Career Accolades

  • NCAA champion (2023)
  • MPSF All-Freshman Team (2023)
  • ACWPC All-Academic (2023)

As a Redshirt Sophomore (2024)

  • Did not compete (trained with USA national team in preparation for 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris)

As a Freshman (2023) • NCAA Champions

  • MPSF All-Freshman Team
  • ACWPC All-Academic - Outstanding
  • One of nine players to appear in all 25 games
  • Totaled 10 goals, nine assists, 32 shots and three multi-goal games

USA Water Polo

  • 2022 Gold Medalist at Youth Worlds in Belgrade, Serbia with the USA Youth National Team (captain)
  • 2022 Bronze Medalist at the World League Superfinal in Tenerife, Spain with USA Senior National Team
  • 2022 Gold Medalist at the UANA Junior Pan American Games in Indianapolis, Indiana (captain)
  • 2022 Bronze Medalist at the FINA Women's Water Polo World League Intercontinental Cup in Lima, Peru 
  • Member of USA Youth National Team that trained and competed in Greece (2021)
  • Member of USA Youth Futures international team that competed in Hungary (2019)

Prior to Stanford

  • 2022 graduate of Sacred Heart Prep High School
  • Central Coast Section Open Division champion (2019), being named a NISCA second-team All-American and first-team All-CCS and all-league selection

Personal

  • Born in San Anselmo, Calif.
  • Father, Jeff, competed in rowing at California
  • Mother, Laura, was a swimmer at Stanford
  • Brothers, Dylan and Quinn, played water polo at Stanford
  • Completed senior honors independent research project focused on the history of pools in America and how segregation and other government policies influenced access to pools for people of color and communities of lower socioeconomic class
  • Organized open-water Alcatraz swim in 2020 that raised over $5K for the Equal Justice Initiative
  • Volunteer swim instructor since 2015 for USA Swimming Foundation Make-a-Splash program in Marin County

CAREER STATISTICS

YearGamesGoals
20232510
2024----
TOTALS2510
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2024
2 Meter Defender
5-10 / -
Ella_Woodhead
2025
2 Meter Defender
5-10 / -
Ella_Woodhead
2025
2 Meter Defender
5-10 / -