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Corey Baird Season 2014
PositionMF
Weight160 lbs
Height5-10
ClassFreshman
HometownEscondido, Calif.
In The News
- 12/6/17: The ruling class: Stanford seniors shoot for 3rd straight national soccer title - Tom FitzGerald (San Francisco Chronicle)
- 12/13/16: Baird Celebrates Second Straight College Cup Final - Matt Gaschk (RSL.com)
- 12/9/16: RSL Academy Alum Helps Lead Stanford Back to College Cup - Matt Gaschk (RSL.com)
Career Accolades | Career Statistics and Single-Game Highs
- Signed a Homegrown Player contract with Real Salt Lake on January 5, 2018
- 2017 United Soccer Coaches All-Far West Region First Team
- 2017 All-Pac-12 First Team
- Pac-12 Player of the Week (Nov. 7, 2017)
- Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week (Nov. 7, 2017)
- 2016 College Cup All-Tournament Team
- 2016 All-Pac-12 First Team
- Pac-12 Player of the Week (Oct. 18, 2016)
- Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week (Oct. 18, 2016)
- 2015 College Cup All-Tournament Team
- 2015 All-Pac-12 Second Team
- Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week (Dec. 8, 2015)
- 2014 NSCAA/Continental Tire All-Far West Region Second Team
- 2014 All-Pac-12 Second Team
- 2014 Top Drawer Soccer Best XI Freshman Second Team
- 2014 Soccer America Men's All-Freshman First Team
- 2014 College Soccer News First Team Freshman All-American
- Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week (Nov. 18, 2014)
- Pac-12 Player of the Week (Nov. 10, 2014)
- Pac-12 Player of the Week (Nov. 3, 2014)
- College Soccer News National Team of the Week (Nov. 3, 2014)
- Tied for sixth in school history in games played (83) and fifth in starts (75)
- Tallied 16 goals to go along with 30 assists
- Assist total is tied with Roger Levesque for third in program history
- Put 67 of his 139 career shots on goal (.482)
- Seven game-winning goals
- Three assists in six career College Cup matches
- In his four seasons, Stanford won three national championships, four Pac-12 titles, had a 65-10-13 overall record (.813) and 30-3-7 (.838) conference mark
As a Senior (2017) | Game-by-Game Stats
- United Soccer Coaches All-Far West Region First Team
- All-Pac-12 First Team
- Pac-12 Player of the Week (Nov. 7)
- Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week (Nov. 7)
- Appeared in 18 games and made 16 starts
- Missed five early-season matches due to injury
- Tied for second on the team with a career-high six goals and led the team with seven assists
- Third in the Pac-12 and 47th nationally in assists
- Fourth in the conference and 93rd in the country in points per game (1.04)
- Scored in wins over No. 23 Creighton (9/1), San Diego State (9/28), No. 24 Cal (10/8), UCLA (11/2) and San Diego State (11/5)
- Career-high three game winners were in both matches against the Aztecs and at Cal
- Third career brace came in a 4-0 home victory over San Diego State (11/5)
- Converted his kick in Stanford's 4-1 shootout win over Pacific (11/19) in the second round of the NCAA Tournament
- Fifth career two-assist outing was in the home opener against No. 23 Creighton (9/1)
- Assisted on other goals against San Jose State (8/25), San Diego State (9/28), UCLA (11/2), Coastal Carolina (11/26) and No. 4 Akron (12/8)
As a Junior (2016) | Game-by-Game Stats
- College Cup All-Tournament Team
- All-Pac-12 First Team
- Pac-12 Player of the Week (Oct. 18)
- Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week (Oct. 18)
- Appeared in all 23 matches and started 22
- Second on the team with 12 points on three goals and a team-leading six assists
- Tied for third in the Pac-12 in assists and was 62nd in the country
- Tied for 10th in the conference in total points and shots (40)
- Six assists came in a five-match stretch in mid-October, all wins
- Tallied a pair of assists against No. 25 San Diego State (10/13)
- Had single-assist performances against No. 17 UCLA (10/16), San Diego State (10/20), No. 24 UCLA (10/23) and Oregon State (10/27)
- Goals came in wins against San Jose State (9/10), Omaha (9/18) and Oregon State (10/27)
- Converted his attempts in College Cup penalty shootouts against No. 10 North Carolina (12/9) and No. 2 Wake Forest (12/11)
As a Sophomore (2015) | Game-by-Game Stats
- College Cup All-Tournament Team
- All-Pac-12 Second Team
- Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week (Dec. 8)
- Started all 23 matches
- Tied for the team lead in assists (13) and was second in points (19) while adding three goals
- Tied for second in the country in assists with teammate Eric Verso and sixth in assists per game (0.57)
- Baird and Verso became the first Cardinal teammates with at least 13 assists in a season since 1978 (Ted Rafalovich/Dan McNevin)
- Tied for fifth in Stanford single-season history in assists
- Stanford was the only team in the country that had two players in double digits in assists
- Assist total was the highest for Stanford since 2002 and the most in the Pac-12 since 2010
- Converted the winning kick in Stanford's penalty shootout victory against Akron in the NCAA semifinals (12/11)
- Had two assist games in the NCAA title match against Clemson (12/13) and the NCAA quarterfinals at Wake Forest (12/5)
- Five assists came in a four-match stretch against VCU (9/6), San Jose State (9/10), SMU (9/13) and San Francisco (9/18)
- First time tallying a career-high two assists came off corners in a 3-1 win over San Francisco (9/18)
- Scored his first career postseason goal against Ohio State (11/29)
- Tallied his second career brace in Stanford's 3-1 victory at San Diego State (10/18)
As a Freshman (2014) | Game-by-Game Stats
- NSCAA/Continental Tire All-Far West Region Second Team
- All-Pac-12 Second Team
- Top Drawer Soccer Best XI Freshman Second Team
- Soccer America Men's All-Freshman First Team
- College Soccer News First Team Freshman All-American
- Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week (Nov. 18)
- Pac-12 Player of the Week (Nov. 10)
- Pac-12 Player of the Week (Nov. 3)
- College Soccer News National Team of the Week (Nov. 3)
- Appeared in all 19 games, making 14 starts in the midfield
- Finished tied for third on the team with four goals to go along with four assists
- Goals came against Delaware (9/21), UCLA [2] (10/30) and Oregon State (11/9)
- Responsible for Stanford's only multi-goal game of the year, putting home both for the Cardinal in its 2-2 draw at No. 1 UCLA (10/30)
- Assists came against UC Santa Barbara (9/9), UCLA (10/12), Oregon State (11/9) and California (11/16)
- Assisted Austin Meyer's overtime winner in the 103rd minute at California (11/16), which clinched Stanford's first Pac-12 Championship since 2001
- Tallied eight points on three goals and two assists in the Cardinal’s last five regular-season matches
U.S. Soccer
- Called by U.S. Under-23 Men's National Team head coach Andi Herzog for the first College Identification Training Camp in early August 2015
- Assisted on the first goal for the U.S. in its 3-1 win over Club Tijuana's Segunda Premier Team, which wrapped camp on August 7
- Has been involved with U.S. Youth National Teams from the U-14 to U-20 age range
- Called into camp with the U-20 National Team in January 2014
- Saw action with the U-18 National Team in France in October 2013
- Part of the U-17 Residency Program and started for the national team at the 2013 CONCACAF U-17 Championship
- Also started for the squad at the 2011 Nike International Friendlies and tournaments in Europe and Costa Rica
- Scored lone goal in 1-0 group-play win over Guatemala at the 2013 CONCACAF U-17 Championship
High School/Club
- A 2014 graduate of Vista Grande High School in Casa Grande, Ariz.
- Played one season of soccer
- Named league rookie of the year and to the second team
- Played for San Diego Surf and Real Salt Lake Academy
- Member of the academy’s U-18 team
- Helped RSL squad to US Development Academy League playoff berth
- With San Diego Surf, helped the club’s U-15 team to titles at the Surf Thanksgiving Tournament and the Presidio League in 2010
Personal
- Born in Palomar, Calif.
- Parents are Sean and Marjorie
- Has one older brother, Ryan
Men's Soccer
Teammates Again
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Baird Makes Travel Roster
