STANFORD, Calif. — Stanford women’s golf became the first team in nearly a decade to reach the NCAA Championship match play finals for the second consecutive year, falling just short of defending its national title in an otherwise dominant 2024-25 season.
Cover-to-Cover
Stanford has finished first in every stroke-play tournament it played this season. It began at The Molly Invitational, where Stanford finished as the only team under par and won by 18 strokes, with Paula Martín Sampedro earning her first collegiate win in the process. That kick-started an elite stretch of golf for the defending national champions, with the Cardinal winning nine stroke-play tournaments and going 6-2 in match play. In the fall, Stanford earned additional tournament wins in the Stanford Intercollegiate and the Nanea Invitational, while winning the San Diego State Classic, Juli Inkster Invitational, and Charles Schwab Women’s Collegiate in the spring portion of the regular season.
Not only did Stanford finish first in stroke play throughout the season, but it also won comfortably in most tournaments. Only two of Stanford’s nine stroke-play wins this season were by fewer than eight strokes, and Stanford closed out the stroke-play portion of the NCAA Championship as the top seed after beating No. 5 Oregon by an impressive 21 strokes, setting the NCAA 72-hole scoring record. On ten occasions this season, Stanford had a stroke-play round of 10-under or better, including an 18-under 270 in the third round of the NCAA Championship, shattering the previous NCAA Championship scoring record Stanford set in 2022.
Deepest Team in the Country
Stanford’s lineup was the deepest in the country, with four different individual winners during the 2024-25 season, all of whom were First Team All-America selections. Two golfers (Paula Martín Sampedro and Andrea Revuelta) won twice. Stanford’s fifth golfer, Kelly Xu, had a scoring average of 71.25, the highest of the season by a Cardinal despite being the 11th-best in a single season in program history. That means all five Stanford golfers held top-11 single-season scoring averages this year.
For the second year in a row, all five in the lineup received All-America honors from both WGCA and Golfweek. Anne Walker also took home Golfweek Women’s College Golf Coach of the Year honors, her first win of the award in her career.
Title Defense
Stanford came one hole away from defending its national championship, dropping the NCAA…
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