No. 10 Stanford (0-0-1)
at Maryland (0-1-0) | Friday • 3 p.m. PT
at Georgetown (1-1-0) | Monday • 10 a.m. PT
Television • FS1 (Friday)
Stream • GUHoyas.com (Monday)
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LOOKING AHEAD » No. 10 Stanford (0-0-1) hits the road for the first time this season when it heads east to play at Maryland (0-1-0) on Friday, August 31 (3 p.m. PT) and Georgetown (1-1-0) on Monday, September 3 (10 a.m. PT). Friday's contest in College Park, Md. will be carried nationally on FS1 with Dean Linke and Chris Doran on the call.
LAST TIME OUT » Stanford and San Jose State played to a scoreless draw in the season opener for both teams last Friday night at Cagan Stadium. The Cardinal generated 24 shots and had a 13-1 edge in that department in the first half alone, but Alex Clewis made a career-high 11 saves for the Spartans and SJSU was able to end a five-match losing streak to Stanford. San Jose State's head coach is Simon Tobin, who coached Jeremy Gunn during a 27-year stint at CSU Bakersfield and also gave Gunn his first collegiate coaching gig. Gunn served as an assistant coach with Bakersfield's men's and women's soccer programs from 1993-1999.
STANFORD-MARYLAND SERIES » Stanford is 1-1-1 all-time against Maryland. The most recent meeting was a 3-3 draw to open the 2013 season at home against the No. 2 Terrapins which featured two goals from Zach Batteer and was Jordan Morris' collegiate debut (he assisted on Batteer's first goal). The Cardinal's last trip to College Park came seven years ago, a 4-0 loss on September 2, 2011. The teams' first meeting came in a national semifinal in Richmond, Va. on December 11, 1998, a 1-0 Stanford victory thanks to a goal from Lee Morrison. That was the Cardinal's first trip to the College Cup and its first championship match appearance. It would fall to Indiana in the final, 3-1.
STANFORD-GEORGETOWN SERIES » The Cardinal will be looking for its first result in its third meeting with Georgetown. The No. 3 Hoyas beat Stanford 2-0 at Cagan Stadium on September 1, 2013 and also prevailed in double overtime, 1-0, in Washington D.C. on September 4, 2011. Georgetown head coach Brian Wiese spent five seasons as an assistant coach at Stanford (1996-2000) under Bobby Clark.
2017 REWIND » Stanford cemented its dynasty with yet another clinical postseason performance in 2017. On a sequence that began with a throw-in deep in opponent territory, Sam Werner stripped an Indiana player with one touch and stabbed a right-footed shot under the crossbar on his next, at 102:03, to beat the Hoosiers 1-0 and give Stanford just the second three-year championship run in NCAA history.
Three-peat complete. #GoStanford
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CARDINAL QUICK HITTERS »
- Stanford is just the second program to win three straight NCAA titles. Virginia which won four in a row from 1991-94. It is also the seventh program to win at least three national championships along with Saint Louis (10), Indiana (8), Virginia (7), San Francisco (4), UCLA (4) and Maryland (3).
- Stanford went 52-7-10 (.826) during its three-year championship run.
- The Cardinal did not allow a goal throughout the entire 2017 tournament for the second straight year and upped its NCAA-record postseason shutout streak to 12 - a stretch of 1,214 minutes and 20 seconds. The only other programs to go through a postseason without allowing a goal are Wisconsin (1995) and San Francisco (1976).
- The Cardinal has an active shutout streak of 799:15 and has not allowed a goal in eight consecutive matches dating back to last season. The last goal it surrendered was a Brian Iloski penalty kick against UCLA on November 2, 2017. Stanford hasn't given up a goal in open play since October 19, 2017 at Washington when Kyle Coffee headed in a cross, a span of 10 matches and 1,033:02.
- The Cardinal is also in the midst of a 16-match unbeaten streak, the second-longest stretch in program history. Stanford went 20 games without a loss across the 1996 and 1997 campaigns.
NEW LOOK, SAME STANFORD » A process-oriented bunch, Stanford heads into 2018 with the task of replacing seven starters from a year ago, including the conference's career goal scoring leader Foster Langsdorf and 2017 Top Drawer Soccer Player of the Year Tomas Hilliard-Arce. Those two, along with Corey Baird, Nico Corti, Bryce Marion, Drew Skundrich and Sam Werner led Stanford to three national championships, four Pac-12 titles, a 65-10-13 overall record (.813) and 30-3-7 (.838) conference mark in their four years on The Farm. They combined for 71 percent of Stanford's scoring last season (34 of 48) and are all playing professionally. (Nico Corti – RGVFC; Foster Langsdorf – Timbers FC2; Tomas Hilliard-Arce – LA Galaxy; Bryce Marion – RGVFC; Corey Baird – Real Salt Lake; Drew Skundrich – Bethlehem Steel FC; Sam Werner – Israel). The Cardinal started four freshmen in its season opener against San Jose State.
