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Career Accolades

  • 2019 ACWPC All-Academic - Superior
  • 2019 MPSF All-Academic
  • 2018 ACWPC All-Academic - Excellent

As a Sophomore (2019)

  • ACWPC All-Academic - Superior
  • MPSF All-Academic

As a Freshman (2018)

  • ACWPC All-Academic - Excellent
  • Scored five goals in five games
  • First career goal came in the season opener against UC Davis (1/20)
  • Scored in each of the Cardinal's first two wins at the Stanford Invitational against Pacific (2/3) and Long Beach State (2/4)
  • Had a goal in the MPSF quarterfinals against San Jose State (4/27) and another in the NCAA quarterfinals against UC Irvine (5/11)

Prior to Stanford

  • A 2017 graduate of Laguna Beach High School in Laguna Beach, Calif.
  • Lettered four years in water polo and served as team captain as a junior and senior
    • Four-time All-CIF Division I first team
      • Only player in school history to be on the DI first team all four years
    • Four-time All-Orange Coast League first team
    • Led team in assists each season, including a career high and school record 91 as a senior
    • State and school record holder with 321 career assists
    • Sixth in school history in career goals (268), fifth in steals (181) and second in points
    • Third in single-season school history in points (173)
    • Started every game of her high school career and racked up a 119-4 record
    • Three-time CIF Division I champion (2014, 2015, 2017)
    • Team had two 31-0 seasons (2015 and 2017) and owns the Orange County record with a 63-game winning streak
    • Four-time Orange Coast League championships with undefeated league seasons (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
    • Laguna Beach was ranked No. 1 in CIF D1 polls for all but two weeks during her prep career
    • Won 11 of the 12 major non-CIF tournaments from 2014-17
  • Also competed for four years in varsity swimming and was team captain in 2017
    • School record in the 400-yard free relay (2017)
    • 2017 Orange Coast League champion in the 100-yard backstroke 
    • Two-time Orange Coast League champion in the 200-yard free relay
    • Two-time Orange Coast League champion in the 400-yard free relay
    • Two-time second-place finisher in the 50-yard swim at the Orange Coast League finals
    • Second place in the 100-yard swim at the Orange Coast League finals
    • Three-time CIF qualifier
  • Played for Laguna Beach Water Polo and SET Water Polo Club
    • Eight-time All-American (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016)
      • All-American at both the 12U and 14U levels in 2011
    • Three-time Junior Olympics champion (2009, 2013, 2014)
    • Five-time Junior Olympics runner-up

USA Water Polo

  • Four-time USA Women's Cadet National Team player

Personal

  • Born in Laguna Beach, Calif.
  • Parents are Cheryl and Scott Baldridge
  • Has and older sister, Mackenzie, and older brother, Cade
  • Father played water polo at UCLA, sister played at UC Santa Barbara and brother plays at San Jose State
  • Volunteered in the Ophthalmic Imaging Department at the University of North Carolina
    • Shadowed in a clinic with Dr. Odette Houghton, Retina Specialist Associate Professor, UNC Department of Ophthalmology
    • Shadowed surgery with Dr. Renzo Zaldivar, Specialist, UNC Department of Ophthalmology
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