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Career Accolades and Statistics

  • 2018 ACWPC All-Academic - Superior
  • 2018 MPSF All-Academic
  • 2017 ACWPC All-Academic - Superior
  • 2017 MPSF All-Academic
  • 2016 ACWPC All-Academic - Superior
  • 2016 MPSF All-Academic
  • 2015 ACWPC All-Academic - Superior
  • Scored 58 career goals and had 13 multi-goal efforts, including three hat tricks

As a Senior (2018)

  • ACWPC All-Academic - Superior
  • MPSF All-Academic
  • Seventh on the team with 15 goals
  • Scored in 11 games and had four multi-goal performances
  • First two-goal outing came in the season opener against UC Davis (1/20)
  • Also scored twice in wins over Pacific (2/3), Pacific (2/24) and San Jose State (4/27)
  • Scored in the MPSF championship against USC (4/29) and in the NCAA quarterfinals against UC Irvine (5/11)

As a Junior (2017)

  • ACWPC All-Academic - Superior
  • MPSF All-Academic
  • Ninth on the team with 14 goals
  • Scored in 12 games and had two multi-goal efforts
  • Put home two in the season opener against San Jose State (1/14) and a later win over Michigan (2/25)
  • Scored once in each game of the NCAA championships in Indianapolis

As a Sophomore (2016)

  • ACWPC All-Academic - Superior
  • MPSF All-Academic
  • Eighth on the team with 22 goals
  • Scored in 13 games, had six multi-goal efforts and three hat tricks
  • Three-goal performances came against CSU Monterey Bay (1/17), San Jose State (2/6) and in the NCAA quarterfinals against UC Santa Barbara (5/13)
  • Scored twice in wins over Brown (2/21), UC San Diego (3/20) and Arizona State (3/26)
  • Had one goal in the NCAA championship against USC (5/15)

As a Freshman (2015)

  • ACWPC All-Academic - Superior
  • 11th on the team with seven goals
  • Scored in six games and had one multi-goal effort
  • Season-high two goals came at Fresno Pacific (2/14)

USA Water Polo

  • Stanford represented the United States and finished fifth at the 2015 World University Games in Gwangju, South Korea
    • Played 147 minutes in seven games, scored six goals on 14 shots, had five steals and four field blocks

Prior to Stanford

  • A 2014 graduate of Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, Calif.
  • Lettered four years in water polo 
    • Team captain as a senior
    • Part of the 2011 CIF-SS Division I championship team
    • 2013 CIF quarterfinalists
    • Two-time All-Channel League First Team (2013 and 2014)
    • 2014 Dos Pueblos Student-Athlete of the Year
  • Also lettered four years in swimming
    • 2014 All-Channel League First Team in both the 50 freestyle and 100 freestyle
    • 2014 Roundtable (Santa Barbara based) Swimming of the Year
  • Played for Santa Barbara Aquatics Club from 2009-14
    • 2013 18U Junior Olympic Champions
    • 2013 US Club Championship finalist
    • 2013 Junior Olympics Second Team All-American

Personal

  • Born in San Ramon, Calif.
  • Parents are Betsy and Shaun
  • Has two older siblings, Kels and Conner
  • Older brother played on the Stanford men's water polo team from 2011-14
  • Father won two NCAA water polo championships as a goalkeeper at California
    • Was a First Team All-American in 1993 and 1994 and with the U.S. Senior National Team that earned Pan American Games gold and placed fourth at the World Games
  • Mother swam at Florida, earning a NCAA championship with the team and was ranked as high as No. 2 in the world in the 100 fly
  • Two relatives, Jenny Stein and Susan (Rapp) von der Lippe, swam for Stanford, while von der Lippe (as Susan Rapp) earned gold (400-meter medley relay) and silver (200-meter breaststroke) medals at the 1984 Olympics
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