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Stanford Cardinal
University	Stanford University
Conference	Pac-12 Conference (primary) America East (field hockey) Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (men's gymnastics, men's volleyball, water polo, fencing) PCCSC (sailing) CSA (women's squash)
NCAA	Division I (FBS)
Athletic director	Bernard Muir
Location	Stanford, California
Varsity teams	36 (15 men’s, 19 women’s, 2 co-ed)
Football stadium	Stanford Stadium
Basketball arena	Maples Pavilion
Baseball stadium	Klein Field at Sunken Diamond
Softball stadium	Smith Family Stadium
Soccer stadium	Maloney Field at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium
Aquatics center	Avery Aquatic Center
Rowing venue	Arrillaga Family Rowing and Sailing Center
Sailing venue	Arrillaga Family Rowing and Sailing Center
Tennis venue	Taube Tennis Center
Other venues	Arrillaga Center for Sports and Recreation Burnham Pavilion Cobb Track and Angell Field Red Barn Stanford Beach Volleyball Stadium Stanford Golf Course Varsity Field Hockey Turf
Mascot	Stanford Tree (unofficial)
Nickname	Cardinal[1]
Fight song	"Come Join The Band" (official) "All Right Now" (de facto)
Colors	Cardinal and white[2]
Website	www.gostanford.com

The Stanford Cardinal are the athletic teams that represent Stanford University. Stanford's program has won 136 NCAA team championships, the most of any university. Stanford has won at least one NCAA team championship each academic year for 48 consecutive years, starting in 1976–77 and continuing through 2023–24. Through January 2024, Stanford athletes have won 552 individual NCAA titles.

Stanford has won 26 of the 29 NACDA Directors' Cups, awarded annually to the most successful overall college sports program in the nation, including 25 consecutive Cups from 1994–95 through 2018–19. 177 Stanford-affiliated athletes have won a total of 296 Summer Olympic medals (150 gold, 79 silver, 67 bronze), including 26 medals at the 2020 Tokyo games.^[3][4]

Stanford's teams compete at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I (Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) for college football) level as a member of the Pac-12 Conference, along with other schools from the western third of the United States.

Stanford will join the Atlantic Coast Conference at the start of the 2024–25 academic year. ^[5]

Nickname and mascot history

Cardinal red was chosen as Stanford's official color by an assembly of the university's first students in 1891.^[1] White was adopted as a secondary color in the 1940s.^[1]

Following Stanford's win over California in the first-ever Big Game on March 19, 1892, the team was metonymically referred to as the "Cardinal" by sportswriters in the next day's San Francisco Chronicle.^[6] The university's athletic teams continued to be referred to as the "Cardinal" or "Cardinals" even after the adoption of the "Indians" name.^[7]

On November 25, 1930, following a unanimous vote by the Executive Committee for the Associated Students, the athletic department adopted the mascot "Indian".^[8]

On March 3, 1972,^[9] a few months after the football team's second straight win in the Rose Bowl, the Indian symbol and name were dropped by Stanford president Richard Lyman^[9] after objections from Native American students and a vote by the student senate.^[1][10]

From 1972 to 1981, the official nickname returned to "Cardinals," a reference to the color, not the bird.^[1][11] During the 1970s, a number of suggestions were put forth as possible nicknames: Robber Barons (a sly reference to Leland Stanford's history),^[11] Sequoias, Trees, Railroaders, Spikes, Huns and Griffins. The last suggestion gained enough momentum to prompt the athletics department to move two griffin statues from the site of the former Stanford Home for Convalescent Children to near the athletic facilities.^[1][12]

On November 17, 1981, school president Donald Kennedy declared that the athletic teams be represented by the color cardinal in its singular form.^[1]

Stanford has no official mascot, but the Stanford Tree, a member of the Stanford Band wearing a self-designed tree costume, appears at major Stanford sports events. The Tree is based on El Palo Alto, a redwood tree in neighboring Palo Alto that appears in the Stanford seal and athletics logo.

Sports sponsored

Stanford University sponsors 36 varsity sports teams — 15 men's, 19 women's, and two coed sports — competing primarily in the NCAA Division I and the Pac-12 Conference. The rowing program competes in the Intercollegiate Rowing Association, the men's and women's gymnastics, men's volleyball, men's and women's water polo, and women's lacrosse all compete in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, the field hockey program competes in the America East Conference, sailing in the Intercollegiate Sailing Association, squash program in the College Squash Association, and the synchro program in the USA Synchro.

In July 2020, due to increased financial constraints caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Stanford Athletics announced they will be eliminating 11 varsity teams after the conclusion of the 2020–2021 academic year: men's and women's fencing, field hockey, lightweight rowing, men's rowing, co-ed and women's sailing, squash, synchronized swimming, men's volleyball and wrestling.^[13][14][15] These planned cuts were canceled in May 2021.^[16][17]

Football

Basketball

Baseball

The Cardinal have appeared in the NCAA Division I baseball tournament 35 times, and have appeared in the College World Series 19 times. They have won two National Championships, in 1987 and 1988.

