Meet 12: ACC Championship
READ: Clemson Earns No. 3 Seed at ACC Championship
- Session II - Saturday, Mar. 21, 2026, 7 p.m. ET
- First Horizon Coliseum • Greensboro, N.C.
- TV: ACC Network
- Clemson Meet Notes: (Download PDF)
CLEMSON, S.C. – 15th-ranked Clemson (NQS: 196.644) will head to the 2026 ACC Gymnastics Championships as the No. 3 seed in the event and participate in Session II, which gets underway on Saturday at 7 p.m. The quad meet, which also includes No. 1 seed Stanford, No. 2 California and No. 4 NC State will take place after the Session I dual meet, which begins at 2 p.m. with No. 5 NC State and No. 6 Pitt.
Both sessions will air on ACC Network. Tickets for the meet are still available - Clemson's sections are 109, 110 and 111.
Clemson is scheduled to start on beam, and then move to floor, vault and end on bars.
ONE DAY BETTER
- Clemson has taken big strides in its first season under new Co-Head Coaches Justin Howell and Liz Crandall-Howell
- Six of Clemson’s eight best team scores ever have come in the past seven meets, including the top three road scores (@Pitt, @Mich, @Elevate)
- Clemson is 15th in NQS (196.644), it’s highest rank in the program’s history entering ACCs.
- 2025 Final rank by event: AA29, VT24, UB32, BB35, FX22
- 2026 Thru 11 meets: AA15 (+14), VT19 (+5), UB14 (+18), BB15 (+20), FX17 (+5)
- Clemson’s 18-spot jump on bars from 2025 is the biggest jump nationally
- Clemson’s 20-spot jump on beam from 2025 is second-best nationally
- In 2026, 189 of 264 (71.6%) of routines have been a 9.800 or above, including 23 of 24 against BYU; 2025: 167 of 311 (53.7 %); 2024: 200 of 292 (68.5%)
- Clemson has surpassed 196.500 eight times in 2026 (including 7 in a row) after doing so five times in its first 25 meets.
COMPETING WITH THE BEST
- Clemson has competed against nine top-25 teams in 11 meets - No. 6 UGA, No. 8 Alabama, No. 9 Stanford, No. 9 Michigan, No. 12 UNC, No. 17 Auburn, No. 20 Cal, No. 21 NC State, No. 24 BYU.
SO FAR, SO GOOD
- Brie Clark was named All-ACC on floor, ranking No. 1 in the ACC in NQS (9.945); She has won floor nine times in 2026 and has won beam in two road meets. She has 21 career floor and five beam event wins.
- Clark is the only gymnast in the nation with a 9.900+ on floor in all meets this season
- Tara Walsh was named All-ACC on vault with a 9.880 NQS. She has competed in 33 events in 2026, with 27 at 9.8 or above (81.8%) and 22 of those scored a 9.850 or higher; She ranks in the top ten in the ACC in vault (3), floor (7) and beam (10)
- Lilly Lippeatt has 25 routines of 9.800 or higher in 2026, including 9.900s on bars, beam and floor. 18 of her last 20 routines have been 9.8 or higher, dating to 1/30.
- Trinity Brown officially returned to competition at No. 9, and immediately tied the school record on bars with a 9.925
- Ella Cesario finished 3rd in the ACC in AA NQS (39.385); She is 1 of 2 ACC gymnastics in the top-15 of all four events... She has four of the top eight AA scores in program history.
SEE, SENIOR
- Clemson honored nine individuals on senior day - Molly Arnold, Trinity Brown, Ella Cesario, Brie Clark, Eve Jackson, Lilly Lippeatt, Madison Minner, Tara Walsh and manager Alana Couch
- Five individuals (Arnold, Brown, Clark, Jackson and Lippeatt) were members of “Team Zero”
- The class has competed 496 routines in Clemson leos, 59.0% of the 840 routines in Clemson history
CLEMSON LOVES GYMNASTICS
- Clemson ranked 6th in the nation with 43,161 fans and its 7,194 per meet ranked 10th in 2026
- Clemson ranked in the top ten in attendance nationally in each of its first three seasons in Littlejohn