STANFORD, Calif. – No. 1 Stanford opens its ninth College Cup on Friday when it faces No. 5 Florida State in a national semifinal at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina.
The Cardinal (21-0-2) advanced to its eighth College Cup in 11 seasons by way of a 2-0 win over No. 10 Tennessee on Friday. Stanford rides a program-record 45-game unbeaten streak into Friday, the fifth-longest such streak in NCAA history and longest since 1998.
Friday's game kicks off at 4:30 p.m. PT on ESPNU and follows North Carolina versus Georgetown at 2 p.m. Sunday's College Cup final kicks off at 10 a.m. on ESPNU.
Friday's Opponent, Florida State
• Friday will be the fifth ever meeting between the two programs with Stanford owning a 3-1-0 record, most recently defeating the Seminoles (18-4-3, 5-4-1 ACC), 1-0, in the third round of the 2017 NCAA Tournament. Jordan DiBiasi scored the game's only goal, set up by a heroic 60-yard run by Tierna Davidson from inside her own third.
• The Seminoles advanced to the College Cup with wins over Loyola Chicago (1-0), South Florida (3-1), USC (1-1, PKs) and Penn State (1-0).
• Deyna Castellanos leads the team in goals (10) and assists (6). In net, Brooke Bollinger (13-4-2) owns a 0.45 goals-against average, 0.809 save percentage and 10 shutouts.
Possible Opponent, North Carolina
• Stanford owns a 2-9-3 all-time record against the Tar Heels (20-3-2, 10-0-0 ACC), most recently earning a 2-1 overtime win over North Carolina on Sept. 9 at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium. Stanford has won its last two matchups with North Carolina, also picking up a 1-0 win in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, during the 2014 season when Jaye Boissiere and Alison Jahansouz were freshmen.
• The Tar Heels progressed through the tournament with wins over Howard (4-0), Kansas (4-1), Virginia Tech (3-0) and UCLA (2-2, PKs). They enter the College Cup with one loss in 17 games since losing to Stanford on Sept. 9.
• Brianna Pinto and Julia Ashley share the team lead with 20 points. Pinto and Alessia Russo lead the team with six goals while Ashley paces the Tar Heels with 10 assists. In net, Samantha Leshnak and Claudia Dickey have combined for a 0.55 goals-against average, 0.785 save percentage and 15 shutouts in 2291:36 minutes.
Possible Opponent, Georgetown
• Stanford is 5-0-0 against the Hoyas (21-0-3, 10-0-1 Big East), most recently defeating Georgetown, 4-0, on Sept. 1, 2017 at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium. The win was the start of Stanford's current program-record 45-game unbeaten streak.
• Georgetown's path through the NCAA Tournament includes wins over Central Connecticut State (3-1), Washington State (1-0), Duke (4-1) and Baylor (3-0).
• Caitlin Farrell leads the team in goals (18) and points (39) while former Cardinal Kyra Carusa leads the team with 12 assists and ranks second in goals (10). Arrielle Schechtmann has played all but 190:55 minutes in net this season with a 0.31 goals-against average, 0.917 save percentage and 15 shutouts.
All-Time Leader in NCAA Championships
• Stanford entered the 2018-19 season with 117 NCAA championships, the most of any school in history. Stanford has won at least once such championship in each of the past 42 seasons, the longest streak in the nation that dates to the 1976-77 campaign.
• In 2017-18, Stanford won the Learfield Sports Directors' Cup for the 24th straight season to go along with the Capital One Cup for both men and women – Stanford is the only school in history to win both Capital One cups in the same season. During the 2017-18 season, Stanford won four NCAA championships with 17 top-10 sport finishes overall.
Stanford Postseason History
• This is Stanford's eighth trip to the College Cup in 11 seasons and the ninth time, overall. From 2008-12, Stanford appeared in five consecutive final fours, winning the 2011 College Cup in Kennesaw, Ga. before adding a second title at the 2017 College Cup in Orlando, Fla.
• It is Stanford's 28th appearance in the NCAA Tournament, dating to 1990. Stanford claimed the No. 1 overall seed for a third straight season – the Cardinal has been slated to host the first four rounds of the postseason tournament in nine of the last 10 seasons.
• The Knowles Family Director of Women's Soccer Paul Ratcliffe has guided Stanford to the NCAA Tournament in each of his 16 seasons at Stanford – Ratcliffe's record in the postseason stands at 47-11-4.
