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Sophia Song (Chinese: 宋佩欣) is an American basketball player.
Song's parents are Steve and Meixine.Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the help page). Her father was raised in Taiwan, where he began playing basketball. When he immigrated to the United States, he continued playing the sport.[1] He later told his daughter that he wished for her to pursue a professional basketball career and play in Taiwan.[1] She has two younger sisters and one younger brother.[2] During her first year at the University of California, Davis, Song's father had a heart attack and stroke, after which he was placed in a coma.[2]
Song met Joe Kikuchi around 2007.[3] Though she played her first season of high school basketball at Bishop Montgomery under coach Alexa Johnson,[4][5][6] Kikuchi served as her coach for two years when Song began attending Mark Keppel High School.[7][8] In her senior season at Keppel, Song was coached by Jose Herrera.[9][10] After an appearance on the Pasadena Star-News All-Area girls' basketball team as a high school sophomore,[11] Song won the publication's Player of the Year award for girls' basketball twice, after her junior and senior seasons at Keppel.[12][13] Following Song's high school career, she accepted a scholarship to play for the UC Davis Aggies women's basketball team.[14][15] Song earned a degree in psychology from the University of California, Davis in 2020, and moved to the United Kingdom to attend graduate school and continue her basketball career at Manchester Metropolitan University.[16][17] Though her graduate studies and collegiate basketball opportunities were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, Song also signed with the Manchester Mystics, a Women's British Basketball League team.[18][17] After the Chinese Taipei Basketball Association permitted the Women's Super Basketball League to sign foreign-born ethnically Chinese or Taiwanese players to team rosters at the start of the 2022-23 league season, the Taiyuan Textile team signed Song, as the first overseas player of ethnic Chinese heritage to play in the WSBL.[19]
References
edit- ^ a b Yen, William (25 January 2022). "UC Davis basketball player Sophia Song fulfills Taiwan dream". Central News Agency. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
- ^ a b Gallaudet, Bruce (13 December 2018). "With a prayer and support, Song refocused her game". Davis Enterprise. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ Tompkins, Courtney (24 September 2015). "Former Mark Keppel High girls' basketball coach accused of sexual contact with girl on team". Pasadena Star-News. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ Ciniglio, Tony (18 January 2013). "GIRLS BASKETBALL: Serra pressure too much for Bishop Montgomery". Whittier Daily News. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ "PREP-JC ROUNDUP: Bishop Montgomery's boys basketball team gets off to great start". Long Beach Press-Telegram. 20 December 2012. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ Ciniglio, Tony (4 January 2013). "GIRLS BASKETBALL: Bishop Montgomery rolls to easy but sluggish win over Mira Costa". Los Angeles Daily News. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ Tompkins, Courtney (24 September 2015). "Former Mark Keppel High girls' basketball coach accused of sexual contact with girl on team". Pasadena Star-News. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ "Coach's Arrest Stuns Basketball Community". Rafu Shimpo. 27 September 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ "Keppel's up tempo approach steals show from Garfield". Pasadena Star-News. 10 March 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ Culross, Mikey Hirano (19 February 2016). "The Best Medicine". Rafu Shimpo. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ Tollegian, Aram (16 April 2014). "Star-News girls basketball All-Area: Maranatha's Channon Fluker named player of the year". Pasadena Star-News. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ Tollegian, Aram (14 April 2015). "2015 Pasadena Star-News Girls Basketball All-Area Team: Keppel's Sophia Song, Joe Kikuchi dominate postseason awards". Pasadena Star-News. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ Tollegian, Aram (13 April 2016). "Star-News Girls Basketball All Area Team: Keppel's Sophia Song repeats as Player of the Year". Pasadena Star-News. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ "Aggies ink talented trio for 2016". UC Davis Aggies. 13 November 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ Paterson, Bill (14 November 2015). "Sac State, UC Davis announce women's basketball signings". Sacramento Bee. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ "21 Sophia Song". UC Davis Aggies. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ a b Gallaudet, Bruce (24 October 2020). "Cheerio! Former Aggie Song happy with new English life". Davis Enterprise. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ "Song signs-on in England for studies, pro career". UC Davis Aggies. 30 October 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ Yen, William (6 January 2022). "WSBL to tip off with ethnic-Chinese heritage players allowed on rosters". Central News Agency. Retrieved 7 January 2022. Republished in its entirety as by the Overseas Community Affairs Council and as: "WSBL teams recruit ethnic Chinese as new season begins". Taipei Times. 7 January 2022.
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