She threw a no-hitter with 13 strikeouts in a 1-0 victory against Longwood on March 4, 2014.
She helped the Sun Devils win the 2011 College World Series, finishing the season with a 37-3 record and 1.51 ERA.
Escobedo started 38 of the squad’s 66 games, notching 326 total strikeouts and allowing only 58 runs. Her title game win was her 19th straight win, and she became the first freshman to clinch the title since UCLA’s Heather Compton in 1990.
ASU won 23 of its final 24 games and was 10-0 in the NCAA Tournament.
She earned both a Bachelor of Science in family and human development and a Bachelor of Arts in special education in 2015 and a Master’s in education (curriculum and instruction, autism specialty disorder) in 2017.
Dallas Escobedo links and features
Chelsea Gonzalez / Mexico / Softball
Tokyo 2020 result: Mexico lost 3-2 to Canada in the bronze medal game, ending the Games in fourth. It was the first appearance by Team Mexico in the Olympics for softball.
Chelsea Gonzales led the Sun Devils in 2017 with a .353 average and 13 home runs and started all 53 games played. She was a first-team All-Pac-12 pick in 2017 and finished her career sixth on the Sun Devil home run list (44) and seventh on the RBI list (183). Was voted the team’s Defensive Player of the Year in 2015 and earned second-team All-Pac-12 and All-Freshman honors in 2014. She earned her Bachelor of Science in family and human development in 2017.
Chelsea Gonzalez links and features
- On the beat with Chelsea Gonzales (by John Wroblewski, Global Women's Sports Radio)
Ian Kinsler / Israel / Baseball
Kinsler played one year at ASU (2002) and hit .230 in 29 games (17 starts) before transferring.
Leon Marchand / France / Swimming
Tokyo 2020 result: Sixth in men’s 400m individual medley (4:11.16), 1:55.68 in 200m butterfly, 1:58.30 in 200m IM, 3:33.41 in 4x100m medley
Marchand will be a freshman at ASU and is the current French record holder in the 400 individual medley. His parents (Xavier Marchande and Celine Bonnet) both competed for France in the Olympics.
Lena Mihailovic / Australia / Water Polo
This is the first career Olympic Games for Lena Mihailovic, who spent four years with Arizona State from 2015-2018, where she recorded 131 career goals, which sits at 11th all-time in program history.
As a freshman, she was named to the All-Newcomer Team after posting the fourth-highest goals on the team with 24, and recorded 17 assists and 16 steals that season. Mihailovic was one of the best academic players for the Sun Devils, earning consecutive MPSF All-Academic selections, and was just the second Sun Devil at the time to do so.
During her junior season in 2017, she notched 45 goals and was an All-MPSF Second-Team selection. She also competed on the Aussie Stingers during the 17th FINA World Championships. Mihailovic was named an ACWPC Academic All-American selection with superior distinction as a junior. She earned a Bachelor of Science in biological science in 2018 with cum laude honors.
Lena Mihailovic links and features
The native of Villorba earned Pac-12 All-Academic honors three times and was the 2012 Pac-12 Golfer of the Year, only the fourth Sun Devil to earn the honor. She earned first-team All-America honors in her senior year with a Pac-12 best 72.33 scoring average and also earned first-team All-Pac-12. She earned a Bachelor of Science in tourism development and management in 2012 (magna cum laude).
Azahara Munoz / Spain / Golf
Tokyo 2020 result: T-50th
The 2008 NCAA champion and 2009 summa cum laude psychology graduate (Bachelor of Arts) earned the title with a 25-foot putt on the first playoff hole against UCLA’s Tiffany Joh in Albuquerque. She finished fourth at the 2009 NCAA Championships in Maryland and led ASU to the team title. She was the first two-time winner of the Edith Cummings Munson Award in 2008 and 2009, and a NGCA All-American in 2009 and the 2009 Pac-10 Women’s Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
Christabel Nettey / Canada / Long Jump
Tokyo 2020 result: 22nd overall LJ, did not advance out of qualifying (6.29m/20.63 feet)
The 2011 Pac-10 champion in the long jump finished second at the 2013 NCAA Championships and made her Olympic debut in 2016 at Rio. Made her first Canadian team at age 14 at the 2007 IAAF World Youth Championships in long jump and 100m hurdles. Earned bronze at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and gold at the 2015 Pan Am Games with a long jump of 6.90m. Also had two other top-10 NCAA finishes in the long jump in 2011 and 2012. A three-time long jump All-American while at ASU, she earned a Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies degree in 2013.
