Allison Montoya is an American college
soccer
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player who plays as a
striker for the
Stanford Cardinal
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.
Early life
Montoya was born in
Santa Clara, California
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, one of two children of
Erin and
Albertin Montoya, and grew up in
Los Altos. Her parents both played college soccer at
Santa Clara University
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; her father became the head coach of
National Women's Soccer League
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club
Bay FC in 2024.
Montoya attended
Mountain View High School, where she was her league's top scorer as a freshman.
She was coached at club level by her mother on MVLA Soccer Club, where she played alongside future Stanford teammates
Elise Evans and
Jasmine Aikey and won
ECNL national championships in 2018 and 2021; she was named the ECNL under-17 player of the year in 2021.
She committed to Stanford as a freshman in 2019.
College career
Montoya started 11 of 15 games for the
Stanford Cardinal
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in her 2022 freshman season before
tearing her ACL in a game against
UCLA
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, missing the rest of the year. She had recorded five goals and four assists at that point and was named to the All-
Pac-12 Conference
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third team and freshman team.
She missed the start of the 2023 season due to injury to her other leg but returned to make 14 appearances, helping the Cardinal make a run to the final of the
NCAA championship, where they lost to
Florida State
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. She scored her second goal as a sophomore to open a 2–0 win over
BYU in the national semifinals.
International career
Montoya received her first call-up to train with the United States youth national team at the
under-14 level at age 13 in 2017. She was selected to the
under-15 team that won the
2018 CONCACAF Girls' U-15 Championship. She was called up for the
UEFA Development Tournament with the
under-16 team in 2020 and trained at the
under-20 level in 2021.
References
External links
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Living people
2000s births
Soccer players from California
Sportspeople from Los Altos, California
Sportspeople from Santa Clara, California
American women's soccer players
21st-century American sportswomen
Women's association football forwards
United States women's youth international soccer players
Stanford Cardinal women's soccer players
American sportspeople of Cuban descent