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Stanford Women’s Soccer 2023 - BobK - 08-03-2023
The roster
https://gostanford.com/sports/womens-soccer/roster
The Frosh class is ranked # 3. With Bhuta # 3 and Harvey #12
The schedule with the first game next week
https://gostanford.com/sports/womens-soccer/schedule
Recruiting for the 2024 class Stanford has commitments from the #s2, 10,12, 14, 15 players in the class. Caution 3 of the top 6 in the class are or will be pros
RE: Stanford Women’s Soccer 2023 - Sakibomb25 - 08-03-2023
(08-03-2023, 03:06 PM)BobK Wrote: The roster
https://gostanford.com/sports/womens-soccer/roster
The Frosh class is ranked # 3. With Bhuta # 3 and Harvey #12
The schedule with the first game next week
https://gostanford.com/sports/womens-soccer/schedule
Recruiting for the 2024 class Stanford has commitments from the #s2, 10,12, 14, 15 players in the class. Caution 3 of the top 6 in the class are or will be pros
For your rankings of the Class of 2024, does that include Gamero?
Who are the 2, 10, 12, 14 and 15 ranked players?
RE: Stanford Women’s Soccer 2023 - BobK - 08-03-2023
Gamero was a Stanford commit
Saki Bomb has corrected me. It’s Gamero
Turned pro. Barcelona
RE: Stanford Women’s Soccer 2023 - BobK - 08-10-2023
Per Top Drawer the Pac 12 final season predictions
1. Stanford
2. UCLA
3. USC
RE: Stanford Women’s Soccer 2023 - Nobadeer - 08-10-2023
(08-10-2023, 12:52 PM)BobK Wrote: Per Top Drawer the Pac 12 final season predictions
1. Stanford
2. UCLA
3. USC
Hey BobK, it's me, Nobadeer! You know, from the Bootleg, fax version circa ~ early 1990s. Those were the days. Denny Green, Steve Super-Swede Stenstrom, John Lynch, Touchdown Tommy, Glyn Milburn, Darrien Gordon, Seyon Albert, Dave Garnett, Ron George, and Adam Keefe, and WBB twice NCAA champs, etc.
Anyway, the final Pac12 W soccer season kicks off at Cagan on Friday vs. UOP (exhibition).
RE: Stanford Women’s Soccer 2023 - BobK - 08-10-2023
Wow a voice from the past. Welcome to the Cardboard. Keep on posting
RE: Stanford Women’s Soccer 2023 - BobK - 08-17-2023
Stanford starts real play tonight at U of San Diego.
Recruiting wise Stanford has commits from
The top player in the 2025 class and # 6. Of course 2 of the top 8 have already gone pro
For 2024 Stanford has commits from Thompson ranked # 2 Yes the sister so pro an option, and #s 10, 12, 14 and 15. We lost # 6 who is now a pro
RE: Stanford Women’s Soccer 2023 - Canalejas - 08-17-2023
Oh hey, it looks like the match will be on ESPN+. So not just the stat tracker.
RE: Stanford Women’s Soccer 2023 - BobK - 08-17-2023
I missed that thx
RE: Stanford Women’s Soccer 2023 - oldalum - 08-17-2023
(08-10-2023, 12:52 PM)BobK Wrote: Per Top Drawer the Pac 12 final season predictionsPac-12 coaches' poll has it:
1. Stanford
2. UCLA
3. USC
1. UCLA
2. Stanford
3. USC
4. Cal
5. WSU
We lose 2 of the 3 best Pac-12 soccer teams in 2024, but at least the Pac-4 has the other 3 of the top 5 spots. :)
RE: Stanford Women’s Soccer 2023 - Canalejas - 08-17-2023
Looks like the team got a very nice start on the road.
https://gostanford.com/news/2023/8/17/womens-soccer-clean-sheet-to-open-2023.aspx
RE: Stanford Women’s Soccer 2023 - cardfan77 - 08-18-2023
(08-17-2023, 10:23 PM)Canalejas Wrote: Looks like the team got a very nice start on the road.
https://gostanford.com/news/2023/8/17/womens-soccer-clean-sheet-to-open-2023.aspx
Kennedy Wesley’s shot from distance was a thing of beauty. Not a perfect game. Lots of work to be done. It will be interesting to see how the MFs progress. Not a fan of the long balls. I’d like to see connected passes through the midfield. Is Montoya hurt? I’d like to see Montoya, Kitaha and Aikey/Kostmayer as the starting forwards.
RE: Stanford Women’s Soccer 2023 - PVTree - 08-18-2023
With the USWNT coaching job open again, any chance they go after our coach? Seems like a third of the squad played for him at Stanford so I would imagine they would welcome him.
RE: Stanford Women’s Soccer 2023 - ca245 - 08-18-2023
(08-18-2023, 10:25 AM)PVTree Wrote: With the USWNT coaching job open again, any chance they go after our coach? Seems like a third of the squad played for him at Stanford so I would imagine they would welcome him.I think the risk of losing him to the USWNT is small because one of the knocks against Andonovsky (sp?) was that he had no prior national team experience. So they wouldn't want to repeat that mistake.
