UC SANTA BARBARA
2025
All-Big West Second Team … Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table Women’s Water Polo Student-Athlete of the Year … Voted Team MVP by her teammates … Played in 28 games and scored 60 goals on the season, the first Gaucho to tally 60 since 2019 … Combined with Imani Clemons to form the first duo to each score 50 goals in one season for Santa Barbara since 2013 … Also provided a career-high 21 assists … Ranked eighth in The Big West for total goals, 10th in total points and ninth in goals per game … Named Big West Player of the Week on April 2 after scoring five goals, drawing four exclusions and recording a steal and a field block against UC Irvine on March 28 … Set a new career high with six goals against UC Merced on Jan. 18 … Finished with three five-goal games on the season, tallying a handful against Cal State Fullerton on Feb. 1 to go along with her rampages against UC Merced and UC Irvine … Tallied 11 hat-tricks and 17 multi-goal games on the season … Scored in all but three of the 28 games she played … Also recorded four multi-assist games, highlighted by a career-best five helpers at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps on Feb. 28 … All told, recorded multiple points in 21 of her 28 games and was never kept off the scoresheet on the season … Her first goal of the season, against UC Merced, was also the 100th of her career … Played the 100th game of her career on March 1 at Long Beach State.
2024
ACWPC All-Academic Team, Superior level ... Big West Academic All-Conference honoree ... Played in 28 games for the Gauchos, scoring in 23 of them … Totaled 38 goals on the season, adding 19 assists, both career highs … Scored a career-best five goals in a game against No. 18 San Jose State on Jan. 27, adding an assist for a career-high six points in the match … Had a five-point performance later that same day against Biola with two goals and three assists … Totaled two hat-tricks, 11 multi-goal games and 17 multi-point performances on the season … Scored two goals and added an assist in the Gauchos’ Big West Quarterfinal against Long Beach State on April 26.
2023
ACWPC All-Academic Team, Excellent level ... Big West Academic All-Conference honoree ... Played in all 29 games and finished third on the team with 34 goals … Recorded four hat-tricks on the season, against Ottawa Arizona (Jan. 22), No. 21 San Diego State (Feb. 25), Biola (April 7), and No. 14 UC San Diego (April 22) … Scored the 50th goal of her career on March 4, against No. 6 UC Irvine … Drew more exclusions (17) than she committed (13).
2022
ACWPC All-Academic Team, Excellent level ... Totaled 30 points in 23 games, with 27 goals and three assists ... Recorded 20 steals on the season ... Scored a career-high four goals in one game against Concordia Irvine (Jan. 29) ... Found the back of the cage twice in her first Big West Championship action against Long Beach State (April 21)
HIGH SCHOOL
Attended San Ramon Valley High School … Played both water polo and lacrosse for the Wolves, earning six varsity letters across the two sports … Helped San Ramon Valley Water Polo win The East Bay Athletic League Championship in 2018, 2019, and 2021 … Named 2021 San Ramon Valley High School Athlete of the Year … Voted team MVP for 2020-21 … All-EBAL First Team selection in 2019, Second Team selection in 2018 … Led the team in goals, assists, steals, and field blocks as a senior … Her best performance came against rivals Monte Vista on Halloween 2019, when she scored nine goals … Also earned All-EBAL First Team selection for lacrosse in 2019 … Won CIF North Coast Section Lacrosse Title in 2019 … Voted Defender of the Year by her lacrosse team in 2019.
PERSONAL
Daughter of Gina and Gerard Kuester … Has two older sisters, Grace and Sophie … Undecided on her major so far at UC Santa Barbara … Plans to pursue a career as a real estate agent after graduation … Her most memorable sports moment is placing third at the Junior Olympics in 2021 … Enjoys playing Spikeball and Pickleball in her free time … Roots for the Golden State Warriors … Steph Curry and Katie Ledecky are her favorite athletes … Manifest, Outer Banks, and Bob’s Burgers are her favorite TV shows … Lists The Outsiders as her favorite novel.
