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2023 Women's Water Polo Roster

Leroy Yau
Leroy Yau
Mark Honbo
Mark Honbo
C.K. Hicks
Mark Honbo
Mark Honbo
C.K. Hicks/UC Davis Athletics
Mark Honbo

2 Noëlle Wijnbelt

2 Noëlle Wijnbelt

  • Class:
    Senior
  • Position:
    Center
  • Height:
    6-2
  • Hometown:
    Tustin, Calif.
  • High School / Previous School:
    Foothill HS '18
  • Major:
    Human Development

Summary

Biography

HONORS & AWARDS
• 2019, 2021, 2023 ACWPC All-America Third Team
• 2020 ACWPC All-America Second Team
• 2022 ACWPC All-America Honorable Mention
• 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 All-Big West Conference First Team
• 2020, 2021 Big West Conference All-Academic Team
• 2019 Big West Conference Freshman of the Year
• 2019 Big West Conference All-Freshman Team
• Big West Conference Player of the Week (Feb. 6, 2019)


2023: Completes her career as one of the most decorated UC Davis women's water polo athletes of all time...Received ACWPA All-America honors for the fifth time in her career, becoming the first Aggie to achieve this feat at the Division I level...First Team All-Big West Conference selection for the fourth team...Was named to the Peter J. Cutino Award watch list, an award that recognizes the best player in collegiate water polo...Became the first Aggie in the Division I era to reach the 50-goal mark in four separate seasons...Led the team with 55 goals on the year...Registered eight hat tricks and 17 multi-goal games...Named Big West Player of the Week on March 22 following her outstanding play against two highly-ranked opponents, scoring eight total goals while drawing five exclusions...Concludes her career with 258 goals, which ranks her second on the UC Davis all-time scoring list.

2022: Earned ACWPA All-America honors for the fourth time...Received First Team All-Big West Recognition for the third time in her career...Climbed into third place on the UC Davis women's water polo all-time scoring list with 203 career goals...Posted a career-best 58 goals despite missing some time due to injury...Notched a team-high 59 points and 22 drawn exclusions...Registered a team-high shot percentage of .532 (58-for-109)...Racked up 15 steals...Enjoyed 18 multi-goal performances, with a season-high seven goals against Cal State Monterey Bay on Jan. 22...Finished with seven hat tricks...Scored in 25 of the team's 28 matches.

2021: Appeared in all 19 matches for the Aggies... Led the team and Big West Conference with 35 goals and added four assists for 39 points... Shot a team-high .593 (35-for-59) on the year... Point total was good for second on the team, while her 59 shot attempts also ranked second on the squad, averaging 3.1 shots per game... Added five steals and drew a team-high 21 exclusions... Finished with six hat tricks for the year, including four-goal games against Fresno State and Pacific twice... Also added hat tricks against Long Beach State (March 26), UC San Diego (April 10), and Fresno Pacific (April 17)... Scored at least one goal in 16 of the team's 19 matches... Finished with a season-high two assists against Pacific on Feb. 28.

2020: The second Aggie to earn Division I All-American Second Team status, joining Christi Raycraft (2008) on the elite list; previously named to the Third Team in 2019… Led the team with 56 goals and 61 points in 20 games played... Drew 28 kickouts and one 5M... Second straight season with at least 50 goals… Shot .538, good for seventh all-time in single season shooting, and scored six goals against No. 13 Fresno State (1/26) to be tied sixth all-time for single game scoring… Put up seven against No. 6 Cal at the Stanford Invite, but the game was declared an exhibition contest and doesn't count towards stats or records… Scoring in all but one game in 2020, put up a team-high 12 hat tricks against opponents like top-10 Cal and top-5 Hawai’i… She is the only sophomore to record at least 50 goals each season since Tiffany Hodgens, who set the school record of 84 goals in her debut year, before shattering it two seasons later at 112 goals… Now holds two places in the program’s records book for single season shooting percentage, sitting at No. 3 for her .593 in 2019, and No. 7 with .538 in 2020… Recorded a hat trick vs. Pacific (2/23) at the Barbara Kalbus Tournament… Finished the final day of the Triton Invite (2/9) vs. No. 22 CSUN and No. 16 LMU with a team-high seven goals on two hat tricks… Recorded a hat trick vs. No. 19 Indiana (2/8) during the opening day of the Triton Invitational… Led the Aggies in scoring during the first day of the Davis Challenge (1/19) combining to shoot a perfect eight-for-eight with five goals against Santa Clara, and three in the first three minutes of the first quarter versus Fresno Pacific… Tied a single-game career high vs. Santa Clara by scoring five goals.

2019: Saw action in 27 games in stellar debut season as an Aggie… Scored at least one goal in 21 consecutive games to sit second all-time at UC Davis in that category… Scored career-high five goals at No. 12 Long Beach State to help UC Davis secure the No. 3 seed at the Big West Championships… Led the team with 54 total goals this season… Was the Aggies’ leading scorer in 11 games, and completed a team-best eight hat tricks… Put up 17 drawn exclusions, and added four assists and nine steals.

FOOTHILL HS ’18: Played as a center for Foothill’s water polo team… Earned All-League honors during freshman, sophomore, and senior years… By the end of her senior year, she doubled her freshman year stats, recording 71 goals and 15 assists… Also swam all four years… Finished with a combined total of eight League Team Championships… Earned Southern Section All-Division First Team honors senior year… Competed for SoCal WPC in Tustin, Calif., earning three national age group gold medals at the Junior Olympics in 2012, 2016, and 2018, bronze medal in 2014, and a silver medal in 2017… Also received gold in 2013 and bronze in 2015 at the TYR Cup Championships.

PERSONAL: Majoring in human development… Most people don’t know that she is bilingual and fluent in Dutch… Favorite facility is the Stanford Avery Aquatics Complex… Career sports highlight is earning a gold medal at the highest level of club water polo in 2018… Favorite movie is Titanic… Plans on pursing a career in nursing… Favorite hobbies include drawing/doodling, going to the beach, and hiking with her dog… Top three things on her bucket list are to visit all seven continents, live in Europe, and to learn how to fly a helicopter… Chose UC Davis for the ability to play water polo at a high level without having restrictions of what she wants to study.

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Historical Player Information

  • 17

    2019Freshman

    Center
    6'2"
    17
  • 2

    2020Sophomore

    Center
    6'2"
    2
  • 2

    2021Sophomore

    Center
    6'2"
    2
  • 2

    2022Junior

    Center
    6'2"
    2
  • 2

    2023Senior

    Center
    6'2"
    2