THIS WEEK
- Stanford will welcome Miami to Sunken Diamond this weekend for a three-game series in ACC play
- The three-game set begins Friday at 6:05 p.m., continues Saturday at 2:05 p.m., and concludes with a 1:05 p.m. first pitch Sunday
- All four games this week will be streamed live on ACC Network Extra and broadcast live on KZSU 90.1 FM
UP NEXT
- After the series with Miami, Stanford will make a trip to Santa Clara on Monday as the two teams meet for a 6:05 p.m. first pitch
- The game against the Broncos will be streamed live on ESPN+
UPCOMING PROMOTIONS
- This weekend's series against Miami is Stanford's Players' Weekend and also features Cardinalpalooza
- Cheer on the Cardinal, score exclusive giveaways, and enjoy student-athlete-inspired concessions all series long, with student-athlete personalities on full display against the Hurricanes
- On Friday, April 17, we'll be giving away a sticker sheet with the players' weekend patch with player nicknames, while supplies last
- Fans can pick up a Cardinal Cub on Saturday, April 18, while supplies last
- We'll be giving away a replica jersey, while supplies last, on Sunday, April 19, and fans can get autographs from the entire team on the concourse after the game
- Cardinalpalooza, presented by Waymo, is back! Join us on Saturday, April 18, for this year's edition of Stanford Athletics' spring sport festival - complete with action both on and off the field! Enjoy a free family-friendly fan zone, highlighted by food trucks, giveaways, games, and more. Then cheer on the Cardinal at various athletic events, featuring baseball, softball, beach volleyball, and men's volleyball!
TEDDY'S TREMENDOUS WEEK
- Having guided Stanford to a 3-1 week that included a road series win at Virginia Tech in ACC play, freshman Teddy Tokheim was named ACC co-Player of the Week on March 30 ... he would also be named Perfect Game Freshman of the Week and earned a spot on Michella Chester's NCAA Starting Lineup of the Week
- The conference weekly honor was the first in Tokheim’s career, and the second for Stanford since joining the ACC (Trevor Haskins, February 24, 2025)
- Tokheim hit safely in all four games, including posting multiple hits in three of the four, while batting .471 (8-for-17) with five runs scored, a double, three homers and nine RBIs over the four games the previous week
- He started his week with a 2-for-4 day that included a homer on March 23 as Stanford wrapped up a four-game sweep of Utah Valley, launched a pair of home runs and drove in five, including a go-ahead three-run shot in the eighth inning, in Stanford's 9-7 win at Virginia Tech on March 27, and delivered the go-ahead two-RBI single in the top of the 10th on March 29 as Stanford defeated Virginia Tech to clinch the series
- Over the four games, Tokheim slugged 1.059 and reached base at a .571 clip
- Pitt’s Caden Dulin joined Tokheim as ACC co-Player of the Week, while Wes Mendes of Florida State was named ACC Pitcher of the Week
CALIFORNIA KINGS
- Stanford is the second-winningest Division I program in California since the 2017 season, compiling 333 victories
- UCLA has won 338 games since 2017, followed by the Cardinal, UC Santa Barbara (331), UC Irvine (317) and Sacramento State (286)
HISTORIC RUN ON RUNS
- Stanford's offense put together a historic run over three games against Utah Valley from March 22-23, scoring at least 15 runs in each contest for the first time since March 16-23, 1985
- The Cardinal defeated USC 15-4 and 15-5 before downing Arizona 20-5 in the first game of a doubleheader during the 1985 campaign
- Stanford began the string with a 17-10 victory over Utah Valley in the first game of a doubleheader on March 22 before knocking off the Wolverines 15-9 and 15-6 over the next two games
- The Cardinal batted .389 over the three-game stretch this year, scoring 47 total runs while posting 10 doubles and 11 homers to the tune of a .770 slugging percentage
CARDINAL TABBED 10TH IN PRESEASON POLL
- Preparing for its second season in the ACC, Stanford was picked to finish 10th in the conference standings according to the league’s 16 head coaches
- The Cardinal, which has made a trip to the College World Series in three of the last five seasons, is looking for a bounce-back year after missing the NCAA Tournament the last two seasons ... has not gone more than two straight years without reaching the postseason since a 13-season stretch from 1968-1980
- Georgia Tech was selected as the 2026 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball preseason favorite, collecting seven of the possible 16 first-place votes to garner 237 total points
- Just one point separated Georgia Tech and second-place finisher North Carolina, who logged 236 points and six first-place votes
- Also earning first place votes were Florida State (one) and Clemson (two)
- The Seminoles finished third in the poll, logging 221 points, while Louisville, who represented the ACC in the 2025 Men’s College World Series, finished fourth with 196 points
- Clemson’s two first-place votes propelled them to a fifth-place projection, totaling 185 points
- NC State was slotted sixth in the coaches’ poll, with 169 points, just ahead of Virginia, who was projected to finish seventh with 165 points
- With 159 points, Miami was picked to finish eighth, while Wake Forest was projected to finish ninth with 145 points and Stanford 10th with 99 points
- Stanford was followed by Virginia Tech (89), Notre Dame (87), Duke (67), Pitt (45), California (41) and Boston College (35)
- The ACC has placed at least one team in each of the last 19 College World Series, including Louisville in 2025, and at least six teams in each of the last 21 NCAA tournaments
- Eight ACC baseball teams began the season in the D1Baseball Preseason Top 25, led by Georgia Tech at No. 4 ... the Jackets were followed by No. 8 Louisville, No. 11 North Carolina, No. 16 Florida State, No. 17 NC State, No. 19 Clemson, No. 21 Wake Forest and No. 22 Miami
ACC BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
- The 2026 ACC Baseball Championship will be held Tuesday, May 19, through Sunday, May 24, at Truist Field in Charlotte, N.C.