Field Hockey

Men's golf

The men's golf team has won nine NCAA Championships: 1938,^[18] 1939, 1941, 1942 (co-champions), 1946, 1953, 1994, 2007, 2019. They have crowned three individual national champions: Sandy Tatum (1942), Tiger Woods (1996), and Cameron Wilson (2014). They have won 12 Pac-12 Conference championships: 1960, 1968, 1970, 1974, 1977 (south), 1992, 1994, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, and 2023.^[19] Other notable players include Tom Watson, Bob Rosburg, NFL quarterback John Brodie, and Notah Begay III.

Women's golf

Stanford golfers have won individual golf championships four times. In 1971, Shelley Hamlin won the women's national intercollegiate individual golf championship (an event conducted by the Division of Girls' and Women's Sports, which evolved into the current NCAA women's golf championship). More recently, Stanford golfers won individual NCAA titles three years in a row: Rachel Heck in 2021,^[20] Rose Zhang in 2022, ^[21] and Rose Zhang again in 2023.^[22] Zhang is the only woman who has ever won two NCAA individual titles.

Stanford has won the NCAA team championship three times: in 2015,^[23] 2022,^[21] and 2024.^[24] From 2015 to the present, the championship has been determined by match play. Stanford is the only team to reach the match play portion of the championship every year it has been offered.^[25]

Sailing

Stanford Sailing has won the following Intercollegiate Sailing Association championship events:

• the ICSA Open Fleet Race Championship in 2023
• the ICSA Open Team Race Championship in 1997
• the ICSA Women's Fleet Race Championship in 2023
• the ICSA Men's Singlehanded Championship in 1963, 2006, and 2022
• the ICSA Women's Singlehanded Championship in 2000 and 2018^[26]

In 2023, Stanford Sailing won the Leonard M. Fowle Trophy, which the ICSA awards annually to the best overall college team.^[27]

In March 2019, John Vandemoer, Stanford University's head sailing coach for 11 years, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit racketeering for accepting bribes in the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal, to hold open admission spots at the university for three applicants falsely portrayed as competitive sailors, in exchange for $770,000 in payments to the sailing program.^[28] Unlike others indicted in the scheme, he did not personally benefit financially.^[29] The university fired Vandemoer.^[28][30] Clinton Hayes was appointed interim head coach.^[31]

Men's soccer

The Cardinal have appeared in the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament 20 times, including in 8 consecutive years from 2013 through 2020. They have seven appearances in the College Cup, winning the national championship in 2015, 2016, and 2017.

Women's soccer

The Cardinal won the NCAA women's soccer championship in 2011, 2017, and 2019.

Softball

The Cardinal softball team has appeared in four Women's College World Series, in 2001, 2004, 2023, and 2024. The Cardinal program was the co-champions of the PAC-10 conference in 2005, which is their only conference championship. The current head softball coach of the Stanford program is Jessica Allister.

Men's tennis

The Cardinal have won 17 NCAA Men's tennis championships: 1973, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1986, 1988 through 1990, 1992, 1995 through 1998, and 2000.^[32]

Women's tennis

The Cardinal have won 20 of the 42 NCAA women's tennis team championships that have taken place, winning in 1982, 1984, 1986 through 1991, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004 through 2006, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2018, and 2019.^[33][34] Stanford also won the 1978 women's tennis championship, awarded by the AIAW. 2023 was the first year in which Stanford held fewer than half of the NCAA team championships ever awarded.

Stanford tennis players have won the individual singles championship many times:

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Stanford tennis players have also won the doubles championship many times:

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Women's volleyball

The Cardinal have won 9 NCAA Women's volleyball national championships: in 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2016, 2018 and 2019. Stanford has appeared in 17 championship games, more than any other team. Stanford has qualified for 41 of the 42 NCAA tournaments, missing the postseason only during the COVID-shortened 2020–21 season.^[37] Only Penn State has appeared in all 42 tournaments.^[38][39][40]

Women's water polo

The Cardinal have won 9 NCAA Women's volleyball national championships, more than any other university: in 2002, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2022, and 2023.^[41] Stanford is the only program that has participated in every NCAA Championship since the event began in 2001. Stanford has advanced to the title match in 12 of the last 14 championships.^[42]

Wrestling

The Stanford wrestling team is coached by Rob Koll, replacing Jason Borelli after he took the head coaching job at American University in 2021. In his 13 years as head coach, Borelli led the Cardinal to 122 dual wins, making him Stanford's winningest coach. The Cardinal wrestlers practice in the Weintz Family Wrestling Room, and compete on campus at Burnham Pavilion, with a capacity of about 1,400.^[43]

The Cardinal wrestling team won the Pac-12 championship once, in 2019. They have placed in the top 19 at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships eight times: in 1967 (13th), 2004 (19th), 2008 (19th), 2011 (11th), 2012 (16th), 2016 (19th), 2021 (17th), and 2022 (19th).^[44] Stanford has had two individual wrestling national champions in its history: Matt Gentry at 157 pounds in 2004 and Shane Griffith at 165 pounds in 2021.

