Cardinal Heads to SoCal – Stanford Cardinal

MATCH NOTABLES

Thursday’s match will be just the fourth true road match for the Cardinal against San Diego State, including the first since 1995 … Stanford is outscoring San Diego State 29-5 over the course of the 10 matches all time, including posting six shutouts … the lone draw in the all-time series was a scoreless match on October 10, 1993 at the San Diego Invitational … the Cardinal is 4-0 with three shutouts against San Diego State under the direction of Paul Ratcliffe

QUICK PASSES

• Stanford, ranked No. 2 in the nation to start the year, enters the week ranked No. 2 in the United Soccer Coaches and TopDrawerSoccer preseason polls after reaching the College Cup Final and closing the season ranked second in the nation a year ago
• The loss to Florida State in the 2023 national championship match snapped a string of 36 consecutive unbeaten matches (30-0-6)
• Stanford made its 11th appearance in the College Cup, and its sixth appearance in the College Cup Final, last year … is 3-3 in national championship matches
• The Cardinal owns a 114-5-9 record at Cagan Stadium since the start of the 2014 season
• Stanford posted 14 shutouts and was 8-0-0 in games decided by one goal last season … has posted 22 shutouts in its last 35 contests
• With a 1-0 victory at San Francisco to start the season, Stanford extended its unbeaten streak to 18 straight matches in season openers (17-0-1) and has posted 10 shutouts over the string … the victory marked the fourth consecutive campaign that Stanford opened the year with a shutout (2-0 at Cal Poly in 2021, 5-0 vs. Sacramento State in 2022 and 4-0 vs. San Diego in 2023)
• The Cardinal has won two of the last seven College Cups – most recently capturing the title in 2019
• Jasmine Aikey is a preseason All-ACC selection and earned a spot on the MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List … TopDrawerSoccer Preseason Best XI first team and tabbed the No. 3 player on TopDrawerSoccer’s Preseason Top 100 list … was named 2023 Pac-12 Midfielder of the Year and United Soccer Coaches All-America and All-Region first team … was a semifinalist for the 2023 MAC Hermann Trophy and a finalist for the Honda Award … was named Academic All-America second team and earned a spot on TopDrawerSoccer’s Best XI first team a year ago … scored in nine of 25 matches in 2023, and after scoring in the final two in 2022, has scored in 11 of her last 29 matches … owns 16 goals in those 29 matches … contributed a point in 18 of the 25 matches in…