Sam Sternfels Season 2024

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

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