• Over the last two postseasons, Stanford owns a 31-4 goal difference, including a 22-1 clip at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium.
• Pac-12 schools have won three of the last five College Cups (UCLA – 2013, USC – 2016, Stanford – 2017).
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How Did We Get Here?
• Stanford began the tournament with a 3-0 win over Seattle (Nov. 9), outshooting the Redhawks 24-3 without allowing a shot on goal. Civana Kuhlmann and Carly Malatskey scored, with the latter netting her first career goal while Naomi Girma and Catarina Macario registered assists.
• The Cardinal defeated Ole Miss, 4-1, in the second round on Friday in Salinas, California (Nov. 16) – the game was relocated due to poor air quality in the Bay Area. Catarina Macario and Civana Kuhlmann each scored, and Naomi Girma scored her first two career goals, including the game winner.
• Jordan DiBiasi netted the only goal of a 1-0 win over No. 23 Wisconsin in the third round (Nov. 18), and Alison Jahansouz made two saves to earn the shutout. It was DiBiasi's 15th career game winner – she also scored the only goal in last season's 1-0 win over Florida State in the third round.
• Catarina Macario scored and assisted Civana Kuhlmann's opening goal in a 2-0 win over Tennessee in the NCAA Quarterfinal on Nov. 23). Alison Jahansouz made a career-high six saves, including saving a penalty kick to preserve Stanford's 2-0 lead in the 77th minute.
Streaking Stanford
• Stanford's program-record unbeaten streak of 45 games is the fifth-longest in NCAA Division I history.
• The streak, which dates to Aug. 25, 2017, surpasses UCLA's 44-game unbeaten streak from 2013-14 and is the longest in NCAA history since North Carolina went 70 games unbeaten from 1996-98. The streak is the longest by any non-North Carolina team in history.
• During the streak, Stanford is outscoring opponents 141-16.
• The Cardinal also owns a 29-game unbeaten streak in home games, a run that dates to Nov. 18, 2016. During the streak, which includes the entire 2017-18 seasons, Stanford is outscoring teams 100-8 in home games and 96-7 at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium. Stanford's 4-1 win over Ole Miss in the second round of the 2018 postseason tournament took place at Rabobank Stadium in Salinas, California, due to poor air quality on Stanford's campus.
Leaders of the Pac
• Stanford captured its fourth consecutive Pac-12 championship with a 2-0 win at California (Nov. 2) and a 4-1 win at Arizona State (Nov. 4). The championship is Stanford's 13th as a program and eighth under the Knowles Family Director of Women's Soccer Paul Ratcliffe, who is in his 16th season on The Farm.
• Stanford finished the regular season riding a 29-game unbeaten streak in Pac-12 play, a run that dates to Oct. 6, 2016. The streak ties for the 15th-longest such streak in NCAA Division I history.
• The Cardinal leads the nation and the Pac-12 in goals (61), points (179), shots per game (22.74) and won-lost-tied percentage (0.957). Stanford also leads the Pac-12 in goals-against average (0.42) and goals allowed (10).
• The Cardinal's three-time defending national champion men's soccer program recently captured its fifth consecutive Pac-12 championship – the two programs have combined to win nine of the past 10 Pac-12 soccer titles.
Macario Magic
• Catarina Macario backed up her stellar freshman season with another outstanding campaign in 2018. She leads the Pac-12 and ranks fourth, nationally, with 2.00 points per game and leads the Pac-12 in goals (14), goals per game (0.78) and points (36).
• With three assists this postseason, Macario's nine career postseason helpers are a program record, surpassing the previous mark shared by Christen Press and Chioma Ubogagu (7).
• Macario earned Pac-12 Forward of the Year honors for the second straight season to go along with CoSIDA Academic All-District 8 first-team and All-Pac-12 first-team honors. In Pac-12 play, Macario paced all players in points per game (2.50), goals per game (1.12), game-winning goals (3) and shots per game (6.38).
DiBiasi Déjà vu
• Jordan DiBiasi, the Pac-12 Midfielder of the Year, continued her penchant for scoring big goals with three game winners in Stanford's last six games – 15 of her 31 career goals are game winners, including both in Stanford's 2-0 win over South Carolina in the 2017 College Cup Semifinal.
