Ashleigh Johnson

Ashleigh Elizabeth Johnson is an American water polo player who competed for Princeton University, and played with the Orizzonte Catania and Ethnikos Piraeus professional teams. She was considered by many skilled observers of water polo to be among the best women's goalkeepers of her era. She was part of the American national team that won the gold medal at both the 2015 World Aquatics Championships and the 2019 World Aquatics Championships. In 2016, she became the first African-American woman to make the US Olympic team in water polo. While playing in the critical role of goaltender, she was part of the gold-medal winning 2016 and 2020 U.S. women's water polo Olympic teams, and earned a spot on the 2024 U.S. women's water polo Olympic team that placed fourth overall in competition.