On the strength of an individual sweep at Stanford’s dual meet against California last weekend, freshman Carly Janiga was named Pacific-10 Conference Gymnast of the Week, conference commissioner Tom Hansen announced Tuesday. The win is the second in a row for the No. 5 Cardinal — junior Tabitha Yim won the same award last week.

Janiga won every event and all-around honors in Stanford’s 196.075-189.925 victory. Janiga started the meet with a 9.925 on the vault and followed with a pair of 9.900 performances on the bars and beam. She closed the meet with a 9.850 on the floor to seal her all-around title, finishing 0.375 ahead of her teammate, junior Alex Pintchouk.

Janiga and the Cardinal will be back in action this Friday night, hosting a four-way meet with No. 11 Iowa State, No. 15 Oregon State and San Jose State. The meet will be free to fans wearing pink as part of the team’s Breast Cancer Awareness efforts.

Logar nabs Player of the Week honors

Despite the No. 2 Stanford women’s tennis team’s first loss since 2003, senior Theresa Logar was tabbed Pac-10 Player of the Week for the first week of the 2007 season. Logar, the No. 89 player in the NCAA, won all three of her individual matches at the National Team Indoor Championships in Wisconsin last weekend. All three of her opponents were nationally ranked, including No. 3 Susie Babos of California, the defending NCAA Singles champion.

Logar has an all-time record of 120-21, including 10-4 in singles matches this year. She and the Cardinal will next face Sacramento State in a bid to regain the top national ranking, which they lost after being upset by then-No. 6 (now No. 1) Georgia Tech last weekend.

Wiggins on midseason Wooden list

After being on the preseason watch list for the John R. Wooden Award — given annually by a vote of sports media — junior point guard Candice Wiggins of the No. 11 Stanford women’s basketball team is on the midseason list of candidates for the prize.

Wiggins is one of 20 women named to the midseason list, a group which will be whittled down to roughly 15 to form the official ballot in March. Wiggins is the only representative of the Pac-10 on a list that also includes 2006 Wooden All-Americans Ivory Latta of North Carolina and Courtney Paris of Oklahoma.

Wiggins, who is averaging 15.5 points and 31.5 minutes per game this season, is a two-time Pac-10 Player of the Year and All-American. She has been named conference Player of the Week twice this season and is also a candidate for the Wade and Naismith Trophies.

Wiggins and the Cardinal host Washington State and Washington this weekend, looking to bounce back from an upset loss to No. 20 California last week.

No. 1 synchro glides over Arizona

The top-ranked Stanford synchronized swimming team held onto its perfect record this season with a victory over Arizona’s club team last weekend. The Cardinal dominated the Wildcats, taking top honors in the elements competition, and the trio, duet and team events.

Junior Courtenay Stewart took the individual honors in Elements, with eight teammates right behind her. Senior Samantha Bongiovanni-Duclos, junior Sara Lowe, sophomore Elizabeth-Anne Markman and junior Melissa Knight rounded out the top five.

Lowe and Stewart edged out Markman and Bongiovanni-Duclos in the duet competition and joined with Markman to win in trio. Bongiovanni-Duclos placed second in trio with freshmen Debbie Chen and Taylor Durand.

The Cardinal closed the competition with a victory as a team, outscoring the Wildcats 96.25-81.

“I think at this point of the season our team routine is strong with good lifts and solid choreography,” head coach Heather Olson said in a press release. “Dual meets are almost tougher than our national meets because there are less entries in each event, so there is very little rest between swims. Our team had a very strong team swim, despite the quick turnaround between events.”

Stanford will visit Alabama-Birmingham this weekend with three more meets before regional competition in early March.