Annual Report 2018 Usa Water Polo Annual Report 2018
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ANNUAL REPORT 2018 USA WATER POLO ANNUAL REPORT 2018 MISSION STATEMENT SA Water Polo, Inc. is a non-profit corporation designated as the sport’s national governing 2018 Board of Directors body by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC). Michael Graff Walt Price U CHAIRMAN DIRECTOR Alfonso Pulido Steve Rodosky SECRETARY DIRECTOR MISSION STATEMENT Rudy Baldoni William Smith DIRECTOR DIRECTOR Houston Hall Jessica Steffens The Mission of USA Water Polo shall be to grow the DIRECTOR DIRECTOR, AAC sport of water polo throughout the United States and Ray Kennedy REPRESENTATIVE win medals in Olympic, World Championship, and Pan DIRECTOR Brenda Villa American Games. Kay Krill DIRECTOR, ATHLETE DIRECTOR REPRESENTATIVE Jeremy Laster Peter Varellas DIRECTOR DIRECTOR, ALT. AAC REPRESENTATIVE Sheldon Pang DIRECTOR 2 www.usawaterpolo.org LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN From our women earning their second consecutive FINA While our sport continues to grow and expand in influence, CUP gold medal to another sterling National Junior Olympic we remain focused on providing meaningful programs tournament at Stanford University, the 2018 year was one of to help our members attain their goals and helping our notable successes for our federation. national teams achieve top performance. Longer term, we are committed to building a world-class national training Our senior women’s team captured its second straight center in Southern California and persuading the UIL in Texas FINA Cup, another FINA World League Super Final title to recognize water polo as a varsity sport, which we believe and, for good measure went undefeated. Our senior men’s will ripple across the Southwest to spark further growth team earned gold at the FINA Intercontinental Cup in New nationwide. Zealand, and began to show the kind of promise that could put them into the mix at the Tokyo Olympic Games. The Olympic movement is facing unusual challenges, with the US Olympic Committee appointing a new board Now 48,000 members strong, our federation continues to chairman and CEO this year in the wake of the scandal at be financially prudent and strong. As revenue has grown, we USA Gymnastics. We anticipate some challenging times have invested that money back into our sport. Exceptional ahead for the Olympic Committee, and that will have an membership growth, as well as increases in National Junior impact on USA Water Polo, although it is too early to fully Olympics participants and ODP camps demonstrate that appreciate the impact of the changing environment. our community wants more training and competition opportunities, and we are working with clubs around the Whatever challenges we face, we are strengthened by facing nation to provide just that. An important contributor to this them together. We are grateful to our community and its success has been our community of 4,000 donors, whose steadfast support of our sport, and we look forward to the generosity and steadfastness has made a difference for us. coming year as an important one for us and for sport in Thank you to who have chosen to invest in our sport! America. Commitment to a volunteer board like USA Water Polo’s requires a real investment of time and resources, and we are incredibly fortunate and grateful to have such a remarkable group of diverse experiences and views putting the interest of our sport first. Our Board of Directors takes their responsibility to our sport seriously, and you can see that in Michael Graff the performance of the organization at all levels. Chairman, Board of Directors www.usawaterpolo.org 3 USA WATER POLO ANNUAL REPORT 2018 2018 USA MEN’S SENIOR NATIONAL TEAM NAME POSITION HGT COLLEGE CLUB McQuin Baron +*# Goalkeeper 6-8 USC 2018 NY Athletic Club Alex Bowen +*# Attacker 6-5 Stanford NY Athletic Club Nic Carniglia *# Defender 6-3 UC Berkeley 2018 NY Athletic Club Luca Cupido +*# Attacker 6-4 UC Berkeley 2018 Olympic Club Hannes Daube * Attacker 6-5 USC 2021 NY Athletic Club Ben Hallock +*# Center 6-6 Stanford 2020 LA Premier Johnny Hooper *# Attacker 6-1 UC Berkeley 2019 LA Premier Max Irving *# Attacker 6-0 UCLA NY Athletic Club Alex Obert +*#© Defender 6-6 Pacific NY Athletic Club Chancellor Ramirez * Defender 6-2 UCLA NY Athletic Club Alex Roelse +*# Defender 6-7 UCLA 2018 NY Athletic Club Jesse Smith >^!+# Defender 6-4 Pepperdine NY Athletic Club Ben Stevenson # Attacker 6-4 Pacific Alumni Jack Turner # Goalkeeper 6-7 UC San Diego Sunset San Diego Marko Vavic * Attacker 6-5 USC 2020 Trojan WPC Alexander Wolf * Goalkeeper 6-7 UCLA 2018 Trojan WPC Dylan Woodhead # Defender 6-7 Stanford 2020 Stanford WPF © Captain Head Coach: Dejan Udovicic # 2018 FINA World FINA World Cup (Berlin, Germany) - 6th Place Finish Assistant Coach: Gavin Arroyo * 2017 FINA World Championship (Budapest, Hungary) - 13th Place Assistant Coach: Alex Rodriguez Finish Sports Medicine Manager: Chris Bates + 2016 Olympian (Rio, Brazil) - 10th Place Finish Team Manager: Lori Verdegaal ! 