STANFORD, Calif. - Stanford produced six national team championships during the 2024-25 athletic campaign while extending its NCAA team title streak to 49 consecutive years.
Boasting its most national team championships since winning seven in 2018-19, the Cardinal maintained one of the most recognizable streaks in college athletics. Stanford, which has claimed at least one NCAA team crown every year since 1976-77, kept its streak alive with a victory in women’s water polo before adding a title in women’s rowing three weeks later.
Both women’s water polo and women’s rowing featured similar NCAA championship paths, emerging as clear favorites after dominating their regular seasons and capturing conference titles. The Cardinal now shifts its focus to the 2025-26 campaign and an opportunity to make it 50 years in a row with at least one NCAA trophy.
Stanford added four other national team championships, with artistic swimming earning its first crown since 2021 while sailing closed its historic season as the women’s and coed squads combined to deliver three titles.
Stanford (1,251 points) also maintained its streak of top-3 finishes in the Learfield Directors’ Cup, presented annually to the nation’s most successful intercollegiate athletic department. The Cardinal placed third overall, only 4.5 points behind Texas (1,255.25) and 2.75 points behind USC (1,253.75) in the closest margin of the award’s history. The Cardinal has won the trophy in 26 of the possible 31 seasons, including a 25-year streak from 1995-2019.
In the Capital One Cup race, Stanford finished second with 135 points behind North Carolina (140) in the women’s standings. The only school to deliver a season sweep of the men's and women's titles in the history of the Capital One Cup, Stanford is a three-time winner in the men's category and seven-time champion of the women's program, including four of the last eight years.
Seven years after overtaking UCLA as the nation's all-time leader in NCAA team championships, Stanford enters the 2025-26 campaign with 137 overall, outdistancing its closest competitors in UCLA (124) and USC (115). The Cardinal has won 173 national team championships overall.
Stanford made an immediate impact during its debut season in the ACC, establishing itself among the conference’s top schools in broad-based athletic excellence. Joining North Carolina as the only ACC schools to claim two NCAA team championships, Stanford also produced a conference-best three NCAA runner-up finishes with near misses in women’s swimming and diving, men’s gymnastics and women’s golf. The Cardinal won three ACC championships (women’s gymnastics, men’s tennis, women’s rowing), trailing only North Carolina (4).
The Cardinal produced 13 individual national championships in 2024-25, increasing its all-time totals to 565 (NCAA) and 658 (overall). Asher Hong of men’s gymnastics achieved NCAA titles in floor exercise and still rings while the women’s swimming and diving program featured six student-athletes combining to win four NCAA crowns.
Highlighting Stanford’s individual performances was Ryann Neushul, named the Cardinal’s eighth recipient of the Peter J. Cutino Award, presented to the nation's most outstanding women’s water polo player. Neushul, who closed out a unique seven-year career which began as a freshman in 2019, became Stanford’s first four-time NCAA champion in school history and was also recognized as the ACWPC Player of the Year. A four-time All-American, Neushul departed The Farm with 228 career goals, ranking fifth all-time in school history.
Among the Cardinal’s other notable accomplishments: 11 conference championships (regular season and tournament combined), 33 individual conference champions and 113 All-Americans.
Stanford’s academic prowess also remained unparalleled, producing 25 CSC Academic All-Americans across 14 different sports. A total of 28 programs (10 men, 18 women) finished the year with a team GPA of 3.50 or higher. Meanwhile, Stanford also registered an overall graduation rate of 98 percent in the latest Graduation Success Rate (GSR), with 21 varsity teams earning a 100 percent graduation rate.