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Pac-12 Play Begins

STANFORD, Calif. – Top-ranked Stanford opens Pac-12 Conference play Friday night at 8 p.m. when it plays host to Arizona at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium.

The Cardinal (7-0-1) rides a program-record 30-game unbeaten streak into Friday. Stanford wrapped up nonconference play last week with a 3-0 win over Cal Poly on Friday and a 1-1, double-overtime tie against No. 7 Santa Clara on Sunday. Friday's contest will air on Pac-12 Networks with live statistics available at GoStanford.com.

Friday's Opponent, Arizona
• Stanford enters Friday with a 21-2-0 (.913) all-time record against the Wildcats (7-1-0), most recently defeating Arizona, 1-0, at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium on Sept. 28, 2017. Jordan DiBiasi scored the game's only goal in the 67th minute, one of her 12 career game-winners.
• Arizona rides a seven-game win streak into Friday, most recently earning a 2-1 win over Cal State Fullerton on Sept. 14. The Wildcats own a 21-3 goal difference with goalkeeper Lainey Burdett carrying a 0.38 goals-against average with five shutouts into Friday.
• Emily Knous and Jada Talley co-lead the team with 10 points apiece, and Amanda Porter leads the team with five assists.

Davidson to Miss 10-12 Weeks
• Junior management science and engineering major Tierna Davidson will be sidelined for 10-12 weeks with a left ankle injury sustained in a 2-1 win over No. 2 North Carolina on Sept. 9.

Unbeaten Streak Lives On
• Stanford's program-record unbeaten streak extended to 30 games after a win and a draw last week – Stanford's previous unbeaten record was 28 games from 2011-12. The run is the 10th-longest in NCAA Division I history and the longest since UCLA went 44 games unbeaten from 2013-14. During the streak, Stanford has outscored opponents 103-11.
• The Cardinal's program-record win streak ended at 29 games – Sunday's 1-1, double-overtime tie against No. 7 Santa Clara was Stanford's first non-win since Aug. 25, 2017. The win streak was the seventh-longest in NCAA Division I history, the longest by any non-North Carolina team and the longest since the Tar Heels won 31 straight from 2003-04.
• Stanford's 19-game home win streak ended on Sunday.
• Stanford has trailed for only 8:59 minutes during the 2017 and 2018 seasons.

Top of the Polls
• Stanford retained its place atop the United Soccer Coaches top-25 poll, a spot it has held since Oct. 9, 2017 – Texas A&M, USC, Virginia and North Carolina rounded out the top five.
• Nine of Stanford's 19 regular-season opponents ranked or received votes in the poll – USC (3), North Carolina (5), Santa Clara (6), UCLA (8), Washington State (14), Colorado (23), BYU (RV), Arizona (RV) and Oregon (RV).

All-Around Effort
• Nineteen Cardinal have at least one start – DiBiasi, Alana Cook and Tegan McGrady are the only players to start all eight games.
• Sixteen Cardinal have registered at least one point this season while 12 have scored at least once. Sophia Smith leads the team in goals (4) and points (10), while Jordan DiBiasi and Catarina Macario have nine points apiece. DiBiasi's five assists are a team high and tie for fourth in the Pac-12.
• Madison Haley paced the Cardinal last week with two goals – she also won a penalty kick in Friday's 3-0 win over Cal Poly.
• Stanford carries a 0.60 goals-against average into Friday, led by Alison Jahansouz (5-0-1), who has 18 saves, two shutouts and a 0.64 goals-against average. Lauren Rood (2-0) has four saves and a 0.50 goals-against average, earning the shutout in her most recent appearance (Sept. 13). 

2018 Season Recap
• Sophia Smith scored Stanford's only goal in a 1-1, double-overtime tie against No. 7 Santa Clara, snapping Stanford's 29-game win streak. Alison Jahansouz made four saves and the Cardinal outshot the Broncos, 28-10, in the draw (Sept. 16).
• Madison Haley scored twice and won a penalty kick as Stanford defeated Cal Poly, 3-0, to improve to 7-0-0 on the season. Abby Greubel also scored, and Lauren Rood earned the shutout (Sept. 13).
• Madison Haley scored in the 92nd minute to secure a 2-1 win over No. 2 North Carolina. Catarina Macario finished with two assists, Alison Jahansouz tied a career high with five saves and the Cardinal improved to 6-0-0 while extending its program-record win streak to 28 games (Sept. 9).
• Jordan DiBiasi, Abby Greubel and Sophia Smith scored in Stanford's 3-1 win over Notre Dame (Sept. 7).
• Stanford clinched its longest win streak in program history with a 2-1, overtime win at Minnesota on Sept. 2. Sam Hiatt's golden goal in the 94th minute sealed the win after Beattie Goad opened the scoring in the first half (Sept. 2).
• Goals from Catarina Macario and Jojo Harber, as well as five saves by Alison Jahansouz, lifted Stanford to a 2-0 win at BYU. (Aug. 30)
• The Cardinal improved to 20-0-0, all-time, against San Francisco with a 5-1 win at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium. Making her collegiate debut, Sophia Smith scored once and assisted another. Catarina Macario added two goals, Jordan DiBiasi scored with two assists and Civana Kuhlmann upped her team-leading point total to five with one goal and one assist. (Aug. 24)
• Stanford began its 2018 campaign with a convincing 5-0 win at UC Davis. Michelle Xiao, Tierna Davidson, Alana Cook and Civana Kuhlmann scored and Alison Jahansouz handled the only shot she faced all day to earn the shutout. (Aug. 17)

Preseason Awards Wrap Up
• Stanford had an NCAA-high five student-athletes named to the watch list for the Missouri Athletic Club's Hermann Trophy, the highest individual honor in college soccer – Tierna Davidson, Catarina Macario, Jaye Boissiere, Tegan McGrady and Alana Cook each made the list.
• Davidson and Macario were named to TopDrawerSoccer's Preseason Best XI first team with Cook and Jordan DiBiasi earning berths on the second XI. McGrady was picked for the third XI while freshman Sophia Smith was named to the freshman XI.

