Cardinal to Pacific Northwest

Stanford (4-2-3, 1-0-0 Pac-12)
at No. 16 Washington (7-3-0, 1-1-0 Pac-12)
Thursday, Oct. 6 • 7 p.m.
Husky Soccer Stadium • Seattle, Wash.
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Television • Pac-12 Bay Area/Pac-12 Washington
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LOOKING AHEAD » Stanford (4-2-3, 1-0-0 Pac-12) goes in search of its first win of the season away from Cagan Stadium when it plays its third and fourth road games of the year at No. 16 Washington (7-3-0, 1-1-0 Pac-12) and Oregon State (4-4-2, 0-1-1 Pac-12) in the coming days. The Cardinal is at the Huskies on Thursday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. in a game televised on Pac-12 Bay Area and Pac-12 Washington with Rich Burk and Kelly Gray on the call. Burk will again handle play-by-play and Christopher Sullivan will add analysis on Pac-12 Bay Area and Pac-12 Oregon when Stanford plays at Oregon State on Sunday, Oct. 9 at 11 a.m.
 
HISTORY VS. WASHINGTON » Stanford is 17-33-5 in 55 all-time meetings with the Huskies dating back to 1974. Last season, the Huskies snapped the Cardinal's eight-game winning streak when the two played to a scoreless draw at Stanford on Oct. 9. UW beat Stanford in Seattle on Nov. 2, 2-1, to end the Cardinal's 15-match unbeaten streak, which spanned 66 days and was the second-longest in program history. It was the last setback Stanford would suffer in 2015. The Cardinal reeled off four straight wins, beat Akron in penalties and then crushed Clemson, 4-0, to win its national championship. Stanford has lost seven straight at Washington and is 0-9-1 in its last 10 in Seattle. The Cardinal's last road win against the Huskies came on Oct. 6, 2006 when Washington was ranked No. 9. Dan Shapiro and Galen Thompson scored for Stanford in the 2-0 victory.
 
HISTORY VS. OREGON STATE » The Cardinal is 32-6-5 all-time against the Beavers in a series dating back to 1988, 12-1-3 in the past 16 and 7-0-1 under Jeremy Gunn. The Cardinal hasn't dropped a result to OSU since a 1-0 loss in Corvallis on Oct. 23, 2011. Stanford blanked the Beavers twice last season, 3-0 at home on Oct. 11 and 2-0 on the road on Oct. 30. The 3-0 victory was its largest in conference since Nov. 2012.
 
LOOKING BACK TO LAST WEEK » Stanford won its third consecutive conference opener with a 1-0 defeat of rival California on The Farm on Sunday, Oct. 2. Foster Langsdorf's goal in the 47th minute was his second winner of the season and sixth of his career. Coming out of halftime, it was senior co-captain Brian Nana-Sinkam who stepped up to dispossess a Cal player as the Bears were in their offensive half searching for the game's first goal. Nana-Sinkam played the ball forward to freshman midfielder Jared Gilbey, who showed composure on the ball and slipped it through two Cal defenders and ahead to Langsdorf. Langsdorf fought off contact and beat Bears' keeper Jonathan Klinsmann to the right post. Stanford moved to 5-0-1 in its last six games against the Golden Bears.

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— Pac-12 Network (@Pac12Network) October 3, 2016

PAC-12 DOMINANCE » Stanford, 14-2-5 (.786) in league action since 2014, is 22-11-8 (.634) in Pac-12 play under Jeremy Gunn the past four-plus years. Stanford went 7-1-2 in conference in 2015, setting a school record for Pac-12 wins en route to its second straight league championship. The Cardinal's seven-point cushion at the top of the Pac-12 table was the third-largest margin in conference history, only surpassed by nine-point gaps for the champions in 2011 and 2003.

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UNRANKED IS AN ODDITY » The Cardinal dropped out of the polls on Sept. 27 for the first time in two years. Its match against Cal was its first as an unranked team in 753 days. Stanford was 35th last week, receiving nine points, and moved up to 29th on Tuesday, receiving 35 points. The Cardinal is also 36th in the official NCAA RPI released Monday.
 
RANKED » Stanford is 13-13-5 all-time against ranked opponents under Jeremy Gunn, including 6-1-3 in its last 10. The Cardinal is 6-6-2 in true road games against ranked opponents under Gunn and 7-8-2 including all matches with ranked foes away from Cagan Stadium.
 
2015 REWIND » One of the program's stated goals every year is to "play as many games as it can" and the Cardinal did that in 2015. Stanford's magical season was capped with the program's first national championship in its 100-plus year history when it routed Clemson, 4-0, at Sporting Park in Kansas City on Dec. 13. The Cardinal scored the most goals in an NCAA final since 1996 and won by the largest margin since 1975, tying for the highest margin in College Cup history. Stanford became the fifth school to capture men's and women's Division I soccer titles, following the Cardinal women in 2011. Jeremy Gunn became one of four coaches to win NCAA titles in both Division I and Division II, following his 2005 crown at Fort Lewis.
 
PASSING AND MOVING » Stanford has averaged three goals in its four wins this season and scored at least three in each of the season's first three victories, which came in successive games against San Jose State, Harvard and Omaha. The program hadn't put home three or more goals in three straight games of the same season since doing it on six consecutive occasions in 2001. That year, Stanford beat Cal State Fullerton on Sept. 9 (3-1), Dartmouth on Sept. 28 (4-0), Fresno State on Sept. 30 (4-0), San Jose State on Oct. 4 (4-1), Saint Mary's on Oct. 7 (4-1) and San Francisco on Oct. 12 (3-1). More recently, the Cardinal finished the final two games of its 2012 campaign with 4-0 and 6-1 wins over San Diego State and Cal before beginning 2013 with a 3-3 draw against No. 2 Maryland.

