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Wake strikes first, but Stanford still team to beat after winning potential NCAA final preview at Seminole

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Stanford head coach Anne Walker knows she has a special team on her hands.

She also understands the Cardinal aren’t alone.

“Wake Forest is exceptional,” Walker said during this week’s Jackson T. Stephens Cup at Seminole Golf Club, where Stanford topped the Demon Deacons in the match-play final, but not before Wake proved itself a worthy adversary. “I think we could see them having one of those all-time seasons much like we did a year ago.”

Stanford is coming off a historic season in which the Cardinal won six times, including the NCAA Championship over Oregon, and freshman Rose Zhang notched four individual wins, most notably the NCAA individual title, while posting an NCAA-record 69.