No. 22 Stanford (2-1) at Albany (3-0)
Friday • Noon PT | Tom & Mary Casey Stadium | Watch | Live Stats | Game Notes (PDF)
No. 22 Stanford (2-1) at No. 10 Stony Brook (2-1)
Sunday • 9 a.m. PT | Lavalle Stadium | Watch | Live Stats | Game Notes (PDF)
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STANFORD, Calif. - No. 22 Stanford women's lacrosse makes its annual trip East this weekend. The Cardinal takes on Albany on Friday at noon PT, and then heads to Long Island to face No. 10 Stony Brook at 9 a.m. PT on Sunday.
MATCHUPS
- Stanford has split its two previous meetings with the Great Danes. Albany won the last matchup in New York, 11-9 in 2012, while Stanford won 15-10 on The Farm in 2009.
- This will be just the third all-time matchup against Stony Brook. The Seawolves won the previous two, including 15-9 at Cagan last season and 17-7 on March 26, 2016 on Long Island.
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
- Sophomore goalkeeper Trudie Grattan was named the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week after she went 2-0 with a .611 save percentage last week. She made 11 saves and allowed just seven goals.
PINK GAME
- Stanford hosted its Pink Game on Feb. 21 to raise awareness for breast cancer.
- The team will wore pink socks, pink laces and pink warmup shirts.
- The field lines at Cagan were painted pink, and Stanford beat Fresno State, 17-7.
DC DUO
- Seniors Genesis Lucero and Julia Massaro are both within striking distance of the program's all-time career record for draw controls.
- The pair each entered the season in fourth-place in the Stanford record book with 121 draw controls.
- Both have moved up a spot in the record book, passing Kelly Myers (2015-18), who had 123 during her career. Massaro is now third all-time in Stanford history with 135 draw controls, while Lucero is currently fourth with with 132.
- Next on the list for the draw control duo is Lucy Dikeou, who finished two shy of the school record with 159 draw controls between 2013-16. Kelsey Twist (2002-05) holds the record.
RECORD BREAKER
- Last season, Julia Massaro set the single-season school record for draw controls in 2018 as she suprassed Lucy Dikeou, who had 64 in 2015. Massaro set the record with 86 draw controls in 2018.
- In the same game she set the Stanford single-season record, Massaro set the Stanford single-game standard with 11 draw controls against Cal on April 20.
- Then-junior Genesis Lucero also broke Dikeou's record with 67 draw controls in 2018.
TEAM USA VISIT
- Stanford hosted Team USA at the US Lacrosse Spring Premiere, Jan. 25-27.
- The event featured the U.S. women's national team and U19 team as well as the English National Team, the Japanese developmental team, Fresno State University and the defending Pac-12 tournament champion Stanford Cardinal.
- Stanford played an exhibition against Team USA and the U19 team. In two quarters against the U19 squad and four quarters against the national team, the Cardinal fell 19-14.
- Stanford assistant coach Kristen Carr played for Team USA, as well as former Stanford assistant Caylee Waters.
TEAM CAPTAINS
- Representing three different classes, senior Julia Massaro, junior Daniella McMahon, junior Mikaela Watson and sophomore Taylor Scornavacco were selected as 2019 team captains.
- Head Coach Amy Bokker: "They represent all the leadership qualities that our team values—confidence, authenticity, caring and passion—and are committed to carrying out the culture and leadership put in place by those before them."
SENIOR SUMMERS
- Areta Buness: Environmental engineering research at Stanford's Spormann Lab in the Clark Center, including sulfate-reducing bacteria in the gut microbiome that serve as biomarkers of inflammation.
- Genesis Lucero: worked at an engineering firm (Hunsacker and Associates) in San Diego.
- Julia Massaro: worked as an equity research intern at Morgan Stanley in New York City.
- Monika Sivilli: interned for ION Marketing Group, a consumer engagement agency in New York City, and shadowed the CEO of Silicon Alley Media, a communication and PR agency.
- As a team, Stanford traveled to Fiji and New Zealand where they held lacrosse clinics, soaked in the culture and participated in some humanitarian efforts.
PICKED TO REPEAT
- Defending champion Stanford was picked to finish first in the Pac-12 Preaseason Coaches Poll.
- The Cardinal earned five of the six first-place votes and totaled 25 points. Colorado earned the other first-place vote and was picked second with 21 points. USC was selected to finish third (17 points) followed by Oregon (13 points), Cal (8) and Arizona State (6).
- Last season, the Cardinal was picked to finish third in the conference and then posted the second-most wins in school history (15-5), which included an 8-2 record in the first Pac-12 regular season, where they finished second and went on to win the Pac-12 Tournament.
SCHEDULE NOTABLES
- Stanford plays nine of its 16 games at home, including four of its six non-conference contests.
- Stanford plays four games against NCAA Tournament teams from last season.
- Stanford will have five TV games this season. The contests at Cal (March 16), at USC (March 25), vs. USC (March 31), at Colorado (April 12) and vs. Cal (April 19) will all be on Pac-12 Networks.
INAUGURAL PAC-12 SEASON
- 2018 marked the first season in Pac-12 history. The conference consists of Cal, Arizona State, USC, Oregon, Colorado and the Cardinal. Each team played each other home and away for a total of 10 conference games.
- Stanford played in the first-ever Pac-12 game at Colorado on March 9. Then-sophomore Daniella McMahon won the conference's opening draw control, but the 18th-ranked Cardinal lost a seven-goal first-half lead and fell to the 19th-ranked Buffaloes, 18-16.
- In the first-ever Pac-12 game at Cagan Stadium, Stanford knocked off arch rival Cal, 21-5, on March 17.
- Stanford finished the first-ever Pac-12 regular season in second place with an 8-2 conference record. Both losses came to first-place Colorado.
- Stanford won the first-ever Pac-12 Tournament and earned the conference's first automatic NCAA berth. As the No. 2 seed, the Cardinal defeated third-seeded USC, 15-14, in the semifinal on Friday, April 27, and then knocked off host and top-seed Colorado, 15-6, to claim the title on Sunday, April 29.
- Kelsey Murray and senior goalkeeper Allie DaCar became the first duo from the same team to sweep the Pac-12 weekly awards. Murray was the conference's Offensive Player of the Week, and DaCar earned Defensive Player of the Week honors on March 5.
- In all, Stanford had five players combine for seven Pac-12 Player of the Week awards.
- Stanford led the conference with six All-Pac-12 selections, including the first Pac-12 Attacker of the Year in Kelsey Murray, and the first Pac-12 Freshman of the Year, Ali Baiocco.
- Stanford was one of two Pac-12 schools to qualify for the NCAA Tournament (Colorado).
LAST TIME OUT
- Sophomore Galen Lew's career-high five goals led Stanford to a Pink Game victory over Fresno State, 17-7, on Feb. 21. Lew was one of nine goal scorers for the Cardinal.
- Senior Areta Buness, junior Mikaela Watson and sophomore Ali Baiocco each had a hat trick in a 19-10 win over UC Davis on Sunday afternoon at Cagan Stadium. Stanford had 12 different goal scorers, including the first career tallies for Alex Tsai, Caitlin Chicoski and Annika Begley.
UP NEXT
- After the long road trip, Stanford returns home to California and does not leave the Bay Area for another three weeks.
- Next weekend, Stanford opens Pac-12 play. The Cardinal hosts Colorado, the only Pac-12 team to defeat Stanford last season, on Friday at 6 p.m., and Oregon, who is led by first-year head coach and former Cardinal assistant Chelsea Gamble, on Sunday at 1 p.m.