STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford sophomore Makenzie Fischer was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America At-Large second team on Thursday.
Fischer, who owns a 3.99 GPA, was one of three Cardinal women honored along with swimming's Ella Eastin and Katie Ledecky, who were both voted to the first team. On the men's side gymanstics' Robert Neff earned second-team recognition.
A 2016 Olympic gold medalist and finalist for this year's Peter J. Cutino Award, 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 when she was selected to the second team.