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Career Accolades

  • NCAA team champion (2019)
  • Two-time MPSF team champion (2018-19)
  • Two-time Peter J. Cutino Award winner (2018-19)
  • Two-time ACWPC National Player of the Year (2018-19)
  • Three-time ACWPC First-Team All-American (2017-19)
  • NCAA All-Tournament Team - MVP, First Team (2019)
  • Two-time MPSF Player of the Year (2018-19)
  • Three-time All-MPSF (2017-19)
  • MPSF Newcomer of the Year (2017)
  • CoSIDA Third-Team Academic All-American (2019)
  • CoSIDA Academic All-District (2019)
  • Three-time ACWPC All-Academic - Superior (2017-19)
  • Three-time MPSF All-Academic (2017-19)

As a Redshirt Junior (2019) • NCAA Champions, MPSF Champions

  • Peter J. Cutino Award
  • ACWPC National Player of the Year
  • ACWPC First-Team All-American
  • NCAA All-Tournament Team - MVP, First Team
  • MPSF Player of the Year
  • All-MPSF First Team
  • CoSIDA Third-Team Academic All-American
  • CoSIDA Academic All-District
  • ACWPC All-Academic – Superior
  • MPSF All-Academic
  • Team leader in scoring with 73 goals
  • Matched his career-high with eight goals against Cal (Nov. 9)
  • Scored game-winner in sudden death overtime against USC (Dec. 7) in NCAA semifinals

As a Redshirt Sophomore (2018) • MPSF Champions

  • Peter J. Cutino Award 
  • ACWPC National Player of the Year
  • ACWPC First-Team All-American
  • MPSF Player of the Year
  • All-MPSF First Team
  • ACWPC All-Academic – Superior
  • MPSF All-Academic
  • Team leader in scoring and finished second in the MPSF with 65 goals
  • Finished season with 2.83 goals per game
  • Scored career-best eight goals against UC Irvine (Oct. 28)

As a Redshirt Freshman (2017)

  • ACWPC First-Team All-American, becoming the first Cardinal freshman to earn first-team honors since 2011)
  • MPSF Newcomer of the Year
  • All-MPSF First Team
  • ACWPC All-Academic – Superior
  • MPSF All-Academic
  • Team leader in scoring and finished third in the MPSF in scoring overall with 56 goals
  • Finished season with 2.45 goals per game average
  • Scored season-best six goals in victory over San Jose State (Sept. 30)

As a Freshman (2016)

  • Redshirted the season

International Competition

  • 2016 Olympian, representing the United States in the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro
  • Played in all five games in the Olympics, recorded an assist in the USA's final match against Italy and a pair of steals and a pair of blocks 

Prior to Stanford 

  • Regarded as the nation's top collegiate men's water polo prospect in the 2016 class
  • Youngest member of the USA Senior National Team 
  • Scored four goals and added two assists to help lead Team USA to a third-place finish in the 2015 FINA Intercontinental Tournament 
  • Also competed in the 2015 Volvo Cup and the 2014-15 Senior Team Games for USA Water Polo
  • Three-time Junior Olympic Champion
  • Two-time CIF Division I Player of the Year (2014, 2015) 
  • Los Angeles Daily News Player of the Year (2014, 2015) 
  • Scored 97 goals and added 86 assists despite missing three weeks of his senior season
  • Guided Harvard-Westlake to a 24-3 record and its third straight appearance in the CIF Finals 
  • Also starred for the Stars & Stripes Bruin Water Polo Club 
  • Three-year member of Academic Honor Roll at Harvard-Westlake
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