Phoebe Champion

Position:
Attack
Class:
Senior
High School:
Palo Alto
Hometown:
Palo Alto, Calif.

Phoebe Champion 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, and went on to record goals in 27 of the 29 games she appeared in, contributing more than one goal in 18 contests. Champion added four goals in a win over Sonoma State and collected seven three-goal performances, notching hat tricks against Brown (twice), Maryland (twice), Wagner, George Washington and Michigan.

Champion was the 2009 CWPA Southern Most Valuable Player and a first-team All-Southern and All-Eastern selection. She led the team with 47 goals, while she 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. Champion 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. Champion closed the season with a 13-game scring streak that included three-goal games against Chapman, Maryland and Bucknell. Champion also netted three goals against Maryland, Colorado State and Concordia. She also had a game against Brown in which she scored two goal and added two assists, two steals, two ejections drawn and won all four sprints.

Champion was an honorable mention All-America as a sophomore. She was named first-team All-Southern and first-team All-Eastern as she ranked second on the team with 42 goals. Champion scored four goals in wins over CSU Bakersfield and Bucknell. The Bucknell performance started a 10-game scoring streak that Champion ran to the end of the season in which she scored 21 goals. Champion added 26 assists, 37 steals, and drew a team-high 47 ejections.

Champion 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.

Champion spent the summer of 2006 playing and training with the U.S. National Junior Team in tournaments in Greece and Italy. Champion was a four-year starter at Palo Alto High School who helped her team to three league championships. She was her school’s Female Athlete of the Year as a senior and was the league’s Most Valuable Player. Champion was a four-time first-team all-league selection. At the club level, Champion competed with the Stanford Water Polo Club and was a three-time Junior Olympic All-American.

Career Stats

Year	GP	Goals	Shots	Assists	Steals	Sprints	Ej. Drawn	Ejections	Blocks
2007	25	35	95	20	41	-	15	26	2
2008	29	42	117	26	35	27-15	49	29	5
2009	30	47	141	20	35	53-26	32	38	10
2010	29	57	148	27	26	48-26	22	31	7
Totals	113	181	501	93	137	128-47	118	124	22

Awards & Honors

- 2009, 2010 Southern Most Valuable Player
- 2008, 2009, 2010 first-team All-Southern
- 2007 second-team All-Southern
- 2010 first-team All-Eastern Tournament
- 2008, 2009 first-team All-Eastern Tournament
- Southern Player of the Week (4/7/08, 5/6/10)