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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
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2021
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