STANFORD, Calif. – With the 2024 season set to begin on Thursday, Stanford has received an abundance of praise from TopDrawerSoccer in the preseason.
The Cardinal checks in at No. 2 in the TDS national rankings, boasts five players on the publication’s Preseason Top 100 players list, and features four players on the Preseason Best XI teams.
Jasmine Aikey and Elise Evans both landed on the Preseason Best XI first team, while Shae Harvey earned a spot on the second team following a standout freshman campaign.
Eleanor Klinger, who was committed to Stanford and was expected to sign and join the Cardinal for the 2025 season, reclassified and enrolled on The Farm for the 2024 campaign. Now a member of the current freshman class, Klinger was named to the TopDrawerSoccer Preseason Best XI freshman team.
Stanford is the only program in the nation to feature three players in the Top 15 of the TDS Top 100 player rankings. Aikey leads the pack of Cardinal players, checking in at No. 3 on the list, followed by Evans (No. 10) and Harvey (No. 12) in the first 15. Sophomore Joelle Jung is listed at No. 72 and fellow sophomore Mia Bhuta lands at No. 82 headed into the 2024 season.
The Cardinal’s five players in the Top 100 are tied with Florida State and UCLA for the most of any program in the nation.