Celeste Wijnbelt Season 2023

Career Accolades

• Two-time NCAA champion (2022-23)
• Three-time ACWPC All-Academic (2021-23)
• Three-time MPSF All-Academic (2022-24)
• Three-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2021-23)

As a Senior (2024)

• MPSF All-Academic
• One of 11 players to compete in all 26 games
• Totaled six goals, 10 assists and 21 shots

As a Junior (2023) • NCAA Champions

• ACWPC All-Academic - Outstanding
• MPSF All-Academic
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Competed in 23 games
• Totaled 10 goals, two assists and 21 shots
• Scored career-high two goals against USC (May 14)

As a Sophomore (2022) • NCAA Champions

• ACWPC All-Academic - Superior
• MPSF All-Academic
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Competed in 24 games
• Scored first collegiate goal against Santa Clara (April 6)
• Totaled seven assists while attempting 11 shots

As a Freshman (2021)

• ACWPC All-Academic - Outstanding
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll 
• Appeared in 10 games

Prior to Stanford

• 2020 graduate of Foothill High School in Santa Ana, Calif.
• Four year letterwinner in both water polo and swimming, serving two years as a captain on the water polo team
  • Four-time league champion (2017-20)
  • Two-time CIF Southern Section runner-up (2018, 2020)
  • Second-team All-America (2020)
• Club team MVP for SoCal Water Polo (2017)
• Maintained honor roll and all-A's throughout high school
• Volunteered for the Dutch School SoCal
• Coached for SoCal Water Polo

Personal

• Born in Mission Viejo, Calif.
• Daughter of Robert Pascal Wijnbelt and Anke Huijsmans 
• Has an older sister, Noelle, who is an All-American water polo player for UC Davis
• Fluent in Dutch

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