Andrew Churukian Season 2023

Career Accolades

• NCAA champion (2019)
• Two-time MPSF champion (2019-20)
• Four-time ACWPC All-Academic (2019-22)
• Three-time MPSF All-Academic Scholar-Athlete (2020-22)
• Three-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2020-22)

As a Fifth-Year Senior (2023)

• Scored five goals, including a multi-goal performance in the MPSF tournament against Austin College (Nov. 17)
• Assisted three times on the season

As a Senior (2022)

• ACWPC All-Academic – Superior
• MPSF All-Academic Scholar-Athlete
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Played all 27 games, scoring a total of 19 goals
• Scored a career-high three goals at Whittier (Sept. 17)
• Totaled at least one goal in 14 different games

As a Junior (2021)

• ACWPC All-Academic – Outstanding
• MPSF All-Academic Scholar-Athlete
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Totaled 10 goals on the year, including two multi-goal performances
• Scored in eight different games, with a season-high two goals twice: vs. St. Francis (Sept. 10) and vs. Austin College (Nov. 19)

As a Sophomore (2020) • MPSF Champions

• ACWPC All-Academic – Outstanding
• MPSF All-Academic Scholar-Athlete
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Appeared in all 10 games, scoring five goals

As a Freshman (2019) • NCAA Champions • MPSF Champions

• ACWPC All-Academic – Superior
• Scored six goals

Club Competition

• Competed for Stanford Water Polo Club from 2012-19

Prior to Stanford

• 2019 graduate of Sacred Heart Prep
• Scored 40 goals and added seven assists as a senior, leading Gators to a 26-2 record in 2018 
• Along with current Stanford teammates Larsen Weigle and Walker Seymour, finished career with four CIF Central Coast Section titles
• Helped Sacred Heart Prep win the CCS regular-season title in 2018 and was a team captain
• Helped the Gators claim the West Catholic Athletic League regular season and tournament titles in each of his four years
• Helped Gators finish second in the state in 2017
• Named CIF Central Coast Section Player of the Year in 2017
• Three-time All-West Catholic Athletic League selection
• 2018 North-South champions
• 2017-18 S&R Sport champions 
•  Named the 2017 San Mateo Daily Journal Boys' Water Polo Player of the Year
• Unanimous selection as the best player in the Central Coast Section by the coaches as a junior
• Three-time All-America selection and Academic All-America pick by USA Water Polo
• Two-time USA Water Polo Junior Olympic gold medalist (2017, 2019)
• Named USA Water Polo Junior Olympic All-American first team in 2017, 2019
• Named USA Water Polo Outstanding Academic All-American, 2017, 2018, 2019
• Earned gold medal playing for U.S. Youth National Team at 2017 Pan Am Games in Peru, South America 

Personal

• Parents are Kirk and Ann
• Has older brother, Zach, and older sister, Kate
• AP Scholar of Distinction
• National Latin Exam, Magna Cum Laude