SAN RAMON, Calif. – San Diego State women’s soccer midfielders KK Chowana-Bandhu and Katie Senn as well as forward Victoria Miller were among 11 players named to the All-Pac-12 First Team, the league announced Friday morning.
The teams were voted on by the league’s nine head coaches. The balloting is based on season-long stats, and there are two all-conference teams, each with ten field players and one goalkeeper.
In her freshman season, Chowana-Bandhu broke out, playing in all 18 matches and scoring seven goals while tallying three assists for a total of 17 points. Among Aztecs, she ranked first in shots on goal (25), tied for first in shots (47), placed second in goals, tied for second in points, took third in game-winning goals (2) and fourth in assists. Her goals and points were the most by any Aztec freshman since Denise Castro had eight goals and 17 points during the 2021 season. The native of Oak Park, California, scored her first collegiate goal to give the Aztecs a 2-1 lead with 22 seconds remaining at Utah Valley on September 12. The goal was the Aztecs’ first game-winning goal in the final minute of a match since one by Denise Castro on August 18, 2022. She scored again in a win over Pepperdine on September 17 and once more in a win against Northern Colorado on September 20, becoming the first SDSU true freshman to score in three straight matches since Rachelle Elve in October of 2019. Her efforts garnered Pac-12 Newcomer of the Week accolades on September 22.
The freshman showed out in a 4-1 win against Fresno State on October 25, scoring the first three Aztec goals. Her hat trick was the first by an Aztec freshman since Kim Castellanos had two in 2000 and marked SDSU’s second consecutive home match with a hat trick. Chowana-Bandhu was named the Pac-12 Newcomer of the Week for the second time after the performance. On senior night against Gonzaga on October 30, SDSU trailed with nine minutes left in the match before Chowana-Bandhu scored in the 82nd minute to tie the match at one. The Aztecs would go on to win and clinch their spot in the Pac-12 Tournament. Among Pac-12 players, Chowana-Bandhu placed sixth in goals and goals per game, tied for sixth with Senn in points and points per game and placed seventh in shots per game as well as eighth in total shots.
Miller, a Mountain West All-Newcomer Team selection in her first year with San Diego State in 2025, maintained her high level of play in 2026, leading the team with nine goals and 20 points. She became the only Aztec not named Denise Castro with at least nine goals in a season going back through the 2018 campaign. Castro scored ten goals in each of her last two seasons. No Aztec had more than her three game-winning goals and three penalty kicks and she finished behind just Chowana-Bandhu and Senn with 34 shots and 21 shots on goal. A starter in all 18 matches, Miller got off to a hot start with a goal in the season opener at UC San Diego on August 12. She added on with another goal against Pacific. Against Pepperdine, a strong WCC squad that she had a brace against in 2025, Miller continued her excellent play with a goal and an assist in a 2-0 victory. The next match, she picked up another assist, this time in a win against Northern Colorado.
In the conference opener against Boise State on October 1, Miller scored her fourth goal of the season on a penalty kick, one of just three Pac-12 players to score on the Broncos. She saved her biggest performance for October 11 against Colorado State when Miller had a hat trick in a 3-1 victory for San Diego State. She became the 12th player in program history to score at least three times in one match and the first Aztec to do so since Rachelle Elve and Veronica Avalos in 2020, a season that was moved to the spring of 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She was also the first Aztec to record a hat trick at home since Aliyah Utush in 2017. Miller was named the Pac-12’s Offensive Player of the Week on October 13 for the performance. The native of Novi, Michigan, was not done. The next match, at Washington State, she scored the equalizer on a penalty kick in the 84th minute. On senior night against Gonzaga, the Aztecs would turn to Miller late in a close match once again. After Chowana-Bandhu tied the score at one in the 82nd minute, Miller scored the game winner in the 88th minute to clinch a spot in the Pac-12 Tournament for San Diego State. Among Pac-12 players, Miller placed third in goals per game and fourth in points per game while tying for third in total goals and fourth in total points.
A starter in all 18 matches, senior Katie Senn put together her best statistical season in her five years on The Mesa in 2026. She tied for the team lead with 47 shots, placed second with five assists and 22 shots on goal, tied for second with 17 points and placed third on the roster with six goals. She had an assist on the Aztecs’ first goal of the season, Kenny Moore’s game winner at UC San Diego on August 12. After entering the season with just two career goals, she doubled that total against Pacific on August 27 with her first career brace. Two matches later, she scored SDSU’s lone goal at Texas Tech on a penalty kick and followed it with a go-ahead goal at Utah Valley in the next match. Senn rounded out non-conference play with a goal and an assist in the win against Northern Colorado on September 20.
On October 4, Senn assisted on Mia Hambro Svendsen’s goal in the Aztecs’ 1-0 road win at No. 22 Texas State, SDSU’s first conference win as members of the Pac-12. In the next match, she scored her sixth goal of the season in the 88th minute to secure a draw at Oregon State. The Oakland, California, native picked up a pair of assists against Fresno State as number 17 reached 17 points on the season. In the Pac-12, Senn was one of just four players (with Gonzaga’s Amelia Severn, Texas State’s Victoria Meza and Boise State’s Campbell Wilson) ranked in the top ten in all eight offensive categories: points (tied for sixth), points per game (tied for sixth), goals (tied for seventh), goals per game (seventh), assists (tied for eighth), assists per game (eighth), shots (sixth) and shots per game (sixth).