AMERICAN FOR GOALS » Junior forward Foster Langsdorf has scored six time in his last five games and his seven total goals in the first nine matches of 2016 ties his career high set last season in 23 outings. Included in the spurt are the first two braces of his career, which came in wins over Harvard and Omaha. Langsdorf's seven goals this season lead the team, are second in the Pac-12 and 15th in the nation. He is also 19th in the nation in points per game (1.67) and 12th in goals per game (0.78). Langsdorf's 1.67 shots on goal per game are the 32nd best mark in the country.
 
DOUBLE-DIGIT GOALS » Jordan Morris led Stanford with 13 goals a season ago. The Cardinal has not had two players post 10+ goal campaigns in back-to-back years since 2000 and 2001. Scott Leber (13) and Corey Woolfolk (12) combined for 25 of Stanford's 68 scores in 2000 and Roger Levesque followed that up with 14 goals in 2001.
 
NEW LOOK, SAME STANFORD » A process-oriented bunch, Stanford headed into 2016 with the task of replacing five starters from a year ago, including MAC Hermann Trophy winner Jordan Morris and two-time Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year Brandon Vincent. Those two, along with Slater Meehan, Ty Thompson and Eric Verso, accounted for 53 percent of the Cardinal's goals (23-of-43), 48 percent of its assists (23-of-48) and 52 percent of its points (69-of-134) last season.
 
GREAT UNDER GUNN » One of four coaches to win NCAA titles in both Division I and Division II, Jeremy Gunn's teams are 54-22-14 (.678) in his four-plus seasons on The Farm, including 35-7-9 (.775) since 2014.  He is one of only three coaches in program history to lead Stanford to three straight seasons of 10 or more wins along with Bobby Clark (1996-2000) and Nelson Lodge (1978-83). In guiding the Cardinal to consecutive conference championships, Gunn was awarded Pac-12 Coach of the Year and NSCAA Far West Region Coach of the Year honors in both 2014 and 2015. He owns a career record of 241-83-45 (.714) in 17+ seasons, a mark which makes him the third winningest active coach at the Division I level (by percentage).

Winningest Active Coaches (Entering 2016)

SKUNDRICH SCORES » Junior co-captain Drew Skundrich has tallied the first three goals of his career this season and is second on the team in scoring. Skundrich has been able to up his offense with a move to the central midfield, the position at which he was recruited coming out of Lancaster, Pa. He was a stalwart right back during Stanford's championship run in 2015, starting all 23 games.
 
STOCKPILING CHANCES » Stanford has continually put itself in a position to score in 2016 and has put 42 percent of its attempts on frame this season. The Cardinal is 11th in the nation in shots per game (16.67) and 12th in shots on goal per game (7.00). Stanford is 42nd nationally in goals per game (1.78).
 
RECORD WATCH » Redshirt junior Andrew Epstein is working his way into the conversation with some of Stanford's all-time best goalkeepers. His 16 career solo shutouts are one shy of tying Chris Helling (1986-89) for sixth in school history and his career goals against average (0.75) would be second only to Adam Zapala's 0.63 from 1997-2000. His 137 career saves are four short of tying John Moore (2006-08) for eighth in the Cardinal record books and his 4,786:36 minutes in goal are already fourth all-time.
 
SCORE TWICE AND WIN » Stanford has scored two or more goals in 46 of Jeremy Gunn's 90 matches as Stanford's head coach and is 40-0-6 in those games. The Cardinal hasn't lost when scoring at least two goals since Nov. 11, 2010, when it fell 3-2 at Cal.
 
USMNT » In the past two years, a pair of Gunn's players have capped for the USMNT in Jordan Morris and Brandon Vincent. In November 2014, Morris became the first active collegian since 1995 to receive a cap for the U.S. Men's National Team when he came on in the 76th minute in a friendly against Ireland in Dublin. On April 15, 2015 in San Antonio, Texas, Morris started and scored for the United States against Mexico, becoming the first college player to score for the USA since September 1992. Vincent was pulled away from the MLS Combine after just one day when he was added to the U.S. Men's National Team roster for its January 2016 training camp in Carson, Calif. by head coach Jurgen Klinsmann. The 2015 College Cup Defensive Most Outstanding Player earned his first MNT cap on Feb. 5 when he came on for the second half of a 1-0 win against Canada at StubHub Center.

MLS » Four of Jeremy Gunn's players at Stanford are currently on MLS rosters. Jordan Morris in 2016 and Aaron Kovar in 2014 signed with the Seattle Sounders as Homegrown Players, Brandon Vincent was the fourth overall pick of the 2016 MLS SuperDraft by the Chicago Fire and Adam Jahn was recently traded to Columbus Crew SC by the San Jose Earthquakes, which drafted him with the 15th overall pick in the 2013 MLS Supplemental Draft. Off of last year's national championship team, Vincent was a 2016 MLS All-Star and Morris was just came in at No. 3 on MLSsoccer.com's list of its 24 Under 24 series, which ranks the best MLS players under the age of 24. The two-time Stanford All-American and 2015 MAC Hermann Trophy winner, Morris has exploded for 12 goals so far in his first pro season, second in MLS history for a rookie. He also has six game-winning goals, an MLS rookie record and the most in the league this season.