Shannon Murphy

Class

2022
Honors

Water Polo (2018-2022)

Miramonte High School Women's Water Polo ('22)
San Diego State University Women's Water Polo (2023-present)

Honors & Awards
ACWPC All-Academic Superior Team (2023, 2024 & 2025)
GCC All-Academic Team (2023, 2024 & 2025)

As a Junior (2025 Season)
GCC Rankings: No. 2 in sprint win percentage, No. 5 in sprint wins
Appeared in each of the team’s 30 contests … Produced 82 shots and scored 30 goals (.366 shot percentage) … Added 20 assists for 50 points … Drew 23 exclusions with 19 steals and three blocks … Among the Aztecs, ranked No. 3 in shots and exclusions drawn and No. 4 goals and assists … Established new career highs in nearly every statistical category … Among 20 games with multiple shot attempts she took a career-high six against Concordia (3/7), Azusa Pacific (3/21) and Loyola Marymount (4/26) … Recorded at least at hat trick in four contests, among 10 games with multiple goals scored, with a career-best four goal effort versus Concordia (3/7); also had hat tricks against Arizona State (1/18), Azusa Pacific (3/21), and Pacific (4/4) … Four times – against California Baptist (1/18), Cal Lutheran (1/19), CSUN (3/15) and Santa Clara (4/5) – assisted on two goals in a game, a season high … In 15 games with multiple points scored, her four versus Arizona State (1/18), Concordia (3/7) and Pacific (4/4) are a career-high … Drew a single game best three exclusions versus UC Davis (1/19) and Fresno State (3/29) among six games with multiple drawn exclusions … Set a new career-high with four steals against Cal State Fullerton (2/2) … Blocks came Cal Lutheran (1/19), Bucknell (3/15) and Indiana (3/16).

As a Sophomore (2024 Season)
Appeared in each of the team’s 32 contests … Produced 64 shots and scored 21 goals (.328 shot percentage) … Added 20 assists for 41 points … Drew 17 exclusions with 21 steals and two blocks … Attempted multiple shots in 22 contests led by career-high matching four shot efforts against Cal State Monterey Bay (1/9), Pacific (3/23) and Concordia (4/12) … Recorded her first career hat trick versus California Baptist (4/20) among four games with multiple goals scored … Twice, against Cal State Monterey Bay (1/19) and Siena (2/17), she totaled three assists, a single-game best … Amid 14 games with multiple points scored, she totaled a career-high four against Cal State Monterey Bay (1/19), Siena (2/17), and Concordia (4/12) … Drew at least one exclusion in 14 contests led by two drawn exclusions versus Southern California (1/20), La Salle (2/17) and Concordia (4/12) … Recorded a season-best two steals against Wagner (2/18), Princeton (2/18), Loyola Marymount (4/6), Concordia (4/12), California Baptist (4/20) and UC San Diego (4/21) … Blocks came versus Wagner (2/18) and Loyola Marymount (4/27).

As a Freshman (2023 Season)
Appeared in 26 games… Attempted 44 shots and scored on 10 of them (.227 shot percentage)… Added 13 assists for a total of 23 points… Enjoyed 13 games with multiple shot attempts, including two games with a season-high four - vs. No. 17 LMU (4/21) and vs. Concordia (4/28) in the quarterfinal round of the Golden Coast Conference Tournament; also produced three shots vs. Pomona-Pitzer (1/22), vs. Siena (3/10), vs. Saint Francis (3/11), at Concordia (3/24), at No. 12 Pacific (4/1) and at Azusa Pacific (4/15)… Scored twice, a season-high, vs. Cal State Fullerton (1/21) and had individual tallies vs. Pomona-Pitzer, vs. No. 12 UC Davis (2/4), vs. Siena, at Santa Clara (3/31), at No. 12 Pacific, at Azusa Pacific, vs. No. 17 LMU (4/21) and vs. Concordia (4/28)… Among her 13 assists, had two contests with two each; at No. 12 Pacific and at Azusa Pacific… Produced six games with multiple points; three each at No. 12 Pacific and at Azusa Pacific and two vs. Cal State Fullerton, vs. Pomona-Pitzer, at Santa Clara and vs. No. 17 LMU (4/21)… Drew at least one exclusion in 11 contests, including one game with multiple exclusions drawn; three vs. Pomona-Pitzer… Totaled five steals vs. Cal State Fullerton, a season-best, and also had two steals vs. No. 3 UCLA (1/21) and vs. Pomona-Pitzer among 11 games with at least one theft… Lone block came against No. 12 UC Davis.

High School
A 2022 graduate of Miramonte High School in Orinda, Calif.… A four-year letterwinner… Miramonte won CIF & North Coast Championships as a junior and senior and finished each year without a loss (39-0)... Earned first-team All-Diablo-Foothill League, All-East Bay and All- Northern California in her senior season... Captain in her senior season... Earned National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association (NISCA) All-American designation in 2021… Was a four-time high school academic all-American… Led her team to a third-place finish in the 2022 Junior Olympics.

Personal
The daughter of April and Noel Murphy… Majoring in business administration… Three family members played collegiate water polo; father at Cal, sister at UC Santa Barbara and brother at Whittier College… Chose San Diego State over offers from California, UC Davis and Loyola Marymount.

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