Kyte Crigger

Ten years after the Cal men’s gymnastics team was almost cut, members of the community reflect on the campaign and its lessons to be learned in the face of recent events.

It isn’t every day that an athlete has natural athletic ability that exceeds what years of hard work and training can give you in the sport of gymnastics.

This year alone has been a tempest, but Crigger is no stranger to staring into the eye of the storm and simply rising above.

Cal head coach J.T. Okada sees his team's process as normal and necessary for finding the right track to survive the long season.

The No. 11 Bears are traveling to Stanford this Saturday for a meet against the No. 1 Cardinal — the seventh time the two squads have faced each other this season.

On Saturday, though No. 11 Cal fell short to No. 7 Navy, it earned a season-high score of 403.100 with multiple seasonal and personal bests from seniors.

This weekend in Illinois at the NCAA championships, the nation’s top 12 teams and highest-scoring individual gymnasts will compete for the chance to call themselves the best in the country.

By surpassing a score of 196.8 in its last regular-season meet, the Cal women’s gymnastics team has landed a spot in the second session of the Pac-12 Championships, reserved for the top four teams in the conference.

The Bears advanced an impressive seven individuals on to the NCAA finals despite the team coming in last among six in its qualifying session the day before. This is more than double the number of athletes that went on to represent Cal in last year's NCAA Championship.