No. 2 Stanford Takes on Conference Foes at Pac-12 North InvitationalNo. 2 Stanford Takes on Conference Foes at Pac-12 North Invitational
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No. 2 Stanford Takes on Conference Foes at Pac-12 North Invitational

Notables

  • No. 2 Stanford takes on conference action this weekend, traveling to Seattle, Wash. to compete in the 2024 Pac-12 North Invitational for matches against No. 3 USC, No.13 Washington, Utah and No. 18 Arizona. 
  • There is no live streaming for matches this weekend. Live stats are available for all matches:
  • Matches will be played in two flights: first courts four, five and six, followed by courts one, two, and three. 
  • Then No. 3 Stanford went 4-0 at the Death Volley Invitational March 29-30 in Baton Rouge, La. Day one saw sweep wins over No. 17 FAU and No. 10 and host LSU. Day two included two gritty wins over No. 4 TCU 3-2 and No. 5 Florida State by the same score. 
    Stanford now sits at 18-2 and has won 10 straight. The Cardinal earned four top-20 victories in Louisiana in the two-day tournament, upping its total to 11 top-20 wins in the 2024 season.
  • With the two wins at LSU Friday, senior Kate Reilly captured her 82nd and 83rd career wins and is now the career individual wins leader on The Farm, passing Charlie Ekstrom who finished her career in 2023 with 82 wins. 
  • The pairing of junior Taylor Wilson and freshman Ruby Sorra has proven to be a great one for the Cardinal. The duo spent time training in the fall for the U21 World Championships (Taylor, for Team USA and Ruby, for Team Canada) and found a rhythm playing together. They are the Cardinal's current winningest pair, sitting at 16-4 with all losses coming to top-10 ranked pairs. 
  • The Cardinal has spent the entire 2024 season as one of the top three teams in the nation according to the AVCA Coaches Poll. This is largely in part to its leadership by three of the winningest players in program history— Kate Reilly (first, 85 wins), Maya Harvey (tied-for-third, 77 wins), and Xolani Hodel (tied-for-third, 77 wins). All three are members of the 2019-20 signing class (first played during the 2021 season), largely regarded then as the most decorated incoming freshman class to come to The Farm since the inception of the program. Since 2021, the Cardinal has recorded three back-to-back-to-back 20+ win seasons (each growing the program's record win total for a single season) and three consecutive appearances to the NCAA Championships. 
  • The Cardinal’s lineup also boasts four powerhouse first-year players— Ruby Sorra, Clara Stowell, Brooke Rockwell, and Chloe Hoffman— three of whom (Sorra, Rockwell, Hoffman) have seen playing time in every single match this season. 
  • More than half of Stanford’s pairs in all matches this season have come from players in their first or second years playing collegiate beach volleyball. In fact, there is not a single pair that has played this season for the Cardinal that has not featured an underclassman as one of its two members.