Through two games against the University of San Francisco (4-6, 0-0 WCC), timely hitting and clutch pitching have carried Stanford (5-1, 0-0 Pac-12). The Cardinal picked up two late-inning wins 7-6 and 3-2 on Thursday and Friday at Sunken Diamond, the first half of a four-game series.

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Women’s volleyball (1-3, 1-3 Pac-12) will travel to Salt Lake City to take on No. 9 Utah (8-2, 8-2 Pac-12) on Friday and Sunday.

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Stanford football, along with the rest of the Pac-12, announced the schedule for its 2021 football season on Tuesday.

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Cheering fans in the stands were traded out for cardboard cutouts, and hugs from family were replaced by masks and socially distanced celebration. But, as head coach Tara VanDerveer put it, her team has “adapted" this season.

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After an undefeated, abbreviated season of conference play, No. 19 wrestling (5-3, 4-0 Pac-12) finished third at the Pac-12 Championships in Corvallis, Ore. on Sunday.

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Stanford performed well given the approximately 7,000 foot change in altitude from Stanford, CA to Air Force Academy, CO, but none of the 20 Cardinal competing were able to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships.

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On Saturday, Stanford heads to Southern California for a conference matchup against San Diego State (0-0-1, 0-0-1 Pac-12) in what will be its first game outside of the Bay Area.

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Men’s and women’s diving will travel to Tucson, Ariz. while women’s swimming heads to Houston, Texas to compete in the Pac-12 Championships. The competitions will begin on Wednesday and last through Sunday.

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As the Pac-12 and NCAA Championships inch closer, Stanford's cross country team will travel to North Las Vegas on Friday for the UNLV Battle Born Challenge.

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No. 1 Stanford (1-2, 1-2 MPSF) began its 2021 season exactly where the team left off nearly 14 months ago — with a win.

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Ten months after finishing second in the Pac-12 Championships, Stanford wrestling competed in its first Pac-12 match of the 2021 season. The No. 11/17 Cardinal defeated CSU Bakersfield 29-13 in what was a triumphant return for the program.

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Senior midfielder/defender Logan Panchot was selected 32nd overall in the 2021 MLS Draft by the DC United on Thursday. He will forgo his senior season to enter the professional ranks this year.

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Less than 10 days after 11 varsity sports moved into campus housing, Stanford Athletics announced the remaining teams will now move in over a series of four dates, beginning on Jan. 23 and lasting through March 1.

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Twelve varsity teams were allowed to return to campus in full on Monday, Jan. 4, Stanford Athletics spokesperson Brian Risso confirmed in an email to The Daily.

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Five Stanford wrestling student-athletes will enter the transfer portal due to the university’s decision to discontinue wrestling and 10 other sports at the varsity level.

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In No. 2 Stanford’s (2-0, 0-0 Pac-12) first game in 10 days, the team opened with an 11-0 run against UNLV (1-2, 0-0 MWC) and didn’t look back.

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Stanford did just enough to leave Berkeley with a win and The Axe. Meanwhile, Washington has looked like the class of the Pac-12 North. On Saturday, the Cardinal and the Huskies will meet in Seattle.

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No. 2 Stanford women’s basketball’s game against the University of San Diego, originally scheduled for Monday at 2:00 p.m. PT, has been canceled.

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The five signees — Camdyn Doucet (New Braunfels, Texas), Emma Morris (Haymarket, Va.), Serena Turner (Phoenix, Ariz.), Avi Vetter (Olympia, Wash.) and Taylor Wilson (Santa Barbara, Calif.) — will join a team that finished the COVID-19-shortened season with a 6-7 record but closed the season on a 6-2 run.

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Stanford football’s game against Washington State, originally scheduled for Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m. PT, was cancelled on Friday. The Cougars would not have had the minimum number of scholarship players available due to “a number of positive football student-athlete COVID-19 cases and resulting isolation of additional football student-athletes under contact tracing protocols,” according to a Stanford Athletics statement.

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This October, however, in response to pool closures amid the pandemic, Franklin and the rest of USA Swimming partnered with Phillips 66 to launch the “Saving Lives is Always in Season” campaign.

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New players will need to step on Stanford Football's defense as the team replaces Paulson Adebo and a bevy of experienced veterans with underclassmen.

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Can Davis Mills match up to Cal's defense? Is defending champion Oregon ripe for an upset? Will Stanford even play seven games? The Stanford Daily's staffers weigh in on Stanford's abbreviated 2020 football season.

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An initiative started by the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee within Stanford Athletics has been promoting voter registration for student-athletes on all varsity sports and athletics department staff. The committee, a part of Stanford’s Department of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation, partnered with StanfordVotes to supply voting information and resources ahead of the upcoming election.

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