- No. 25 Stanford will be making its 42nd appearance in the Round of 16 when it plays at No. 20 Oklahoma State in Super Regional action on Saturday, May 10 at 11 a.m. PT/1 p.m. CT.
- The Cardinal advanced by knocking off host and 11th-seeded Texas Tech last Saturday in Lubbock, 4-1. Stanford beat FIU in Friday's first round by the same score.
- Coming in at No. 12 in the latest ITA poll, the Red Raiders are the highest-ranked team the Cardinal has beaten this year and its best true road victory since a 5-2 win at No. 9 California on April 19, 2024.
- Both Stanford and Oklahoma State entered this year's tournament unseeded, with the Cowgirls winning a second-round match at sixth-seeded Oklahoma, 4-2.
- An unseeded team has not made the quarterfinals since Duke in 2021.
- Stanford is 6-1 all-time against Oklahoma State, including 3-0 in the NCAA Tournament.
- The Cardinal won 5-1 in the quarterfinals in Gainesville in 1989, 4-3 in Tulsa in 2016 to win the NCAA title and 4-1 in the second round on The Farm in 2023.
- The team's most recent meeting resulted in the Cowgirls first win in the series, 4-2 at ITA Indoors on Feb. 11, 2024.
- Since the NCAA Tournament field expaned to 64 teams in 1999, Stanford is 22-2 all-time in the Round of 16, its only losses coming to Oklahoma in Norman in 2022 (4-1) and Baylor in College Station, Texas in 2009 (4-3).
- The Cardinal, which has appeared in all 43 NCAA Tournaments, is in the Round of 16 for the 42nd time. The only year it did not advance this far was in 2021. Stanford has been a quarterfinalist 39 times.
- The most decorated program in college history and the winningest program on The Farm, Stanford has won 20 of the possible 42 NCAA championships.
- Stanford owns a 171-23 all-time record in the postseason since the NCAA Tournament went to its present format in 1982.
- The Cardinal has won 21 national titles overall in school history, also claiming the 1978 AIAW crown.
- Stanford is 62-9 during the month of May since 2010, a stretch that has produced five NCAA championships.
- The Cardinal is No. 25 in the latest ITA coaches' poll released on May 1.
- Stanford has three featured in the latest ITA singles rankings in Valerie Glozman (#8), Connie Ma (#12) and Caroline Driscoll (#88). In doubles, Glozman and Ma are ranked 27th.
- Stanford and Texas A&M are the only schools in the country with two, top-15 singles players.
- Driscoll is featured in the singles rankings for the fourth consecutive week. She vaulted in for the first time this season following a straight-set victory over Duke's then-No. 20 Emma Jackson on April 5.
- On April 24, Valerie Glozman was voted ACC Freshman of the Year and landed on the six-person All-ACC Singles First Team along with Connie Ma. The pair also landed on the All-ACC Doubles second team.
- Glozman won a league-high three ACC Freshman of the Week awards in her debut year on The Farm, all in the last six weeks of the regular season. She heads into Super Regionals with a 31-5 overall record, an 18-3 mark this spring, and an 12-1 record against ACC opponents. She’s 14-5 against nationally-ranked foes and as the No. 8 player in the country, is the nation’s highest-ranked underclassmen.
- Glozman has already earned All-America honors following a run to the quarterfinals at the NCAA Individual Championships in Waco in the fall. She is the eighth Stanford women’s tennis player to win conference freshman of the year honors all-time, joining Katherine Hui (2024), Ma (2022), Michaela Gordon (2018), Kristie Ahn (2011), Mallory Burdette (2010), Hilary Barte (2008) and Amber Liu (2003).
- Ma has been just as dominant this spring with a 16-1 record. She's 28-5 overall this year, including 13-4 against nationally-ranked opponents. A senior, Ma earned first-time all-conference honors in each of her four seasons at Stanford. She’s put together a 130-28 career record, including 67-14 in duals, and is 61-18 all-time against ranked opponents.
- Ma also already secured All-America honors in the fall by advancing to the Round of 16 at the NCAA Individual Championships, earning singles All-America status for the third time in her career.
- Stanford is the only school with multiple student-athletes on the All-ACC first team. Glozman and Ma have split time on the top two courts all season.
- Two-time ACC Doubles Team of the Week winners, the duo also was named to the All-ACC Doubles second team and owns a 23-9 record, including 16-8 in duals all at No. 1.
- On January 8, the Cardinal announced the rare (for Stanford) midseason transfer in Caroline Driscoll. The two-time All-Summit League performer at Denver has a career singles record of 68-23, including 45-15 in duals, and is 15-5 this season.
- Moving up to court 3 singles, she picked up her first ranked win of the year on April 5 and another in the regular-season finale at NC State on April 13, dispatching then-No. 109 Gabriella Broadfoot 6-2, 6-4.
- A late-season entrant into Stanford's lineup is two-time All-American Alexandra Yepifanova. The senior played her first match for the Cardinal in nearly 11 months on April 11 at Wake Forest on court 5 after undergoing offseason surgery followed by a quarter abroad.
- On Feb. 4, Stanford announced its latest signing class of prep standouts Alyssa Ahn, Monika Ekstrand and Tianmei Wang.
- All three are blue-chip recruits according to the Tennis Recruiting Network and among the nation’s top five high school seniors that will enroll on college campuses this fall.
- Stanford recruiting class is ranked No. 1 nationally.
- While no stranger to The Farm, Stanford is in its first season with Frankie Brennan as the program’s Peter and Helen Bing Director of Women's Tennis. The third-generation coach was hired to replace the legendary Lele Forood on Sept. 11. Forood announced she was stepping down following 24 seasons and 10 NCAA titles as head coach on Aug. 20.
- Brennan has been on staff at Stanford for 29+ seasons and a part of 12 of Stanford’s record 20 NCAA championships. The Cardinal has gone 717-79 during his tenure, including a 17-8 mark has head coach.
- On Sept. 19, Brennan hired Stanford alumna Janice Shin as his assistant coach. A two-time NCAA team champion during her playing career from 2018-21, Shin was a key contributor on Stanford’s 2018 and 2019 NCAA title teams, going a perfect 8-0 in postseason matches and earning NCAA All-Tournament Team recognition at No. 5 singles both years.
Super Regional in Stillwater
No. 25 Stanford faces No. 20 Oklahoma State on Saturday at 11 a.m. PT