The Farm Report: February 9

It couldn’t have been a better opening weekend for the newly renovated Stanford Softball Stadium. Playing in their official home stadium for the first time since May 26, 2024, Softball went a perfect 5-0 in the Stanford Invitational, opening the year 5-0 for the second consecutive season. 

The Cardinal opened the season with a 4-2 win over No.24 Oklahoma State, christening the stadium's inaugural game with a ranked victory. From there, the bats got hot as Stanford totaled 40 runs over its next four games. On Saturday, the Card collected two run-rule victories in a double-header over the Cowboys (10-0) and San Jose State (16-4)—both in five innings. To wrap up the weekend, the Card defeated Cal 7-2, on Sunday.

Taryn Kern had a scalding start to the season. The senior totaled 11 hits in 15 at-bats, including a home run, a triple and four doubles and collecting five RBI and nine runs scored. In the circle, Zoe Prustajko tallied 19 strikeouts in just 10.2 innings of work, allowing just two runs.

Ebuka Okorie broke his own freshman scoring record and became the first Stanford player in 24 years to score 40 points as Stanford ran past Georgia Tech, 95-72, at Maples Pavilion. The Cardinal improves to 15-9 this season and 4-7 in the ACC.

In a historic performance, Okorie scored 40 points on 12-for-21 shooting with a trio of 3-pointers and a perfect 13-for-13 mark at the free throw line. 

 

 

 

 

 

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The first Stanford player with a 40-point game since Casey Jacobsen scored 41 on Feb. 7, 2002 vs. Oregon, Okorie’s performance is the ninth in program history with at least 40 points. Additionally, Okorie’s fifth game this season with at least 30 points passed Duke’s Cameron Boozer for most in the ACC.

Lara Somfai had herself a night and Stanford snapped a four-game losing streak with an 86-65 victory at Pittsburgh on Thursday.

The Cardinal freshman went for 15 points, 23 rebounds, eight assists, two steals and three blocks, becoming just the second player in NCAA history with those numbers in available records dating back to 2002-03 and the only freshman. Illinois-Chicago’s Ruvanna Campbell had the exact same line against Northern Illinois on Nov. 17, 2014.

 

 

 

 

 

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Somfai’s 23 boards are an ACC freshman record, the most by any freshman in the country this season, and the most for any ACC player since 2014.

This year will mark an extremely rare inflection point in Stanford sports history. For the first time, at least four undergraduates from The Farm, Zoe Atkin, Eileen Gu, Brandon Kim, Sammy Smith, will be competing in the Olympic Winter Games.

All four chose Stanford for academic excellence despite its lack of snow and ice. All four have intense majors – from simultaneously conquering a computer science and pre-med track to environmental systems engineering.

Three stepped out for part of the Olympic year, and one – in less than seven weeks – went from vying for an NCAA Division I soccer title to racing on cross-country skis in Alaska, then New York (where she won two national titles), and eventually Germany to beat some of the world’s top skiers to make the US 2026 Olympic team.

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With Super Bowl LX right up the road at Levi's Stadium, multiple different Cardinal got the opportunity to be involved in the festivites.

On campus, the AFC Champion New England Patriots, including former Stanford tight end Austin Hooper, made Stanford Stadium their practice headquarters for Super Bowl Week.

 

 

 

 

 

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At the NFL Awards, Christian McCafferey added to his hardware collection, taking home the Comeback Player of the Year award for his stellar performance this past season.

 

 

 

 

 

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With the Super Bowl so close to home, this week gave us a good chance to look back on Super Bowl XIX which was played at Stanford Stadium on January 20, 1985.

 

 

 

 

 

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History was made in the Paradise of the Pacific as the Stanford men’s golf team broke a nearly two decades old record in the first round of action at the Amer Ari Invitational. On Thursday, Stanford broke the program record for lowest round with a 27-under performance on the day

By Sunday, Five golfers finished with career-bests as the Stanford men’s golf team completed its historic weekend. Stanford, which shot 12-under for the day, slotted in fifth overall at 56-under, 808, securing the second lowest below-par tournament score in program history.

 

 

 

 

 

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A sweep of the event titles and a season-best home score led Stanford to its fourth consecutive conference victory Friday night, topping No. 33 Pittsburgh 197.100-194.650 inside Maples Pavilion.

Senior Anna Roberts won her fourth straight all-around crown with a combined total of 39.325. Junior Sienna Robinson claimed the beam title with a 9.875, continuing her streak of winning at least one event title in each meet this season.

Freshman Summer Gronski earned her first collegiate event title with a 9.875 on vault, while redshirt freshman Levi Jung-Ruivivar captured both the bars and floor titles with career-best scores of 9.950.

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Another weekend in Albuquerque is in the books for Stanford track & field, as the Cardinal field athletes highlighted the weekend at the New Mexico Collegiate Classic. 

A pair of jumpers paced the Cardinal, as Alyssa Jones and Xavier Drumgoole each earned event victories. Jones, who celebrated her 22nd birthday, captured the women's long jump title with a season-best 6.64m (21' 9½").

 

 

 

 

 

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The Cardinal saw two new top-10 marks on the women's side of the triple jump, led by Alaysia Oakes' third-place finish with a new indoor personal best of 12.74m to improve upon her No. 6 ranking in program history. Samantha Ennin finished just behind with a fifth-place mark of 12.69m, breaking into the Stanford Top-10 list at No. 7.

A 10-goal second quarter and a quartet of hat tricks proved to be the difference as the Stanford women’s lacrosse team dispatched UC Davis on Saturday, 23-7, to begin the 2026 campaign. 

Aliya Polisky, Martha Oakey, Rylee Bouvier and Lexi Rodell each recorded a hat trick on the afternoon while Lucy Pearson added three saves in three quarters.

Stanford also earned debut goals from Mallory Hasselbeck and Olivia Prosper as 11 players recorded a goal while the entire Cardinal lineup secured minutes in the win.

Men’s Volleyball opened up its MPSF conference season this weekend with two wins, not dropping a set in either match.

Hitting a season-high .386, No. 17 Stanford opened MPSF conference play with a 25-19, 30-28, 25-21 win over Jessup, Friday, in Burnham Pavilion. Stanford held Jessup to .191 hitting – the lowest by a Cardinal opponent this season until it was topped the very next day.

Saturday saw Stanford hit a season-high .425, while holding UC Merced to a .025 clip. Led by freshman outside hitter Erik Ask, No. 17 Stanford swept UC Merced, 25-16, 25-15, 25-17, in Burnham Pavilion. 

 

 

 

 

 

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Returning to the pool for the first time in two weeks, Stanford (3-0, 0-0 MPSF) showed little signs of rust and scored five goals in each period to reach the 20-goal mark for the third straight game.

Kamryn Barone’s game-high four goals led another balanced scoring attack as No. 1 Stanford overwhelmed No. 16 UC Davis 20-3 on Saturday afternoon.

Barone was one of 11 different players to find the net for Stanford, which also received hat tricks from Juliette Dhalluin and Sienna Green. Natalia Szczerba finished with three assists.

No. 3 Women’s squash had an ultra successful weekend, securing three ranked wins on a north east road trip.

After wrapping up the CSA Individual Championships in New York last week, the program stayed on the east coast and ran the gauntlet this past weekend, defeating No. 13 Columbia 9-0, No. 8 Yale 5-4, and #7 Cornell 8-1.