Career Accolades

  • 2017 ACWPC All-Academic - Excellent
  • 2017 MPSF All-Academic
  • 2016 ACWPC All-Academic - Excellent
  • 2016 MPSF All-Academic
  • 2015 ACWPC All-Academic - Excellent
  • 2015 MPSF All-Academic
  • 2014 ACWPC All-Academic - Excellent
  • 2014 MPSF All-Academic

As a Redshirt Senior (2017)

  • ACWPC All-Academic - Excellent
  • MPSF All-Academic
  • Completed career with 59 goals
  • Scored 12 goals on the season
  • Posted a season-high four goals in the win over MIT

As a Redshirt Junior (2016)

  • ACWPC All-Academic - Excellent
  • MPSF All-Academic
  • Fifth on team in scoring with 20 goals
  • Scored in 13 games on the year, with multiple goals in three contests
  • Recorded a career-best five goals in a win over No. 18 San Jose State in the Mountain Pacific Invitational
  • Posted three scores against No. 4 Pacific in the Mountain Pacific Invitational
  • Scored in each of the season's first four contests, totaling five goals in that span

As a Redshirt Sophomore (2015)

  • ACWPC All-Academic - Excellent
  • MPSF All-Academic
  • Scored nine goals on the year
  • Season-high three goals against Concordia
  • Posted goals in six matches overall
  • Recorded a pair of goals against Santa Clara
  • Also scored single goals in two separate matches against Santa Clara
  • Registered single goals in a separate match against Concordia and also Pepperdine

As a Redshirt Freshman (2014)

  • ACWPC All-Academic - Excellent
  • MPSF All-Academic
  • Tied for eighth on the team with 23 goals, including three hat tricks as part of seven multi-goal games
  • Tallied his first two collegiate goals against Pomona-Pitzer (9/14)
  • Put up back-to-back hat tricks in consecutive wins over Redlands (9/14 and 9/20)
  • Scored a season-high five in a 26-3 win against Chapman (9/27) to open the Aggie Shootout
  • Final goal of the season came in the quarterfinals at the MPSF Tournament against Pepperdine (11/21)

As a Freshman (2013) 

  • Redshirted

High School

  • A 2013 graduate of Dana Hills High School
  • Earned three letters in water polo and four in swimming
  • Helped lead water polo team to CIF Southern Section Division I quarterfinals
  • Scored 71 goals as a senior en route to being named to the All-CIF Southern Section First Team, Orange County Register Second Team and South Coast League MVP
  • Also named to California-Hawaii All-America Second Team and a first-team Southern California All-American
  • Scored 66 goals as a junior
  • Played club for CVAC Water Polo (2010-12) and SET Water Polo Club (2013)

Personal

  • Born in San Diego, Calif.
  • Parents are Robert and LeAnn
  • Has two older brothers, Larson and Nick
  • Mother played field hockey and softball at UC Davis
  • Aunt, Denise Curry, was a two-time NCAA champion with the UCLA women's basketball team and was part of the gold medal-winning 1984 U.S. Olympic Women's Basketball Team
  • Enjoys going to the beach
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