I think the greater risk is losing him to a program in the SEC or BIG if we don't find a landing place soon. Then he could see recruiting and competition going down the tube and bail.
RE: Stanford Women’s Soccer 2023 - Canalejas - 08-18-2023
The next game, which had been scheduled for Sunday at UCI, got moved up a day to Saturday. I guess that tropical storm is expected to be quite something.
RE: Stanford Women’s Soccer 2023 - Spiny_Norman - 08-28-2023
The women came from behind to defeat St. Mary's 3-1 yesterday. They take an undefeated record into a key non-conference match this Saturday at home vs. Duke.
The story vs. St. Mary's was similar to other matches recently. Stanford dominated play. SMC had two shots on goal during the entire match, but one went in. Stanford continually was frustrated trying to get good shots in or through a crowded box. The Cardinal trailed until the 71st minute when this happened.
[twitter]https://twitter.com/StanfordWSoccer/status/1695975235034693940?s=20[/twitter]
A minute later, the Cardinal took the lead.
[twitter]https://twitter.com/StanfordWSoccer/status/1695976685806723563?s=20[/twitter]
Maya Doms added the finisher in the 81st minute.
Canalejas, I heard Troy Clardy mention Allie Montoya during the broadcast, but I was not paying attention and missed his comment. Montoya may still be recovering from the ACL tear vs. UCLA last season.
RE: Stanford Women’s Soccer 2023 - Softball Fan - 08-28-2023
Thanks for posting Spiny. I watched the game on TV and expected some commentary here on Sunday. Where did the women's soccer fans go? I'm more of a casual fan of soccer so I don't know that much. While Stanford was mostly on the offensive I was not impressed with their ball handling against an unranked team. The match against Duke should reveal where Stanford stands against good competition.
RE: Stanford Women’s Soccer 2023 - oldalum - 08-28-2023
It's a young team and all 3 starting midfielders are true frosh--it's probably going to take awhile for them to work cohesively with the backs and forwards. Maya Doms and Jasmine Aikey have been shifted from the midfield to forwards, but I thought we did much better in the second half when Doms moved back to midfield. Aikey seemed quite frustrated at times with the passing to her. Perhaps when Montoya is back to full strength and plays at forward, the assignments will change some.
RE: Stanford Women’s Soccer 2023 - BobK - 08-28-2023
Top Drawer has Stanford # 3 in the country today
RE: Stanford Women’s Soccer 2023 - warren65 - 08-28-2023
Jasmine Aikey’s INSANE goal!
The internet is full of clips of Argentine great Lionel Messi making impossible goals.
But what about Stanford’s Jamine Aikey’s impossible goal against Saint Mary’s on Sunday afternoon?
It was a game breaker (and a heart breaker for Saint Mary’s).
It was the 71st minute. Stanford was trailing 1-0 after dominating play and taking 9 previous unsuccessful corner kicks. Jasmine Aikey took a bunch of those prior corners, driving the ball past the goal mouth to allow a teammate to head or body the ball into the goal. Those corners were well taken and were high percentage options for a corner, but none produced a goal.
With Saint Mary’s bunker defense doing its thing, the pressure was on Stanford.
Stanford set up to take its 10th corner. This time, Aikey tried something different – an unassisted corner kick that looped over the keeper’s head and curved into the far upper corner of the goal box. The keeper reached to get a hand on it, but there was nothing to do. It was in, and Stanford had momentum to score two more goals and win the game.
Now I know that this has been done before and will be done again. And, I presume, Aikey practiced shots like this. But it is a low percentage choice for a corner, primarily because of the extremely low margin for error.
The kick is taken from very close to the goal line, so unless there is a favorable wind, the only way it can go unassisted into the goal is to “bend it like Beckham.” That’s what Aikey did. But think about extremely low margin for error.
The kick is taken from the sideline with a horrible angle – it should curve into the upper corner of the far end of the goal box, more than halfway across the pitch.
If it’s too high, it will pass over the goal box harmlessly.
If it’s too low, it will be blocked by defensive players or caught by the keeper.
If the angle is wrong by a degree or two, forget it.
If the ball curves too much or too little, sorry.
If the ball is kicked too softly or too aggressively, no chance.
Sophomore striker Aikey already had demonstrated a gift for free kicks from other portions of the field. Last season, Aikey, with a tough outside the box angle, buried a twenty-yard free kick to score a key goal against Washington State. Caterina Macario, the most prolific goal scorer in Stanford history, had this free kick gift (but I cannot recall Macario ever scoring on an unassisted corner kick). This season, Aikey leads the team with 3 goals in 4 games.
More to come, and Aikey is just one of a gaggle of goal scoring players (Maya Doms, Andrea Kitahata, Lumi Kostmayer, Samantha Williams, and (if she’s recovered from the ACL) Allie Montoya. In the first four games, nine different Stanford players have scored one or more goals.