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Home of Champions
Stanford leads the nation in NCAA team championships, with an unmatched 139 NCAA titles – 71 in men’s sports, 68 in women’s sports – and 178 national championships overall.
A legacy of excellence
00 +Individual national champions
00 Olympic medals earned by Cardinal athletes and alums
00 NCAA championships, making Stanford the nation’s all-time leader
00 Straight seasons winning at least one NCAA team championship
00 Learfield Directors’ Cups, awarded annually to the most successful program in college sports
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Changing the Game
Stanford student-athletes and coaches have left their mark across generations, on and off the Farm.
Meet the Cardinal
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Sydney Barta, ’26
A five-time U.S. Paralympic national champion and the first-ever para athlete to run for Stanford, Sydney Barta is a Rhodes Scholar pursuing a career as an orthopedic surgeon for athletes with amputations.
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Asher Hong, ’26
Asher Hong, a gymnast and science, technology, and society major, was a 12-time All-American and earned six NCAA individual championships as well as a team bronze Olympic medal for the United States during his time on the Farm.
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Jasmine Aikey, ’26
Jasmine Aikey, a computer science major and women’s soccer forward, was awarded the 2025 MAC Hermann Trophy after being named Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year. She is one of only two players to have earned both honors.
Path-breaking players
More than 655 individual national champions, 400 Academic All-Americans, and 196 Olympic medalists have called Stanford home.
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Chiney Ogwumike
Basketball
A three-time All-American and 2014 John R. Wooden Award recipient, Ogwumike led Stanford to three NCAA Final Fours (2011-12, 2014) and is the Cardinal’s all-time leader in career scoring, rebounding, and field goal percentage. In the WNBA, she was the 2014 Rookie of the Year and a two-time All-Star (alongside older sister and fellow Stanford great Nneka Ogwumike). A basketball analyst for ESPN, Ogwumike in 2023 became an inaugural member of the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement in the United States.
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Brenda Villa
Water polo
A global icon and the most accomplished player in the history of women’s water polo, Villa is a three-time All-American. She led Stanford to its first NCAA title in 2002 and received the Cardinal’s first Peter J. Cutino Award that year. One of only two four-time Olympic medalists (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012) in the history of the sport, Villa concluded her playing career having won 20 medals representing Team USA.
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Brevin Knight
Basketball
Recognized as the best point guard in program history, Knight is a two-time All-American who took Stanford to three NCAA appearances and earned first-team honors as a senior. A three-time All-Pac-10 pick with the fifth most points (1,714) ever scored in Stanford’s program, Knight made a dual impact as a distributor and defender. He holds school career records for assists and steals and twice led the conference in those categories.
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Christian McCaffrey
Football
In 2015, as a sophomore, McCaffrey was named AP College Football Player of the Year and was a finalist for the Heisman Trophy. A consensus All-American that year, McCaffrey holds the NCAA record for most all-purpose yards in a season. His success has continued in the NFL, where he has earned three First-Team All-Pro nods and qualified for four Pro Bowls. McCaffrey was named 2023 NFL Offensive Player of the Year and 2025 NFL Comeback Player of the Year.
Legendary coaches
Stanford’s coaches have helped shape the evolution of their sports and opened up opportunities for others along the way.
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Bill Walsh
Football head coach
In his two terms as football head coach, Walsh led the Cardinal to winning seasons and bowl victories, bringing with him the West Coast offense that spread the opponent’s defense horizontally with short slant and swing passes to running backs and tight ends. Known as “The Genius,” Walsh led the San Francisco 49ers to three Super Bowl titles as a two-time NFL Coach of the Year and was selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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Tara VanDerveer
Basketball head coach
In 38 years as a head coach for women’s basketball at Stanford and 45 overall, VanDerveer amassed an NCAA-record 1,216 victories at the time of her retirement. Leading the Cardinal to three NCAA championships (1990, 1992, 2021) and 14 NCAA Final Fours, VanDerveer was a five-time national coach of the year and 17-time conference coach of the year. A member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, VanDerveer coached Team USA to gold at the 1996 Olympics.
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Dick Gould
Tennis head coach
Gould closed out a legendary 38-year career as Stanford’s winningest head coach, leading the men’s tennis program to 17 NCAA championships. Gould’s influence and longevity were profound, with his first and last NCAA titles coming 27 years apart. Named ITA Coach of the Decade for the 1980s and 1990s, Gould mentored 10 NCAA singles champions and seven NCAA doubles champions while producing an overall record of 776-148.
Olympic dominance
In Summer Olympics competition, Stanford has produced 335 medals (162 gold) from 196 medalists, highlighted by a school-record 39-medal haul at the 2024 Paris Games.
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Kerri Walsh Jennings
Beach volleyball
The most accomplished beach volleyball player in history, Walsh Jennings was a four-time Olympic medalist. She claimed gold in 2004, 2008, and 2012 and secured bronze in 2016. Walsh Jennings and partner Misty May-Treanor dominated the professional circuit.
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Pablo Morales
Swimming
Morales is one of only eight Cardinal athletes to claim at least five career Olympic medals. Swimming for Team USA, Morales captured one gold and two silver medals in 1984 and two more golds in 1992.
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Erik Shoji
Volleyball
Shoji, a libero, represented Team USA men’s volleyball in 2016, 2020, and 2024, and won team bronze in Rio de Janeiro and Paris. In 2016, Shoji competed alongside his brother, Kawika, also a Cardinal alum.
The GOAT
Katie Ledecky added four medals to her collection at the Paris 2024 Games to become the most decorated American female Olympian of all time in any sport with 14 overall (13 as a Stanford affiliate). Ledecky has won nine career gold medals, tied for the most by any female Olympian. “Don’t be afraid to take the lead,” she told graduates at Stanford’s 2025 Commencement ceremony.
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On the Farm, student-athletes pursue rigorous academics and elite competition, supported by resources to help them thrive.
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World-class venues
Stanford has a range of elite facilities where student-athletes train, heal, and compete.
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