Gibbs advances to NCAA singles final
Stanford junior Nicole Gibbs has just one match to go in her bid to repeat as NCAA singles champion after rolling over No. 31 Breaunna… Continue Reading »
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Water polo aims for third straight national title
After losing in the MPSF final two weeks ago, the No. 2 Cardinal (27-2) hopes to take a third straight national championship in this year’s tournament, which kicks off tonight in Boston.
Wrestling: Cardinal downs South Dakota State, but suffers crushing loss to No. 7 Missouri
Mixed results turned the Stanford wrestling team’s trip to Columbia, Mo., this past Saturday into a bittersweet visit as the Cardinal fell to 4-3 on the young season. The Cardinal picked up one in each column, yet the win against South Dakota State early on in the day was overshadowed by the crushing defeat by No. 7 Missouri.
Senior Sit Down: Rachel Quon
In her four years on the Farm, the three-time All-Pac-12 honoree and 2010 All-American Rachel Quon and the Cardinal have gone a perfect 40-0 in first Pac-10 and then Pac-12 play. After two seasons that ended in defeat in the NCAA Championship match, Stanford broke through last season with a 1-0 victory over Duke to win the program’s first national title.
W. Tennis: Stanford begins NCAAs eyeing third straight finals appearance
It’s finally May Madness in the world of college tennis, and the Stanford women’s team is looking to avenge its heartbreaking loss in last year’s NCAA championship match with a victory this year
Women’s water polo begins National Collegiate Championship
The No. 2 Stanford women’s water polo team will look to repeat as national champion when it travels to San Diego this weekend for the National Collegiate Championship
M. Tennis: A day in the life of Bradley Klahn
It’s 9:30 a.m. on a cool Thursday morning, and Bradley Klahn is setting out traffic cones on a tennis court. The senior from Poway, Calif., is used to balancing his prodigious tennis career and school, but now, it’s all tennis, all the time. Six feet tall, dressed from head to toe in red and black dri-fit, the economics major graduated from school in the winter and now spends his days preparing for the final hurrah of his college career—and the beginning of his budding professional career.
M. Golf: Swinging into spring
Four years removed from a national championship, and three years after finishing as the nation’s runner-up, the Cardinal finished sixth in the NCAA Central Regionals last year… But if the fall season is any indication, the Cardinal will not falter again this spring.