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Stanford Athletic Communications John Cantalupi • Assistant Director Stanford Cell: 650.924.8304 SOCCER [email protected] vs. San Jose State • September 10 • Laird Q. Cagan Stadium • Stanford, Calif. RESULTS LOOKING AHEAD » No. 24 Stanford (0-1-3) returns to The Farm for the first of three straight matches at overall ........................................................................... 0-1-3 home when it hosts San Jose State (1-2-1) on Saturday, Sept. 10 at 7 p.m. Troy Clardy and Kelly Gray have home ........................................................................... 0-0-2 the call on Pac-12 Bay Area. away ........................................................................... 0-0-1 neutral .......................................................................... 0-1-0 HISTORY VS. SJSU » The game against San Jose State will be the 40th all-time meeting between the two Pac-12 ........................................................................... 0-0-0 schools, with the Cardinal owning a 22-12-5 edge in records dating back to 1973. Corey Baird fed Foster Langsdorf in the 33rd minute and Stanford earned a 1-0 victory in last season’s meeting on Sept. 10. San SCHEDULE Jose State is tied with San Francisco as Stanford’s sixth most-contested opponent in program history. August The Spartans’ last win in the series came at the Cal Legacy Classic in Berkeley, Calif. on Sept. 8, 2006 (2-1). 13 Sacramento State (Exhibition) .................W, 5-0 17 at Cal Poly (Exhibition) ................................. W, 2-1 LOOKING BACK TO LAST WEEK » Stanford traveled to the adidas/IU Credit Union Classic in Bloomington, 26 Penn State (P12N) ............................T, 0-0 (2OT) 28 Saint Mary’s (P12N) .........................T, 2-2 (2OT) Ind. and came away with a loss and a draw against a pair of top-five foes. The Cardinal scored to close the first half, No. 4 Notre Dame caught its first goal in the final minutes of the second and the Irish converted September a free kick in the second overtime period to hand Stanford its first loss of the season on Friday night, 2-1. 2 vs. #4 Notre Dame & ............................ L, 1-2 (2OT) Two days later, the Cardinal played its second scoreless draw of the season, this time with the stalemate 4 at #5 Indiana & ......................................T, 0-0 (2OT) coming against No. 5 Indiana. 10 San Jose State (P12N) ..............................7 p.m. 16 Harvard (P12N) ........................................8 p.m. 2015 REWIND » One of the program’s stated goals every year is to “play as many games as it can” and the 18 Omaha .....................................................7 p.m. Cardinal did that in 2015. Stanford’s magical season was capped with the program’s first national champi- 23 at San Francisco............................................7 p.m. onship in its 100-plus year history when it routed Clemson, 4-0, at Sporting Park in Kansas City on Dec. 13. The Cardinal scored the most goals in an NCAA final since 1996 and won by the largest margin since 1975, October 2 California * (P12N) ...................................5 p.m. tying for the highest margin in College Cup history. The win extended the school’s streak of at least one 6 at Washington * (P12N) ................................7 p.m. NCAA team championship to an ongoing record 40 years and was Stanford’s 108th NCAA team title (now 9 at Oregon State * (P12N) ............................11 a.m. at 109 following women’s tennis’ 2016 championship). Stanford became the fi h school to capture men’s 13 San Diego State * (P12N) ..........................7 p.m. and women’s Division I soccer titles, following the Cardinal women in 2011. Jeremy Gunn became one of 16 UCLA * (P12N) ..........................................5 p.m. four coaches to win NCAA titles in both Division I and Division II, following his 2005 crown at Fort Lewis. 20 at San Diego State * ......................................7 p.m. 23 at UCLA * (P12N) ...........................................5 p.m. San Jose State head coach Simon Tobin is in his third season leading the Spartans 27 Oregon State * (P12N) ..............................5 p.m. MENTOR IN TOWN » 30 Washington * (P12N) ................................5 p.m. following a 27-year run at CSU Bakersfield where he amassed a 305-189-54 record. He coached 1993 Ba- kersfield graduate Jeremy Gunn with the Roadrunners and the current Stanford boss also got his coaching November career started as an assistant at his alma mater alongside Tobin. Gunn served as an assistant coach with 11 at California * (P12N) ...............................1:30 p.m. Bakersfield’s men’s and women’s soccer programs from 1993-1999. The Roadrunners won the 1997 NCAA 17 NCAA First