[Jamesy]

Re Debi Thomas and also Eric Heiden's Olympic medals not being counted in Stanford's tally, I asked this of Earl Koberline, when he was an assistant AD. He was the person that tracked these stats better than anyone else at the time.  He told me that there had been an internal discussion within the AD and the decision was that because Stanford didn't technically offer figure or speed skating as a sport, they decided that those medals were not appropriate to add to Stanford's medal count.  I guarantee you, that if either of those two people had any affiliation with u$c, the trojans would find a way to put it into their medal count.  

I think there were also a few other Stanford alums that won winter olympic medals and IMHO, they at least deserve a footnoted listing on the Stanford Olympic site that the AD is building.    We are proud of all of our Olympic alums!  I'm hoping the AD does a really nice job on the Olympics this year.  I don't think any school is close to our participation and medal count over the last 50 years.  Stanford is truly a training ground for Team USA! not to mention a number other countries.

That makes sense to me though we don't offer any winter Olympic sports. Eileen Gu also won't count.

[Jamesy]

Re Debi Thomas and also Eric Heiden's Olympic medals not being counted in Stanford's tally, I asked this of Earl Koberline, when he was an assistant AD. He was the person that tracked these stats better than anyone else at the time.  He told me that there had been an internal discussion within the AD and the decision was that because Stanford didn't technically offer figure or speed skating as a sport, they decided that those medals were not appropriate to add to Stanford's medal count.  I guarantee you, that if either of those two people had any affiliation with u$c, the trojans would find a way to put it into their medal count.  

I think there were also a few other Stanford alums that won winter olympic medals and IMHO, they at least deserve a footnoted listing on the Stanford Olympic site that the AD is building.    We are proud of all of our Olympic alums!  I'm hoping the AD does a really nice job on the Olympics this year.  I don't think any school is close to our participation and medal count over the last 50 years.  Stanford is truly a training ground for Team USA! not to mention a number other countries.

That makes sense to me though we don't offer any winter Olympic sports. Eileen Gu also won't count.