STANFORD, Calif. – Makenzie Fischer, Jordan Raney and Aria Fischer were honored by the MPSF when the conference announced its all-league selections on Thursday afternoon.
Makenzie Fischer and Raney were named to the All-MPSF first team and Aria Fischer earned a spot on the All-MPSF second team as well as the MPSF All-Newcomer Team.
It's the ninth consecutive season Stanford has had a pair of first teamers. Makenzie Fischer, a sophomore, moved up to the top group after landing on the second team as a freshman in 2017. Fischer has scored five goals in four of Stanford's last six games to vault herself into the conference lead in both goals per game overall (2.61) and in MPSF contests (2.80). In the six games since the Cardinal returned from its break for final exams, Fischer has averaged 4.00 goals per game.
She's had multi-score performances in 14 of Stanford's 18 games this season and in all but 12 of the 44 games she's played the past year-plus. Her fourth of the day against San Jose State with 56 seconds to go in the third quarter last Sunday was the 100th of her career.
Raney makes her second first team appearance after also being voted among the MPSF's seven best as a sophomore in 2016. The senior received her first U.S. senior women's national team action this summer and won gold at the FINA World Championships in Budapest with current teammates Makenzie and Aria Fischer. This season she has scored 12 times and played an integral part of Stanford's defense, which gives up an MPSF-leading average of just 4.22 goals per game.
Aria Fischer collected her fourth hat trick of the year in Stanford's regular-season finale at San Jose State, scoring once in each of the first, second and third quarters in addition to adding a pair of steals. She closed her debut regular season with three consecutive multi-goal performances against MPSF opponents and averaged 1.60 goals per game in league contests, tops among the conference's freshmen.
The younger Fischer is tied for third on the team this season with 28 goals and tied for 13th in the MPSF averaging 1.56 goals per game. She's scored in 15 of Stanford's 18 games and had eight multi-goal efforts.
Stanford, the No. 3 seed at this weekend's MPSF Tournament in Berkeley, begins with sixth-seeded San Jose State on Friday morning at 11 a.m. The winner will advance to a Saturday semifinal at 2:30 p.m. against No. 2 seed and host Cal.