2012 Olympian (London, England) - 8th Place Finish ^ 2008 Olympian (Beijing, China) - 2nd Place Finish > 2004 Olympian (Athens, Greece) - 7th Place Finish 4 www.usawaterpolo.org 2018 USA WOMEN’S SENIOR NATIONAL TEAM NAME POSITION HGT COLLEGE CLUB Rachel Fattal ~+*# Attacker 5-8 UCLA SOCAL Aria Fischer +*# Center 6-0 Stanford SET Makenzie Fischer ~+*# Defender 6-1 Stanford 2020 SET Brigitta Games Center 6-1 USC Trojan WP Kaleigh Gilchrist ~+# Attacker 5-9 USC NY Athletic Club Stephania Haralabidis # Attacker 5-11 USC NY Athletic Club Paige Hauschild *# Defender 5-11 USC 2021 Santa Barbara 805 Ashleigh Johnson ~+# Goalkeeper 6-1 Princeton NY Athletic Club Amanda Longan *# Goalkeeper 6-1 USC 2019 Santa Barbara 805 Maddie Musselman ~+* Attacker 5-11 UCLA 2021 CDM Aquatics Jamie Neushul *# Attacker 5-7 Stanford 2018 NY Athletic Club Kiley Neushul ~+*# Attacker 5-8 Stanford NY Athletic Club Jordan Raney *# Defender 5-10 Stanford 2018 Huntington Beach WP Melissa Seidemann ~!+* Defender 6-0 Stanford NY Athletic Club Maggie Steffens ~!+*#© Attacker 5-9 Stanford NY Athletic Club Gabby Stone * Goalkeeper 6-0 Stanford San Diego Shores Alys Williams ~*# Defender 5-11 UCLA Bruin Water Polo Club © Captain Head Coach: Adam Krikorian # 2018 FINA World FINA World Cup (Surgut, Russia) - 1st Place Finish Assistant Coach: Dan Klatt * 2017 FINA World Championship (Budapest, Hungary) - Sports Medicine Manager: Larnie Boquiren 1st Place Finish Team Manager: Liz Grimes + 2016 Olympian (Rio, Brazil) - 1st Place Finish ~ 2015 FINA World Championship (Kazan, Russia) - 1st Place Finish ! 2012 Olympian (London, England) - 1st Place Finish www.usawaterpolo.org 5 USA WATER POLO ANNUAL REPORT 2018 THE YEAR IN REVIEW: 2018 The 2018 year was a foundational one for USA Wa- ter Polo (“USAWP”), one in which we accomplished a number of goals in international competition as well as at the club and age group levels. It was also an important year to move forward our long-term strategies – pursuing varsity recognition for water polo in the state of Texas and working toward a new National Training Center. Sound financial management has become a hall- mark of USA Water Polo. The 2018 year was the tenth consecutive that we posted an operational surplus, $175,514 on total revenue of more than $11.6 million. This is the eleventh consecutive year 6 www.usawaterpolo.org TWELVE YEARS OF USA WATER POLO PERFORMANCE NET ANNUAL FINA/OLYMPIC YEAR REVENUE MEMBERSHIP ± ASSETS FUND MEDALS † 2007 Ф 4,740,264 (728,351) 138,375 26,945 2 2008 ◊ 5,053,880 (430,285) 447,049 26,873 4 2009 5,467,340 71,135 341,097 30,928 3 2010 6,496,081 148,887 644,568 33,766 2 2011 7,654,133 369,223 711,952 35,750 1 2012 ◊ 8,774,557 289,462 690,145 35,794 2 2013 8,312,190 396,991 577,348 39,715 1 2014 9,600,274 532,082 782,611 42,090 4 2015 9,836,298 678,281 855,117 42,419 5 2016 ◊ 11,127,537 908,555 870,248 44,773 6 2017 10,844,093 914,010 632,107 45,320 5 2018 11,568,339 1,089,524 737,940 48,122 4 ± total 12 month individual members Ϯ Most total Olympic/World Championship water polo medals won by any nation during period Ф FINA Jr. World Hosting Obligation from 2005 ◊ Olympics www.usawaterpolo.org 7 USA WATER POLO ANNUAL REPORT 2018 that USAWP has had a balanced budget and surplus. Finan- Our men moved up in the international rankings with a cial reserves exceeded $1,089,000 while annual revenue seventh place finish at FINA World League and sixth place grew from $ 3,732,409 in 2005 to $11,568,339 in 2018, an overall in the FINA Cup. Like the women, the men captured increase of 310%. In total our community supported USA gold medal at the FINA Intercontinental Cup in Auckland, Water Polo with contributions totalling $1,362,225. New Zealand, clearly marking them as the top team in the world outside Europe. Our women’s senior national team went undefeated in international competition for the second straight year, win- This year we also hosted an exceptional Junior Olympic ning their third straight FINA Cup and their 12th FINA World tournament in Stanford, California. More than 600 teams League title. They continue to set the standard for competi- competed and the tournament brimmed with energy on tive excellence in water polo and now are being talked about the pool deck and through social media. National Junior in broader terms – as one of the greatest women’s sports Olympics has continued to expand. It is the largest water programs in history. polo tournament in the world by a significant margin, and it 8 www.usawaterpolo.org has become the standard by which club teams measure their ODP Camp participation grew 10% in 2018.