Maya Avital Season 2023

Career Accolades

• Two-time NCAA champion (2022-23)
• Three-time ACWPC All-American (2022-24)
• Two-time All-MPSF (2022-23)
• NCAA All-Tournament Second Team (2022)
• Two-time ACWPC All-Academic (2021-22)
• Three-time MPSF All-Academic (2022-24)
• Three-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2021-23)

As a Senior (2024)

• ACWPC All-American Honorable Mention
• MPSF All-Academic
• Appeared in 23 games
• Made 203 saves, ranking sixth in school history for a single season
• Finished with at least 10 saves in 11 games, including a career-high 18 against Indiana (April 26)

As a Junior (2023) • NCAA Champions

• ACWPC All-American First Team
• All-MPSF Second Team
• MPSF All-Academic
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Appeared in 23 games
• Made 189 saves, ranking ninth in school history for a single season
• Finished with at least 10 saves in seven games, including season-high 17 saves against California (April 22)

As a Sophomore (2022) • NCAA Champions

• ACWPC All-American Second Team
• NCAA All-Tournament Second Team
• All-MPSF Honorable Mention
• ACWPC All-Academic - Superior
• MPSF All-Academic
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Started 25 games, posting a 23-2 record
• Made 210 saves, ranking fifth in school history for a single season
• Totaled season-high 16 saves against California (Feb. 5)

As a Freshman (2021)

• ACWPC All-Academic - Outstanding
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Appeared in eight games as the backup goalkeeper, totaling nearly seven quarters of action
• Made 11 saves, including a season-high four against Fresno State (May 14)

Israel Water Polo

• Competed with the U19 Israel National Team in 2018, placing seventh at the European Championships

USA Water Polo

• Member of the US Pipeline National Team since eighth grade
• Two-time gold medalist, winning at the 2017 and 2019 Pan-American Championships
  • Was a captain and the top goalkeeper in 2019
• Captured bronze at the US Senior Nationals (2019)

Prior to Stanford

• 2020 graduate of Corona del Mar High School in Newport Beach, Calif.
• Lettered three years in water polo and served as team captain as a senior
  • Orange County Player of the Year (2019)
  • Two-time first-team All-CIF (2019-20)
  • Team MVP (2020)
• Team finished as state runner-up in 2019
• Named second-team All-America with SoCal Water Polo (2019)
• Academic All-American
• Academic Lamp highest honor
• Member of CSF
• Volunteer at the OC food bank

Personal

• Born in Salt Lake City, Utah
• Daughter of Asher and Stephaney Avital
• Has an older brother, Tamir, and younger sister, Ella
• Father, Asher, played basketball for Israel for Hapoel Tel Aviv
• Brother played water polo for Cal

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