SIMILAR TO 2016? » Stanford returned a loaded bunch last season, but after its first championship the Cardinal was also forced to search for answers at key spots the following year. The Cardinal had to replace five starters, 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 scoring (23-of-43) during its 2015 title run. Stanford started its 2016 season 0-1-3, averaged 0.75 goals and gave up 0.83 per game in those four matches, but finished the year 15-2-2 in its last 19, averaging 1.84 goals per game and with a goals against average of 0.53 en route to title No. 2.
GREAT UNDER GUNN » One of four coaches to win NCAA titles in both Division I and Division II, head coach Jeremy Gunn has led a team to the College Cup final four times in the past seven seasons. He and Virginia's Bruce Arena (1991-94) are the only coaches to win three consecutive NCAA men's soccer championships. His teams are 84-25-19 (.730) in his six-plus seasons on The Farm and he owns a career record of 271-86-50 (.727) in 19-plus seasons, a mark which makes him the fourth winningest active coach at the Division I level and the 18th winningest coach all-time (both by percentage). Gunn and his staff were named the 2017 National Staff of the Year by United Soccer Coaches and he also secured the first national men's coach of the year award handed out by Top Drawer Soccer.
One responsibility. #GoStanford
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KENNEDY PROMOTED » On August 22, third-year assistant Oige Kennedy was promoted to associate head coach. Working primarily with the Cardinal's keepers, Kennedy's first two years on The Farm have been hugely successful. In 2017, Nico Corti put together the best statistical season for a goalkeeper in Stanford men's soccer history. He finished second in the country in both goals against average (0.386) and solo shutouts (14), set Pac-12 records in both categories, a school record in goals against average and tied the school record in solo shutouts. A year prior, Andrew Epstein made two consecutive penalty kick saves in the College Cup final against Wake Forest to lead the Cardinal to its second straight national championship. That season, Epstein was named the College Cup's Defensive Most Outstanding Player, a United Soccer Coaches Second Team All-American, CoSIDA First Team Academic All-American and finished seventh in the country in goals against average (0.571). Corti (0.00) and Epstein (0.34) are first and second in NCAA history in career postseason goals against average and just the fifth and sixth keepers in college soccer history to go through an entire postseason without allowing a single goal.
MAKE IT FOUR » Stanford finished its most recent regular season 15-2-1 overall and was unbeaten in conference action for the first time (9-0-1). The Cardinal's 2017 conference title sits on the mantle alongside championships from 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2001. Stanford became the second Pac-12 school to win four in a row. UCLA won the same number of consecutive conference crowns from 2002-05. Jeremy Gunn is the only coach in league history to win more than two consecutive Pac-12 titles as UCLA's four-year run was split evenly between Tom Fitzgerald and Jorge Salcedo.
THE CAPITAL OF COLLEGE SOCCER » Last season Stanford became the first Division I school to win national titles in both men's and women's soccer in the same season. The men's championship came one week after the Cardinal women knocked off UCLA, 3-2, for that program's second national crown. Stanford has won more NCAA titles (117) than any other school and owns an active 42-year stretch with at least one NCAA team championship dating back to 1976-77.
SCORE TWICE AND WIN » Stanford has scored two or more goals in 66 of Jeremy Gunn's 128 matches as Stanford's head coach and is 60-0-6 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.
FOREIGN TOUR » In late March, Stanford went on a foreign tour of England that included stops in London and Manchester and matches against academy sides from Fulham (W, 3-0), Queens Park Rangers (W, 5-2) and Bradford City (W, 3-1). A 20-minute documentary from Ingredient Films on the team's trip has garnered more than 60,000 views on YouTube and debuted on Pac-12 Networks immediately following the match against San Jose State on August 24.
DESTINATION STANFORD » In early August, AC Milan used Cagan Stadium for training during its United States tour. The visit continued a trend of top national sides and clubs utilizing the unparalleled facilities and environment of Stanford for training. Liverpool came during the summer of 2016 and the USMNT was on campus for camp before the 2014 FIFA World Cup and within the past five years Stanford has also hosted Manchester United, Italian giant Juventus and English side Norwich City.