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Sports News
 Charmin Smith
1995 NCAA championship semifinalist team, including all starters, have returned to
join VanDerveer in another run toward a national title. (Stanley is coaching
women’s basketball at Cal.) Even in VanDerveer’s absence the Cardinal women
reached the Final Four for the fifth time in the 1990s (one of only three teams to
do so). They won the seventh Pac-10 championship in eight years; and set a record
of 29-3 (18-0 in conference play). In Stanford’s five Final Four appearances, the
team has won two national titles. VanDerveer’s time off was well spent. She led
the USA Women’s National Team to an undefeated year of international play. Their
crowning glory was a gold medal in Atlanta. The 1996 Cardinal women got a
well-earned lagniappe during the fall a five-game overseas trip, which the
NCAA permits once every four years. In 1992, it was to France. This time, the team
went to Italy. Both trips were funded by a devoted but anonymous
Stanford supporter.
Women’s Tennis Gets Lift The upgraded stadium will
not hurt for local talent. Three stellar frosh are joining Coach Frank Brennan’s
women’s tennis team. Lilia Osterloh, from Columbus, Ohio, is the No. 1 ranked
junior in the world, and was the Wimbledon Junior doubles champion. At the 1995
U.S. Olympic Festival in Colorado, Teryn Ashley, from Chestnut Hill, Mass.,
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