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Career Highlights

  • Pac-12 Champion (2022)
  • Two College Cup appearances (2023-24)
  • TopDrawerSoccer National Team of the Week (Dec. 3, 2024)
  • Two-time All-Pac-12 second team (2021, 2023)
  • Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week - Honorable Mention (Nov. 21, 2023)
  • TopDrawerSoccer Freshman Best XI first team (2021)
  • All-Pac-12 freshman team (2021)
  • College Sports Communicators Academic All-District (2024)
  • Two-time Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll (2022-23)

As a Redshirt Junior (2024)

  • TopDrawerSoccer National Team of the Week (Dec. 3)
  • TopDrawerSoccer Midseason Top 100 Players - No. 47
  • College Sports Communicators Academic All-District
  • Appeared in all 23 matches, starting 22, while totaling 1524:15 minutes
  • Led the team in goals (9), assists (6), game-winners (3) and points (24) while averaging .39 goals per game and 1.04 points per game
  • Nine goals ranked ninth in the ACC, while her three game-winners and 24 points each ranked 11th
  • Posted a team-high 80 shots, putting 43 on goal, to rank fifth in the ACC in shots per game (3.48) and shots on goal per game (1.87)
  • Registered a .538 shot accuracy percentage to place ninth in the ACC
  • Contributed a goal in nine of the 23 matches, and had a point in 11 of the 23
  • Scored in three of her last six matches, including a goal and an assist in a 2-0 quarterfinal win over No. 13 Notre Dame (Nov. 29)
  • Contributed a pair of goals and an assist during the postseason
  • Had a goal in five consecutive matches from August 18 through September 5, becoming the first Cardinal to score in five consecutive matches since Catarina Macario tallied at least one goal in five straight from September 22 to October 13, 2019
  • Managed a goal and two assists for four points in a 3-0 victory over UC Irvine (Aug. 18)
  • Scored the game-winner in back-to-back matches at San Diego State (Aug. 22) and at Cal State Fullerton (Aug. 25)
  • Contributed a goal and an assist vs. California (Oct. 31)
  • Also tallied goals vs. Washington State (Sept. 1), Saint Mary's (Sept. 5), SMU (Oct. 5), and UC Santa Barbara (Nov. 15)
  • Converted a penalty in Stanford's 4-2 penalty kick shootout victory at No. 5 Arkansas (Nov. 24)
  • Played 60+ minutes in 14 of her 23 matches played, including 75+ in eight matches

As a Redshirt Sophomore (2023)

  • All-Pac-12 second team
  • Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week - Honorable Mention (Nov. 21)
  • Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll
  • Appeared in all 25 matches, starting 24, while totaling 1787:49 minutes
  • Scored nine goals, and assisted on nine more, to finish with 27 points - second-most on the team and fourth in the Pac-12
  • Nine goals ranked third on the team, with a Pac-12-best five of the nine proving to be game-winners to rank 14th in the nation
  • Nine assists were second-most in the Pac-12 and trailed only teammate Jasmine Aikey (12)
  • Averaged .36 assists per game to rank third in the Pac-12 and finished seventh in the Conference in points per game (1.08)
  • Contributed a goal in eight of the 25 matches, and had a point in 14 of the 25
  • Registered 70 shots, putting 32 on goal
  • Managed a pair of goals and an assist for five points vs. No. 16 South Carolina in the NCAA Tournament second round (Nov. 17)
  • Scored the game-winner in back-to-back matches vs. No. 10 Duke (Sept. 2) and at VCU (Sept. 7)
  • Had a goal and two assists in a 3-1 win over Oregon State (Oct. 19)
  • Scored in the season opener at San Diego (Aug. 17) and against No. 12 Santa Clara (Sept. 17), Utah (Oct. 8) and Pepperdine (Nov. 10)
  • Played 60+ minutes in 20 of her 25 matches played, including every minute of three matches

As a Sophomore (2022) • Pac-12 Champions

  • Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll
  • Appeared in six matches while logging 226:53 minutes
  • Utilized a redshirt season

As a Freshman (2021)

  • TopDrawerSoccer Freshman Best XI first team
  • All-Pac-12 second team
  • All-Pac-12 freshman team
  • Appeared in all 20 matches, starting 19, while totaling 1379:55 minutes
  • Scored four goals, and assisted on a team-best six more, to finish with 14 points - second-most on the team
  • Registered 55 shots, putting 29 on goal
  • First career points came on two assists vs. CSUN (Aug. 26)
  • Scored her first two career goals on a season-high eight shots vs. San Diego State (Aug. 29)
  • Scored a goal at No. 2 North Carolina (Sept. 5) and vs. Arizona State (Oct. 21)
  • Contributed assists vs. No. 5 Duke (Sept. 2), LMU (Sept. 12), No. 11 Santa Clara (Sept. 19) and Arizona (Oct. 24)
  • Played 50+ minutes in 16 of her 20 matches played, including every minute of four matches

National Team Experience

  • Member of U23 United States Women's soccer team
  • Qualified for U20 FIFA Women's World Cup
  • 2022 Concacaf Women's Under-20 Championship (Dominican Republic)
  • Scored seven goals in six matches at 2022 U20 Concacaf Championship to win Silver Boot despite leaving tournament early to return to Stanford
  • 2022 U-20 FIFA World Cup participant (Costa Rica)
  • Was slated to participate in the 2021 FIFA U17 World Cup before it was canceled due to COVID-19 global pandemic
  • 2019 U17 US Women's National Team International UEFA Tournament champions in Falkenberg, Sweden
  • Invited by Japanese Fútbol Association (JFA) to compete in youth tournament (2018)
  • 2018 U16 UEFA Development Tournament champions in Esposende, Portugal
  • 2018 U16 Development Tournament Champions in Weifang, China
  • 2017 U17 Development Academy Best 11 of the Year
  • Has been called up to more than 35 US national team camps

Prior to Stanford

  • Prepped at San Mateo High School in San Mateo, Calif.
  • Played for San Jose Earthquakes Development Academy
  • Served as a team captain since 2017
  • 2021 Girl's Academy U19 National Champions iwth FC Bay Area Surf
  • 2019 United Soccer Coaches Youth Girls All-America
  • 2018 United Soccer Coaches Youth Girls All-Region
  • 2018 U17 No. 3 National Champions with the Earthquakes
  • 2018 U17 West Conference Best XI
  • 2017 national futsal champion
  • Top Defender in 2021 class according to Top Drawer Soccer and No. 3 overall player in her class
  • Top Drawer Soccer five-star recruit
  • Trained with NWSL OL Reign in spring 2021
  • Also played squash and was ranked as high as No. 4 in the country for her age group

Personal

  • Born in San Francisco
  • Daughter of Ingrid DeMoor and Luther Kitahata
  • Has two siblings, Garrett and Nicholas
  • Brother, Garrett, plays squash at Cal and is a top-ranked junior player in the country
  • Grandfather, Masahiko Kitahata, was on the Japanese Olympic swim team in 1944 (games canceled due to World War II)
  • Great grandfather, Jan DeMoor, was a professional soccer player for Ajax (Netherlands) in the 1920s
  • Multi-sport athlete at Stanford, competing in squash and women's soccer
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