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 Plus IMO Tara is at the stage of her career where she would not be interested in a player who isn't full-time focused on basketball.

Unless it's Kristin Folkl . . . who you'd take at any stage of a coaching career.  

Folkl still might be the best Stanford athlete ever . . . she has to be in the conversation, anyway - uber elite VB and hoopster.  Elway, Toi, Dotterer, Paye . . . Veris (how good was he in field events in track at Stanford?).  

Am sure there are others I'm missing.  But in my lifetime, the most elite 2-sport Stanford athletes that I can think of are Elway, Folkl, and Cook.

I had to laugh at the comment about Tara being “at the stage of her career” to not be interested in a two-sport athlete. I’m pretty sure she was at that stage decades ago, given the way she handled Folkl, who, IMHO, would have led us to a Title if she’d only been allowed to play more…

she would have led us to a title had a phantom 5th foul not been called on her clean block in the semis. i can still picture it clearly

Yep.

And wasn't it Folkl AND The Big Lefty (name escapes me, but she is a HS coach now - just looked it up Vanessa Nygaard) who both were injured in Feaster Harvard game?  I would have liked that team's chances to cut down the nets, too, had the Cardinal been healthy.

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 Plus IMO Tara is at the stage of her career where she would not be interested in a player who isn't full-time focused on basketball.

Unless it's Kristin Folkl . . . who you'd take at any stage of a coaching career.  

Folkl still might be the best Stanford athlete ever . . . she has to be in the conversation, anyway - uber elite VB and hoopster.  Elway, Toi, Dotterer, Paye . . . Veris (how good was he in field events in track at Stanford?).  

Am sure there are others I'm missing.  But in my lifetime, the most elite 2-sport Stanford athletes that I can think of are Elway, Folkl, and Cook.

I had to laugh at the comment about Tara being “at the stage of her career” to not be interested in a two-sport athlete. I’m pretty sure she was at that stage decades ago, given the way she handled Folkl, who, IMHO, would have led us to a Title if she’d only been allowed to play more…

she would have led us to a title had a phantom 5th foul not been called on her clean block in the semis. i can still picture it clearly

Yep.

And wasn't it Folkl AND The Big Lefty (name escapes me, but she is a HS coach now - just looked it up Vanessa Nygaard) who both were injured in Feaster Harvard game?  I would have liked that team's chances to cut down the nets, too, had the Cardinal been healthy.