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Princeton's Phoebe Champion Named ACWPC All-America Honorable Mention
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Phoebe Champion (Palo Alto, Calif./Palo Alto), a recent graduate of the Princeton University women's water polo team, was named an Honorable Mention All-America by the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches following her senior season at Princeton.
The nod was the second of Champion's Princeton career as she also garnered honorable mention status for the 2008 season.
She served as one of the Princeton women's water polo team's three captains for the 2010 season. She finished her collegiate career ranking fifth all-time at Princeton with 181 goals and second with 93 career assists. Champion led the Tigers in 2010 with a career-high 57 goals and ranked second on the team with 27 assists, also a new career-high. She received her second-straight Southern Most Valuable Player Award following the season and was a first-team All-Southern honoree for the third-straight season and earned her third All-Eastern nod.
Champion scored a season-high five goals in the season opener, a win over Gannon University, and went on to record goals in 27 of the 29 games she appeared in, contributing more than one goal in 18 contests. She added four goals in a win over Sonoma State University and collected seven three-goal performances, notching hat tricks against Brown University (twice), University of Maryland (twice), Wagner College, George Washington University and University of Michigan.
The 2009 CWPA Southern Most Valuable Player and a first-team All-Southern and All-Eastern selection, she led the team with 47 goals and ranked second on the team with 20 assists, 35 steals and 32 ejections drawn. Champion also took the majority of sprints for the team, winning 53 of 76 attempts for nearly a 70% winning percentage. She scored goals in 23 of the team's 30 games played and had either a goal or assist in all but three games all year. She scored a season-high six goals and drew four ejections in a win over Harvard University, while closing the season with a 13-game scoring streak that included three-goal games against Chapman University, Maryland and Bucknell University.
An honorable mention All-America as a sophomore, Champion garnered first-team All-Southern and first-team All-Eastern as she ranked second on the team with 42 goals. She added 26 assists, 37 steals, and drew a team-high 47 ejections.
Further, she appeared for the United States at the 2007 FINA Junior World Championships in Portugal after completing her freshman season as the team’s fourth-leading scorer with 35 goals as a second-team All-Southern selection. She had a pair of four-goal games during the season, scoring four times against Bucknell and George Washington.
During the summer of 2006, she played and trained with the U.S. National Junior Team in tournaments in Greece and Italy.
Princeton Women's Water Polo
All-America Selections
Phoebe
Champion - 2008, 2010 (HM)
Elyse Colgan - 2004, 2006, 2007 (HM)
Jenny Edwards - 2003 (HM)
Natalie Kim - 2008 (HM)
Adele McCarthy-Beauvais - 2000, 2001 (2nd), 2002 (3rd), 2003
(HM)
Cassie Nichols - 1999 (3rd), 2000, 2002 (HM)
Dimple Patel - 1998 (3rd)
Goga Vukmirovic - 1999, 2000 (HM)
