STANFORD, Calif. – Troy Taylor, Stanford's Bradford M. Freeman Director of Football, announced the addition of six student-athletes on Wednesday's National Signing Day. Stanford has signed 24 newcomers out of high school since Taylor took over in December, while adding transfers Alec Bank (Harvard), Gaethan Bernadel (FIU) and Trevor Mayberry (Penn) to the roster.
Of Stanford's 27 additions so far, 15 were offensive players, 11 defensive players and one specialist. Seven of the high school signees were four-star recruits.
Taylor announced the addition of two transfer offensive linemen on Wednesday in Bank and Mayberry. Bank spent four years at Harvard and earned All-Ivy League recognition following both the 2021 and 2022 seasons, while Mayberry started 18 games over the last two years at left tackle for Penn. Both athletes have two years of eligibility remaining.
Offensively, quarterback Myles Jackson (Lakewood, Calif./Millikan HS) anchors the class after reclassifying from 2024. The reigning 2022 Moore League Offensive Player of the Year, Jackson is a unanimous top-35 quarterback, ranked as high as No. 13 in the nation by Rivals. In his final high school season, he totaled 3,620 passing yards and 47 passing touchdowns alongside 476 rushing yards and nine rushing touchdowns.
Four-star recruit Tiger Bachmeier (Lake Elsinore, Calif./Murrieta Valley HS) enrolled in January and leads a talented and deep group of receivers. Bachmeier is joined in the class by four-star Ahmari Borden (Bainbridge, Ga./Munroe Day School (Fla.)), Ismael Cisse (Denver, Colo./Cherry Creek HS) a top-10 player in the state of Colorado, local four-star Jackson Harris (Berkeley, Calif./Berkeley HS) and Texas state champion Tyler Kuo (Austin, Texas / Regents School of Austin). Bachmeier holds three top-20 career marks in the California State high school football record book, recording the 12th-most yards in a career (3,958), 14th-most receptions (238) and 20th-most touchdowns (40).
Borden totaled 1,409 receiving yards on 64 catches with 13 touchdowns in his senior season. Harris led all Californian receivers in regular-season receiving yards, receiving touchdowns, and yards receiving per game.
Sedrick Irvin (Miami, Fla./Christopher Columbus HS) is a four-star running back who is a consensus top-30 player in the country at the position. Irvin rushed for 2,770 yards on 464 carries and 39 touchdowns alongside 39 receptions for 487 receiving yards and six receiving touchdowns in his high school career. He is joined in the running back room by dual-athlete Caleb Hampton (Ooltewah, Tenn./Baylor School), who plans to play both football and baseball at Stanford.
Four-star Simione Pale (Elk Grove, Calif./Elk Grove HS) leads a group of seven offensive linemen in the class. Pale, the nation's ninth-best offensive guard, was a three-time First Team Delta League Offensive Lineman and a two-time Delta League Offensive Lineman of the Year. He is joined by Luke Baklenko (Thousand Oaks, Calif./Oaks Christian School), Charlie Symonds (South Kent, Conn./Taft School), Allen Thomason (Little Rock, Ark./Pulaski Academy) and Zak Yamauchi (Las Vegas, Nev./Bishop Gorman HS) out of high school and graduate transfers Alec Bank (Hoboken, N.J. /Tesoro HS (Calif.)/Harvard) and Trevor Mayberry (Odessa, Fla./Jesuit HS/Penn) as the newest additions to the Tunnel Workers Union. Thomason and Yamauchi bring championship experience with them to The Farm, as Thomason won four state championships with Pulaski Academy and Yamauchi led his Bishop Gorman squad to two Nevada state championships.
