Stanford Cardinals

The Stanford Cardinal is the nickname of the athletic teams at Stanford University. Through the Spring 2011 sports season, Stanford has won 116 national championships. Of these, 102 are NCAA team championships, second most among all universities (UCLA ranks first). 61 of the championships are in men's sports (third behind UCLA and USC) and 41 are in women's sports, the most of any university. Stanford also holds the most NCAA individual sport titles at 421 championships, followed by USC at 358, and Texas at 303. Stanford has won the NACDA Director's Cup for Division I, awarded annually to the college or university with the most success in collegiate athletics, for 17 consecutive years (1994-95 to 2010-11). Stanford has won national championships in the following sports (number of championships in parentheses, NCAA titles unless otherwise specified.