(06-22-2024, 08:14 PM)Jamesy Wrote:(06-22-2024, 08:07 PM)Treebound Wrote: 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.
That makes sense to me though we don't offer any winter Olympic sports. Eileen Gu also won't count.
That would also be the case for Sami Jo Small, listed above. She was on the Canadian Women's Olympic Ice Hockey team three times.
She was recruited to Stanford for track and field - throwing events. She also played on the (mostly) men's club ice hockey team and was apparently the Pac MVP one year - so there is an excuse to count her.
She was also on my swimming team growing up. She was enough younger than me that I didn't know her well but knew her older brother Luke better. [Also quite talented but also more interested in hockey.]
