STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford freshman Kat Klass was named MPSF/Kap7 Newcomer of the Week for the second time this season when the conference announced its weekly honors on Tuesday afternoon.
Klass scored a Stanford season-high five goals to pace the No. 3 Cardinal to a 17-3 win at No. 10 San Jose State in the teams’ MPSF opener on Saturday. The freshman scored twice in each of the first and second quarters and added another in the third to up her season goals total to 28, an average of 1.87 per game.
Klass’ career-high effort was the highest goal total for a Stanford player in a league game since Kiley Neushul scored six at CSU Bakersfield on April 12, 2014. Current senior Anna Yelizarova was the last Cardinal freshman to score five times in a game, when she put home that many in a 15-4 win over San Jose State on February 2, 2013.
Stanford (13-2, 1-0 MPSF) is off for finals and returns to the pool on March 20 at UC San Diego (noon). The Cardinal will head up the road two days later to play at UC Santa Barbara on March 22 (noon).