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15 Sophia Monaghan

  • Position
    2-Meter Defender
  • Height
    5-9
  • Class
    Junior
  • Highschool
    The Lawrenceville School
  • Hometown
    Princeton, N.J.

Biography

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Career Accolades

  • 2016 MPSF All-Academic
  • 2014 ACWPC All-Academic - Excellent

As a Junior (2016)

  • MPSF All-Academic
  • Scored a career-high 14 goals
  • Netted at least one goal in 11 games, had two multi-goal efforts and one hat trick
  • Registered her first career hat trick at the Davis Shootout against Brown (2/21)
  • Scored twice in a win over Loyola Marymount at the Stanford Invitational (2/7)

As a Sophomore (2015)

  • Scored five goals, once each in games against CSU Monterey Bay (1/17), UC Davis (1/31), Fresno Pacific (2/14), Santa Clara (2/26) and Harvard (3/20)

As a Freshman (2014)

  • ACWPC All-Academic - Excellent
  • Scored six goals
  • Multi-goal effort came at UC Davis (2/15)

USA Water Polo

  • Stanford represented the United States and finished fifth at the 2015 World University Games in Gwangju, South Korea
    • Played 73 minutes in seven games, scored one goal, had two steals and two field blocks
  • Part of the U.S. Junior National Team that captured gold at the 2012 UANA Pan Am Championships
  • Has also trained with the U.S. Youth National Team

Prior to Stanford

  • A 2013 graduate of The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, N.J.
  • Played water polo and swam for four years, and rowed for two
  • Helped lead water polo team to the 2012 Beast of the East title, the biggest prep water polo tournament outside of California
  • Team captured Eastern Championships in 2011 and 2012 and went undefeated in 2012-13
  • Named Eastern Championship MVP in 2011 and 2012
  • Selected to the Eastern Championship All-Tournament First Team in 2009 and 2010
  • Named to Beast of the East All-Tournament First Team (2012)
  • Two-time academic All-American (2011-12)
  • Played club for Greenwich Aquatics (2011) and Tiger Aquatics (2010, 2012-13)
  • Helped Tiger Aquatics to third-place finish at 2010 National State Challenge
  • Named to the All-Tournament first team at that tournament

Personal

  • Born in Philadelphia, Pa.
  • Parents are Alec and Ansie
  • Has two siblings, Paul and Isabelle
  • Father played squash at Trinity College
  • Mother was a swimmer at Virginia who also competed at U.S. Olympic Trials in 1980 and was part of the U.S. Swimming National Junior Team that defeated the USSR in 1981
  • Grandmother, Dolly Hill, competed the U.S. Olympic Trials in 1956