 Montoya with Stanford in 2024 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | Allison Montoya | ||
| Place of birth | Santa Clara, California, U.S. | ||
| Height | 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m) [1] | ||
| Position(s) | Striker [2] | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Stanford Cardinal | ||
| Number | 3 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| MVLA | |||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2022– | Stanford Cardinal | 47 | (7) |
| International career | |||
| 2018 | United States U-15 | ||
| 2020 | United States U-16 | ||
Allison Montoya is an American college soccer player who plays as a striker for the Stanford Cardinal.
Montoya was born in Santa Clara, California, 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; her father became the head coach of National Women's Soccer League club Bay FC in 2024. [1] [2] Montoya attended Mountain View High School, where she was her league's top scorer as a freshman. [1] 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. [1] [3] She committed to Stanford as a freshman in 2019. [4]
Montoya started 11 of 15 games for the Stanford Cardinal in her 2022 freshman season before tearing her ACL in a game against UCLA, 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 third team and freshman team. [1] [5] 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. She scored her second goal as a sophomore to open a 2–0 win over BYU in the national semifinals. [1] [6]
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. [7] She was selected to the under-15 team that won the 2018 CONCACAF Girls' U-15 Championship. [8] 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. [9] [10]
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