Mountain Pacific Sports Federation

All-MPSF Women's Water Polo Announced

4/24/2025 9:00:12 AM

Photo: Stanford's Ryann Neushul (by: Stanford Athletics)

2025 All-MPSF Women's Water Polo Teams (PDF)
   
Stanford redshirt senior Ryann Neushul (Goleta, CA) entered the MPSF’s all-time top-40 scoring list this year with 212 career goals. She scored 14 goals and dished out an MPSF season-high 14 assists within the six-game conference schedule. Neushul was twice named MPSF/Delfina Player of the Week this year (Apr. 8, Jan. 21). Her most recent award came following her sixth hat trick of the season along with five assists in leading the Cardinal to a 14-12 MPSF home win over eventual top-seed UCLA (Apr. 5). Her first weekly honor was backed by a career-high six goals on seven attempts, along with two steals, in another top-five win over Hawai’i (Jan. 18) as she returned to the lineup for the first time since 2023. Neushul becomes the second student-athlete in MPSF Women’s Water Polo history to earn both a player and newcomer of the year honor through a career (Maddie Musselman-UCLA). Neushul, now a four-time all-conference honoree, represents the eighth MPSF Player of the Year recipient from Stanford (Makenzie Fischer, 2019; Maggie Steffens, 2017 & 2015; Annika Dries, 2011; Brenda Villa, 2003 & 2001; Ellen Estes,1998).     
USC freshman Emily Ausmus (Riverside, CA) recorded one of the most impressive freshman seasons in MPSF history. Ausmus scored in all 28 games regular season games, with multiple-goal outings in 27 of those She matched the all-time conference record with seven MPSF/S&R Sport Newcomer of the Week honors, achieved by just two other players (Paige Hauschild-USC, Maddie Musselman-UCLA). Late in the season, she broke the 90-goal barrier — just the third Trojan in program history to do so in a single season — in scoring eight goals across two MPSF wins. Her 96 regular season goals leads the conference and ranks in the MPSF’s single season all-time top-10. Ausmus, the only freshman named to this year’s Delfina All-MPSF first team, represents USC’s third MPSF Newcomer of the Year recipient (Hauschild, 2018; Patricia Jancso, 2010).
UCLA head coach Adam Wright led the Bruins to their second-straight top seed in the MPSF Tournament. In the regular season finale, third-place UCLA needed to defeat No. 1 USC by at least four goals to leap into the MPSF’s top seed, in which it exactly did. That result marked the squad’s third top-five win of the year, and ninth over the top-10. UCLA placed a high of three players on the Delfina All-MPSF first team and matched an overall high of five players across each of the all-conference teams. This is Wright’s second MPSF Coach of the Year honor on the women’s side, repeating his honor from last year.