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Champion to Play Professional Water Polo in Italy
August 27, 2010 | Women's Water Polo
PRINCETON (8/27/10) - Recent Princeton women's water polo graduate Phoebe Champion '10, a three-time All-America and two-time Southern Most Valuable Player, has signed with Plebiscito Padova in the Italian A1 league for the upcoming season.
Champion was a member of the U.S. Junior National Team and went on to a stellar Princeton career that saw her score 181 career goals and add 93 assists, ranking her fifth all-time at Princeton in goals and second in assists. She a four-time All-Southern honoree and named to the All-Eastern Team in three seasons.
Champion's new team, which plays in Podova at the top of the Eastern edge of the Italian peninsula, is one of 12 teams in the top Italian league. The top teams in the league at the end of the season move on to the International Championships with teams from Greece, Spain and Croatia. Each team has 19 players and is only allowed one non-Italian player on its roster.
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