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The NCAA champion Stanford men’s gymnastics teams is sending three of its gymnasts to the Pam American Games in Peru as part of USA Gymnastics’ 2019 Pan American Games squad.
Grant Breckenridge, Brody Malone and Robert Neff are scheduled to compete for the U.S. in Lima from July 27-31.
The team was selected as part of the U.S. Senior Men’s National Team May training camp at the U.S. Olympic Training Center. USA Gymnastics also selected gymnasts for the Junior World Championships in Gyor, Hungary from June 27-30.
Led by Malone in his freshman year, Stanford captured it’s seventh men’s gymnastics national championship. He earned the CGA Rookie of the Year and MPSF Gymnast of the Year while capturing the all-around crown with a career-best 85.832 at the championship meet.
Malone also claimed the national title on floor (career-high 14.800) and high bar (14.633) to become the first Cardinal in program history to win three titles in one season.
He is also the third freshman to win the NCAA all-around title, joining Sam Mikulak (2011) and Yul Moldauer (2016). Malone finished the championship run with five All-American selections, capturing the honor on parallel bars (14.100) and rings (14.266) in addition to his three national titles.
Malone joins Jair Lynch (’92), Dan Gill (’04) and Akash Modi (’15 & ’17) as the only Cardinal gymnasts to ever record five All-American honors in one Championship meet.
Breckenridge finished a stellar four-year career on The Farm this season, placing as the national runner-up in high bar for the second consecutive season.
A finalist for the Nissen-Emery Award, he earned All-American selections on high bar and in the all-around to finish his Stanford career with three total All-American nods.
Breckenridge was named to the U.S. Senior National Team in 2017 after finishing seventh in the all-around at Winter Cup that year. A 2018 Winter Cup high bar silver medalist, he also claimed bronze in the parallel bars in 2019.
The native of Libertyville, Ill. was a 2018 CGA Second Team All-America Scholar Athlete and a three-time MPSF All-Academic selection.
Neff closed out his career as a two-time NCAA champion in the high bar (2017, 2018) and six-time All-American, claiming titles in the high bar (3), all-around (2) and parallel bars (1).
Neff guided the Cardinal to four top-four NCAA Championships finishes, including runner-up efforts during his freshman and sophomore seasons. Neff, who nailed a season-high 14.766 on the high bar to repeat as 2018 NCAA champion, became only the fifth Cardinal gymnast to claim back-to-back NCAA titles and the first since Modi accomplished the feat by winning parallel bars in 2016-17.
A 2018 Nissen-Emery Award finalist, Neff was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America At-Large second team in his final campaign.
By Palo Alto Online Sports/Stanford Athletics
By Palo Alto Online Sports/Stanford Athletics
By Palo Alto Online Sports/Stanford Athletics