2023 – 7th – Eliminated in National Semifinal
2022 – 11th – Eliminated in Regional Final
2021 – 7th – Eliminated in National Semifinal
2020 – 9th – COVID
2019 – 11th – Eliminated in Regional Final
2018 – 9th – Eliminated in National Semifinal
2017 – 16th – Eliminated at Regional
2016 – 7th – Eliminated in National Semifinal
2015 – 18th – Eliminated at Regional
2014 – 16th – Eliminated at Regional

Team Total
1. 198.275 (March 12, 2023)
2. 198.100 (March 10, 2023)
3. 198.075 (April 2, 2023)
4. 198.050 (March 6, 2021)
5. 197.975 (February 18, 2023)

Team Vault — 49.500 (March 8, 2015)
Team Bars — 49.825 (March 6, 2021)
Team Beam — 49.825 (March 12, 2023)
Team Floor — 49.700 (March 3, 2023)

All-Around
1. eMjae Frazier, 39.750 (April 2, 2023)
2. eMjae Frazier, 39.700 (February 18, 2023)
2. Mya Lauzon 39.700 (February 4, 2023)
2. Toni-Ann Williams, 39.700 (February 25, 2018)
2. Toni-Ann Williams, 39.700 (February 15, 2016)

Individual Vault — 10.000
–Toni-Ann Williams x2

Individual Bars — 10.000
–Emi Watterson
–Cindy Tom

Individual Beam — 10.000
–Mya Lauzon

Individual Floor — 10.000
–eMjae Frazier

Cal will be deeply mixed about how the 2023 season ended. On paper, a 7th-place finish ties the school record for best season ever—which is, you know, good—and continues to assert that Cal should be considered a first-conversation contender.

Yet in practice, Cal could very well have won its national semifinal and gone on to the national championship if not for a counting fall on bars (the team’s first of the season), so 2023’s finish will also loom as a huge missed opportunity.

In terms of sheer number of lost routines, Cal isn’t dealing with too much, but DeSouza’s weekly all-around was incredibly significant and filled with 9.9s. It won’t be a simple task to recreate the usefulness of the Yurchenko 1.5 and early-lineup reliability throughout the meet that DeSouza provided.

Kyen Mayhew has been one of the top L10s on vault and floor for several seasons, never finishing lower than 2nd on either event at Dev Nationals. She probably ends up providing options on all apparatuses, but Cal will be most eager to get her Yurchenko 1.5 and front 2/1 into those vault and floor lineups right away.

Annalise Newman-Achee qualified to worlds in 2022 representing Trinidad & Tobago, and within the US, has placed 4th on bars at Dev Nationals each of the last two seasons. Bars is her main thing—and we can anticipate no Commonwealth Games bars-height debacles in NCAA—but I’d also watch out for her on beam and floor.    

Ella Cesario (JR)

Cesario had a breakout season as a sophomore for Cal, making her way into a challenging bars lineup to become an integral piece. She can expand on that role in 2024 as Cal looks for a minimum of one new routine on each event (and ideally more) to bolster the team’s depth and ability to withstand untimely injury on a roster that is very reliant on a few top all-arounders.

For my money, Cesario should be the front-runner in the “who’s coming into the beam lineup?” sweepstakes and looks like quite a realistic floor option in that DeSouza role as well.

2023 Event Ranking: 10

The biggest challenge Cal faces in 2024 comes once again in the vault difficulty department. Finding a way to keep up with teams that are lighting their cigarettes with spare 10.0 starts will be the difference between a good ranking and a great ranking because, as of now, it looks like there will need to be some Yurchenko fulls in this lineup again.

Among the top vaulters, Kyen Mayhew’s Yurchenko 1.5 will be a necessary addition to the back half of the lineup to join Lauzon’s team-leading 1.5 and Frazier’s DTY. In the difficulty department, Cal will ideally look for that Y1.5 from Casey Brown to materialize this time, though she was making the lineup last year with a full, so we’ll likely see some of her either way.

Clean Yurchenko fulls from Maddie Williams and Andi Li would be a perfectly solid way to round out a lineup that would score well enough for almost all circumstances, but Cal will also be on the lookout for a feasible underdog upgrade to be able to vault with the big girls in a nationals context.

2023 Event Ranking: 4

Cal should remain in excellent position on its strongest event, with five of the six lineup members from last season returning. Li, Williams, Perea, Cesario, and Frazier are all counted on to go over 9.9 more often than not, so there would seem little-to-no need to make changes—even with some stiff competition from several trying to break into the lineup.

Mya Lauzon competed bars a few times over the last couple years and could be ready to make her way into the lineup full time in her third season, and Newman-Achee has all the tools (and elite skill options) necessary to be a major college bars worker. Otherwise, Casey Brown’s Pak is a real highlight element that would fit in exceptionally well in this lineup, and Jordan Kane is making a push with a Ray and DLO to make it into the six as long as the handstands are there.

2023 Event Ranking: 6

Beam is knocking on the door of supplanting bars as Cal’s best event, and the goal for 2024 will be to improve on rather than maintain that nonetheless strong #6 event ranking from last year.

Lauzon got a 10 on beam last March to go with two 9.975s and three 9.950s, and Li and Williams are always going to go over 9.9 if it’s a no-wobble routine. Getting beam composition for Gabby Perea that she can hit consistently while not having a back was the big development of last season to add an extra 9.9, and eMjae Frazier’s clinic on what a split position should look like will continue to be a high score.

So that’s five locks, with a bunch of other gymnasts who could make up a six. Cesario has the inside track from that one time she hit for 9.900 last season, but there are an easy 10+ 9.850-level beam routines here. Newman-Achee could make her way in, and I’d love to see more (some?) of Miki Aderinto because she was so good and toe-pointy in L10, but we shall see if it materializes this season.

2023 Event Ranking: 10

Cal certainly enjoyed an upgrade on floor last year from eMjae Frazier, who immediately became the team’s top FX worker and added a little bit of Comfortable Big Tumbling that the lineup had been lacking. She’ll lead yet another crop of five returners here, though Cal won’t necessarily feel as comfortable with everything staying the same on floor as on more stacked events like bars and beam. There’s room for changes to augment this ranking.

Kyen Mayhew and her front 2/1 will fit in very well at UC Front Twisting with the likes of Mya Lauzon and Andi Li, who should continue to get 9.9s in the back half of this lineup. Maddie Williams really started to find her floor 9.9s at the end of last season (5 of her final 7 routines), so I’d expect to see her back as well.

Perea can return, though the landings haven’t always been the most consistent, so watch out for your Ella Cesarios and Jordan Kanes who could also make their way in.