2025 USC Women's Water Polo Roster
Roster
Sinia Plotz
- Class:
- Junior
- Position:
- Utility
- Height:
- 5-9
- Hometown:
- Duisburg, Germany
- High School:
- Mannesmann Gymnasium
- Prev School:
- San José State
- Major:
- Psychology
THIS SEASON: Sinia Plotz enters her second season of competition at USC.
2025 SEASON:
• Scored 16 goals in her first season at USC
• Scored in 13 games with multiple-goal outings in three games
• First career goal as a Trojan was vs. Biola on Jan. 18 in her USC debut
• Scored one goal at the MPSF Tournament and three at the NCAA Tournament
• Earned ACWPC All-Academic honors.
2024 SEASON AT SJSU:
• Named to All-MPSF Second Team
• As a sophomore, tallied 38 goals and 23 assists and ranked first on the team with 61 points
• Recorded 12 multi-goal games
• Scored a career-high five goals vs. UCSB (3/3/24)
• Earned ACWPC All-Academic and MPSF All-Academic honors
2023 SEASON AT SJSU:
• Received ACWPC All-America Honorable Mention honors
• Named to All-MPSF Newcomer Team
• As a freshman, led the Spartans in field blocks, steals and assists
• Ranked second on the team with 36 goals
• Named a MPSF Newcomer of the Week
• Earned ACWPC All-Academic honors
NATIONAL TEAMS:
• Member of the German Senior National Team since 2022
• Was Germany’s team captain and helped her country win gold at 2025 FISU World University Games
• Competed at the Women’s Water Polo European Championships in 2022 and 2024
• Captained the Junior National Team at 2022 U19 European Championships and 2021 U20 World Championships
• Competed at U17 European Championships in 2019 and 2021 (2021 as captain)
HIGH SCHOOL: Attended Mannesmann Gymnasium… Played club for SV Bayer Uergingen from 2016-2022.
PERSONAL: Plotz is majoring in psychology… Parents are Alexander and Nicole… Has one sibling: Manon… Enjoys cooking, baking and meeting friends in her free time… Has always wanted to visit Australia and Scandinavia… Hopes to play professionally in Europe after graduation… Born May 3, 2004.
