Stanford Cardinal
Intercollegiate sports teams of Stanford University / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Stanford Cardinal are the athletic teams that represent Stanford University. Stanford's program has won 136 NCAA team championships, the most of any university. Stanford has won at least one NCAA team championship each academic year for 48 consecutive years, starting in 1976–77 and continuing through 2023–24. Through January 2024, Stanford athletes have won 552 individual NCAA titles.
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Stanford Cardinal | |
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University | Stanford University |
Conference | Pac-12 Conference (primary) America East (field hockey) Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (men's gymnastics, men's volleyball, water polo, fencing) PCCSC (sailing) CSA (women's squash) |
NCAA | Division I (FBS) |
Athletic director | Bernard Muir |
Location | Stanford, California |
Varsity teams | 36 (15 men’s, 19 women’s, 2 co-ed) |
Football stadium | Stanford Stadium |
Basketball arena | Maples Pavilion |
Baseball stadium | Klein Field at Sunken Diamond |
Softball stadium | Smith Family Stadium |
Soccer stadium | Maloney Field at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium |
Aquatics center | Avery Aquatic Center |
Rowing venue | Arrillaga Family Rowing and Sailing Center |
Sailing venue | Arrillaga Family Rowing and Sailing Center |
Tennis venue | Taube Tennis Center |
Other venues | |
Mascot | Stanford Tree (unofficial) |
Nickname | Cardinal[1] |
Fight song |
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Colors | Cardinal and white[2] |
Website | www |
Stanford has won 26 of the 29 NACDA Directors' Cups, awarded annually to the most successful overall college sports program in the nation, including 25 consecutive Cups from 1994–95 through 2018–19. 177 Stanford-affiliated athletes have won a total of 296 Summer Olympic medals (150 gold, 79 silver, 67 bronze), including 26 medals at the 2020 Tokyo games.[3][4]
Stanford's teams compete at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I (Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) for college football) level as a member of the Pac-12 Conference, along with other schools from the western third of the United States.
Stanford will join the Atlantic Coast Conference at the start of the 2024–25 academic year. [5]