5 Named College Sports Communicators’ Women’s At-Large Academic All-Americans – Stanford Cardinal

STANFORD, Calif. – Kelly Belardi (seashore volleyball), Arianna Cao (fencing), Megha Ganne (girls’s golf), Paula Martin Sampedro (girls’s golf) and Anna Roberts (girls’s gymnastics) have been honored as Stanford’s College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-America Women’s At-Large picks on Tuesday.

Cao, Ganne, Sampedro and Roberts have been named to the primary crew, whereas Belardi was acknowledged with a spot on the second crew. The 5 picks improve Stanford’s 2025-26 CSC Academic All-America rely to 25 total, with the boys’s honorees to be introduced on Wednesday.

Belardi earned Stanford seashore volleyball’s first-ever College Sports Communicators Academic All-America Second Team honor and is simply this system’s second-ever Academic All-America honoree.  As a senior, she earned her first-ever AVCA All-America award and captured her third profession all-conference honor. She held a 26-15 document within the 2026 season, her fourth consecutive 12 months with at the least 26 victories, together with a 24-15 document on courtroom one (with companions Avery Jackson, Ruby Sorra, Mikki Carlin and Ashley Vincent) and a 2-0 ledger on courtroom two (with accomplice Avery Jackson). She ended her illustrious Stanford profession with 113 particular person wins, essentially the most by a Cardinal participant in program historical past, and the 2026 captain solidified her legacy as one of many program’s most impactful gamers by main Stanford to its first-ever NCAA Championship Dual Match look and best-ever end (NCAA runner-up), alongside its fourth consecutive NCAA championship look together with her within the lineup and sixth straight total.

Cao earned the honors for the second straight season after one other dominant season as a junior. Cao completed the 12 months as a USFCA All-America Honorable Mention, ending with ACC Fencer and Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors. The San Jose product took dwelling the ACC girls’s foil crown, Stanford’s first particular person championship since becoming a member of the convention final season. The success earned her a spot on the NCAA Championships for the third straight season, the place she completed ninth. Through three seasons on The Farm, Cao now boasts two All-America honors, three West All-Region picks, two ACC Fencer of the Year awards and an NCAA Individual National Championship in 2025.

Ganne capped off her Stanford profession with a person runner-up end on the NCAA Championship, ending two strokes off a person nationwide championship. She took dwelling the Inkster Award for the highest-placing senior on the NCAA Championship, simply one among many awards for her this season. She turned a three-time First Team All-America choice en path to serving to Stanford land the 2026 NCAA girls’s golf title, the crew’s third in 5 years. Her profession scoring common of 71.01 is the second-best in program historical past. Excelling within the classroom as properly, Ganne is a three-time tutorial all-conference honoree, together with two All-ACC Academic honors, and is a four-time WGCA All-American Scholar. 

Martín Sampedro is a two-time convention golfer of the 12 months recipient, together with the 2026 ACC Golfer of the Year after she received particular person medalist honors on the ACC Championship. She is the No. 2-ranked newbie on the planet and is a three-time First Team All-American, capping off her junior season as a finalist for the Honda Sport Award in girls’s golf. Her profession scoring common of 70.19 is the bottom in Stanford historical past by way of three seasons, which might rank because the second-best in NCAA girls’s golf historical past. She has been broadly honored for her work within the classroom, as she was named the ACC Women’s Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the primary girls’s golfer to earn a convention student-athlete of the 12 months award since 2023. 

Roberts earns her first College Sports Communicators Academic All-America honor and have become Stanford girls’s gymnastics’ third-ever awardee after a record-setting profession on The Farm. The 2026 ACC Gymnast of the Year and five-time 2026 All-ACC Gymnastics Team member led the convention on vault (9.910 NQS), beam (9.930 NQS) and all-around (39.630 NQS), turning into the primary athlete to guide the league in three occasions on the finish of the common season. For the second consecutive season, she has set or matched her collegiate-best marks on all 4 occasions and the all-around in 2026, together with recording three good 10s — two on vault, one on flooring. She is the one convention athlete to earn a ten.000 on any occasion this season, and one among simply six athletes nationwide to document a couple of good rating in 2026. She holds the varsity document for finest all-around competitors efficiency (39.875), set at Oregon State Feb. 27, 2026 when she and the Cardinal posted Stanford’s first rating of 198.000 or larger in additional than 20 years and the first-ever on the highway (198.150). She additionally set the convention document for many weekly honors in a season, receiving eight of 10 doable awards through the 2026 marketing campaign. Roberts ended the 2026 season with 5 All-American honors, 4 from the WCGA (First Team (All-Around); Second Team (Vault, Beam, Floor)) and one from the NCAA (Second Team (Beam)), and was a finalist for each the Honda and AAI awards.