Aussie freshmen Lara Somfai and Joel Foxwell earn WCC Freshman of the Week honours after 3\u20130 starts<\/p>\n
Australian US college basketball players Lara Somfai and Joel Foxwell are both West Coast Conference (WCC) Women’s and Men’s Freshmen of the Week just three games in their NCAA\u00a0careers.<\/p>\n
South Australian Somfai is averaging a 14.3-point and 10.3 rebound double-double for the 3-0 Stanford Cardinal while Victorian Foxwell, the younger brother of Australian Boomer and South East Melbourne Phoenix guard Owen, has led the Portland Pilots to a 3-0 start with an average of 17.7 points, 4.3 rebounds, 6.0 assists and 2.0 steals per game.<\/p>\n
Lara Somfai \u2013 Stanford Cardinal (3-0)\u200dPosition: Forward \u2502 Class: Freshman \u2502 Height: 6’3″ \u2502 From: Adelaide, SA \u2502 Jersey: #12 \u2502 Status: Active\u200dGames: 3 \u2502 Minutes: 22.3 \u2502 Points: 14.3 \u2502 Rebounds: 10.3 \u2502 Assists: 0.7 \u2502 Steals: 1.3 \u2502 Blocks: 0.7 \u2502 Turnovers: 2.7 \u2502 Field Goals: 42.9% (15-of-35) \u2502 3-Point: 23.8% (3-of-13) \u2502 Free Throws: 81.8% (9-of-11) \u2502 Fouls: 1.7Joel Foxwell \u2013 Portland Pilots (3-0)\u200dPosition: Guard \u2502 Class: Freshman \u2502 Height\/Weight: 6’1″, 180 lbs \u2502 From: Melbourne, VIC \u2502 Jersey: #23 \u2502 Status: ActiveGames: 3 \u2502 Minutes: 33.7 \u2502 Points: 17.7 \u2502 Rebounds: 4.3 \u2502 Assists: 6.0 \u2502 Steals: 2.0 \u2502 Blocks: 0.7 \u2502 Turnovers: 4.0 I\u00a0Field Goals: 43.8 % (14-of-32) \u2502 3-Point: 35.7 % (6-of-18) \u2502 Free Throws: 86.7 % (19-of-22) \u2502 Fouls: 1.0<\/p>\n
Somfai is the Cardinal’s leading scorer and rebounder. The 1.88m Adelaide-born forward scored 15 points and pulled down eight rebounds in her first game of college basketball. She had 14 points and 13 boards against the Broncos, and then followed it up with a 14-10 double against the Mustangs.<\/p>\n
She is the first Stanford freshman with double-doubles in back-to-back games in five years while her 14-points and 10-rebound and three steals against Cal Poly made her the first major conference freshman to deliver those numbers since UConn’s Sarah Strong against Villanova on March 9, 2025 (20 points, 16 rebounds, 3 steals).<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Joel Foxwell dropped 18 points, three rebounds, four assists and four steals in a 120-83 win against Willamette in his first NCAA\u00a0career game.<\/p>\n
Foxwell led the Pilots to a clutch 67-63 win against UC Davis yesterday with a game-high 23 points to go with four rebounds and three assists. Foxwell knocked down five three on 44% from the field, 33% from three to go with 86% free throws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aussie freshmen Lara Somfai and Joel Foxwell earn WCC Freshman of the Week honours after 3\u20130 starts Australian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-276631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}