Sophia Diaz

Class:
Sophomore
Hometown:
Clarksville, Md.
High School:
River Hill

Career Bests

Event	Score	Date
Vault	9.950	4/2/25 at NCAA Regionals
Uneven Bars	9.925	1/10/26 at Sprouts Collegiate Quad
Floor	9.925	4x, last: 3/13/26 vs. Oklahoma, Eastern Michigan

At Michigan
• Big Ten Specialist of the Week (Jan. 27, 2026)
• Qualified for the NCAA Individual National Championship on the vault (2025)
• Second Team All-Big Ten (2025)
• Big Ten All-Freshman Team (2025)
• WCGA Scholastic All-America (2025)
• Two-time Big Ten Gymnast to Watch (2025, 2026)
• Team Newcomer of the Year (2025)

• Has won nine event titles including five on vault, two on uneven bars and two on floor

• Scored 9.900-or-better on 19 occasions including four on vault, seven on uneven bars and eight on floor

Sophomore (2026)
• Big Ten Gymnast to Watch
• Big Ten Specialist of the Week
• Scored a 9.900 on all three of her events (vault, uneven bars, floor) against Iowa to win the vault title and place second on both uneven bars and floor.
• Won a share of the floor title against Rutgers

Freshman (2025)
• Qualified as an individual for the NCAA Championships on the vault
• Second Team All-Big Ten
• Big Ten All-Freshman Team
• WCGA Scholastic All-America
• Big Ten Gymnast to Watch
• Team Newcomer of the Year
• Competed on vault, uneven bars and floor
• Won six event titles including three on vault and two on uneven bars and one on floor
• Scored 9.900-or-better on six occasions including one vault and four uneven bars and one on floor
• Had a season-best 9.950 on the vault at NCAA Regionals (April 3) to earn a spot in the NCAA Individual Championships
• Scored a season-best 9.900 on uneven bars four times and once on floor

Club
• Competed at Hill's Gymnastics where she recorded the highest point total in every event and in the all-around in Hill's Level 10 history
• Has been a member of the Level 10 Women's Development Program National Team for three seasons
• Is a two-time national champion in the all-around (2023, 2024)
• Won the vault national championship with a perfect 10.0 in 2024
• Earned the silver medal at the national championships on uneven bars and beam and is a two-time floor exercise bronze medalist
• Was the bronze medalist on the balance beam and placed fourth in the all-around at the 2022 national championship
• Captured three straight Level 10 regional titles in the all-around as well as on beam and floor
• Earned two straight Level 10 regional titles on uneven bars and one on vault, while also being a two-time vault silver medalist
• Is a three-time Level 10 Maryland state champion on vault, a two-time state champion in the all-around and on the uneven bars as well as a state champion on floor in 2024 and beam in 2022
• Was a silver medalist at the Level 10 Maryland state championships on uneven bars in 2022 and beam in 2023, while capturing a bronze medal on floor in 2022
• Qualified for the Nastia Liukin Cup in 2024
• Named to the Region 7 All-Star team three times
• Earned the Region 7 Level 9 all-around championship in 2021 and was the silver medalist on vault, uneven bars and beam
• Was the Level 9 Eastern all-around and vault champion and took home the silver medal on beam in 2021

Prep
• Prepped at River Hill High School
• Earned the Scholar-Athlete Award
• Was the Cheerleading Athlete of the Month

Personal
• Full name is Sophia Hansel Diaz
• Daughter of Alberto Diaz and Nadia Hansel
• Father was a member of the men’s tennis team at Washington College
• Has one brother and one sister
• Her sister is a swimmer at Columbia
• Enrolled in the School of Literature, Science and Art
• Major is undeclared