08-11-2016, 01:24 PM
I have a feeling that Stanford is fairly conservative in tabulating these medal counts, which I consider the correct approach.
However, consider Janet Evans: won three gold medals at the 1988 Olympics and a gold/silver at the 1992 Olympics. In between she competed for Stanford at the NCAA level. Post 1992 she attended Texas and then graduated from USC, although she did not compete at either school. Of course on USC's web site her five medals are included as part of their claim of winning more medals than any other university. She is a USC alum but IMO it's bogus to include her medals, which gets back to my point about inconsistency. Stanford is taking a more honest approach (which I endorse) but by not including the Heidens and Strugs (and many others) it is shortchanging itself since most readers are not going to discern that different criteria is being applied by different schools.
However, consider Janet Evans: won three gold medals at the 1988 Olympics and a gold/silver at the 1992 Olympics. In between she competed for Stanford at the NCAA level. Post 1992 she attended Texas and then graduated from USC, although she did not compete at either school. Of course on USC's web site her five medals are included as part of their claim of winning more medals than any other university. She is a USC alum but IMO it's bogus to include her medals, which gets back to my point about inconsistency. Stanford is taking a more honest approach (which I endorse) but by not including the Heidens and Strugs (and many others) it is shortchanging itself since most readers are not going to discern that different criteria is being applied by different schools.