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Sophia Song is an American basketball player.

Song's parents are Steve and Meixine. Her father was raised in Taiwan, where he began playing basketball. When he immigrated to the United States, he continued playing the sport. He later told his daughter that he wished for her to pursue a professional basketball career and play in Taiwan. She has two younger sisters and one younger brother. 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.

Song met Joe Kikuchi around 2007. Though she played her first season of high school basketball at Bishop Montgomery under coach Alexa Johnson,  Kikuchi served as her coach for two years when Song began attending Mark Keppel High School. In her senior season at Keppel, Song was coached by Jose Herrera. After an appearance on the Pasadena Star-News All-Area girls' basketball team as a high school sophomore, Song won the publication's Player of the Year award for girls' basketball twice, after her junior and senior seasons at Keppel. Following Song's high school career, she accepted a scholarship to play for the UC Davis Aggies women's basketball team. 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. 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. 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.