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TTABLEABLE OOFF CCONTENTSONTENTS The UCLA men’s water polo program has won eight NCAA Championships: ’69, ’71, ’72, ’95, ’96, ’99, ’00, ’04 TABLE OF CONTENTS THIS IS UCLA UCLA HISTORY Spieker Aquatics Center 3 Head Coaching History 21 Radio/TV Roster 4 Year-by-Year Results 21 2014 Roster 5 All-Time vs. Opponents 25 All-Time Letterwinners 27 COACHING STAFF School Records 29 Head Coach Adam Wright 6 NCAA Tournament History 30 Assistant Coach Dustin Litvak 7 Water Polo Honors 31 THE BRUINS All-Americans and Olympians 33 Paul Reynolds Cristiano Mirarchi Daniel Lenhart Camou, Culpan, Daboub, Danner 8 GENERAL INFORMATION Fahlsing, Farmer 9 Media Information 34 Fellner, Grover, Hartshorne 10 Athletic Administrators 35 2014 MEN’S WATER POLO SCHEDULE Inoue, Irving, Kruse, Lenhart 11 D. Marshall, G. Marshall, McClintick 12 Day Date Opponent Site Time Credits: The 2014 UCLA men’s water polo media 1 Meinhold, Mirarchi 13 guide was written, edited and designed by Ryan Finney, Sat. Sept. 6 at Triton Invitational San Diego, Calif. All Day Ordway, Ramirez, Reynolds 14 Sun. Sept. 7 at Triton Invitational1 San Diego, Calif. All Day Associate SID with assistance from Alex Timiraos. Roberts, Robinson 15 Photography by ASUCLA Campus Studio (Don Liebig), Sat. Sept. 13 UCLA Invitational Spieker Aquatics Center All Day Roelse, Rone, Ruzic, Snyder, Stiling 16 Sun. Sept. 14 at Inland Empire Classic2 La Verne, Calif. All Day Allen Lorentzen, Jeff Sipsey, Brock Scott Photography, White, Woepse, Zwaneveld 17 Sat. Sept. 20 at Kap7 NorCal Classic3 Stockton, Calif. All Day Berliner Studios, Andrew Bernstein, Ruth Chambers, Sun. Sept. 21 at Kap7 NorCal Classic3 Stockton, Calif. All Day 2013 IN REVIEW Scott Quintard and the Los Angeles Visitors and Sat. Sept. 27 UC Irvine* Spieker Aquatics Center 10:30 a.m. Statistics and Results 18 Convention Bureau. Sat. Sept. 27 Alumni Match Spieker Aquatics Center 3:00 p.m. Game-By-Game Stats and Polls 19 Cover: The cover of the media guide features UCLA’s Fri. Oct. 3 Pepperdine* Spieker Aquatics Center 7:00 p.m. MPSF Information 20 eight seniors and the Bruins’ Spieker Aquatics Center. Sat. Oct. 4 Loyola Marymount Spieker Aquatics Center 12:00 p.m. MPSF Standings and Honors 20 Cover photos by Don Liebig. Sat. Oct. 4 Golden West (Exh.) Spieker Aquatics Center 3:00 p.m. Thu. Oct. 9 Princeton Spieker Aquatics Center 7:00 p.m. QUICK FACTS Sat. Oct. 11 SoCal Tournament4 Spieker Aquatics Center All Day Sun. Oct. 12 SoCal Tournament4 Spieker Aquatics Center All Day Location J.D. Morgan Center National Affiliation NCAA Division I Sat. Oct. 18 at California* Berkeley, Calif. TBD 325 Westwood Plaza Head Coach Adam Wright (UCLA ‘01) Fri. Oct. 24 Stanford* Spieker Aquatics Center 4:00 p.m. Los Angeles, CA 90095 Record at UCLA 122-27 (5 years) Sun. Oct. 26 at UC Santa Barbara* Santa Barbara, Calif. 12:00 p.m. Athletics Phone (310) 825-8699 Coach’s Phone (310) 267-4912 Sun. Nov. 2 at USC* Los Angeles, Calif. 7:00 p.m. Chancellor Gene Block 2013 Record 28-4 Sat. Nov. 8 at Pacific* Stockton, Calif. 12:00 p.m. Director of Athletics Dan Guerrero 2013 MPSF Record (Finish) 7-1 (1st) Sun. Nov. 9 at UC Davis Davis, Calif. 12:00 p.m. Assoc. Athletic Director Ken Weiner 2013 MPSF Tournament 4th Sat. Nov. 15 Long Beach State* Spieker Aquatics Center 7:00 p.m. Faculty Athletic Rep. Michael Teitell NCAA Titles (8) ’69, ’71, ’72, ’95, ’96, ’99, ’00, ’04 Fri-Sun. Nov. 21-23 MPSF Tournament5 Long Beach, Calif. All Day Home Pool Spieker Aquatics Center NCAA Tournament Appearances 29 Sat.-Sun. Dec. 6-7 NCAA Tournament6 San Diego, Calif. All Day Enrollment 42,163 Men’s Water Polo SID Ryan Finney Founded 1919 Finney’s Phone (310) 206-4701 *all game times are Pacific 1 Triton Invitational (hosted by UC San Diego) Colors Blue and Gold Sports Information Fax (310) 825-8664 2 Inland Empire Classic (hosted by La Verne) Nickname Bruins Finney’s E-mail [email protected] 3 NorCal Tournament (hosted by California) Conference Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Sports Information Director Liza David 4 SoCal Tournament (hosted by UCLA) Conference Water Polo Contact Al Beaird Web Site www.uclabruins.com 5 MPSF Tournament (hosted by Long Beach State) 6 NCAA Tournament (hosted by UC San Diego) Conference Phone (925) 296-0723 Twitter twitter.com/UCLAWaterPolo Conference Fax (925) 296-0724 Facebook www.facebook.com/uclamenswaterpolo 2 SPIEKER AQUATICS CENTER entering its sixth season as UCLA’s home . SPIEKER AQUATICS CENTER The UCLA men’s water polo team begins its sixth season Entering its sixth full season as UCLA’s home pool, Spieker Next to the scoreboard is the “Wall of