Alyssa Brown Class: Senior Hometown: Oakville, Ontario, Canada High School: Abbey Park Height: 5-2 Club: Gymnastics Mississauga

Alyssa Brown

2011 Season (Junior): Team captain ... was named the team MVP at the program's annual awards banquet for excelling in leadership and reliability ... received All-Pac-10 first-team honors on the balance beam ... continued to be a mainstay in the lineup on the vault, bars, and beam, competing in all three events in all 11 competitions ... posted a career-best 9.900 in the bars on three occasions, winning the event on Jan. 23 against UCLA (9.850) ... one of three Stanford gymnasts with a meet-best 9.850 in the vault at Arizona (Feb. 18) ... also won the balance beam in Tucson (9.825) ... had her best meet against Michigan and Nebraska, posting season-high 9.900 scores in the vault and bars - the latter as Stanford closed out the meet with three consecutive 9.9's to make up a deficit and give the Cardinal a road victory over two ranked teams.

2010 Season (Sophomore): A fixture in the lineup in three events by the end of the season ... tied for fifth on vault (9.85) at Pac-10 Championships, and 10th on beam (9.80) ... scored collegiate career-best in any event with a 9.90 on bars in victory over No.1 UCLA (Jan. 24) ... also scored a 9.90 to win bars in dual meet at UC Davis (March 21) ... won twice during season, including tying for first in bars (9.875) in home quad meet on Feb. 28 ... second in lineup on vault, third on bars, and first on beam at NCAA Super Six (April 23).

2009 Season (Freshman): Earned first collegiate victories in back-to-back meets at Cal (2/22, 9.925) and UC Davis (2/27, 9.85) in the vault ... Her Cal vault score tied for Stanford's season high in the event ... competed exclusively on the vault and bars, scoring collegiate bests in both events against Cal, including a 9.875 on the bars, to help Stanford to its season-best overall score (197.175) ... suffered knee injury on a vault landing in warmups for the Pac-10 Championships (3/21) and missed the NCAA postseason.

International: Competed internationally for the Canadian national team ... Canada's first alternate at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing ... represented Canada at two World Championships, in 2007 in Stuttgart, Germany, and 2006 in Aarhus, Denmark ... Canada's highest-scoring all-around performer at the 2007 worlds, in the team competition ... Canada placed 14th in both 2007 and 2006 ... second in the vault at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia.

Club/High School: Fourth all-around, fourth on the uneven bars, and fifth on the beam and floor at the 2008 Canadian national championships ... Canadian national champion in the vault and beam in 2006 ... coached by Alex Bard at Gymnastics Mississauga.

Personal: A 2007 graduate of Abbey Park High School in Oakville, Ontario, Canada ... parents are Clifford and Lori Brown ... majoring in human biology with a goal of becoming a sports medicine doctor ... has a brother, Scott.