Special thanks to Stanford’s Assistant Director for Communications Maddie Heaps who helped me set up an interview with Chloe Widner.
LSU’s gymnastics team will have a guest competing with them at nationals in their semifinal session Thursday at 2 p.m. Chloe Widner is a senior at Stanford who qualified to nationals as an all-arounder with a 39.550 in the Los Angeles Regional semifinals, the highest score among gymnasts on teams who did not advance to regionals and tied for the third-highest score among all gymnasts across the two semifinal sessions with Utah’s Maile O’Keefe. She’ll be attempting to win Stanford’s fifth (or more) individual national title and the program’s first since 2018 when Elizabeth Price shared the national bars title with Oklahoma’s Maggie Nichols.