Senior Kathy Tang has always been a standout for the Terrapins gymnastics team. She competed in the all-around in the first meet of her college career and was named the Terps’ Most Valuable Gymnast last year.

Before this season, though, Tang has been flanked by other decorated, experienced teammates, including her older sister, Karen. As a junior last season, Tang competed alongside six seniors who, coach Brett Nelligan said, were performing as many as 16 routines at each meet.

So Tang never had the spotlight. She shared it.

Sunday, that changed. As the Terps’ only competing senior, the focus was squarely on Tang on Senior Night as she performed for the final time at Xfinity Center. She delivered three routines that earned at least a 9.7.

“She’s such an incredible competitor,” Nelligan said. “Week in and week out for four years now, she just brings it in competition.”

Three seniors were honored at the team’s final home meet, but veterans Bailey Philbin and Alex Zimmerman suffered injuries that cut their gymnastics careers short. Neither have competed in the starting lineup this season.

“Although that [senior] class maybe wasn’t as big, I think Kathy has carried her class really well and has carried our team really well,” junior Sarah Faller said.

After losing six seniors from last year, Tang was thrust into a leadership role she wasn’t accustomed to. But the team said she’s taken care of her newfound responsibilities in the locker room, and her scores have remained strong.

Of the Agawam, Massachusetts, native’s 35 routines this season, 22 have earned a 9.80 or higher — the next-best member of the team has 12. Just one of Tang’s scores has been less than a 9.5 this season, and she’s set a career high on beam (9.875) in addition to tying career highs in vault (9.90) and floor (9.875).

Entering Senior Night, Tang had earned at least a 9.80 on her past eight routines, so it was no surprise she started her meet by sticking her vault and earning a 9.85. The score tied for first place in the event.

“On vault, I don’t try to go for the stick, but I just let it happen,” Tang said. “I just tell myself to let it fly.”

Tang was happy with her bars routine, but the judges awarded her a 9.7, continuing what the team felt was tight scoring on the event. The senior hasn’t competed on beam since her only fall of the season on Feb. 14, but she performed an exhibition on the apparatus Sunday and hit, which Nelligan thought held special significance.

“She competed freshman year in the all-around and [then] she spent two years battling some ankle injuries … not able to do all-around,” Nelligan said. “To come all the way back and compete in all four events again today shows her tenacity and determination.”

The Terps said it was fitting that Tang performed the Terps’ final routine of the meet on floor.

“I loved that ending,” Faller said. “I wouldn’t want it any other way.”

After the Terps’ second-place finish, Tang struggled to put into words what she felt when she finished her 9.85 floor routine but said she had tried to compete with “all my heart and emotions.” Her teammates said they were emotional on the sidelines, too.

“I need some more adjectives [to describe it],” Tang said. “Overall, I just felt like there was so much passion.”

In the week before Sunday’s Maryland Five meet, Tang said she remembered what Senior Nights were like as an underclassman.

Sunday, it was her turn.

Her turn to wipe away tears with her family as they watched a montage of childhood and college gymnastics clips on the Jumbotron. Her turn to have the team “competing for her.” Her turn to receive a wooden box with her name painted on it and filled with notes written from all her teammates recalling favorite memories.

After sticking her last tumbling skill and striking her final pose on the floor with her head thrown back and an arm in the air, the Xfinity Center crowd gave its loudest roar of the night.

“Hopefully that final routine on floor is the moment that she remembers,” Nelligan said. “In front of our fans and all the young kids screaming for her, that’s the way you want to go out; that’s the way you want it to end.”