Round............................................. TBD Division II National Championship and advanced to the 1995 NCAA Final Four. While serving as the men’s 20 NCAA Second Round ....................................... TBD assistant coach, Gunn also performed duties as the acting head women’s coach during the women’s pro- 26-27 NCAA Third Round ........................................... TBD gram’s first two seasons. Gunn was named CCAA conference women’s coach of the year a er leading the Roadrunner women to a conference championship and national ranking in only their second season. December 2-3 NCAA Quarterfinals .......................................... TBD 9 College Cup Semifinals.................................... TBD QUOTABLE: “Simon recruited me when I first came out here in 1989 to go to college at Cal State Bakers- 11 College Cup Championship ............................. TBD field. The biggest thing I learned from him, both as his player and assistant coach, is if you have a vision and you’re willing to push and push and push, you can achieve anything. The program was really strug- * – Pac-12 game; Home games in Bold; gling when he took over and had no business becoming great. Through his drive and desire, he took a & – adidas/IU Credit Union Classic team that was rock bottom in the country and made them champions.” All times Pacific and subject to change; # - Indicates national ranking (NSCAA) LOGGING MILEAGE » The Cardinal has played more minutes than any other team in college soccer this P12N - Game televised on Pac-12 Networks season (433:47). Michigan (420:00) and Fairfield (410:39) are the only other schools that have logged over PAC-12 STANDINGS 400 minutes. Stanford’s four double-overtime matches happened in the span of 10 days. SCHOOL TP PAC-12 PCT. OVERALL PCT. ALWAYS OT » Stanford has played four consecutive overtime matches for the first time in 18 years. Near Oregon State 0 0-0-0 .000 3-0-1 .875 the end of the 1998 campaign the Cardinal drew Cal State Fullerton on Nov. 8 (1-1) and California on No- SDSU 0 0-0-0 .000 2-0-1 .833 vember 15 (0-0) to close out the regular season. It then beat San Jose State in the third overtime of a first- UCLA 0 0-0-0 .000 2-1-1 .625 round NCAA Tournament match on Nov. 21 (3-2) and followed that with a double-overtime victory against Washington 0 0-0-0 .000 2-1-0 .667 San Diego on Nov. 28 (3-1). The Cardinal would reach its first NCAA championship that season, falling to California 0 0-0-0 .000 1-2-1 .375 Indiana, 3-1. Stanford had five games go longer than 90 minutes all of last year. Stanford 0 0-0-0 .000 0-1-3 .375 Champion is determined by hightest number of points (TP); Win = 3, Tie = 1, Loss = 0 2015 NCAA Champions • 2015 Pac-12 Champions #GoStanford STANFORD QUICK FACTS CHECKING THE POLLS » Stanford dropped to No. 24 in the NSCAA Top 25 on Tuesday. In a preseason poll- Location ........................................ Stanford, Calif. ing of the nation’s coaches, the Cardinal was picked as the country’s No. 1 team, collecting 20 first-place votes and 579 points. The Cardinal went 18-2-3 a season ago, including a 7-1-2 mark in Pac-12 play, to Founded .........................................................1891 earn its second consecutive conference title. It tied the school record for fewest losses in a season, tied the Enrollment ............16,122 (6,994 undergraduate) second-highest win total in program history and set a Stanford record for league wins. Colors .....................................Cardinal and White A iliation ......................................NCAA Division I TOUGH ROAD » The Cardinal has faced the nation’s 28th-toughest schedule thus far with its four oppo- Conference .............................Pac-12 Conference nents combining for a .708 winning percentage. That mark is second among the teams in the NSCAA poll President ..................................... John Hennessy behind only No. 16 Kentucky, which has played the country’s 14th-toughest schedule (.778). Athletic Director ..............................Bernard Muir Soccer Administrator .................... Earl Koberlein SEARCHING FOR WIN NO. 1 » Four matches into 2016, Stanford is still in search of its first win. It’s the first Athletic Department Phone ......... (650) 723-4591 time since 2010 the Cardinal has gone this far into a season without a victory. That year the team lost its Ticket O ice Phone ................... (800) STANFORD first four before reeling o four straight wins en route to an 8-10-0 overall record. The program has never Home Field .................... Laird Q. Cagan Stadium gone winless in five straight to start a year. Game-by-game records are available beginning in 1973. Dating at Maloney Field back to his first season as a head coach at Fort Lewis (1999), this

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