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Stanford Cardinal swimming is a Division I program in the ACC. The program record reflects 11 national championships. The Cardinal's season is taking shape as dual meets and invitationals are added to the calendar. Stanford enters 2026 with 22 athletes on the roster. Home meets for the Cardinal are held at Avery Aquatic Center in , . The Cardinal's meet schedule will be updated as results are posted. The Cardinal carry Stanford Tree tradition, with "Come Join The Band" as the program's fight song. When fans fuel a Cardinal athlete on RallyFuel, 90% lands directly with the athlete — funding training, recovery, and the realities of college sports.
Stanford University sits in Stanford, California, and competes in NCAA Division I, with most teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference after leaving the Pac-12. The Cardinal sponsor roughly three dozen varsity teams, from football and basketball to rowing, fencing, squash, sailing, and water polo.
Stanford has won 139 NCAA team championships, the most of any Division I school, and has won at least one NCAA team title in 50 straight academic years. Among the programs with the biggest totals:
According to the school, Stanford athletes have won 335 Olympic medals (162 gold, 93 silver, 80 bronze), earned by 196 medalists. At Paris 2024, the Cardinal had 59 Olympians who won 39 medals, a record for one school at a single Games.
Katie Ledecky reached 14 career medals in Paris, and swimmers Torri Huske and Regan Smith each won five medals there. Grant Fisher took bronze in both the 5,000 and 10,000 meters. Freestyle skier Eileen Gu, who competes for China, won Olympic medals while a Stanford student.
Football plays at Stanford Stadium, and Maples Pavilion hosts basketball, volleyball, and gymnastics. Baseball is at Klein Field at Sunken Diamond, swimming and water polo at Avery Aquatic Center, tennis at the Taube Family Tennis Center, and track and field at Cobb Track and Angell Field.
The first Big Game against California was played on March 19, 1892. Stanford has no official mascot, but the Stanford Tree, a member of the band in a costume, appears at major events.