Stanford University announced today that it has accepted an invitation to join the Atlantic Coast Conference beginning in August 2024. The move ensures Cardinal student-athletes will continue to pursue excellence at the highest levels in the classroom and on the playing field.
An impressive alumni cohort including Andrew Luck, ’12, and Nicole Gibbs, ’14, will be inducted next month and honored at the Stanford-Oregon football game.
The nation’s only program to have participated at every NCAA championship since the event’s inception in 2001, Stanford women’s water polo defeated USC 11-9 on Sunday night to win their ninth NCAA title.
Coach Shaw announced following Saturday’s game that he will step down from his position, effective immediately. He is the winningest head coach in program history, and leaves with a record of 96-54.
No. 3 Cardinal men’s water polo won the MPSF Invite after an 8-7 victory over No. 2 UCLA. The victory pushes Stanford to 13-0 on the year, making the Cardinal the last unbeaten team in the nation.
Brody Malone, the two-time defending U.S. all-around champion, won gold on the horizontal bar with a score of 14.650 and claimed silver on parallel bars at 14.600 at the 2022 Paris World Challenge Cup.
Stanford Athletics continued its Title IX 50th anniversary celebration with the induction of the first all-female Hall of Fame class in school history.
For the eighth time in program history, women’s water polo claimed the NCAA title, taking home the 2022 crown with a 10-7 victory over USC on Sunday, May 8.
Mary Cooper, a senior with a self-designed major in aerospace engineering and computer science, was among 12 disabled scientists, veterans, students and artists to participate in Mission: AstroAccess, a program among private space enterprises to investigate accessibility in zero gravity.
Cardinal swimmer Brooke Forde won a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics and now sets her eyes on the future. Her passion for the environment and climate change motivates her to make a difference in the world.
Medical student Veronica Toro Arana's rowing career earned her a spot in the Tokyo Olympics, where she was the first female rower to represent Puerto Rico.
The new campus program is designed to help student-athletes take advantage of opportunities to receive compensation for their name, image and likeness (NIL) without forfeiting their athletic eligibility.
Stanford Athletics is planning to welcome fans to its competition venues with no capacity limitations beginning with the fall 2021 seasons. Football tailgating is also expected to be permitted.
A more flexible enrollment process approved on a pilot basis by the Faculty Senate means that admission of potential athletes will be more in line with institutions with which Stanford competes for recruits.
Stanford honored the 2021 NCAA women’s basketball champions with a campus parade on Monday, the day after the Cardinal beat the Arizona Wildcats for the team’s first national title since 1992.
The Faculty Senate heard an update on the structure of the new school for climate and sustainability and learned that it will include a Sustainability Accelerator that will translate policy and technology solutions.
Junior long jumper Yinka Braimah talks about the logo she created for CardinalBLCK, a student-athlete group encouraging dialogue about racism and injustice.
The daughter of Ethiopian immigrants, Girma was raised among those who looked out for each other. And as others have looked out for her, so to Girma gives back to the community.
