STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford sophomore Makenzie Fischer has been selected to the 2017-18 CoSIDA Academic All-District Women's At-Large first team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Fischer now advances to the CoSIDA Academic All-America Team ballot, where first-, second- and third-team All-America honorees will be selected in the coming weeks.
The academic all-district at-large teams recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom. The teams are divided into eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada with District 8 encompassing Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawai'i, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Canada.
Fischer was one of three Cardinal women honored along with swimming's Ella Eastin and Katie Ledecky. On the men's side water polo's Blake Parrish and gymanstics' Robert Neff earned recognition.
A finalist for the Peter J. Cutino Award given annually to the top collegiate water polo player in the United States, Fischer more impressively owns a 3.99 GPA.
A 2016 Olympic gold medalist, Fischer put together a superb sophomore campaign in which she paced Stanford with 67 goals, the fifth-most in school history. She also led the MPSF averaging 2.79 goals per game, the best for the Cardinal over the past decade (records since 2009).
Fischer, who was named to the NCAA All-Tournament first team, was dominant down the stretch. In the season's final 12 games, she scored 44 times and averaged 3.67 goals per game. Fischer had multi-score performances in 19 of Stanford's 24 games this season and has scored at least two goals in 37 of the 50 collegiate games she's played.
Last season, Maggie Steffens became the first women's water polo player in Stanford history to receive academic All-America recognition from CoSIDA.