2025 Women's Senior National Team Roster

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Ashleigh Johnson

  • Height 6-1
  • Highschool Ransom Everglades High School
  • Hometown Miami, FL

Biography

Considered one of the best goalkeepers in the world, she helped lead Team USA to gold at the 2020 & 2016 Olympics...She is the all-time career saves leader at Princeton University...In 2016, she became the first African-American woman to make a U.S. Olympic Women’s Water Polo Team...Supports learn to swim and water polo programs in her hometown of Miami.
 
INTERNATIONAL/CLUB 
Tallied 80 saves and 1 goal at 2024 Olympic Games in Paris...Named Best Goalkeeper while recording 53 saves at 2024 World Aquatics World Championships in Doha...Racked up 40 saves at 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago...Totaled 50 saves at 2023 World Aquatics World Championships in Fukuoka...Notched more than 38 saves and scored 1 goal at 2023 World Aquatics World Cup...Recorded 31 saves at 2022 FINA World League Super Final in Santa Cruz de Tenerife...Named Top Goalkeeper while notching 38 saves at 2022 FINA World Championships in Budapest...Named to media All-Star team at 2022 FINA World Championships...Named Top Goalkeeper with 80 saves at 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo...Named Top Goalkeeper while recording 37 saves at 2021 FINA World League Super Final...Led Team USA with 42 saves and contributed 3 goals at 2019 Pan American Games...Named MVP while recording 43 saves to lead Team USA to the gold medal at 2019 FINA World Championships in Gwangju...Racked up 28 saves in three games at 2019 FINA World League Super Final…Recorded 42 saves at 2018 FINA World Cup...Racked up 32 saves at 2018 FINA World League Super Final...Logged 51 saves in 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...Dropped 45 saves in 2016 FINA World League Super Final...Posted 54 saves allowing Team USA to qualify for 2016 Olympic Games...Recorded 62 saves contributing to Gold-medal win at 2016 FINA Intercontinental Tournament...2015 FINA World Championship Top Goalkeeper and Gold Medal Match MVP...Tallied 66 saves in Team USA’s pursuit of Gold at 2015 FINA World Championship...Recorded 17 saves as Team USA’s won 2015 Pan American Games...Split time in net, recording 27 saves en route to Gold at 2014 FINA World Cup...Named Top Goalkeeper at 2014 FINA World Cup...Won Gold at 2013 FINA Junior World Championship where she was named top goalkeeper of tournament.

PROFESSIONAL
Competed for Ethnikos in Greece...Competed for NC Vouliagmeni 2018-19 in Greece…Finished third in Final Four of European League Championships…Finished second in Greek league…Competed for Ekipe Orizzonte in Sicily 2017-18...Finished third in Final Four of European League…Finished second in Italian League.
 
COLLEGE
Competed for Princeton University...2017 First Team CWPA All-Conference… 2017 First Team CWPA Championships All-Tournament…Finishes career as Princeton’s all-time leader in saves (1,362) and compiled 100 career victories…CWPA Defensive Player of the Week 19 times in her career…Went 22-4 in 2016-17 with .693 save percentage…Collected 300 saves, the fourth highest in a single season in program history…4x CWPA Defensive Player of the Week.
 
HIGH SCHOOL
2012 graduate of Ransom Everglades High School...Four-year letter winner and starter...Helped Raiders to three consecutive Florida state championships...All-Dade honors throughout career...Also competed in swimming, earning All-County honors twice...Took individual state championship in 50 free her sophomore year…Team took state championship during her sophomore season.
 
PERSONAL
Graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology...Her sister, Chelsea, also competed for and graduated from Princeton in 2018 and studied law at the University of Miami.
 
INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2024 OLYMPIC GAMES, PARIS, FRANCE, 4TH PLACE
  • 2024 WORLD AQUATICS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, DOHA, QATAR, 1ST PLACE
  • 2023 PAN AMERICAN GAMES, SANTIAGO, CHILE, 1ST PLACE
  • 2023 WORLD AQUATICS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, FUKUOKA, JAPAN, 5TH PLACE
  • 2023 WORLD AQUATICS WORLD CUP, LONG BEACH, UNITED STATES, 1ST PLACE
  • 2022 FINA WORLD LEAGUE SUPER FINAL, SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, SPAIN, 3RD PLACE
  • 2022 FINA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, 1ST PLACE
  • 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES, TOKYO, JAPAN, 1ST PLACE (Took place in 2021 due to Covid-19 Pandemic)
  • 2021 FINA WORLD LEAGUE SUPER FINAL, ATHENS, GREECE, 1ST PLACE
  • 2019 HOLIDAY CUP, PRINCETON, NJ, 1ST PLACE
  • 2019 CANADA CUP, MONTREAL, CANADA, 1ST PLACE
  • 2019 PAN AMERICAN GAMES, LIMA, PERU, 1ST PLACE
  • 2019 FINA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, GWANGJU, SOUTH KOREA, 1ST PLACE
  • 2019 FINA WORLD LEAGUE SUPER FINAL, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, 1ST PLACE
  • 2019 FINA INTERCONTINENTAL TOURNAMENT, PERTH, AUSTRALIA, 1ST PLACE
  • 2018 FINA WORLD CUP, SURGUT, RUSSIA, 1ST PLACE
  • 2018 FINA WORLD LEAGUE SUPER FINAL, KUNSHAN, CHINA, 1ST PLACE
  • 2016 OLYMPIC GAMES, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL, 1ST PLACE
  • 2016 FINA WORLD LEAGUE SUPER FINAL, SHANGHAI, CHINA, 1ST PLACE
  • 2016 OLYMPIC QUALIFICATION TOURNAMENT, GOUDA, NETHERLANDS, 1ST PLACE
  • 2016 FINA WOMEN'S INTERCONTINENTAL TOURNAMENT, LEWISVILLE, TX, 1ST PLACE
  • 2015 FINA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, KAZAN, RUSSIA, 1ST PLACE
  • 2015 PAN AMERICAN GAMES, TORONTO, CANADA, 1ST PLACE
  • 2015 FINA WORLD LEAGUE SUPER FINAL, SHANGHAI, CHINA, 1ST PLACE
  • 2014 FINA WORLD CUP, KHANTY-MANSIYSK, RUSSIA, 1ST PLACE
  • 2013 FINA JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, VOLOS, GREECE, 1ST PLACE
FUN FACTS
Hobbies, studies, interesting info: Studied Psychology, love cooking and trying new restaurants, love to travel.
Favorite Food: Jamaican oxtail stew.
Memorable Moment: The World Aquatics Championships in Budapest in 2022. Playing in the Gold Medal match against the home team in front of such a large and enthusiastic crowd was incredible and the epitome of how special our sport, the people who play it, and the people who watch it are. I don’t think I’ve had an experience like that before and it was truly special.

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Historical Player Information

  • 2018Professional

    Goalkeeper
    6'1"
  • 2021Professional

    Goalkeeper
    6'1"
  • 2024Professional

    Goalkeeper
    6'1"
  • 2025Redshirt Freshman

    Goalkeeper
    6'1"