2024 Women's Water Polo Roster

1 Maya Avital

  • Position Goalkeeper
  • Height 6-2
  • Class Senior
  • High School Corona del Mar
  • Hometown Newport Beach, Calif.
  • Major Symbolic Systems

Biography

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
CAREER STATISTICS
Year Games Saves
2021 8 11
2022 25 210
2023 23 189
2024 23 203
TOTALS 79 613

Statistics

Season:
2024

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Historical Player Information

  • 1D

    2022Freshman

    Goalkeeper
    6'2"
    1D
  • 1

    2022Sophomore

    Goalkeeper
    6'2"
    1
  • 1

    2023Junior

    Goalkeeper
    6'2"
    1
  • 1

    2024Senior

    Goalkeeper
    6'2"
    1