• DiBiasi ties for fifth in the Pac-12 in points (30), seventh in goals (10) and third in assists (10) – her 10 goals and 30 points are career highs, while her 10 assists ties her career best set in 2017. DiBiasi has five goals, including three game winners, and two assists in her last six games, while her five career postseason goals tie for fifth in program history.
• DiBiasi scored the only goal of a 1-0 win over Wisconsin in the third round of the NCAA Tournament, reminiscent of her strike in a 1-0 win over Florida State in the third round of the 2017 tournament.
Candidate Cook
• Senior captain Alana Cook is a finalist for the 2018 Senior CLASS Award with the winner announced during the College Cup in December. Last season, she, along with 2017 Senior CLASS Award winner Andi Sullivan, captained Stanford to its second national championship.
• Cook, the 2018 Pac-12 Defender of the Year, has played nearly every minute of the season and has started all 92 games since her freshman season in 2015. She leads a defensive unit that ranks fourth, nationally, and leads the Pac-12 with a 0.42 goals-against average.
• 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.
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— Stanford Women's Soccer (@StanfordWSoccer) November 24, 2018
Between the Posts
• Alison Jahansouz ranks fourth, nationally, with a 0.419 goals-against average, punctuating her excellent season with a career-high six saves in Stanford's 2-0 win over Tennessee in the NCAA Quarterfinal.
• Jahansouz saved a Tennessee penalty kick with Stanford leading, 2-0, in the 77th minute. She has saved two of three penalty kicks in 2018 and five of eight in her career.
• She leads the Pac-12 in goals-against average, save percentage (0.862), shutouts (11) and shutouts per game (0.58). Her 11 shutouts tie for eighth in single-season program history, while her six career postseason shutouts rank third.
• In league play, Jahansouz led the Pac-12 in goals-against average (0.34), save percentage (0.880) and shutouts per game (0.67).
• 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.
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— Pac-12 Network (@Pac12Network) November 24, 2018
Quick Hitters
• Sophomore Civana Kuhlmann has scored three goals in the NCAA Tournament and four in her last five games. Nine of her 17 points on the season have come in the last five games.
• Freshman Naomi Girma, who has played nearly every minute at center back since Tierna Davidson's injury on Sept. 9, netted her first two career goals in Stanford's 4-1 win over Ole Miss – she became Stanford's 18th different goal scorer on the season.
• Senior captains Jordan DiBiasi and Alana Cook are the only Cardinal to start all 23 games. Junior Beattie Goad is the third student-athlete to have featured in all 23.
• Twenty Cardinal have started at least one game and 18 have registered at least one point or one goal.
Cardinal Cleaning Up
• Stanford dominated the Pac-12 postseason awards with a league-high 10 honorees to go with the Knowles Family Director of Women's Soccer Paul Ratcliffe's ninth Coach of the Year award. In conference history, no other coach has won the award more than twice.
• Alana Cook was named Defender of the Year, Jordan DiBiasi earned Midfielder of the Year honors and Catarina Macario picked up Forward of the Year recognition. It is the second straight season the Cardinal has claimed the three awards with Tierna Davidson (Defender of the Year), Andi Sullivan (Midfielder of the Year) and Macario (Forward of the Year) earning the honors in 2017.
• Tegan McGrady joined Cook, DiBiasi and Macario on the All-Pac-12 first team.
• Jaye Boissiere, Madison Haley, Alison Jahansouz, Kiki Pickett and Sophia Smith were named All-Pac-12 second team, and Naomi Girma was picked for the All-Pac-12 third team. Smith and Girma were also named to the Pac-12 All-Freshman team.
• Cook (symbolic systems), DiBiasi (science, technology and society) and Macario (undeclared) were each named CoSIDA Academic All-District 8 first team. First-team Academic All-District honorees advance to the CoSIDA Academic All-America team ballot, with the honorees announced in December. Last season, Michelle Xiao (biomechanical engineering) became Stanford's 12th academic All-American, garnering first-team honors as the 2017 Elite 90 Award winner with the highest grade-point average at the College Cup.
Xiao Named Scholar-Athlete of the Year
• Senior Michelle Xiao was named Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year, as announced Nov. 15.
