SAN JOSE, Calif. — Stanford announced Wednesday that the undergraduate student who died Tuesday was Katie Meyer, a goalkeeper and captain for the Cardinal women’s soccer team.
Meyer was found dead in her on-campus residence on Tuesday, which the university initially reported without identifying the student. Stanford has released no information on Meyer’s cause of death.
Meyer, 22, was the starting goalkeeper in the national championship game for Stanford in 2019, making two saves in the penalty shootout to help the Cardinal beat North Carolina for its third NCAA women’s soccer title. Her reaction to making the second save — where she looked directly at ESPN’s camera and pantomimed locking her mouth shut and throwing away the key — instantly went viral.
