{"id":210273,"date":"2025-12-29T21:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/210273\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T21:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:52:07","slug":"somfai-selected-acc-rookie-of-the-week-for-third-time-stanford-cardinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/210273\/","title":{"rendered":"Somfai Selected ACC Rookie of the Week for Third Time – Stanford Cardinal"},"content":{"rendered":"

STANFORD, Calif. \u2013 Freshman Lara Somfai<\/a> was named ACC Rookie of the Week for games played between December 22-28, the conference announced Monday. ACC women\u2019s basketball weekly awards are voted on by the league\u2019s Blue Ribbon Panel.<\/p>\n

Somfai had a career-high 18 rebounds and nine points in Stanford\u2019s 82-50 win over Cornell to conclude nonconference play on Sunday. Her 18 boards are the most for a Stanford freshman since Kaylee Johnson<\/a> had 22 against Santa Clara on Dec. 14, 2014. They are also tied for the most in a single game by any freshman in the country this season (against DI opponents). San Diego\u2019s Ayla Williams had 18 against Utah State on Dec. 7.<\/p>\n

Somfai is averaging a team-high 9.6 rebounds per game this season, good for third in the ACC. No ACC freshman has averaged 9.0 rebounds for an entire season since North Carolina\u2019s Janelle Bailey in 2017-18 (9.1).<\/p>\n

The Rookie of the Week award is Somfai\u2019s third of the year, which ties a program record. Haley Jones<\/a> was a three-time Pac-12 Freshman of the Week in 2019-20 and Kaylee Johnson<\/a> was a three-time winner in 2014-15. The Pac-12 Freshman of the Week award began in 2012-13.<\/p>\n

Stanford heads into the teeth of its ACC schedule with a 12-2 record and two losses by a combined seven points. The Cardinal makes its first cross-country trip this week, beginning with a game at NC State on Thursday, Jan. 1 at 11 a.m. PT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STANFORD, Calif. \u2013 Freshman Lara Somfai was named ACC Rookie of the Week for games played between December…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105,14527,109782,109781,27509],"class_list":{"0":"post-210273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-stanford","12":"tag-stanford-athletics","13":"tag-stanford-cardinal","14":"tag-stanford-university"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}