Career Accolades

  • MPSF All-Academic (2021)
  • ACWPC All-Academic - Outstanding (2020)

As a Sophomore (2021)

  • MPSF All-Academic
  • Did not see any action

As a Freshman (2020)

  • ACWPC All-Academic - Outstanding
  • Played three quarters, finishing the year with two saves
  • Both saves came against Sonoma State (1/18)

USA Water Polo

  • Competed with the Youth National Team at the UANA Junior Pan American Championship in Clearwater, Fla. in 2018

Prior to Stanford

  • A 2019 graduate of Davis Senior High School in Davis, Calif.
  • Served as team captian as a senior
  • Three-time CIF Sac-Joaquin Section champions (2016-18)
  • Three-time Kai-CA-Hai Water Polo All-American (2016-18)
  • Two-time All-CIF Sac-Joaquin Section first team (2017, 2018)
    • Also on the second team in 2016 and an honorable mention selection in 2015
  • Played for Davis Water Polo Club from 2008-16 and 680 Drivers from 2017-19
    • Won Junior Olympics with 18U 680 Drivers in 2019 and finished second the year prior
    • Two-time USA Water Polo Junior Olympic All-America honorable mention (2016, 2017)
    • 2019 USA Water Polo Junior Olympic All-America first team

Personal

  • Born in Sacramento, Calif.
  • Parents are Jolanda and David
  • Has three older siblings, Lauren, Haley and Matt
  • Father was a wide receiver for Mesa Junior College and Cal State Hayward
  • Mother was an outside hitter on the Cal State Hayward volleyball team
  • Brother, Matthew, plays water polo at Bucknell
  • Took third place at the UC Davis Teen Biotech Challenge
  • Volunteer swim coach to teach water safety and swim skills to migrant students
  • Was told she would never be able to play water polo competitively after having spinal fusion for congenital scoliosis in 2013
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