STANFORD, Calif. — Having earned a decisive season-opening win last weekend, the No. 15 Stanford lacrosse team begins the home portion of the 2025 schedule, welcoming No. 21/20 Colorado to The Farm on Thursday, February 13. Opening draw is slated for 3 p.m. from Maloney Field at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium.
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Stanford had seven different goal scorers on Saturday afternoon headlined by Aliya Polisky’s seven-goal outing which tied her career, single-game high. For her efforts, the Tennessee native was named the USA Lacrosse Magazine DI Women’s Player of the Week on Tuesday after her eight-point appearance. Polisky’s five-goal first quarter is the most she has scored in a single quarter in her career.
Having only appeared in four games last season, Sophomore Elise Murphy posted a career day on Saturday, setting single-game highs in goals (4) and points (5) while earning her first collegiate assist. Murphy, who last scored in Stanford’s 19-5 win over Arizona State last April, found twine on all four of her shot attempts and accumulated four ground balls along with one caused turnover.
Freshman Martha Oakey enters Thursday’s game after a stellar outing in the season-opening win over USC with a goal and four assists in her first collegiate game. Oakey assisted on Polisky’s season-opening mark before accumulating her first collegiate goal in the third quarter as part of a string of three unanswered Cardinal tallies in the frame.
Stanford held USC without a goal in the final 19:59 of game action on Saturday and limited the Trojans to just 11 shots on goal during the game. Lucy Pearson accumulated five saves on the afternoon while the Cardinal defense showed out, winning the battle for ground balls (19-14) and caused turnovers (12-8).
Stanford finished the 2024 campaign near the top in the nation in multiple defensive categories including scoring defense (11th, 9.00), caused turnovers per game (8th, 10.56), save percentage (12, 47.4%) and ground balls per game (5th, 21.00).
The Cardinal enters Thursday’s matchup on a 14-game win streak at home having not lost since the 2023 season-opener against Virginia (11-14). During that span, the Cardinal has outscored its opponents 237-133 (+104) and has not allowed more than nine goals in a single game in the last eight contests at Maloney Field.