Corey Baird Season 2014

In The News

• 12/6/17: The ruling class: Stanford seniors shoot for 3rd straight national soccer title - Tom FitzGerald (San Francisco Chronicle)
• 12/13/16: Baird Celebrates Second Straight College Cup Final - Matt Gaschk (RSL.com)
• 12/9/16: RSL Academy Alum Helps Lead Stanford Back to College Cup - Matt Gaschk (RSL.com)

Career Accolades | Career Statistics and Single-Game Highs

• Signed a Homegrown Player contract with Real Salt Lake on January 5, 2018
• 2017 United Soccer Coaches All-Far West Region First Team
• 2017 All-Pac-12 First Team
• Pac-12 Player of the Week (Nov. 7, 2017)
• Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week (Nov. 7, 2017)
• 2016 College Cup All-Tournament Team
• 2016 All-Pac-12 First Team
• Pac-12 Player of the Week (Oct. 18, 2016)
• Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week (Oct. 18, 2016)
• 2015 College Cup All-Tournament Team
• 2015 All-Pac-12 Second Team
• Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week (Dec. 8, 2015)
• 2014 NSCAA/Continental Tire All-Far West Region Second Team
• 2014 All-Pac-12 Second Team
• 2014 Top Drawer Soccer Best XI Freshman Second Team
• 2014 Soccer America Men's All-Freshman First Team
• 2014 College Soccer News First Team Freshman All-American
• Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week (Nov. 18, 2014)
• Pac-12 Player of the Week (Nov. 10, 2014)
• Pac-12 Player of the Week (Nov. 3, 2014)
• College Soccer News National Team of the Week (Nov. 3, 2014)
• Tied for sixth in school history in games played (83) and fifth in starts (75)
• Tallied 16 goals to go along with 30 assists
• Assist total is tied with Roger Levesque for third in program history
• Put 67 of his 139 career shots on goal (.482)
• Seven game-winning goals
• Three assists in six career College Cup matches
• In his four seasons, Stanford won three national championships, four Pac-12 titles, had a 65-10-13 overall record (.813) and 30-3-7 (.838) conference mark

As a Senior (2017) | Game-by-Game Stats

• United Soccer Coaches All-Far West Region First Team
• All-Pac-12 First Team
• Pac-12 Player of the Week (Nov. 7)
• Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week (Nov. 7)
• Appeared in 18 games and made 16 starts
• Missed five early-season matches due to injury
• Tied for second on the team with a career-high six goals and led the team with seven assists
• Third in the Pac-12 and 47th nationally in assists
• Fourth in the conference and 93rd in the country in points per game (1.04)
• Scored in wins over No. 23 Creighton (9/1), San Diego State (9/28), No. 24 Cal (10/8), UCLA (11/2) and San Diego State (11/5)
• Career-high three game winners were in both matches against the Aztecs and at Cal
• Third career brace came in a 4-0 home victory over San Diego State (11/5)
• Converted his kick in Stanford's 4-1 shootout win over Pacific (11/19) in the second round of the NCAA Tournament
• Fifth career two-assist outing was in the home opener against No. 23 Creighton (9/1)
• Assisted on other goals against San Jose State (8/25), San Diego State (9/28), UCLA (11/2), Coastal Carolina (11/26) and No. 4 Akron (12/8)

As a Junior (2016) | Game-by-Game Stats

• College Cup All-Tournament Team
• All-Pac-12 First Team
• Pac-12 Player of the Week (Oct. 18)
• Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week (Oct. 18)
• Appeared in all 23 matches and started 22
• Second on the team with 12 points on three goals and a team-leading six assists 
• Tied for third in the Pac-12 in assists and was 62nd in the country
• Tied for 10th in the conference in total points and shots (40)
• Six assists came in a five-match stretch in mid-October, all wins
• Tallied a pair of assists against No. 25 San Diego State (10/13)
• Had single-assist performances against No. 17 UCLA (10/16), San Diego State (10/20), No. 24 UCLA (10/23) and Oregon State (10/27)
• Goals came in wins against San Jose State (9/10), Omaha (9/18) and Oregon State (10/27)
• Converted his attempts in College Cup penalty shootouts against No. 10 North Carolina (12/9) and No. 2 Wake Forest (12/11)