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2018 Season In Review
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Baird Gets MNT Call-Up
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In the Pros
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In the Pros
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Cardinal Falls in Finale
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Outright Win in Sight
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Baird the Best Rookie
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Cardinal Controls Its Fate
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Nonconference One Last Time
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Halfway There
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Pacific Northwest Up Next
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Cardinal at Cal on Sunday
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Drive for Five
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Tigers in Town Thursday
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Five Straight on The Farm
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Date with the Dons
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Cardinal to Nation's Capital
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Season Starts with SJSU
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Spring Schedule Announced
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Cardinal Heads to England
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Deal is Done
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Corti Signs with RGV FC
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2017 Season In Review
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Baird Signs with RSL
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Three-Peat Complete
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One Last Go
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Championship Chance
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Familiar Territory
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Five All-Region
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Heading Back
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We Meet Again
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Cardinal Eliminates Coastal
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Prevailed in Penalties
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Foster Fires For Record
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Regular-Season Finale
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Baird Voted Pac-12 POW
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Kept It Going
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Won Another One
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Win Will Do It
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Rising to the Occasion
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Five Down, Five to Go
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Wait is Over
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Stanford Silences Cal
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Across the Bay Sunday
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Goals Galore
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Starting Down South
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Cardinal to Gateway City
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Six-Match Homestand Concludes
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Two More at Home
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Brought the Heat
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No Place Like Home
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Off on the Right Foot
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Spartans to Start
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Stanford Topples Tigers
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One More Exhibition
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Pac-12 Pick
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Cardinal Punishes Pilots
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2016 Season In Review
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Champions Again
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Back to the Final
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College Cup Commences
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Quarterfinal in Kentucky
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Postseason Continues
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Tournament Starts with Tigers
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Three Major Pac-12 Awards
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Cardinal Closes at Cal
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Forwards on Fire
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Focused Forward
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Still Unbeaten
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Stanford Earns Draw
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At the Turn
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Baird Selected Pac-12 POW
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Five for Five
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Four Straight
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Long Time Coming
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Final Match Before Pac-12 Play
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Omaha Obliterated
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Early Flurry Leads to Win
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Two Nonconference Tilts at Home
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Win One is a Big One
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Spartans at Stanford Saturday
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Top-Five Tests in Bloomington
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Cardinal Begins at Cagan
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Preseason Best XI
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Final Exhibition
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Preseason All-Pac-12
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In Good Form
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Stanford Starts at No. 1
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2015 Season In Review
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Verso Selected By Montreal
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Stanford to College Cup Final
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In the Heart of America
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Opportunity Awaits
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Pac-12 - Big Ten Showdown
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Journey Starts Sunday
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Reasons to Celebrate
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Cal Comes to Cagan
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More Work To Be Done
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Returning Home
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Stanford Takes Streak South
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Ranked Tests Next
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Conference Commences
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CHAMPS!
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Two Down
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Brilliant Baird
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Cardinal Secures Draw
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Streak Snapped
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Perfect Home Start Intact
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Baird's Winner Lifts Cardinal
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Stanford Battles Back
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Early And Often
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