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2024 Women's Gymnastics Roster

Rich Graessle
Mike Erdelyi
Ben Solomon

Stephanie Zannella

Stephanie Zannella

  • Position:
    Vault, Beam, & Floor
  • Height:
    5-4
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Belle Mead, N.J.
  • High School:
    Immaculata
  • Major:
    Biological Sciences

Summary

Biography

2023 NCAA Regional Championships Qualifier (Beam)
2023 Academic All-Big Ten
2022 Academic All-Big Ten
2022 & 2023 Team Captain
2020-21 WCGA Scholastic All-America

CAREER HIGHS
VT UB BB FX AA
9.575 -- 9.925 9.850 --

2024 (Senior)
  • Posted her season-high on beam, anchoring with a 9.875, tying for 1st of 24 in the New Hampshire Quad Meet (2/11/24).
  • Pitched in an important 9.800 in the anchor spot on beam and a counted 9.750 on floor from the leadoff spot, in a dual with Illinois (2/4/24).
  • Tied for third against Maryland (1/19) with a 9.825 on beam.
  • Started her season with 9.800 on beam (6th place of 24) and a 9.700 on floor.
2023 (Junior)
  • 2023 NCAA Regional Championships qualifier. 
  • Tied her career-high on beam with a 9.925 at the Big Ten Championships, placing seventh out of 60 gymnasts in the event.
  • Won beam with a career-high tying 9.925, in regular season finale victory over UPenn & West Virginia, contributing to a program-record team score of 196.875 and the beam team school record of 49.400 (3/12).
  • Lead off floor in dual meet vs. NC State (3/4) with a 9.775, contributing to their 49.400, Rutgers' second-highest floor score in school history. 
  • Placed second on beam at No. 18 Iowa (2/18) with a new career-high 9.925.
  • Debuted a new floor routine and set a new career-high 9.850 vs. Maryland (2/11), helping Rutgers score a program-record 49.425 in the event.
  • Anchored beam with a team-high 9.825 during the quad with No. 3 Michigan, Fisk, and Southern Connecticut State (2/6)
  • Tied for second on balance beam with a 9.850 at the season opening Super 16 Collegiate Challenge in Las Vegas (1/6)
2022 (Sophomore): Competed in 11 meets for Rutgers...named a team captain...Contributed to the highest program score at a Big Ten Championship, recording a career-high 9.775 on floor and a 9.750 on beam (3/19)...Placed third on beam with a career-high 9.900, helping the team to a program-record total of 196.400 (3/11)...recorded a career best on beam with a 9.875, finishing second on beam at No. 2 Ohio State (1/30)...scored season high of 9.850 on beam in win over Maryland (1/22).

2021 (Freshman): Competed in 10 meets for the Scarlet Knights...finished first on beam with a career-high 9.875 at Maryland (3/3)...reached her career best of 9.825 on beam to help boost a program-record road score for RU at Minnesota (2/20)...improved her career high on floor to 9.750 in dual meet with Ohio State (2/14)...registered a new career best on beam with a 9.825 in the win at Nebraska (2/7)...made collegiate debut in tri-meet with Illinois and Maryland, competing on vault, beam and floor (1/23).

Prior to Rutgers: USAG Club Gymnastics member from 2008-2020…2019 Level 10 J.O. National Qualifier…2017 Level 9 Regional Vault, Beam, and All-Around Champion…2017 Level 9 State Bars and All Around Champion…2016 Level 9 State Floor Champion…2015 Level 8 State Floor and Beam Champion…2014 Level 7 State Floor, Bars, and All-Around Champion…2013 Level 6 Floor State Record- 9.725…member of the National Honor Society, serving as Tutoring Chair – 2019-20…member of the French Honor Society.

Personal: Daughter of Robert and Valerie Zannella…has three siblings, Anthony, Lisa-Marie, and Natalie…studying towards a career as a dentist or orthodontist.

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Historical Player Information

  • 2021Freshman

    5'4"
  • 2022Sophomore

    Vault, Beam, Floor
    5'4"
  • 2023Junior

    Vault, Beam, Floor
    5'4"
  • 2024Senior

    Vault, Beam, & Floor
    5'4"
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