Career Accolades

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

As a Senior (2024)

  • One of 11 players to compete in all 26 games
  • Ranked fifth on team in assists (11)
  • Totaled three goals and 15 shots

As a Junior (2023) • NCAA Champions

  • ACWPC All-Academic - Outstanding
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Played in nine games
  • Totaled five goals, two assists and six shots
  • Scored career-high two goals against Santa Clara (April 2)

As a Sophomore (2022) • NCAA Champions

  • ACWPC All-Academic - Outstanding
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Appeared in seven games
  • Totaled four goals, seven assists and eight shots
  • In season debut, produced three goals and three assists against Fresno Pacific (Feb. 5)

As a Freshman (2021)

  • ACWPC All-Academic - Outstanding
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Did not compete

USA Water Polo

  • Has trained and competed with USA Water Polo since eighth grade
  • Competed with Youth Future's International Team in Hungary (2019)

Prior to Stanford

  • 2020 graduate of Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, Calif.
  • Lettered and served as team captain for both water polo and swimming
    • MCAL Water Polo Player of the Year (2019)
    • Marin IJ Water Polo Player of the Year (2019)
    • Two-time first-team All-League (2017-18)
    • Four-time Team MVP (2016-19)
  • Two-time NCS Division 2 champions (2018-19)
  • NorCal Division 3 champions (2019)
  • Holds school records in 200 free and 400 free relay
  • Played club water polo for Sleepy Hollow Aquatics and San Francisco Water Polo Club
  • Class President
  • Numerous AP Scholar and other academic honors
  • Volunteer for Make a Splash, teaching swimming
  • President of Animal Kindness Club

Personal

  • Born in Greenbrae, Calif.
  • Daughter of Robert and Ashley Sternfels
  • Has two younger brothers, Thomas and Andrew
  • Father, Robert, played water polo at Stanford
  • Mother, Ashley, ran cross country and track at Stanford

CAREER STATISTICS

YearGamesGoals
202100
20227    4
20239    5
2024263
TOTALS4212
Sternfels
2022
Driver
5-7 / -
Sam_Sternfels
2023
Driver
5-7 / -