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Career Accolades

  • NCAA champion (2019)
  • Three-time ACWPC All-America (2019-21)
  • Two-time All-MPSF First Team (2020-21)
  • NCAA All-Tournament First Team (2021)
  • MPSF All-Tournament Team (2021)
  • Two-time MPSF/Kap7 Player of the Week (Jan. 28, 2020; Feb. 18, 2020)
  • Three-time ACWPC All-Academic - Superior (2018-20)
  • Three-time MPSF All-Academic (2019-21)

As a Senior (2021)

  • ACWPC All-America First Team
  • All-MPSF First Team
  • NCAA All-Tournament First Team
  • MPSF All-Tournament Team
  • MPSF All-Academic
  • Played in all 19 games, leading the team with 47 goals
  • Featured 12 multi-goal performances
  • Ranked fifth in the MPSF in total goals but second in goals per game (2.5)
  • Won 67 sprints, the most of any player in the MPSF
  • Season-high seven goals came in a win over Indiana (3/20)
  • Had at least three goals in 11 different games
  • Led team in scoring five times, while scoring in 17 of the team's 19 games

As a Junior (2020)

  • ACWPC All-America First Team
  • All-MPSF First Team
  • Two-time MPSF/Kap7 Player of the Week (Jan. 28, 2020; Feb. 18, 2020)
  • MPSF All-Academic
  • Led the team with 41 goals, scoring in 14 of 16 games on the year
  • Scored in the first 12 games of the season, each of which was a multi-goal performance
  • Tied for third in the MPSF in goals scored, and fifth in total points
  • Won 45 of her 55 sprint attempts, the most in the MPSF
  • Ranked third in the MPSF in goals per game (2.56)
  • Totaled a season-high five goals against UC Davis (1/25)
  • Finished with four goals in five games: against Fresno State (1/25), UC Irvine (1/26), California (2/2), San Diego State (2/21) and UC Santa Barbara (2/22)
  • Led the team in scoring in eight games

As a Sophomore (2019) • NCAA Champions

  • ACWPC All-America Honorable Mention
  • ACWPC All-Academic - Superior
  • MPSF All-Academic
  • Third on the team with 42 goals
  • 10th in the MPSF in goals per game (1.68)
  • Scored in 20 games, had 13 multi-goal efforts and five hat tricks
  • Put in a season-high five goals in the opener against Long Beach State (1/26)
  • Also had four-goal outings against California (2/3) and Santa Clara (31)
  • Scored at least once in each of the first 12 games of the year

As a Freshman (2018)

  • ACWPC All-Academic - Superior
  • Scored in five games and totaled seven goals
  • First career goals came as part of a hat trick against Fresno State at the Cal Cup (1/28)
  • Put in three goals at the Barbara Kalbus Invitational, one each in wins over Long Beach State (2/23), Pacific (2/24) and UCLA (2/24)
  • Also scored a goal at UC Santa Barbara (3/28)

USA Water Polo

  • Scored four goals and won eight sprints as the U.S. finished sixth at the 2019 FINA Junior World Championship in Funchal, Portugal
  • Placed fifth at the 2017 FINA Junior World Championship in Volos, Greece
    • Played in all seven games and scored six times on 15 shots to go along with a pair of assists
  • Member of the U.S. squad which placed fifth at the FINA Youth World Championship in New Zealand in December 2016, scoring nine goals in seven games
  • Was a member of the Senior National Team in 2017 that finished second at the FINA Intercontinental Tournament in Davis, Calif. in May 2017
  • Captain of the USA Women's Cadet National Team that won gold at the 2015 UANA Youth Pan American Championship in Kingston, Jamaica
    • Scored 21 goals

Prior to Stanford

  • A 2017 graduate of San Ramon Valley High School in Danville, Calif.
  • Lettered four years in water polo and served as team captain as a senior
    • Two-time NISCA Water Polo All-America first team (2016 and 2017)
    • 2014 NISCA Water Polo All-America sixth team
    • 2015 NISCA Water Polo All-America fourth team
    • Two-time North Coast Section Division I Co-MVP (2015 and 2016)
    • Three-time North Coast Section Division I first team (2014, 2015, 2016)
    • 2013 North Coast Section Division I Second Team
    • Two-time San Ramon Valley High School and East Bay Athletic League MVP (2015 and 2016)
    • Four-time East Bay Athletic League first team (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
    • 2014 San Ramon Valley High School Co-Most Valuable Offensive Player
    • Won four East Bay Athletic League titles and four NCS Division I titles
  • Also competed for three years in varsity swimming (2014, 2015, 2016)
    • Two-time North Coast Section Division I champions
    • First place in the 2016 NCS 200-yard medley relay with an All-America time
  • Played for 680 Drivers from 2014-17
    • 2016 US Club Championships All-Tournament MVP
    • Two-time Junior Olympics 18U First Team All-American (2016 and 2017)
    • Finished first at the 18U level at the California Cup, US Club Championships and Junior Olympics 
    • In 2016, 18U teams were second at he US Club Championships and third at the Junior Olympics
    • Won the 2015 US Club Championships and Junior Olympics (18U) and finished second at the California Cup
    • At the 18U level in 2014 won the California Cup and was third at both the US Club Championships and Junior Olympics

Personal

  • Born in San Ramon, Calif.
  • Parents are Laura and Craig Klass
  • Older sister, Kat, played on the Stanford women's water polo team
  • Father is one of the most accomplished Stanford men's water polo players in school history
    • Three-time All-American (1984-86)
    • Helped Stanford to back-to-back NCAA championships in 1985 and 1986 and a runner-up finish in 1984
    • Eighth in Stanford history with 184 goals, including a then single-season best 87 goals in 1986
    • NCAA Player of the Year in 1986
    • Competed for the United States in the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games
    • Won silver in 1988 and Team USA finished fourth in 1992
    • 1989 USOC Athlete of the Year
    • Inducted into the Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame in 2008
  • Two-time Cal Hi Sports Bay Area NCS Female Scholar-Athlete (2015 and 2016)
  • Four-time member of the California Scholastic Federation (2014-17)
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