Defensive back Jshawn Frausto-Ramos, a consensus four-star recruit from Los Angeles, Calif. and a product of St. John Bosco HS, leads the defensive side of the ball in the 2023 class. Frausto-Ramos, a consensus top-25 player in the state of California and a consensus top-40 cornerback nationally, led St. John Bosco to a national championship, as well as California Southern Section, Southern Section Division I and Los Angeles Metro championships. He is joined at the position in the class by New Hampshire's top recruit (PrepStar) Aaron Morris (Lowell, Mass./Phillips Exeter Academy (N.H.)), Ché Ojarikre (Alpharetta, Ga./Denmark HS) and Adam Rourke (Dallas, Texas/Highland Park HS).
Four edge defenders signed with the Cardinal in December: Chip Allers (Bend, Ore./Summit HS), Carter Davis (Eagle, Idaho/Eagle HS), Gavin Geweniger (Scottsdale, Ariz./Chaparral HS) and Omar Staples (Oakland, Calif./Oakland Tech). Allers is ranked as the No. 5 recruit in Oregon by PrepStar and brings winning experience with him into college after leading his Summit High School squad to the 2022 5A State Championship. Davis is the fourth-best recruit in all of Idaho and will join the Cardinal after serving a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Geweniger totaled 116 tackles, 14 sacks, 29 tackles for loss, four passes deflected, nine quarterback hits, two forced fumbles, and two fumble recoveries in his high school career. Staples is a dual athlete, playing both football and basketball at Oakland Tech, and commits to the Cardinal after five years playing basketball for the prestigious AAU team, Oakland Rebels.
Tre Williams (Farmers Branch, Texas/Parish Episcopal School), son of former Cardinal player and coach Tom Williams, signed with Stanford on Wednesday as an inside linebacker. Williams comes from a strong high school football background, leading Parish Episcopal School to four state championships while totaling 137 tackles, 24.5 sacks, 15 tackles for loss and eight forced fumbles in his high school career. He and Gaethan Bernadel (Hallandale Beach, Fla./Hallandale HS/Florida International), Stanford's first undergraduate transfer during the Transfer Portal Era ill be immediate weapons for inside linebackers coach Mark D'Onofrio.
Braden Marceau-Olayinka (Melrose, Mass./Melrose HS) is the class' lone defensive lineman in the class, bringing experience as a multi-sportfaceited athlete after lettering in football, track & field and wrestling at Melrose High School. He led his team for two straight seasons in sacks, tackles for loss, and pancakes, while also leading the Melrose squad in pass breakups during his senior season.
Punter/kicker Aidan Flintoft (Pacific Palisades, Calif./Oaks Christian School) was the lone specialist to sign in the class. Flintoft is the nation's best punter/kicker recruit according to PrepStar, and averaged 40.1 yards per punt and 66 yards per kickoff (84.5 percent touchbacks) in his junior and senior seasons.
Of the 27 signees in #CardClass23, eight hail from California. There were three signees from Florida and Texas, two from Georgia and Massachusetts, and one signee from each of Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon and Tennessee.
By Position
Offense- 15
QB: 1 (Myles Jackson)
RB: 2 (Sedrick Irvin, Caleb Hampton)
WR: 5 (Tiger Bachmeier, Ahmari Borden, Ismael Cisse, Jackson Harris, Tyler Kuo)
OL: 7 (Luke Baklenko, Simione Pale, Charlie Symonds, Allen Thomason, Zak Yamauchi, Alec Bank, Trevor Mayberry)
Defense- 11
DB: 4 (Jshawn Frausto-Ramos, Aaron Morris, Ché Ojarikre, Adam Rourke)
DL: 1 (Braden Marceau-Olayinka)
EDGE: 4 (Chip Allers, Carter Davis, Gavin Geweniger, Omar Staples)
ILB: 2 (Gaethan Bernadel, Tre Williams)
Specialists- 1
P/K: 1 (Aidan Flintoft)
By State (14)
Arizona- 1
Arkansas- 1
California- 8
Colorado- 1
Connecticut- 1
Florida- 3
Georgia- 2
Idaho- 1
Massachusetts- 2
Nevada- 1
New Jersey- 1
Oregon- 1
Tennessee- 1
Texas- 3
