STANFORD, Calif. – No. 11 Stanford will pursue a spot at the NCAA Championships this Saturday at 1 p.m. (PT) when it competes in the NCAA Morgantown Regional.
Stanford head coach Kristen Smyth and redshirt junior Ivana Hong took some time to discuss the team's upcoming competition and pursuit of an NCAA Championships berth.
The Cardinal (10-9-1, 8-7 Pac-12) will look to earn its sixth regional title and qualify to the NCAA Championships for the eighth time in the past nine years. Stanford competed at the NCAA Morgantown Regional once before in 2010, when it scored 196.775 to finish first and claim the Cardinal’s most recent regional title.
Stanford has qualified to the NCAA regional competition in 32 consecutive years and 35 overall.
Joining the Cardinal in Morgantown will be top-seeded Florida, and (in order of seeding) Illinois, Arkansas, New Hampshire and West Virginia. The top two teams in the regional competition will receive a berth to the NCAA Championships in Fort Worth, Texas, April 17-19.
