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Ed Gjertsen II
Women's Lacrosse

Nonconference finale

No. 18 Stanford (8-4) vs. San Diego State (8-4)
Thursday, April 4 • 4 p.m. • Cagan Stadium • Stanford, Calif. • Stanford Live Stream
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STANFORD, Calif. - It's the final nonconference game of the season for No. 18 Stanford on Thursday. The Cardinal hosts San Diego State in a 4 p.m. matinee at Cagan Stadium. 
 

MATCHUPS

  • Stanford has won all six matchups with San Diego State, including a 19-8 victory in the last meeting in 2017 at Cagan Stadium. Stanford is 4-0 at home in this series. The first meeting was April 15, 2012, when the Cardinal beat the Aztecs, 17-11. The closest game to date was a 15-10 Stanford victory on April 18, 2014.


DRAW CONTROL DUO

  • Senior Julia Massaro set the program's all-time career record for draw controls on March 23 at Arizona State. She surpassed the 14-year-old mark of 161 held by Kelsey Twist (2002-05). 
  • Senior Genesis Lucero also passed 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 340 draw controls since stepping on campus together in the Fall of 2015.
  • The pair each entered the season in fourth in the Stanford record book with 121 apiece. 
  • Massaro enters this week with 185 for her career, while Lucero has 165.


MORE DRAW CONTROL RECORDS

  • 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 has 64 entering the weekend, while Lucero has 44 this year.
  • On April 20 against Cal last season, Massaro broke the Stanford single-season record, and in the same game, set the Stanford single-game standard with 11 draw controls.


SEASON NOTABLES

  • Entering the weekend...
  • 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 session.
  • Stanford's only losses this season were to ranked teams—at the buzzer in the season opener against No. 16 Denver, against No. 23 Colorado, in the final second at No. 14 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.


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.
  • Stanford swept the Pac-12 Player of the Week awards for the fourth time in the two-year history of the awards on March 4. Sophomores Ali Baiocco and Grattan won offensive and defensive recognition.
  • Baiocco was also named the Brine/US Lacrosse National Player fo the Week on March 5.
  • Grattan also won the honor on Feb. 25 and 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. 


PINK GAME/ONE LOVE

  • Stanford hosted its Pink Game on Feb. 21 to raise awareness for breast cancer. The team wore pink socks, pink laces and pink warmup shirts, and the field lines at Cagan were painted pink. The scoreboard and game programs were also pink as Stanford beat Fresno State, 17-7.
  • Stanford hosted its One Love game to raise awareness for relationship violence on March 8. The team wore blue shirts and laces, the field lines were painted blue and the scoreboard was turned blue.


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.


TEAM CAPTAINS

  • Representing three different classes, senior Julia Massaro, junior Daniella McMahon, junior Mikaela Watson and sophomore Taylor Scornavacco were selected as 2019 team captains.
  • Head Coach Amy Bokker: "They represent all the leadership qualities that our team values—confidence, authenticity, caring and passion—and are committed to carrying out the culture and leadership put in place by those before them."


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.


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

  • On Friday night, No. 20 Stanford defeated Arizona State, 14-5, at Cagan Stadium. Junior Mikaela Watson scored three times, while sophomore Katherine Gjertsen added her fourth hat trick of the season.
  • In another epic edition of one of the best rivalries in women's lacrosse, sophomore Katherine Gjertsen scored at the buzzer to send the game to overtime, but No. 20 Stanford fell to No. 16 USC in the third extra session, 11-10, on Sunday afternoon at Cagan Stadium. 


UP NEXT

  • Stanford closes out the 2019 regular season with three Pac-12 contests, beginning with a trip to Colorado on April 12 and Oregon on April 14. Senior Day is set for April 19 against Cal.