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2013 Water Polo Roster

12 Claire Pierce

  • Position Utility
  • Height 5-8
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Perth, Australia
  • Prev School Methodist Ladies College

Biography

AS A SENIOR (2013): Named to ACWPC First Team All-America Team...Earned WWPA All-Conference Second Team honors...Ranked second on the squad with career-best 95 goals...Holds four of the program's top-six most prolific scoring seasons...Only Pioneer player to score over 300 career goals (359)...Led team with 56 steals...Program's all-time leader with 251 steals...Led 2013 squad with 110 drawn ejections...Held top-15 WWPA marks with 95 goals (2nd), 56 steals (7th) and 30 assists (14th)...Ranked third on the team with 30 assists...Ranks second all-time with 120 assists in program history...Named to WWPA and ACWPC All-Academic Teams.

AS A JUNIOR (2012): Named ACWPC All-American for the third straight year... Guided the team to its best-ever finish (third) at the WWPA championships, earning first-team All-Tournament honors... Selected as first-team All-WWPA... Became the all-time leading scorer in Pioneer history... Scored 87 goals, giving her three of the five high-scoring seasons in CSUEB history... Finished second on the team with 44 steals... Led the team with 96 ejections drawn... Earned third-team Academic All-American honors, the first in program history... Selected as first-team Academic All-District for the second year in a row... Named ACWPA and WWPA All-Academic for the third straight year.

AS A SOHOMORE (2011): Collected her second straight ACWPC All-America honors…Ranked among the nation's leaders in scoring while guiding the team to the best finish in program history at WWPA championships…Scored 87 goals to lead the team and rank fifth in the nation…Third on the team with 30 assists…Her 78 steals led the conference and ranked eighth in the nation…Named to the All-WWPA First Team…Scored seven goals in three games to earn WWPA All-Tournament First Team honors…Capped the season ranked second on the all-time scoring list and fourth on the all-time steals list…Led the team in ejections drawn with 104, more than twice as many as the next highest total on the team…Also impressed in the classroom, garnering Capitol One Academic All-District honors – the first in program history…Also collected her second straight WWPA and ACWPC All-Academic awards.

AS A FRESHMAN (2010): Had an outstanding rookie season, capped by ACWPC Division II All-America and Cal State East Bay Female Athlete of the Year honors…Led all scorers across all three NCAA Divisions with 90 goals on the year…Named WWPA Newcomer of the Year…Collected second-team All-WWPA and WWPA All-Freshman Team accolades…Drew 142 ejections, nearly as many as the rest of the team combined…Finished second on the team with 73 steals, which ranks in the Cal State East Bay single-season top 10…Added 38 assists…Her 90 scores ranked second on the program’s single-season goals list…Earned WWPA Player of the Week honors in the fourth week of the season after scoring seven goals and drawing 24 ejections in four games…Also excelled in the classroom, maintaining a 4.0 grade point average and collecting ACWPC “Outstanding” All-Academic and WWPA All-Academic accolades.

HIGH SCHOOL/CLUB: Prepped at Methodist Ladies College where she was a three-sport athlete…Played two seasons of water polo…Swam and played basketball for five years…Served as captain of the basketball team for three years…Played seven years for the City Beach Club Team…A two-year member of the Australian Youth Team…Played with the Australian Junior Team in 2010.

PERSONAL: Majoring in kinesiology…Can be found playing basketball, painting or drawing in her spare time…Lists ice cream and chocolate as her favorite foods…Names the “Resident Evil” trilogy as her favorite movies…Has two sisters and one brother…Born June 4, 1991…Parents are Joanne and Grant Pierce.

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Historical Player Information

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    2011Sophomore

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    2012Junior

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    5'8"
    12
  • 12

    2013Senior

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    5'8"
    12