Champions”, playing at Spieker Aquatics Center in the fall of 2014. Over Aquatics Center features a 52-meter by 25-yard all-deep showcasing all of UCLA’s water polo, swimming and diving the past five seasons, UCLA has logged a 44-5 (.898) water pool with a dividing bulkhead, allowing races to national championship teams, and individual student- record at its state-of-the-art home facility. take place at varying distances (meters, versus yards). athletes’ achievements, record-holders and Olympians. The pool also has four platforms on a diving tower, at Spieker Aquatics Center opened in September 2009, in Separate men’s and women’s locker rooms house enough heights of three, five seven and one half, and 10-meter time for the start of the men’s water polo season that lockers for all team members, with shower space and platforms, as well as one and three-meter springboards. fall. PCL Construction broke ground on the facility in July bathroom stalls and sinks for each team. Equipment In addition, the aquatics center features a warming pool 2008. The athletics department officially opened Spieker needed for meets and matches have storage capacity for divers directly behind the tower. Aquatics Center on Sept. 26, 2009, as the men’s water on the facility’s south side. polo team defeated UC Irvine, 10-4, after a dedication Adjacent to Sunset Canyon Recreation Center on the When walking through the public entryway to the center, ceremony that evening. northwest portion of campus, the Spieker Aquatics visitors first notice the Donor Wall. All donors who Center was made possible thanks to a generous lead In 2014, UCLA is slated to play nine regular-season generously made gifts to the Spieker Aquatics Center gift from former student-athlete Tod Spieker and his wife, matches including hosting the UCLA Invitational and are recognized on this wall. Additionally, over 50 former Catherine. Tod, a 1971 UCLA graduate and All-American, SoCal Tournament at Spieker Aquatics Center. In the UCLA water polo players, swimmers and divers made swam for the Bruins from 1968-71 and still competes fall of 2011, UCLA hosted the MPSF Tournament (Nov. gifts to “name” a locker. Those names will forever be part successfully in Master’s Swimming. 25-27), using Dirks Pool at Spieker Aquatics Center. of the locker rooms in the new facility. The Bruins took full advantage of their home court The main pool, Dirks Pool, is named after Carolyn Dirks, The state-of-the-art facility brings together all three and won the Conference Tournament by beating top- who provided the lead gift for the swimming pool. Dirks of UCLA’s intercollegiate aquatic sports – water polo, ranked USC, 10-9, in sudden victory overtime on Nov. Pool has also been used for special use events and swimming and diving – to one venue. The aquatics center 27, 2012. The Bruins can also use the pool at Sunset Masters Swim meets. The signature feature of the Spieker features event lighting and permanent seating with the Canyon Recreation Center when hosting larger events. Aquatics Center is the diving tower, which sits at the west possibility of additional temporary seating for larger events. The Bruins’ women’s water polo program hosted the end of the pool. The east end of the pool houses the new MPSF Tournament in May 2009, taking advantage of scoreboard, an LED, state-of-the-art piece of electronics, the home setting to win the title at the three-day event. making scores, statistics and messages easily visible to all in attendance. 3 RRADIO/TVADIO/TV RROSTEROSTER 1 1 1 1 1 2 Garrett Danner James Hartshorne Stephen White Elliot Ordway Alek Ruzic Chancellor Ramirez So., GK, 6-1, 185 Sr., GK, 6-1, 170 Sr., GK, 6-6, 215 RS-Fr., GK, 6-3, 210 RS-Fr., GK, 6-0, 175 So., D, 6-2, 205 Coto de Caza, Calif. (El Toro) Irvine, Calif. (Northwood) San Diego, Calif. (Cathedral Catholic) San Anselmo, Calif. (Tamalpais) Rolling Hills, Calif. (Palos Verdes) Pasadena, Calif. (Loyola) 3 4 5 6 7 8 Alec Zwaneveld Paul Reynolds Ryder Roberts Christopher Meinhold Danny McClintick Anthony Daboub So., C, 6-8, 220 Sr., ATK, 6-1, 180 Fr., ATK, 6-2, 170 Sr,. ATK, 6-0, 185 Jr., UTL, 6-3, 195 Jr., D, 6-2, 215 La Cañada, Calif. (Harvard-Westlake) Tustin, Calif. (Foothill) Vista, Calif. (Vista) San Clemente, Calif. (JSerra) Agoura Hills, Calif. (Agoura) Newport Beach, Calif. (Mater Dei) 9 10 11 12 13 14 Gordon Marshall Cristiano Mirarchi Chris Fahlsing Matt Farmer David Culpan Alex Roelse So., C, 6-7, 240 Sr., UTL, 6-1, 188 Sr, ATK, 6-0, 190 RS-Fr., C, 6-3, 222 RS-Jr., ATK, 6-1, 190 Fr., UTL, 6-7, 230 Newcastle, Australia (Kotara) Rome, Italy (Evangelista Torricelli) San Diego, Calif. (Cathedral Catholic) La Grange, Ill.