Men’s gymnastics wins NCAA title; Stanford’s streak hits 50 – Stanford Cardinal

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Stanford’s outstanding streak has reached a half century and the Cardinal’s newest dynasty delivered the title.

Men’s gymnastics gained its sixth NCAA championship in seven years, scoring 329.825 to runner-up Oklahoma’s 328.495 at Illinois’ State Farm Center on Saturday. In the ultimate rotation on rings, Nicolas Kuebler scored 14.166 and Asher Hong sealed it with a 14.300, the second and third greatest scores on the equipment all night time.

Stanford has now gained not less than one NCAA staff championship for 50 straight years, a outstanding streak that dates again to the 1976-77 marketing campaign when the boys’s water polo program defeated UCLA 13-12 on Nov. 28, 1976.

The subsequent longest lively NCAA title streak? North Carolina … with 7.

The Cardinal led wire-to-wire, together with a season-best 56.432 on parallel bars, and hit 24-of-24 routines to achieve the division milestone.

In their first NCAA meets, Cooper Kim and Jun Iwai gained particular person nationwide titles – Kim on ground (14.466) and Iwai on vault (14.433).

Stanford is the nation’s all-time chief in NCAA staff championships, having gained 138 total (71 males, 67 girls) whereas considerably outdistancing itself from the likes of UCLA (126) and USC (115) among the many trailing Division I collegiate packages.

This is the eleventh NCAA males’s gymnastics championship in class historical past and Stanford has gained all however one title since 2019 (there was no NCAA championship in 2020). The Cardinal’s different trophies got here in 1992, 1993, 1995, 2009, 2011, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Men’s gymnastics is the fifth Stanford program to win 11 NCAA championships, becoming a member of girls’s tennis (20), males’s tennis (17), girls’s swimming & diving (11) and males’s water polo (11). The Cardinal’s 11 NCAA championships are the third-most males’s gymnastics staff titles within the nation (Penn State 12, Oklahoma 12). 

Head coach Thom Glielmi has led the Cardinal to eight NCAA titles, which ranks second total amongst lively Stanford head coaches and trails solely John Tanner of ladies’s water polo (10).

Of Stanford’s 138 complete NCAA championships, 35 have been gained by fall sports activities, 34 by winter sports activities and 69 by spring sports activities.

The Cardinal has captured 63 NCAA crowns since 2000 and 42 since 2010.

Stanford has produced 175 nationwide staff championships total (78 males, 94 girls, 3 coed).