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Senior Day Friday

No. 19 Stanford (11-4, 6-3) vs. Cal (6-10, 3-6)
Friday, April 19 • 5 p.m. • Cagan Stadium • Stanford, Calif. • Pac-12 Network
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STANFORD, Calif. - No. 19 Stanford women's lacrosse will recognize three seniors in their final game at Cagan Stadium on Friday. The Cardinal hosts Senior Day and Cal starting at 5 p.m. on Pac-12 Networks.
 

MATCHUPS

  • Stanford is 35-7 all-time against Cal.
  • The Cardinal has won 17 straight in the series dating back to Cal's last win on Feb. 23, 2008, 11-9, in Berkeley.
  • Stanford won 21-5 on The Farm and 17-7 in Berkeley last season, but earlier this year, it was a one-goal game in the closing minutes until Stanford held on for a 13-11 win on March 16.
     

SENIOR MOMENTS

  • Prior to the game on Friday, Stanford will recognized three seniors playing at Cagan Stadium for the final time: Areta Buness, Monika Sivilli and Julia Massaro. Senior Genesis Lucero will return for a fifth year next season, and will be honored at next year's Senior Day. 
  • This trio has led the Cardinal to 53 victories, including the inaugural Pac-12 Tournament championship last season, and two NCAA tournament appearances thus far.


SENIOR SUMMERS

  • Areta Buness: Environmental engineering research at Stanford's Spormann Lab in the Clark Center, including sulfate-reducing bacteria in the gut microbiome that serve as biomarkers of inflammation.
  • Genesis Lucero: worked at an engineering firm (Hunsacker and Associates) in San Diego.
  • Julia Massaro: worked as an equity research intern at Morgan Stanley in New York City. 
  • Monika Sivilli: interned for ION Marketing Group, a consumer engagement agency in New York City, and shadowed the CEO of Silicon Alley Media, a communication and PR agency. 
  • As a team, Stanford traveled to Fiji and New Zealand where they held lacrosse clinics, soaked in the culture and participated in some humanitarian efforts.
     


Thank you, seniors by Stanford Athletics on Exposure

DRAW CONTROL RECORDS

  • Senior Julia Massaro has set the program's draw control records for a game, season and career this year. 
  • On April 14, Massaro's 18 draw controls at Oregon broke the program's single-game standard  of 11 which she set at Cal last season. In the same game, she broke her own single-season record for draw controls, which was 86 in 2018. Entering Friday, she has won 93 in 2019. 
  • On March 23 at Arizona State, Massaro surpassed the 14-year-old career draw controls record  of 161 held by Kelsey Twist (2002-05). Massaro is the first player in school history to win more than 200 draw controls (214 entering Friday).


DRAW CONTROL DUO

  • Senior Genesis Lucero also passed Kelsey Twist's old record with her 162nd career draw control on March 29 against Arizona State.
  • The duo of Massaro and Lucero have combined for more than 370 draw controls since stepping on campus together in the Fall of 2015.
  • Last season, Julia Massaro set the single-season school record for draw controls with 86. She suprassed Lucy Dikeou, who had 64 in 2015. Then-junior Genesis Lucero also broke Dikeou's record with her 67 draw controls in 2018. 
  • This season, Massaro became the first Cardinal to win 60 draw controls in back-to-back seasons. She is also the first to win 70 and 80 in back-to-back seasons as 


SEASON NOTABLES

  • Entering the weekend...
  • Stanford is three seconds away from being 14-1 this season. Three of Stanford's four losses have come at the buzzer. The Cardinal scored the potential game-tying goal in the season opener against Denver but it was ruled to cross the goal line after the buzzer. The Cardinal also scored the potential game-tying goal with one second left at USC on March 25, but it was disallowed as a dangerous follow through. On March 31, Stanford lost to the Trojans in the third overtime.
  • Stanford's only losses this season were to ranked teams—at the buzzer in the season opener against No. 15 Denver, against No. 23 Colorado on March 8, in the final second at No. 16 USC, and in overtime against the Trojans. 
  • Stanford's 15-12 victory at No. 10 Stony Brook on March 3 was the program's first road victory over a top 10 opponent since Feb. 28, 2015 at No. 10 Ohio State (12-10). It also halted Stony Brook's 33-game home winning streak at LaValle Stadium, which dated back to 2016.
  • The Cardinal won four straight from Feb. 21-March 3 and has had at least one four-game winning streak in all 11 seasons under head coach Amy Bokker.
  • Stanford is 6-1 on the road this season, including two wins over ranked opponents.


