STANFORD, Calif. – No. 1 Stanford continues Pac-12 play when it travels to face Oregon on Thursday and Oregon State on Sunday.
The Cardinal (10-0-1, 3-0-0 Pac-12) wrapped up a seven-game homestand with wins over No. 16 UCLA and No. 2 USC last week – Stanford's 3-0-0 start to Pac-12 play extends its Pac-12 win streak to 21 games, while its program-record unbeaten runs stands at 33 games.
Thursday's contest kicks off at 5 p.m. with Sunday's matinee set for 3 p.m. Both contests will air on Pac-12 Networks with live statistics available at GoStanford.com.
Thursday's Opponent, Oregon
• Stanford enters Thursday with a 20-0-1 all-time record against the Ducks (7-3-1, 1-2-0). Last season, Stanford cruised to a 4-0 win over Oregon at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium, led by Catarina Macario – the freshman scored from a 35-yard free kick and on a volley from the top of the box.
• The Ducks have lost two straight after starting the season 7-1-1. Marissa Everett leads the team in goals (6) and points (13), Zoe Hasenauer leads the team with four assists and Halia Hinriksdottir has played every minute of the season in net with five shutouts.
Sunday's Opponent, Oregon State
• Stanford enters the week with a 24-1-0 all-time record against the Beavers (1-10-0, 0-3-0), most recently claiming a 6-0 win in 2017. Catarina Macario scored and had two assists, and Civana Kuhlmann came off the bench to net twice.
• The Beavers have lost five straight, including the first three conference contests against Colorado, at Washington and at Washington State. McKenzie Weinert leads the team in goals (2) and points (4) while goalkeeper Bridgette Skiba leads the Pac-12 with 69 saves, tops in the league by 25.
Unbeaten Streak Lives On
• Stanford's program-record unbeaten streak reached 33 games after a 1-0 win against No. 2 USC on Sunday. The Cardinal has not lost since Aug. 25, 2017 – the streak is the eighth-longest in Division I history and longest since UCLA went 44 games unbeaten from 2013-14. Stanford's previous unbeaten record was 28 games from 2011-12.
• The Cardinal's program-record win streak ended at 29 games after a 1-1 double-overtime tie against Santa Clara on Sept. 16. 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 was won its last 21 Pac-12 contests, a streak dating to Oct. 6, 2016.
• Stanford is unbeaten in its last 11 Pac-12 openers, a streak dating to 2007.
• The Cardinal's senior class owns a 34-1-1 record in conference play.
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All-Around Effort
• Nineteen Cardinal have started at least one game – Alana Cook, Jordan DiBiasi and Tegan McGrady are the only student-athletes to start all nine games.
• Seventeen Cardinal have registered at least one point this season while 12 have scored at least once. Macario leads the team in points (16) and co-leads the team in goals with Sophia Smith (6), while DiBiasi leads the team with five assists.
• As a team, Stanford's 2.64 goals per game ranks second, nationally, and second in the Pac-12 behind undefeated Colorado (2.83). The Cardinal's 23.82 shots per game leads all Division I teams, while its 0.955 win percentage ranks only behind Washington State (1.000).
Cardinal Collecting Weekly Honors
• Alison Jahansouz was named Pac-12 Goalkeeper of the Week for the second time on Tuesday – she also earned the award on Sept. 11. In 841:59 minutes, Jahansouz is 8-0-1 with four shutouts, a 0.818 save percentage and a 0.64 goals-against average.
• Sophia Smith was named TopDrawerSoccer's National Player of the Week as well as Pac-12 Forward of the Week. She netted the game-winning goal in Stanford's wins over No. 16 UCLA and No. 2 USC, totaling six goals and two assists in 10 appearances.
• Sam Hiatt was named Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week on Sept. 4 after scoring the golden goal of a 2-1 overtime win at Minnesota on Sept. 2.
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Top of the Polls
• Stanford owns the top spot in the United Soccer Coaches top-25 poll, a place it has held since Oct. 9, 2017 – USC, North Carolina, Santa Clara and Georgetown round out the top five.
• Nine of Stanford's 19 regular-season opponents ranked or received votes in the poll – USC (2), North Carolina (3), Santa Clara (4), Washington State (7), UCLA (15), Colorado (20), Arizona (RV), BYU (RV) and Oregon (RV).
• Stanford also sits atop the NCAA's ratings power index (RPI).
Candidate Cook
• Senior captain Alana Cook was named a candidate for the 2018 Senior CLASS Award, as announced Sept. 19. A senior from Far Hills, New Jersey, Cook has started all 80 games since her freshman season – last season, she, along with 2017 Senior CLASS Award winner Andi Sullivan, captained Stanford to its second national championship.
• A two-time Pac-12 All-Academic honoree and 2017 academic all-region selection, Cook is very active in the community. She has participated in the Gardner Elementary's Walk-A-Thon, Bay Area clinics for Female Footballers and clinics with the Bay Area Women's Sports Initiative. Also active with local American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) teams, Cook also serves in a program in which student-athletes sit with local youth at Stanford's athletic events.
• Cook looks to join Sullivan, Nnemkadi Ogwumike (2012) and Candice Wiggins (2008) as Stanford's only Senior CLASS Award winners.
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.
• Defender Sierra Enge volunteers with the Challenged Athletes Foundation, a program that provides support for physically disabled athletes.
• 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.
2018 Season Recap
• Sophia Smith's golden goal in the seventh minute of overtime lifted Stanford to a 1-0 win over No. 2 USC – Alison Jahansouz picked up her fourth shutout of the season with four saves (Sept. 30).
• Catarina Macario scored two spectacular goals and Sophia Smith added a third as No. 1 Stanford defeated No. 16 UCLA, 3-2, for its 20th straight Pac-12 win (Sept. 27).
• Catarina Macario scored and assisted Jordan DiBiasi's goal in a 2-0 win over Arizona to start Pac-12 play. Alison Jahansouz made two saves to earn the shutout (Sept. 21).
• 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.
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.
• Andi Sullivan, the winner of the 2017 MAC Hermann Trophy, Tierna Davidson and Catarina Macario were named first-team All-America while a further eight returners eared All-Pac-12 recognition