As a Sophomore (2015) | Game-by-Game Stats

• College Cup All-Tournament Team
• All-Pac-12 Second Team
• Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week (Dec. 8)
• Started all 23 matches
• Tied for the team lead in assists (13) and was second in points (19) while adding three goals
• Tied for second in the country in assists with teammate Eric Verso and sixth in assists per game (0.57)
• Baird and Verso became the first Cardinal teammates with at least 13 assists in a season since 1978 (Ted Rafalovich/Dan McNevin)
• Tied for fifth in Stanford single-season history in assists
• Stanford was the only team in the country that had two players in double digits in assists
• Assist total was the highest for Stanford since 2002 and the most in the Pac-12 since 2010
• Converted the winning kick in Stanford's penalty shootout victory against Akron in the NCAA semifinals (12/11) 
• Had two assist games in the NCAA title match against Clemson (12/13) and the NCAA quarterfinals at Wake Forest (12/5)
• Five assists came in a four-match stretch against VCU (9/6), San Jose State (9/10), SMU (9/13) and San Francisco (9/18)
• First time tallying a career-high two assists came off corners in a 3-1 win over San Francisco (9/18)
• Scored his first career postseason goal against Ohio State (11/29)
• Tallied his second career brace in Stanford's 3-1 victory at San Diego State (10/18)

As a Freshman (2014) | Game-by-Game Stats

• NSCAA/Continental Tire All-Far West Region Second Team
• All-Pac-12 Second Team
• Top Drawer Soccer Best XI Freshman Second Team
• Soccer America Men's All-Freshman First Team
• College Soccer News First Team Freshman All-American
• Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week (Nov. 18)
• Pac-12 Player of the Week (Nov. 10)
• Pac-12 Player of the Week (Nov. 3)
• College Soccer News National Team of the Week (Nov. 3)
• Appeared in all 19 games, making 14 starts in the midfield
• Finished tied for third on the team with four goals to go along with four assists
• Goals came against Delaware (9/21), UCLA [2] (10/30) and Oregon State (11/9)
• Responsible for Stanford's only multi-goal game of the year, putting home both for the Cardinal in its 2-2 draw at No. 1 UCLA (10/30)
• Assists came against UC Santa Barbara (9/9), UCLA (10/12), Oregon State (11/9) and California (11/16)
• Assisted Austin Meyer's overtime winner in the 103rd minute at California (11/16), which clinched Stanford's first Pac-12 Championship since 2001
• Tallied eight points on three goals and two assists in the Cardinal’s last five regular-season matches

U.S. Soccer

• Called by U.S. Under-23 Men's National Team head coach Andi Herzog for the first College Identification Training Camp in early August 2015
• Assisted on the first goal for the U.S. in its 3-1 win over Club Tijuana's Segunda Premier Team, which wrapped camp on August 7
• Has been involved with U.S. Youth National Teams from the U-14 to U-20 age range
• Called into camp with the U-20 National Team in January 2014
• Saw action with the U-18 National Team in France in October 2013
• Part of the U-17 Residency Program and started for the national team at the 2013 CONCACAF U-17 Championship
• Also started for the squad at the 2011 Nike International Friendlies and tournaments in Europe and Costa Rica
• Scored lone goal in 1-0 group-play win over Guatemala at the 2013 CONCACAF U-17 Championship

High School/Club

• A 2014 graduate of Vista Grande High School in Casa Grande, Ariz.
• Played one season of soccer
• Named league rookie of the year and to the second team
• Played for San Diego Surf and Real Salt Lake Academy
• Member of the academy’s U-18 team
• Helped RSL squad to US Development Academy League playoff berth
• With San Diego Surf, helped the club’s U-15 team to titles at the Surf Thanksgiving Tournament and the Presidio League in 2010

Personal

• Born in Palomar, Calif.
• Parents are Sean and Marjorie
• Has one older brother, Ryan