PLAYER OF THE WEEK FIRSTS

  • Sophomore goalkeeper Trudie Grattan became the first player to win three Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week awards in a season and career on March 25. Grattan also won on Feb. 25 and March 4.
  • Grattan was the first Pac-12 goalkeeper to win the weekly Pac-12 award in back-to-back weeks—just the second player (any position) to win two straight defensive honors. 
  • Stanford swept the Pac-12 Player of the Week awards for the second time this year and fifth time in the two-year history of the awards on April 15. Sophomore Ali Baiocco and senior Julia Massaro won offensive and defensive recognition, respectively.
  • Baiocco was also named the Brine/US Lacrosse National Player fo the Week on March 5.


PAC-12 LEADERS

  • Stanford leads the conference with 14.1 goals per game, 6.6 assists per game and 20.7 points per game.
  • The Cardinal also leads the Pac-12 with 21.9 ground balls per game and 15.7 draw controls per game. 
  • Ali Baiocco leads the league with 67 points and is second with 46 goals and third in assists (21).


TEAM USA VISIT

  • Stanford hosted Team USA at the US Lacrosse Spring Premiere, Jan. 25-27. 
  • The event featured the U.S. women's national team and U19 team as well as the English National Team, the Japanese developmental team, Fresno State University and the defending Pac-12 tournament champion Stanford Cardinal.
  • Stanford played an exhibition against Team USA and the U19 team. In two quarters against the U19 squad and four quarters against the national team, the Cardinal fell 19-14. 
  • Stanford assistant coach Kristen Carr played for Team USA, as well as former Stanford assistant Caylee Waters.


PICKED TO REPEAT 

  • Defending champion Stanford was picked to finish first in the Pac-12 Preseason Coaches Poll. 
  • The Cardinal earned five of the six first-place votes and totaled 25 points. Colorado earned the other first-place vote and was picked second with 21 points. USC was selected to finish third (17 points) followed by Oregon (13 points), Cal (8) and Arizona State (6). 
  • Last season, the Cardinal was picked to finish third in the conference and then posted the second-most wins in school history (15-5), which included an 8-2 record in the inaugural Pac-12 regular season, where they finished second and went on to win the first Pac-12 Tournament.


SCHEDULE NOTABLES

  • Stanford plays nine of its 16 games at home, including four of its six non-conference contests.
  • Stanford plays four games against NCAA Tournament teams from last season.
  • Stanford will have five TV games this season. The contests at Cal (March 16), at USC (March 25), vs. USC (March 31), at Colorado (April 12) and vs. Cal (April 19) will all be on Pac-12 Networks.


INAUGURAL PAC-12 SEASON

  • 2018 marked the first season in Pac-12 history. The conference consists of Cal, Arizona State, USC, Oregon, Colorado and the Cardinal. Each team played each other home and away for a total of 10 conference games. 
  • Stanford played in the first-ever Pac-12 game at Colorado on March 9. Then-sophomore Daniella McMahon won the conference's opening draw control, but the 18th-ranked Cardinal lost a seven-goal first-half lead and fell to the 19th-ranked Buffaloes, 18-16.
  • In the first-ever Pac-12 game at Cagan Stadium, Stanford knocked off arch rival Cal, 21-5, on March 17.
  • Stanford finished the first-ever Pac-12 regular season in second place with an 8-2 conference record. Both losses came to first-place Colorado. 
  • Stanford won the first-ever Pac-12 Tournament and earned the conference's first automatic NCAA berth. As the No. 2 seed, the Cardinal defeated third-seeded USC, 15-14, in the semifinal on Friday, April 27, and then knocked off host and top-seed Colorado, 15-6, to claim the title on Sunday, April 29.
  • Kelsey Murray and senior goalkeeper Allie DaCar became the first duo from the same team to sweep the Pac-12 weekly awards. Murray was the conference's Offensive Player of the Week, and DaCar earned Defensive Player of the Week honors on March 5. 
  • In all, Stanford had five players combine for seven Pac-12 Player of the Week awards.
  • Stanford led the conference with six All-Pac-12 selections, including the first Pac-12 Attacker of the Year in Kelsey Murray, and the first Pac-12 Freshman of the Year, Ali Baiocco.
  • Stanford was one of two Pac-12 schools to qualify for the NCAA Tournament (Colorado). 


LAST TIME OUT

  • Sophomore Katherine Gjertsen's overtime winner completed a dramatic comeback for No. 18 Stanford in a 13-12 victory at No. 22 Colorado last Friday afternoon.
  • Senior Julia Massaro obliterated the school record with 18 draw controls to lead Stanford to an 18-12 victory over Oregon on Sunday afternoon at Pape Field.


UP NEXT

  • Stanford will travel to Eugene, Oregon, for the Pac-12 Tournament championship, April 25-28. The Cardinal won the inaugural tournament last season in Boulder.
  • If Colorado defeats Oregon on Friday night, Stanford will be the No. 3 seed and will play the sixth-seeded Ducks, the Pac-12 Tournament hosts, in the first round on April 25.