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Feb. 10, 2011

STANFORD, Calif. - Four Stanford teams are ranked No. 1 in the country - men's gymnastics, women's swimming, women's tennis, and women's water polo. In addition, the women's gymnastics team and men's swimming teams are each No. 2, women's basketball is No. 3, and the No. 4 men's volleyball team is the defending NCAA champion. The race for Stanford's 100th NCAA title will go in this order among those teams: women's swimming (March 19), men's swimming (March 26), women's basketball (April 5), men's and women's gymnastics (April 15), men's volleyball (May 7), women's water polo (May 15), and women's tennis (May 24).

Baseball
With big league pitchers and catchers reporting for spring training early next week, it's time to think baseball. But Stanford already has a jump on the pro game and is drawing closer to Opening Day, Feb. 18 at Rice (2:30 p.m. PT, KZSU-FM 90.1). The Cardinal plays a three-game series in Houston before playing its home opener against Cal on Feb. 22 (5:30 p.m.) in what will be a designated nonconference game. Ranking: No. 13 (Baseball America).

Men's Basketball
Much has been made of Stanford's youth movement, with members of the program's highly-touted six-member recruiting class making immediate contributions this year. The rookies were on display for extended minutes during the Cardinal's most recent homestand, which resulted in a split with the Arizona schools. Anthony Brown and Dwight Powell appeared in the starting lineup for both games, Aaron Bright was one of four players in double figures with 10 points against Arizona State while Josh Huestis and John Gage both came off the bench to establish career-highs in minutes played - Huestis with 23 and Gage with 15. Ranking: No. 136 (RPI).

Women's Basketball
The Cardinal tied its own Pac-10 record during Saturday's 91-61 victory over Arizona in Tucson. The victory was Stanford's 48th in a row against Pac-10 competition (includes Pac-10 Tournament games), tying the mark first set from Feb. 9, 1995 to Jan. 12, 1998. Stanford's last loss in Pac-10 competition was on Jan. 18, 2009, 57-54 to California in Berkeley. Stanford will attempt to break the mark during its first home game since Jan. 22 - against Washington State on Thursday at 7 p.m. Rankings: No. 3 (AP), No. 3 (ESPN/USA Today).

Women's Diving
Stanford alumnae Cassidy Krug earned two victories at last week's U.S. Winter National Championships. Krug and partner Kassidy Cook won the three-meter synchronized diving title by just .21 points to begin the week, and later tied Christina Loukas in the three-meter individual event. Krug entered the final round Sunday in third, just ahead of Loukas. But after their final dives, they finished in a rare tie. Ranking: No. 1 (CSCAA).

Football
It seems as if Stanford's football season has barely ended - with its 40-12 Orange Bowl victory over Virginia Tech on Jan. 3 -- before spring practice is about to begin. Stanford will begin spring practice schedule on Feb. 21. The Cardinal will split the spring into two 10-practice sessions bridging finals and Dead Week. The spring game is April 9 at San Francisco's historic Kezar Stadium, at 2 p.m. An interesting schedule note is that by playing in a post-New Year's bowl game and starting spring practice so early, the Cardinal will have had five-plus weeks of organized practices before a school like Cal, which opens spring ball on March 29, has last suited up.

Men's Golf
Stanford fired a one-under team score of 287 on Friday to finish 11th at the Amer Ari Invitational held at the Waikaloa Kings' Course in Waikaloa, on Hawaii's Big Island. The Cardinal, which had won the event three times in the past four years, finished 28 strokes behind Oklahoma State. Ranking: No. 15 (Golfweek/Saragin).

Women's Golf
Sophomore Kristina Wong's final-round 71 helped Stanford to fourth place at the Wildcat Invitational held at the Vistoso Golf Club in Tucson, Ariz. Wong tied for second among all individuals, finishing just two strokes behind medalist Isabelle Boineau of Arizona, who carded a 54-hole total of 212 to help the Wildcats to the team title. At 901 (+37), Stanford trailed first place Arizona by 26 strokes in the team competition. Ranking: No. 38 (Golfweek/Sagarin).

Men's Gymnastics
By finishing sixth in the all-around at the Winter Cup Challenge, Josh Dixon was named to the U.S. national team, becoming one of five new members. Dixon finished with scores of 83.650 and 85.150 in the all-around for a two-day total of 168.800. His best event was the floor exercise where he posted scores of 15.050 and 15.450. Dixon will be a member of the national team through August 2011, including at the 2011 VISA Championships this summer. Ranking: No. 1 (GymInfo).

Women's Gymnastics
Starting in the anchor position of Stanford's uneven bars lineup, and with five clean routines in front of her, Nicole Pechanec was able to take some risks in a dual-meet against San Jose State on Saturday at Burnham Pavilion. She unveiled a twisting release move off the high bar that she invented. That's how the "Pechancova" -- so named because of the surname she used in the World Championships while competing for the Czech Republic -- came to be used in collegiate competition for the first time. That move, combined with her artistry, execution, and exquisite lines, gave the junior a collegiate career-high score of 9.925 to win the event. Ranking: No. 2 (GymInfo).

