenes photos and videos and the latest information, and like Facebook.com/CalWGym for more on the Bears. FAST FACTS NUMBERS TO KNOW COACHING STAFF Co-Head Coach ..................................Justin Howell Cal recorded a program record score of 198.050 in .................... San Jose State, 1999 • 9th season the win over UCLA last week. Cal tied an NCAA record Co-Head Coach ..........................Liz Crandall-Howell on bars while setting a program record on beam and .................................... BYU, 1997 • 9th season 198.050 recording the third-best floor rotation in school history. Assistant Coach ........................... Janelle McDonald ....................... Arizona State, 2011 • 3rd season TEAM INFORMATION Emi Watterson recorded the second-ever 10.0 on uneven bars in school 2020 Pac-12 Finish .......................................... N/A history and only the fourth perfect 10 in any event as she was part of 2020 Finish/Final Ranking ................................. N/A 10 Cal’s record-breaking bars lineup vs. UCLA. Her performance has been Returners/Newcomers ..................................... 13/5 featured nationally on the Today Show and People amongst other places. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Location: .......................................Berkeley, Calif. Cal tied an NCAA record with an uneven bars score of Nickname: ....................................... Golden Bears 49.825 vs. UCLA. Emi Watterson (10,0), Maya Bordas Enrollment: ...............................................42,347 49.825 and Andi Li (9.975) recorded three of the top five bars Arena ............................... Haas Pavilion (11,877) scores in school history as all six gymnasts went 9.90+. Assistant Director of Athletic Communications (Women’s Gymnastics contact): Jared Prescott Cell: 510-701-8924 // Email: [email protected] // 349 Haas Pavilion, Berkeley, CA 94720 MEET 8: CAL VS. WASHINGTON RECORD BREAKING BARS ROUTINE PERFECT 10 CAL IN THE 2021 Cal tied an NCAA record with a 49.825 Emi Watterson posted the fourth-ever score on the uneven bars in the win over perfect 10.0 in program history in Cal’s NATIONAL RANKINGS UCLA. It tied a 2004 mark by UCLA as the win over UCLA and the second on bars. best by any uneven bars rotation in NCAA Cindy Tom recorded the only other Perfect TEAM EVENT history. All six gymnasts posted a 9.900 10 on bars when she recorded the mark Week 9 or higher, including three of the top five on February 15, 1992. Toni-Ann Williams Road To Nationals uneven bars scores in school history. Emi recorded two 10.0 vaults during her Cal Watterson posted a perfect 10. Andi Li and career. Watterson’s exploits on bars, includ- Event Rank NQS High Maya Bordas both posted 9.975 scores, ing wearing a mask for the entire routine, V 8 49.275 49.350 joining Watterson’s 2020 routine as the has been featured on numerous national UB 1 49.506 49.825 only three Bears to hit that standard. Nina outlets including The Today Show, People, BB 7 49.394 49.500 Schank tied a career-high with a 9.950. PopSugar and NBC Sports Bay Area. She FX 13 49.344 49.500 Alma Kuc posted a 9.925 score in her first was named Pac-12 Specialist of the Week competitve action of the year. The Bears for her efforts, which also included a ca- had to drop Nevaeh DeSouza’s 9.90 rated reer-best 9.95 score on beam. INDIVIDUAL EVENT (Top 50) routine. Cal is now ranked number one in the nation on the uneven bars. GEORGE CONTINUES WINNING WAYS Week 9 Kyana George has 10 event victories during PROGRAM HISTORY ON BEAM the 2021 season to bring her career total Vault Cal has recorded two of the top three beam to 37. She has four wins on the floor Gymnast Rank NQS High scores in program history over the last exercise this year as she has posted Nevaeh DeSouza 11 9.919 9.925 two weeks. Cal posted a 49.450 on the at least a 9.875 in ever meet this year, Kyana George 34 9.888 9.925 road at Utah, which at the time was the including four over 9.900 and two at 9.95. second-best score on beam. However, Cal She now has 87 top-three finishes in her Uneven Bars bettered that mark in their very next meet, career and 37 of the team’s 102 career Gymnast Rank NQS High setting a program record on the beam with first-place finishes. George also recorded a Nina Schank 13 9.913 9.950 a 49.500 score in their win over UCLA. Emi 39.650 in Cal’s meet at Oregon State to tie Andi Li 13 9.913 9.975 Watterson had a career-high 9.95, also the the third-best all-around score in program Maya Bordas 23 9.900 9.975 highest score any Bear has ever earned on history. Nevaeh DeSouza 33 9.894 9.900 the event. Nevaeh DeSouza, Kyana George and Maya Bordas all recorded 9.900 marks WHAT’S AN NQS, AND WHY DOES IT MATTER? Balance Beam on beam vs. the Bruins. Beginning on March 1 this season, wom- Gymnast Rank NQS High en’s gymnastics programs around the Kyana George 22 9.913 9.925 RECORD BREAKING MEET country earn their rankings based on their Nevaeh DeSouza 41 9.894 9.900 The Bears posted the best team score in National Qualifying Score, or NQS. The program history with a 198.050 in the win NQS is determined using a team’s top four Floor Exercise over UCLA on March 6. That shattered the scores of the season, two of which must Gymnast Rank NQS High previous school-best of 197.675, which be from an away meet. NQS determines Kyana George 20 9.925 9.950 Cal recorded at the 2019 NCAA Regionals. seeding at conference championships and The Bears did it with a NCAA Record bars in NCAA postseason meets. All-Around score of 49.825, a program-record on Gymnast Rank NQS High beam of 49.500, the third-best floor score BACK FOR THE BEARS Nevaeh DeSouza 13 39.531 39.600 of 49.500 and a vault lineup that posted California returns an exciting group of Kyana George 18 39.450 39.650 a 49.225. It was also only the sixth time student-athletes for the 2021 season as Maya Bordas 21 39.406 39.550 that Cal defeated the Bruins and the first they feature the past two Pac-12 Fresh- since 2016. The Bears have only won three man of the Year in Milan Clausi (2019) times over UCLA since 1992, including this and Nevaeh DeSouza (2020). Additionally, year’s meet. 2020 All-Americans Kyana George (All- Around) and Maya Bordas (All-Around, CAL MOVES UP TO SIXTH Uneven Bars) return in 2021. In 2020, Cal The Bears moved up to sixth in the NQS had a school-record eight All-Pac-12 honors rankings after their record-breaking per- from five different gymnasts, all of whom formance vs.