2018 Women's Water Polo Roster
Roster
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Madeleine Sanchez
- Position:
- Attacker
- Height:
- 5-4
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Murrieta, CA
- High School:
- Murrieta Valley HS
2018 ACWPCÂ All-America Honorable Mention
2018 All-Big West First Team
2017 ACWPCÂ All-America Honorable Mention
2017 All-Big West First Team
2016 All-Big West Second Team
2018 Season (Senior)
Sanchez capped off her CSUN career with a second-straight ACWPC All-America Honorable Mention and Big West First Team nod ... Became the all-time Matador and Big West goal leader during the year (229 goals) ... Led the Big West in scoring for the third-straight year with 54 goals ... Finished second in the conference in assists (37) and third in steals (50) ... Accounted for 35.0 percent of the Matadors' entire scoring output ... Received a Big West Player of the Week honor for the third time in her career on March 28 ... Hit a team-high nine goals in Big West play ... Registered 15 multiple-goal scoring performances ... Recorded a hat trick in a win over No. 25 Cal Baptist (1/20/18) ... Tallied five goals to defeat Carthage College (2/2/18) ... Tallied four goals in a victory over Iona (3/4/18) ... Finished with six goals in a victory vs. Bucknell (3/11/18) ... Broke the Matadors' all-time scoring record vs. No. 8 UC Davis (4/14/18) and set a new Big West scoring record a day later vs. No. 5 Hawai'i (4/15/18) ... Scored three times vs. No. 16 UCSB in her final CSUN match (4/28/18) ... Leaves first in school history in career field goal attempts (560), third in steals (242), fifth in assists (148) and sixth in field goal percentage (.409) ... Also fifth Matador in history to receive two All-Big West First Team selections.Â
2017 Season (Junior)
Sanchez posted a career-high 74 goals, 100 steals and 27 earned ejections to go along with 36 assists and eight field blocks ... Finished the regular season tops in the Big West in goals for the second-straight season ... Responsible for 42.8 percent of the team's total goals ... Also shot 42.8 percent from the field ... Earned All-Big West First Team and ACWPC All-America Honorable Mention both for the first time in her collegiate career ... Received a Big West Player of the Week honor on April 26 ... Scored in all but one match she appeared in and posted 21 multiple-goal performances ... Registered 15 goals in Big West play ... Notched four goals vs. No. 19 UC Davis (1/29/17) ... Tallied four-goal performances vs. Azusa Pacific and Pomona-Pitzer on the same day (2/18/17) ... Scored four goals vs. No. 15 Long Beach State (2/25/17) ... Tallied a season-high six goals in a win over No. 14 UC Santa Barbara on Senior Day (4/22/17) ... Scored eight goals at the Big West Tournament including four of her team's five goals in a win over No. 17 UCSB (4/29/17) ... Moved up to sixth in school history with 175 career goals ... Also climbed into fourth place on the school's steals list (192) and 10th on the assists list (109) ... Second player in team history to record at least 100 steals in a year and posted the third-most goals in a single season.
2016Â Season (Sophomore)
Competed in all 32 matches as a sophomore and set new career highs in goals (73), assists (44), steals (59), blocks (9) and shooting percentage (44.5) ... Finished the regular season with the most goals in the Big West Conference ... Earned All-Big West Conference Second Team honors ... Received Big West Player of the Week on March 23 ... Had a hand in 43.4 percent of the Matadors entire goal output on the season ... Scored in all but four matches on the season ... Tallied 10 goals at the UCSB Winter Invite (1/22/16-1/23/16) including five against No. 21 UC San Diego ... Tied a CSUN record for goals in a game with seven against Pomona-Pitzer (1/30/16) ... Hit the net 10 times at the Triton Invitational (2/13/16-2/14/16) including scoring four goals each against Sonoma State and No. 25 Cal State East Bay ... Collected six goals at the CSUN Tournament versus No. 18 Harvard and Redlands ... Tallied six including the go-ahead goal in the fourth quarter against No. 23 Marist ... Scored four goals at No. 6 UC Irvine ... Led the team in scoring with 10 goals in Big West play  ... Picked up two goals in two contests at the Big West Tournament ... Her 73 goals are the fourth-most in a single season in CSUN history.
2015 Season (Freshman)
Sanchez appeared in 24 matches and scored 28 goals in her freshman season ... Third on the team with her 28 goals ... Led the team in assists with 29 ... Finished second in steals with 33 ... Seven multiple-goal performances ... Registered a hat trick in her first career game against #5 Arizona State (1/23/15) ... Scored a team-high six goals in a 14-8 win over Azusa Pacific ... Notched two-game winners: a buzzer beater in a 7-6 win over #6 Hawai'i (3/7/15) and a shot in the final minute to defeat #12 Long Beach State 7-6 (3/28/15).
CSUN Career Stats
| Year | Matches | Goals | Assists | Steals | Blocks |
| 2015 | 24 | 28 | 29 | 33 | 2 |
| 2016 | 32 | 73 | 44 | 59 | 9 |
| 2017 | 29 | 74 | 36 | 100 | 8 |
| 2018 | 25 | 54 | 37 | 50 | 11 |
| Totals | 110 | 229 | 146 | 242 | 30 |
Murrieta Valley High School
Sanchez played four years of water polo and swam for four seasons of Nighthawks ... Earned all-league honors after all four years ... Also earned All-CIF and all-valley honors ... Helped her team win four league titles ... Helped lead her team to two Division III CIF Championships ... Graduated in 2014.
Personal
Born on May 2, 1996 ... Daughter of Andie and Anthony Sanchez ... Has one sister, Isabelle, and one brother, Grayson ... Favorites include the Miami Heat and Los Angeles Clippers, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and "Friends" ... Best advice she's ever been given is "treat everyone like they are going to be a millionaire" ... Lists Steve Jobs as her greatest hero ... Sanchez is majoring in Cinema and Television Arts.