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Coaching Updates
• Stanford's women's and men's soccer coaching positions were endowed through a gift from Louise '57 and Ray Knowles '56. Paul Ratcliffe assumes the role of Knowles Family Director of Women's Soccer, while on the men's side Jeremy Gunn transitions to the Knowles Family Director of Men's Soccer. Both graduates of Stanford, the Knowles have been important benefactors to the athletics department for many years. They had previously concentrated their philanthropy on scholarships for men's and women's golf programs – the positions are the 14th and 15th endowed head coach positions and 26th and 27th overall endowed positions in athletics.
• Hideki Nakada was promoted to associate head coach, as announced by Ratcliffe on Feb. 23. Nakada was named Stanford's top assistant in 2014, with the Cardinal going 81-7-6 in all competitions since his arrival.
• Kayley Sullivan was named volunteer assistant coach in July. Sullivan, a former Division I student-athlete at George Washington, is the older sister of former standout and 2017 MAC Hermann Trophy winner Andi Sullivan.
 
Off The Farm
• Goalkeeper Alison Jahansouz serves as an analyst at Asset Management Ventures in Palo Alto – she has also interned with Grand Rounds in San Francisco as a data analyst.
• Jahansouz also serves as a research assistant in the Engleman Lab at the Stanford Blood Center, previously working as a research assistant for Matt Spitzer in 2015 at the Stanford Blood Center, studying immunology for breast cancer treatment. In the summer of 2018, Jahansouz served as a graduate researcher in the SURF program at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.
• Midfielder Michelle Xiao currently conducts research under the guidance of Dr. Geoff Abrams, studying the effects of microRNAs on tendinopathy -- as a part of the Stanford Bio-X USRP program, worked in the Stanford Soft Tissue Biomechanics Lab (STBL) analyzing MRI of knee cartilage to detect early osteoarthritic changes.
• During the summer of 2016, Xiao spent time in the medicinal chemistry research lab at the University of Nebraska Medical Center working on synthesizing small molecules that could treat Alzheimer's Disease. She published a paper from this research in the Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters Journal titled "Design and Synthesis of New Piperidone Grafted Acetylcholinesterase".
• Defender Carly Malatskey currently manages Main Quad Rentals at Stanford, which primarily rents beds to Stanford students. Malatskey currently takes classes at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, studying innovation and organization as part of her science, technology and society major.
• In December of 2017, Malatskey participated in an Innovation and Entrepreneurship program in Israel, working with startups and larger companies such as Ebay and Intel.
• In 2017, midfielder Jaye Boissiere was a consulting intern with Z.S. Associates, a healthcare firm, after spending the summer of 2016 researching immigration policy at Stanford's political science department.
• Boissiere has also conducted research on Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia with the Maternal Fetal Medicine department at Stanford Hospital, where she was born.
• Senior Tegan McGrady interned at NBC Bay Area News in the summer of 2018.
• Forward Ceci Gee has coordinated and hosted multiple fundraising events in order to buy and deliver soccer gear for underprivileged girls' soccer teams in Nairobi, Kenya.
• In the summer of 2018, defender Alana Cook interned at SyncThink Inc. under former Stanford head of athletic training Scott Anderson.
• In the summer of 2018, defender Beattie Goad interned in Susie Nilsson's lab at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), focusing on stem cell and cancer research -- presented research at Stanford's human biology symposium on Aug. 10
• Defender Sam Hiatt volunteers at the Northwest Harvest Food Bank and Special Olympics.
• Forward Catarina Macario organized a collective soccer donation of equipment and clothing for children in Brazil.
• Defender Jojo Harber is a six-year member of the National Charity League (2012-17), spending time volunteering with the Special Olympics, YWCA and Northwest Harvest Food Bank.
• Defender Kiki Pickett is a participant in the Food From the Heart program and at the Unity Shoppe.
• Forward Madison Haley is a service coordinator for the Boys & Girls Club in South Dallas, having served as the treasurer for the National Honors Society as well as a tutor at Lee A. McShan Elementary School.
 
Champions Again
• Stanford captured its second national championship in 2017 after a 3-2 win over UCLA in the College Cup final on Dec. 3, 2017. Jaye Boissiere's goal in the 67th minute broke a 2-2 tie, and Stanford held on for its 22nd win in a row to claim the title.
• The Cardinal also won its 12th Pac-12 Conference Title and third in a row.
• Knowles Family Director of Women's Soccer Paul Ratcliffe was named Pac-12 Coach of the Year for the eighth time – no other coach has won the award more than twice.
• Tierna Davidson and Catarina Macario were named first-team All-America while a further eight returners eared All-Pac-12 recognition