I’M BASED IN

santa barbara, ca

I WENT TO COLLEGE AT

D1 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON HUSKIES

PLAYED PRO BASKETBALL IN

FRANCE
ITALY
SPAIN
MALTA

HIGHSCHOOL career

Played at Santa Barbara High School.

  • As a senior in 2015-16, averaged 26.3 ppg. and 8.7 rpg.

  • 2014 CIF Division III Player of the Year.

  • As a junior in 2014-15, averaged 33.5 ppg. and 8.7 rpg.; became the fourth player in CIF Southern Section history to score 1,000 points in a season, joining Naismith Hall of Famer and USC alum Cheryl Miller, Washington Hall of Famer Guiliana Mendiola and Amy Jalewalia who played at UCLA.

  • 2015 MaxPreps All-State Division II first team. 

  • Played with the Cal Storm-won the Nike Nationals in 2015

  • High game: 50 points last Saturday night in an 89-76 victory at Fontana’s Summit High, sending the Dons into the CIF Southern Section Division 2AA semifinals. It was the third time Melgoza broke the school record, following December games of 48 and 47 points. Holly Ford had set the previous record of 45 points in 1980.

  • Season total: 962 points in 28 games, a 34.4 average, the highest reported in the state. “It’s a big deal when a player scores 1,000 in her entire career,” Santa Barbara coach Andrew Butcher noted. Only three other CIF-SS female players have exceeded 1,000 points in a season. (Cheryl Miller, the leader with 1,197 in 1981-82, did it twice.)

  • Career total: 1,950 points, eclipsing the school record (1,804 by Lisa Willett, 1997-2000) in her second season as a starting player, with at least one more play-off game and another full season ahead of her.

  • 2015 Article

COLLEGE CAREER

Eighth on UW's All-Time Leading Scorer List with 1,717 career points

  • College Notes

  • Scored 1,664 of those points between sophomore and senior season

  • Third UW player to score 500+ points in three seasons

  • Eighth-highest scoring average in program history (14.7 ppg)

  •  Averaged 18.1 ppg over final three seasons, which would rank just behind Kelsey Plum as best at UW if over four seasons

  • First player to score 30+ points three times in the Pac-12 Tournament

  •  Pac-12 Player of the Week (Feb. 17-23, 2020)

  • 2018, 2020 All-Pac-12 Selection

  • 2019 All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention

  • 2019, 2020 Ann Meyers-Drysdale Preseason Watch List

  • Announced as a trials participant for the 2019 U.S. Pan American Games Women’s Basketball Team on May 2, 2019.

  • 3x3 USA basketball

Amber Melgoza leads all-star five as TOURNAMENT MVP

I recently played in the FIBA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES of Small Countries in Kosovo, and I was honored to receive the MVP award.