Lacrosse
Two-time MPSF Player of the Year Lauren Schmidt leads Stanford into its season opener on Sunday against visiting Notre Dame, ranked No. 10, in an 11 a.m. game at Cagan Stadium. Stanford reached a program-high No. 8 ranking during last season and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the second time. Stanford (15-6) has won six consecutive MPSF titles, and is hoping to advance deeper into the NCAA Tournament. Ranking: No. 13 (IWLCA).

Softball
Stanford (37-19 last year) opens its season Friday at 11 a.m. PT against Cal State Northridge at the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, Ariz., and follows with a 1:30 contest scheduled against North Texas that same day. The Cardinal pitching staff returns all of its starters from last year's squad. Senior Ashley Chinn found herself in a new role last season making 21 starts, including 14 of 19 down the stretch. Sophomore Teagan Gerhart had her breakout rookie season cut short because of injury. Her 1.65 ERA ranked sixth in the Pac-10, while her 173 total strikeouts were eighth and placed her 10th on Stanford's single-season list. Ranking: No. 20 (NFCA).

Squash
Stanford's women's team dropped two of three matches on its most recent East Coast road swing, with a victory over Dartmouth bookend by losses to fifth-ranked Princeton and Penn. Women's ranking: No. 6 (CSA). Men's ranking: No. 23 (CSA).

Men's Swimming
Stanford closed out its home schedule with wins over Cal State Bakersfield and No. 8-ranked USC last weekend. USC led 23-13 after the earlier diving competition, but Chad La Tourette swept the weekend, winning the 500- and 1,000-yard freestyles against both teams. La Tourette has the nation's top times in the 1,000 and 1,650 free. Ranking: No. 2 (CSCAA).

Synchronized Swimming
Stanford completes its home schedule this weekend, when the Cardinal will play host to Arizona on Saturday at 4 p.m. and Sunday at 10 a.m. at the Avery Aquatic Center. Stanford has dominated the Wildcats in the past, winning all three meetings last season.

Men's Tennis
Bradley Klahn's second foray into big-time singles tennis ended with a 6-3, 6-2 loss to second-seeded Gael Monfils in the first round of the SAP Open on Wednesday at HP Pavilion. Klahn, the defending NCAA champion, received a wild card into the event and played the 12th-ranked player in the world. Last summer, Klahn had played in the U.S. Open, losing in the opening round, and currently has an ATP singles ranking of No. 792. Klahn and Stanford teammate Ryan Thacher also are participating in doubles and won their first-round match over third-seeded Germany's Dustin Brown and Holland's Rogier Wassen, 6-3, 6-7 (6), 10-5. Klahn and Thacher play Thursday afternoon against Colombia's Alejandro Falla and Belgium's Xavier Malisse in the quarterfinals. Ranking: No. 8 (ITA).

Women's Tennis
In a key early-season battle between NCAA championship contenders, No. 1 Stanford held on for a 5-2 victory over No. 4 UCLA on Saturday in a contest, which does not factor into the conference standings -- the March 25 rematch in Los Angeles is the designated Pac-10 match. Saturday's still was significant. The victory extended Stanford's NCAA-record home winning streak to a 168 -- 136 regular season, 32 NCAA Tournament - in a streak that spans nearly 12 seasons and is recognized as the longest active home winning streak among all sports in Division I athletics. The Cardinal has not lost at the Taube Family Tennis Stadium since a 5-4 setback against No. 4 California back on Feb. 27, 1999. Ranking: No. 1 (ITA).

Indoor Track and Field
Stanford athletes will be divided among three meets this weekend in their final tuneups before the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation championships in Seattle on Feb. 25-26. Most will compete at the Husky Classic, at the same University of Washington track that will hold the MPSFs. Stanford is expected to have some athletes compete at the New Mexico Invitational in Albuquerque and the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark. Men's ranking: No. 7 (USTFCCCA). Women's ranking: Unranked.

Men's Volleyball
Brad Lawson is climbing the Stanford ladder for career kills. The junior outside hitter has 1,087 for No. 3 on the all-time list in the rally-scoring era (since 2001) and is within range of Curt Toppel's 1,143 for second. Senior teammate Spencer McLachlin is fifth with 1,002, but needs only 15 to pass Ben Reddy and take over fourth. In the second match of the season, junior libero Erik Shoji passed brother Kawika Shoji in career digs to break the Stanford mark. Erik has 912 to Kawika's 836. Ranking: No. 4 (AVCA).

Women's Water Polo
Freshman Kaley Dodson capped a five-goal day with the tournament-winner, a skip shot under the arm of USC goalie Flora Bolonyai and inside the near post with 16 seconds left in the second sudden-death period, to give Stanford a 10-9 victory over No. 2 in the Stanford Invitational final on Sunday. Dodson had three goals in the game and sophomore two-meter Annika Dries scored twice, and had 11 goals in the tournament for the Cardinal (8-0). Ranking: No. 1 (CWPA).

Wrestling
The Stanford wrestling team (7-9-1; 2-2 Pac-10) ends the 2010-11 regular season at home with two Pac-10 Conference duals. The Cardinal hosts Cal Poly on Friday, Feb. 11 at 6:30 p.m. Stanford's Senior Day is Sunday, Feb. 13 at 2 p.m. against Arizona State. Both duals will be held in Burnham Pavilion. Ranking: No. 21 (InterMat).

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