12-07-2023, 07:12 PM
signing class
https://gostanford.com/news/2023/12/7/wo...eason.aspx
Quote:The signing class will look to help build off a 2023 season that saw Stanford go 20-1-4 and finish as the national runner-up while making its 11th all-time appearance in the College Cup.
Lizzie Boamah | Defender | San Diego, Calif. | Francis Parker HS | San Diego Surf
- Two-time team captain (2023-24)
- Two-time Coastal League champion (2022-23)
- Coastal League Player of the Year (2023)
- Coastal League Offensive Player of the Year (2022)
- Scored 23 goals during the 2022-23 season
- Helped guide Albion SC to 2022 GA National Championship
- Member of Albion SC 2023 GA Champions League Championship team
- Has competed with the U.S. Youth National Team, including at the 2023 Pan Am Games
Ella Emri | Defender | San Diego, Calif. | Torrey Pines HS | San Diego Surf
- Team captain of high school and club team (2023)
- Helped guide her team to the state quarterfinals (2021)
- Led San Diego Surf to the 2018 national title
- ECNL Southwest Conference champion (2022)
- Three-time Surf Cup Champion (2021-23)
- ECNL Girls Southwest All-Conference (2023)
- Has competed with U17 Canadian national team and U17 and U20 U.S. national teams
- Played for the U.S. at U17 FIFA Women's World Cup (2022)
- U20 Pan American Games participant (2023)
Kaiya Jota | Goalkeeper | Pasadena, Calif. | Marshall HS | LA Breakers
- Has served as team captain in her final two seasons
- Two-time Mission Valley League champion (2023-23)
- Guided her team to the CIF Division V championship (2022)
- MVL Defensive Player of the Year (2023)
- CIF All-Area (2022)
- All-League first team (2022)
- MVL first-team goalkeeper (2021)
- Helped her club team to the Surf Cup Championship (2021)
- ECL National Training Camp (2021)
- First Team All-Conference Soul west ECL U15 Region (2021)
- ECNL Southwest All-Conference U17 second team (2022-23)
- ECNL National Selection Game (2023)
- Member of the Philippine Senior National Team and earned a spot on the 2023 World Cup roster
Charlotte Kohler | Forward | Woodside, Calif. | St. Francis HS | MVLA
- California Gatorade Player of the Year (2023)
- Two-time WCAL Player of the Year (2022-23)
- Cal High Sports Girls CCS Player of the Year (2023)
- Guided her team to a pair of WCAL championships (2022-23)
- CCS and NorCal Champion (2023)
- CIF NorCal semifinalist and CCS Open Division finalist (2022)
- Helped MVLA to an ECNL national title (2021) and two conference titles (2022-23)
- ECNL First Team All-Conference (2022)
- ECNL Conference U18 Player of the Year (2023)
- Competed with the U.S. U17 and U19 national teams, including representing the U.S. at the 2022 U17 World Cup
Sophie Murdock | Defender | Los Altos, Calif. | St. Francis HS | MVLA
- Two-time team captain (2022-23)
- Guided her team to a pair of WCAL championships (2022-23)
- CCS and NorCal Champion (2023)
- CIF NorCal semifinalist and CCS Open Division finalist (2022)
- WCAL All-League first team (2023)
- Helped MVLA to two conference titles (2022-23)
- Northern California All-Conference first team (2023)
- ECNL U17 Northwest All-Conference first team (2022)
- ECNL New Jersey National Selection Game (2022)
- Competed with Canada U17 and U20 national teams, including helping U20 squad qualify for the 2024 U20 World Cup
Sammy Smith | Forward/Defender | Boise, Idaho | Boise HS | Boise Thorns
- Team captain as a sophomore, junior and senior
- Helped her team to a state title (2022) and three runner-up finishes (2020-21, 2023)
- Three-time Southern Idaho Conference champion (2021-23)
- Idaho Gatorade Player of the Year (2023)
- Southern Idaho Conference Player of the Year (2023)
- Three-time All-State (2020-21, 2023)
- Team captain of her club team and three-time ECNL National Training Camp selection (2018-19, 2022)
- Also competes in cross country skiing, track and field, cross country and freestyle skiing
- Member of the U.S. Ski Team and No. 1 ranked sprinter and No. 2 ranked distance skier in the world for her age
- Idaho Gatorade Player of the Year in track and field (2021) and cross country (2020)
- Competed with the U.S. U15, U17 and U19 national teams, including representing the U.S. at the 2022 U17 World Cup
Jaden Thomas | Forward | Dallas, Texas | The Hockaday School | FC Dallas
- Two-time team captain at The Hockaday School (2023-24)
- Two-time SPC champion (2021, 2023)
- Two-time SPC All-Conference (2021, 2023)
- ECNL Texas Conference Player of the Year (2023)
- ECNL U17 All-American (2023)
- Guided FC Dallas to a Texas Conference Championship (2023)
- Two-time Texas Conference first team (2021, 2023)
- Competed with the U.S. U17 national team
https://gostanford.com/news/2023/12/7/wo...eason.aspx
Eric
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