ROSE BOWL again

Data10
Fri, 29 Nov 2013 03:15:22 +0000

Note that 11th as a country quote was based on the medal count for the 2008 Olympics, not the total over all years. That is a frequent quote that appears on both the Stanford website and Wikipedia, but it is not accurate due to the way team sports are counted.

The count includes medals in team sports and relays where most of the team members did not attend Stanford. And when a team has two members from Stanford, it was counted as 2 separate medals for Stanford, but not for other countries. If you exclude team sports and relays where most did not attend Stanford and do not double count teams with multiple Stanford members, then the medal count for 2008 drops to 1 – the Byron twins bronze in doubles tennis. The other medals that would not count if Stanford were an independent country are below:

4 on men’s water polo team
3 on women’s water polo team
2 on men’s volleyball team
2 on women’s volleyball team
2 on women’s soccer team
2 on softball team
2 in 4x100 freestyle relay
1 in 4x100 medley relay
1 in 4x200 relay
1 in men’s 8 rowing
1 in women’s 8 rowing
1 on baseball team
1 on women’s beach volleyball team

That said, it was still quite an impressive achievement with a greater participation by Stanford affiliated students+alumni than at any other college in the US.