Stanford's wrestling program was one of the eleven the school planned on eliminating after the 2020–21 season. In response, the team wore solid black singlets without the school logo. Wrestling fans also led a movement to keep the program afloat, before the school ultimately reversed its decision.

Notable non-varsity sports

Rugby

Stanford has fielded a college rugby team since 1906, and replaced football entirely until 1917. Stanford achieved one of the most surprising victories of American rugby's early history by beating a touring Australian club team in 1912.^[45] Rugby remained a varsity sport at Stanford until 1977.^[46] Despite the loss of varsity status, the Stanford Rugby Foundation covers many of the team's expenses from an endowment fund. Rugby is one of the largest sports programs on campus with over 100 players.^[46] Stanford Rugby is led by Director of Rugby Matt Sherman, who has served as an assistant coach for the U.S. men's national team.^[47]

From 1996 to 1998 Stanford reached the national semifinals in three consecutive years, finishing second in 1998.^[48] During the 2010–11 season, Stanford was champion of the Northern California conference, reached the national quarterfinals, and finished the season ranked 4th in D1-AA rugby.^[49] Following the 2011–12 season, Stanford were promoted to Division 1-A and played in the California conference, but have since returned to Division 1-AA and now play in the Pacific Western conference. Stanford won the Pacific Western conference in 2014, earning a berth in the D1-AA national playoffs, where they defeated Oregon 24–12 at home in front of a strong crowd,^[50] before losing to Arizona 27–24 in the quarterfinals.

Championships

NCAA team championships

Stanford has won 136 NCAA team national championships, the most of any Division 1 school in the NCAA.^[51][21] Stanford has won these NCAA team championships in 20 different sports.

• Men's (71)
  • Baseball (2): 1987, 1988
  • Basketball (1): 1942
  • Cross country (4): 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003
  • Golf ^† (9): 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1953, 1994, 2007, 2019
  • Gymnastics (10): 1992, 1993, 1995, 2009, 2011, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • Outdoor track & field (4): 1925 (unofficial), 1928, 1934, 2000
  • Soccer (3): 2015, 2016, 2017
  • Swimming (8): 1967, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998
  • Tennis (17): 1973, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000
  • Volleyball (2): 1997, 2010
  • Water polo (11): 1976, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1993, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2019
• Women's (65)
  • Basketball (3): 1990, 1992, 2021
  • Cross country (5): 1996, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007
  • Golf (3): 2015, 2022, 2024
  • Rowing (2): 2009, 2023
  • Soccer (3): 2011, 2017, 2019
  • Swimming (11): 1983, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2017, 2018, 2019
  • Tennis (20): 1982, 1984, 1986 through 1991, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2019
  • Volleyball (9): 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2016, 2018, 2019
  • Water polo (9): 2002, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023

† The NCAA started sponsoring the intercollegiate golf championship in 1939, but it retained the titles from the 41 championships previously conferred by the National Intercollegiate Golf Association in its records.

Other national team championships

Below are 39 national team titles in NCAA sports that were not bestowed by the NCAA:

• Men's (17)
  • Basketball (1): 1937 (retroactive Helms^[52] and Premo-Porretta^[53] selectors)
  • Football (2): 1926,^[54] 1940^[55]
  • Tennis (1): 1942 ^‡
  • Tennis (12) (indoor): 1973, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1985, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2002 (ITA)
  • Water polo (1): 1963 (coaches' poll)
• Women's (22)
  • Rowing (9) (lightweight): 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 (IRA)
  • Swimming (1): 1980 (AIAW)
  • Tennis (1): 1978 (AIAW)
  • Tennis (10) (indoor): 1989, 1990, 1993, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011 (ITA)
  • Water polo (1): 1985 (USA Water Polo)

‡ Unofficial by virtue of winning both the collegiate individual and doubles crowns of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association

Below are 42 national team titles won by Stanford varsity and club sports teams at the highest collegiate levels in non-NCAA sports:

• Men's (5)
  • Rugby (1) (Div. II): 2002
  • Sailing, offshore large boats (2): 1967, 1968
  • Ultimate (2): 1984, 2002
• Women's (24)
  • Archery (2) (recurve): 2006, 2007
  • Rugby (4): 1999, 2005, 2006, 2008
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