Notables
- No. 2 Stanford makes its fifth consecutive appearance at the 2025 NCAA Championship, entering as the No. 3 seed with a first-round matchup set against No. 14-seed Boise State May 2 at 12 p.m. PT.
- The schedule for the tournament follows a single-elimination style bracket:
- Links for live scoring for each match will be shared when available. All three days of matchups will be broadcast on the ESPN family of networks with individual court streams available on ESPN+. Stanford's matchup with Boise State, its quarterfinals and semifinals matchups will all air on ESPN2, while the championship matchup is set to air on ESPN.
- Stanford enters the national title chase after earning its first-ever conference title at the inaugural MPSF Conference Championship, held April 23-25 in Huntington Beach, Calif. The Cardinal edged No. 5 USC 3-2 in the MPSF Championship match to win the league’s inaugural tournament, with the clinching point coming from Stanford’s No. 3 pair, freshman Charlotta Bell and junior Kelly Belardi, who rallied for a come-from-behind win over USC’s Mabyn Thomas and Maya Gessner, 18-21, 21-13, 15-9. Stanford’s title run was fueled by four straight wins, including three against top five teams. Throughout the 2025 season, the Cardinal has defeated 18 ranked opponents, 11 of them in the top 10. After the tournament, Stanford's twos pair of freshman Avery Jackson and sophomore Brooke Rockwell were named to the MPSF All-Tournament Team while Bell and Belardi were named the tournament's Most Valuable Pair.
- Now 31-8 on the season, the Cardinal is just one win shy of tying the program’s single-season victory record. The program's record of 32 wins was set last season, highlighted by Stanford's second-ever victory at the NCAA Championship.
- Senior Taylor Wilson and sophomore Ruby Sorra continue to grow their school-record career pairs win record, currently holding 43 wins as a duo. Through 23 matches played together this season, the pair has a program-leading 18 wins bolstered by a 9-4 record at the ones and a 9-1 record at the twos.
- Stanford's ones pair member sophomore Ruby Sorra was named to the All-America First Team while her partner senior Taylor Wilson and the Cardinal's twos pair sophomore Brooke Rockwell and freshman Avery Jackson. Wilson, Sorra and Rockwell each earn their second all-American recognition, as Rockwell was a first-team honoree in 2024 and both Sorra and Wilson were second-team awardees last season. Jackson is one of just three freshmen selected to the AVCA’s All-America teams this year and her honor marks the second consecutive season that a Cardinal first-year athlete was honored by the coaches association.
- Stanford enters its tournament run with two of its winningest players in program history in its lineup-- Taylor Wilson and Kelly Belardi each have 86 wins on their careers, tied-for-third most in program history. Belardi leads the team with 30 victories this season alone, the second-most by a single season in the program's record books. At the same time, Taylor has posted 27 wins in her senior season, the most she has earned in a single season during her four-year career with the Cardinal and tied for the eighth-most in school history.
- The Cardinal has seen success throughout the season while relying on a youth-dominated lineup. When comparing the teams in the 2025 NCAA Championship and their 10-person lineups, giving each freshman one point, redshirt-freshman/sophomore two points, redshirt-sophomore/junior three points, redshirt-junior/senior four points, and redshirt-seniors/5th year/graduate students 5 points, Stanford boasts the youngest lineup in the tournament. The Cardinal also put the second-most true freshmen in its lineup of any program in the championship (Charlotta Bell, Avery Jackson and Logan Tusher), with only Texas (four) placing more true first-year athletes in its lineup.
TeamTrue Freshmen in Lineup Team Combined "Age" of Lineup California 0 Stanford 24 Chattanooga 0 Texas 25 LMU 0 Florida State 26 UNF 0 Georgia State 28 Cal Poly 1 LSU 28 FAU 1 UCLA 28 USC 1 USC 28 Boise State 2 Boise State 29 Florida State 2 FAU 30 Long Beach State 2 Long Beach State 30 UCLA 2 Cal Poly 31 Georgia State 3 TCU 31 LSU 3 Chattanooga 32 Stanford 3 UNF 32 TCU 3 California 36 Texas 4 LMU 36