Sonia Zhang

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sonia Zhang smiles in candid photo holding softball

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Position:
Infield
Height:
5-7
Class:
Sophomore
High School:
St. John's School
Hometown:
Houston, Texas

Awards
First-team All-Ivy League (2025)
Ivy League all-tournament team (2025)
Second-team NFCA All-East Region (2025)
CSC Academic All-District (2025)
Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete (2025)
First-team All-Ivy League (2024)
Third-team NFCA All-Mid-Atlantic Region (2024)
Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete (2024)

At Princeton
2025
First-team All-Ivy League and second-team NFCA All-East Region honoree ... Ivy League all-tournament team honoree, getting a hit in all four games while going 5 for 12 (.417) at the plate and driving in four runs, homering against Harvard ... CSC Academic All-District ... Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete ... had 11 multi-hit games, getting three hits apiece against George Mason (Feb. 15), Missouri (Mar. 13), Dartmouth (Apr. 6), and Penn (Apr. 25) ... had 10 multi-RBI games, driving in four at Cornell (Apr. 13) and three each against Dartmouth (Apr. 6), Brown (May 2) and Harvard (May 9, ILT) ... on the season overall, .357 BA was eighth in the league, 51 hits were third and a team best, 38 runs were third, 33 RBI were fifth, 12 doubles tied for second, eight homers tied for fourth, 89 total bases were second, .456 OBP was seventh, and .622 slugging percentage was ninth ... in Ivy games, .368 BA was ninth, 21 runs scored were second, 25 hits tied for eighth, six doubles tied for fourth, 40 total bases tied for ninth, 13 walks were fourth, and .482 OBP was seventh.

2024
First-team All-Ivy League and third-team NFCA All-Mid-Atlantic Region ... earned Ivy League Player of the Week honors on March 25 and Player and Rookie of the Week honors on April 22 ... reached base in 32 consecutive games via a hit or walk between March 9 and May 11 ... had a 12-game hitting streak from April 17 to May 9 and an 11-game hitting streak from March 9 to March 30 ... led the Ivy League in on-base percentage (.494) and runs scored (41) and was second in batting average (.388) and third in OPS (1.121) ... led the team in batting average, OPS and runs scored and co-led in home runs (six) and total bases (84) ... played in 47 games and started 46, splitting time between third base and DP ... had 14 multi-hit games, getting three hits in her third collegiate game, vs. South Carolina State (Feb. 25) and at Columbia (Mar. 22) ... had four multi-RBI games, including a four-RBI game at Yale on April 20 and three RBI in her collegiate debut against South Carolina State (Feb. 24) ... Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete honoree.

Before Princeton
Set the St. John's School record for four-year batting average at .620 ... hit 31 career home runs with St. John's and was the team MVP each season played from 2019 through 2023 ... all-conference honoree (2022, 2023) ... All-South Zone (2021, 2022, 2023) ... earned the school's Not Without Honor award annually from 2019 through 2023 ... served as team co-captain for her final two seasons ... 2022 Vype Houston Private School Hitter of the Year and finalist for Player of the Year ... 2021 Sparkler Power Pool National Champions with Prolific Fastpitch ... 2022 18U Bombers Exposure Elite Division first-team all-tournament ... Texas Fastpitch League 16U Summer Championship first-team all-tournament ... 2021 Extra Innings 16U All-Summer Team.

Personal
Student in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.