- ACC Network will be on hand for the first five days of the tournament with ESPN2 set to carry Sunday’s championship game
- All 16 teams in the ACC will compete in a single-elimination championship
- The top four seeds in the championship will be based off the performance in the regular season and will receive a double-bye into the quarterfinal round, which is scheduled to be held on Thursday and Friday ... seeds five through eight will earn a bye into Wednesday’s second round ... seeds 9-16 will begin play with four first-round games on Tuesday
- The single-elimination championship format will feature four games per day on Tuesday (first round) and Wednesday (second round) ... two quarterfinal games will take place on both Thursday and Friday, while Saturday will host the two semifinal contests ... Sunday will host the championship game
HOME OF CHAMPIONS
- Stanford is the all-time leader with 137 NCAA team championships (70 men, 67 women), and 173 national championships overall
- The Cardinal owns the most recognizable streak in college athletics, having won at least one NCAA team title during each of the last 49 seasons, dating back to the 1976-77 campaign
- The Cardinal has also produced 565 NCAA individual champions and 658 overall
- Stanford has won the Learfield Directors’ Cup in 26 of the possible 31 seasons, including a 25-year streak from 1995-2019
#OLYMPIANSMADEHERE
- Less than two months after starting at defender in the 2025 College Cup final for the Stanford women’s soccer team, sophomore Sammy Smith has achieved her lifelong goal of making an Olympic team ... Smith earned a spot as a member of the U.S. Olympic Cross Country Ski Team ahead of the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Games, which got underway February 6 ... Smith’s selection to the national team is extremely rare, if not, unprecedented: a current Division I varsity student-athlete competing for the national team of a different sport within the same academic calendar year ... a native of Boise, Idaho, Smith is believed to be Stanford’s first American varsity student-athlete to also participate in a Winter Olympics since Bonny Warner, a member of the Cardinal’s field hockey team from 1982-84 who competed for Team USA’s luge squad in 1984, 1988 and 1992 ... Stanford’s most recent Team USA Winter Olympian was Rachael Flatt, a figure skater who competed in the 2010 Games and graduated in 2015
- Stanford concluded the 2024 Paris Olympic Games with a school-record 39 medals, shattering its previous best while cementing its reputation on the world’s biggest stage as the nation’s top collegiate program
- The 39 medals were 12 more than the previous record of 27 at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games
- Stanford’s haul of 39 medals (12 gold, 14 silver, 13 bronze) was the most by any school at one Olympics
- Cardinal student-athletes medaled in 13 of Stanford's 36 varsity sports: artistic swimming, women’s basketball, women’s fencing, men’s gymnastics, sailing, men’s rowing, women’s soccer, women’s swimming and diving, men’s track and field, men’s volleyball, women’s volleyball, men’s water polo, women’s water polo
- The Cardinal boasted 19 first-time medalists - a total that ranks second in school history behind the 21 at the 2008 Beijing Games
- If Stanford was a country in the 2024 Games, it would have finished tied with Canada for 11th place
- Boasting a school-record 59 Olympians with Cardinal ties, Stanford won at least 20 medals for the sixth time in school history (2020, 2016, 2008, 1996, 1924)
- The Cardinal’s 59 Olympians (20 male, 39 female) represented 14 countries across 20 varsity sports
- In addition to the 59 qualifiers, Stanford’s Olympic representation also included five alternates, one national team head coach and three national team assistant coaches
- For the third straight Olympics, Stanford totaled more Team USA selections (37) than any other school, reinforcing its status as the preeminent training ground for U.S. national team competition
- Stanford has won 128 medals combined over the last five Summer Games
- All told, Stanford’s affiliates have captured 335 overall medals (162 gold, 93 silver, 80 bronze) from 196 medalists, and the Cardinal has produced at least one medalist in every Olympics in which the U.S. has competed since 1912