Joey Niz Season 2024

UCLA CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
• ACWPC All-Academic Team member (Superior – 2026)
• MPSF All-Academic Team member (2026)
• 2-time Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award recipient (2026, 2025)
• 2-time Big Ten Spring Academic Honor Roll member (2026, 2025)
• 8-time Athletic Director's Honor Roll member (last Spring 2026)

2026
Played in 15 of 26 games … allowed 47 goals across 27.5083 quarters played for goals against average of 6.83 … logged 71 saves (4.73 saves per game) … qualified for ACWPC All-Academic team, earning “Superior” designation … member of MPSF All-Academic Team … Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award recipient ... earned spot on Big Ten Spring Academic Honor Roll ... logged season-high 10 saves in 19-5 win against No. 18 San Jose State (March 14) … totaled team-high seven saves – all during fourth quarter and overtime periods – in 19-18 (OT – SV) win at No. 4 California (Feb. 21) … named to Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for Fall 2025, Winter 2026 and Spring 2026.

2025
Registered 39 saves (10.70 per game), six steals, and one assist in 10 appearances (one start) … had a goals against average of 7.41 on the year (27 goals allowed in 14.583 quarters played) … Big Ten Distinguished Schoar Award recipient ... collected a season- and career-high 12 saves in the final 23 minutes of the win at No. 6 UC Irvine (Feb. 15) … made her first career start in the 12-8 win at No. 7 Arizona State (Feb. 9), going the distance while recording six saves and a steal ... named to Athletic Director's Honor Roll for Fall 2024, Winter 2025 and Spring 2025.

2024
Registered 37 saves (14.17 per game), six steals, and one assist in eight appearances (zero starts) … had a goals against average of 10.73 on the year (28 goals allowed in 10.442 quarters played) … collected a season-high nine saves in two quarters of action in a win over California Baptist University (Feb. 2) at the UCSD Triton Invitational ... named to Athletic Director's Honor Roll for Winter 2024, Spring 2024.

HIGH SCHOOL/CLUB
Lettered in water polo and swimming at Los Alamitos High School … two-time First-Team All-CIF-Southern Section honors (2023, 2022) … named First-Team All Sunset League and league MVP in 2023 … helped lead team to a league championship … played club at Los Alamitos Aquatic Foundation, earning Junior Olympic First-Team All-America honors (2023).

PERSONAL
Full name is Josephine Paciencia Niz, prefers Joey … born in Los Angeles, Calif. … parents are David Niz and Maria Dungo … has an older brother, Gabriel, a younger sister, Madeline, and an older sister, Olivia … mother attended UCLA … decided to attend UCLA because, “I appreciate the team culture and tight-knit team dynamic. It was clear that the team cares for each other in and out of the water.” … lists the late Kobe Bryant and Simone Biles as the athletes she most admires … hobbies include scrapbooking and tanning at the beach … major is sociology with a career goal of becoming a sports agent.