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Career Accolades

  • NCAA champion (2017)
  • Three-time Pac-12 champion (2017-18, 2020)
  • Two-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2019-20)

As a Redshirt Junior (2020-21) • Pac-12 Champions

  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Appeared in 10 games off the bench
  • Scored first career goal in a 3-0 win at UCLA (3/28)
  • Totaled three shots on the year
  • Season-high 28 minutes came against San Francisco (2/15)
  • Part of a Stanford offense that ranked top-10 nationally in total goals (30), total assists (32) and total points (92)

As a Redshirt Sophomore (2019)

  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Did not see any action

As a Redshirt Freshman (2018) • Pac-12 Champions

  • Did not see any action

As a Freshman (2017) • NCAA Champions • Pac-12 Champions

  • Redshirted

U.S. Soccer

  • Participated in a U.S. U-18 training camp at Lakewood Ranch, Fla. in Jan. 2016

Prior to Stanford

  • A 2017 graduate of Grandview High School in Aurora, Colo.
  • Played prep soccer as a freshman and sophomore and also participated in baseball and basketball
  • Multi-sport athlete that began focusing on soccer as a freshman in high school
  • High School soccer team was two-time state quarterfinalists and 2013 Centennial League champions
    • 2013 Grandview Rookie of the Year and 2014 MVP
    • Colorado All-State honorable mention in 2014
  • Member of Colorado Rapids U17/18 Academy for the 2016-17 season
  • Played with Real Colorado U15/16 Academy in 2015-16 and placed third in the U.S. Soccer Development Academy playoffs
    • USSDA top-three scorer at the U-15-16 level in 2015-16
    • USSDA Midwest Conference Starting XI in 2015-16
  • Was with Colorado Storm 99 Copa from 2013-15, won a state championship in 2014 and was runner-up in 2015
    • Colorado state MVP in 2013-14

Personal

  • Born in Littleton, Colo.
  • Son of Tracy West and Raoul De Sota
  • Uncles, Roman and Robin, ran cross country at Cal Poly
  • 4.54 GPA in high school and three-year National Honor Society member
  • Volunteer with the Global Down Syndrome Association
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2017
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2019
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2020
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