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New Commit! Class of 2028

mdcubsfan1

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Dec 10, 2021
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Decision day was one of the happiest and most proud moments I can remember. Over Christmas break, I was able to put together this video montage for one of the newest future Cardinal students. We always bemoan how few Stanford athletic fans there are, but these video highlights from Stanford football (3 Rose Bowls, Alamo, Holiday, Sun, Orange, Foster Farms), basketball, volleyball, baseball, and tennis (and featuring cameos by Condi Rice, CMac, and Michelle Wie) show there is clear value!

Our daughter grew up thinking of Stanford only as a sports school (LOL) but now has become her dream come true for the next 4 years.

Wanted to share this so some of you could share in our joy, and also to ask if anyone on this board knew or had connections to any sports people at Stanford or in the Bay Area. Our daughter played varsity volleyball for 3 years and varsity tennis for 4 years at a 3200 student public HS in Houston and has been a huge sports fan her whole life. This past summer she actually did an independent research project on Asian MLB players and got her project accepted at SabreSeminar, the largest sports baseball analytics conference in the country. She was the only high school student that presented, giving a 10 minute talk in front of 300 MLB execs and analysts. She connected with a ton of people afterwards, with one of the Milwaukee Brewers VP telling her she was "one of the highlights of the whole weekend." A professor at Rice who was in attendance (and was assistant GM of Dodgers and Astros, both in years they won the World Series) connected with her afterwards, inviting her to campus to meet individually with 4 members of their #1 ranked undergrad sports management/analytics department. They tried really hard to recruit her to Rice, but Stanford has always been her dream (I wonder why LOL).

She has a strong communication background (placed 3rd in the nation in congressional debate and 1st in Texas in feature story writing), but her hope is to work in sports after pursuing policy/economics as an undergrad and then possible law or grad school. Her dream job would be to be a MLB GM, and she's already thinking of connections she can make in college.

So if anyone has any leads with Stanford sports or with any other professional Bay Area teams, please let us know! And if anyone is in this profession/industry, she'd love to make more connections. Thanks and Go Stanford!

 
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