Nov. 27, 2012

STANFORD, Calif. - The Stanford women's gymnastics team plays host to San Jose State in an exhibition meet Sunday (1:30 p.m.) at its Ford Center training facility, and will do so in front of a panel of celebrity judges.

Headlining the judges panel will be will be Tatiana Lysenko, a two-time Olympic gymnastics gold medalist at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. Lysenko, representing the Soviet Union, won the team gold and also the balance beam.

Also scheduled to judge are 10-time Stanford All-American and 2004 Pac-10 all-around champ Natalie Foley Weisen '06, Stanford football outside linebacker Trent Murphy, Stanford senior associate athletic director Brian Talbott, and Kelly Myers, a Stanford professor in the Study of Writing and Rhetoric.

The meet also will be the first opportunity to see freshmen Melissa Chuang, Jenna Frowein, Taylor Rice, and Maggie Teets compete for Stanford.

The Cardinal features five returning All-Americans: Ivana Hong, Ashley Morgan, Shona Morgan, Samantha Shapiro, and Amanda Spinner. Also, the team returns 2012 Canadian Olympian Kristina Vaculik, who competed for Stanford in 2010 before taking a year off to training for the Olympics.