• Xiao, who hails from Omaha, Nebraska, carries a 4.03 grade-point average and is on track to graduate with a bachelor's degree in biomechanical engineering. A member of the Pac-12 All-Academic first team in 2016-17, Xiao earned the 2017 Elite 90 Award, given to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative GPA at the College Cup. She is also a 2017 CoSIDA Academic All-America first team honoree and United Coaches All-Academic third teamer.
• A frequent volunteer at the East Palo Alto Tennis and Tutoring program (EPATT) and Stanford's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and, Xiao currently conducts research on campus under the guidance of Dr. Geoff Abrams, studying the effects of microRNA's on tendinopathy. As part of Stanford's Bio-X USRP program, Xiao spent time in Stanford's 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 also has a paper published in the Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters Journal titled "Design and synthesis of new piperidone grafted acetylcholinesterase."
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— Stanford Women's Soccer (@StanfordWSoccer) November 24, 2018
Thank You, Seniors
• Stanford honored its five graduating seniors prior its final regular-season home match on Oct. 21 – Averie Collins (management science and engineering), Alana Cook (symbolic systems), Jordan DiBiasi (science, technology and society), Tegan McGrady (communication) and Michelle Xiao (biomechanical engineering).
• The class enters Friday with an 82-5-5 all-time record on The Farm, including a 41-1-2 clip in regular-season Pac-12 play and 50-2-4 record at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium.
• The five have combined for 17 All-Pac-12 nods, 10 Pac-12 All-Academic selections and four Academic All-Region selections.
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.
Top of the Polls
• Stanford entered the postseason atop the United Soccer Coaches top-25 poll, a spot it has held since Oct. 10, 2017.
• Eight of Stanford's 19 regular-season opponents ranked or received votes in the poll – North Carolina (3), UCLA (4), USC (6), Santa Clara (7), BYU (24), Arizona (RV), Colorado (RV) and Washington State (RV).
• During the month of September, Stanford hosted four teams currently ranked in the top seven – USC (Sept. 30), North Carolina (Sept. 9), Santa Clara (Sept. 16) and UCLA (Sept. 27) – with a 3-0-1 record.
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— Stanford Women's Soccer (@StanfordWSoccer) November 24, 2018
Team Academic Award
• Stanford was awarded the United Soccer Coaches' Team Academic Award for the 2017-18 season, as announced Oct. 5. A total of 773 collegiate programs (484 women, 289 men) posted a team grade-point average of 3.0 or higher to earn the award. Stanford was one of 191 schools to have both its women's and men's programs recognized.
• Posting a cumulative team GPA of 3.48, Stanford earned the recognition for the sixth straight season and eighth time in nine seasons – the Cardinal finished with the second-highest GPA of any Pac-12 school.
• Last season, Michelle Xiao was awarded the NCAA Elite 90 Award, given to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative GPA at the College Cup. Xiao's 4.032 GPA leads the team, also earning CoSIDA Academic All-America first-team honors in 2017.
2018 Regular Season Recap
• Jordan DiBiasi made it four goals in two games with two more in Stanford's 4-1 win at Arizona State. Belle Briede and Civana Kuhlmann also scored and Lauren Rood made two saves to earn the win (Nov. 4).
• Jordan DiBiasi scored both goals in a 2-0 win at California as Stanford clinched its fourth straight Pac-12 Championship (Nov. 2).
• Catarina Macario's extraordinary volley was Stanford's only tally in a 1-1 double-overtime tie at Washington State (Oct. 28).
• Catarina Macario scored both goals in a 2-0 win at Washington while Alison Jahansouz finished with four saves to earn the shutout (Oct. 25).
• Stanford erupted for a season-high seven goals in a shutout win over Colorado (Oct. 21). Catarina Macario scored twice off the bench, Abby Gruebel scored and assisted two others and Alison Jahansouz made three key saves to earn the shutout.
• Goals by Sophia Smith and Beattie Goad lifted Stanford to a 2-0 win over Utah to improve to 6-0-0 in Pac-12 play (Oct. 18).
• Three first-half goals powered Stanford to a 5-0-0 start in Pac-12 play with a 3-0 win at Oregon State (Oct. 7). Tegan McGrady opened the scoring with a marvelous free kick, and Belle Briede and Jordan DiBiasi also netted for the Cardinal.
• Catarina Macario's stunning free kick in the 100th minute lifted Stanford to a 1-0 overtime win at Oregon (Oct. 4). Lauren Rood made a career-high four saves to earn the shutout win.
• 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.