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TABLE OF CONTENTS UCLA opened its newest aquatic facility with a 10-4 victory over UC Irvine the evening of Sept. 26, 2009. Spieker Aquatics Center enters its second season as the Bruins’ home. TABLE OF CONTENTS THIS IS UCLA UCLA HISTORY Radio/TV Roster 2 Head Coaching History 25 Spieker Aquatics Center 3 Game-by-Game Results 25 2010 Roster 5 All-Time vs. Opponents 31 Season Outlook 6 All-Time Letterwinners 32 School Records 33 COACHING STAFF NCAA Tournament History 34 Head Coach Adam Wright 7 Water Polo Honors 35 Assoc. Head Coach Adam Krikorian 8 All-Americans and Olympians 36 THE BRUINS GENERAL INFORMATION Head coach Adam Wright (right) and associate head coach Adam Krikorian team up Golda, Hays, Head 9 2010 Opponents 37 Hennessy 10 for their second season together on the deck at Spieker Aquatics Center in 2010. Media Information 39 Hohl 11 Athletic Administrators 40 Hubbell, Cla. Jorth 12 The UCLA Experience i 2010 MEN’S WateR Polo scHEDUle Cli. Jorth, Kuga 13 Lathrope, Marcin, McFadden 14 Credits Day Date Opponent Site Time Mesesan, Murphy 15 The 2010 UCLA men’s water polo media guide Pickell, Preciado 16 was written, edited and designed by Alex Timiraos, Sat. Sept. 4 Pepperdine/UCSB (exh.) Spieker Aquatics Center All Day Sports Information Assistant. Photography by Sat. Sept. 11 Concordia Spieker Aquatics Center 12 p.m. Reynolds, Samuels, Snyder 17 ASUCLA Campus Studio (Don Liebig), Jeff Sipsey, Sat. Sept. 18 at NorCal Tournament Berkeley, Calif. All Day Tyrrell, Vieira, Wendt 18 Brock Scott Photography and Mark Wilkins. Special Sun. Sept. 19 at NorCal Tournament Berkeley, Calif. All Day Z. Wherry, White, Wilkins 19 thanks to ASUCLA Photography, Berliner Studios, Andrew Bernstein, Ruth Chambers, the Los Angeles Sat. Sept. 26 Loyola Marymount Spieker Aquatics Center 7 p.m. Newcomers 20 Visitors and Convention Bureau and Scott Quintard Sat. Oct. 2 SoCal Tournament Spieker Aquatics Center All Day for their photos in the UCLA Experience. Sun. Oct. 3 SoCal Tournament Spieker Aquatics Center All Day 2009 IN REVIEW Sat. Oct. 9 at California* Berkeley, Calif. TBD Season in Review 21 Cover The cover of the media guide features UCLA’s five Sun. Oct. 10 at Pacific* Stockton, Calif. 12 p.m. Statistics and Results 22 seniors and the Bruins’ second-year facility, the Spieker Fri. Oct. 15 Stanford* Spieker Aquatics Center 7 p.m. MPSF Standings and Honors 23 Aquatics Center. Cover photos by Don Liebig. Sun. Oct. 17 Chapman Spieker Aquatics Center 12 p.m. Graduated Seniors 24 Sat. Oct. 23 UC Irvine* Spieker Aquatics Center 6 p.m. Sat. Oct. 30 UC San Diego Spieker Aquatics Center 1 p.m. Sat. Oct. 30 Pomona-Pitzer Spieker Aquatics Center 3:30 p.m. QUICK facts Sun. Oct. 31 Long Beach State* Spieker Aquatics Center 12 p.m. Location J.D. Morgan Center National Affiliation NCAA Division I Sat. Nov. 6 at USC* Los Angeles, Calif. 4:30 p.m. 325 Westwood Plaza Head Coach Adam Wright (UCLA ‘01) Mon. Nov. 8 Air Force Spieker Aquatics Center 1 p.m. Los Angeles, CA 90095 Record at UCLA 23-7 (1 year) Athletics Phone (310) 825-8699 Coach’s Phone (310) 267-4912 Sat. Nov. 13 Pepperdine* Spieker Aquatics Center 2 p.m. Chancellor Gene Block 2009 Record 23-7 Sun. Nov. 14 at UC Santa Barbara* Santa Barbara, Calif. 1 p.m. Director of Athletics Dan Guerrero 2009 MPSF Record (Finish) 5-3 (4th) Fri-Sun. Nov. 26-28 MPSF Tournament Stanford, Calif. All Day Assoc. Athletic Director Ken Weiner 2009 MPSF Tournament 1st Sat.-Sun. Dec. 4-5 NCAA Tournament Berkeley, Calif. All Day Faculty Athletic Rep. Donald Morrison 2009 NCAA Tournament 2nd Home Pool Spieker AquatIcs Center Letterwinners Returning/Lost 15/5 *all game times are Pacific Enrollment 37,500 NCAA Titles (8) ’69, ’71, ’72, ’95, ’96, ’99, ’00, ’04 1 NorCal Tournament (hosted by California) Founded 1919 NCAA Tournament Appearances 27 2 SoCal Tournament (hosted by UCLA) Colors Blue and Gold Men’s Water Polo SID Alex Timiraos 3 MPSF Tournament (hosted by Stanford) Nickname Bruins Timiraos’ Phone (310) 206-4008 4 NCAA Tournament (hosted by California) Conference Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Sports Information Fax (310) 825-8664 Conference Water Polo Contact Al Beaird Timiraos’ E-mail [email protected] Conference Phone (925) 296-0723 Sports Information Director Marc Dellins Conference Fax (925) 296-0724 Web Site www.uclabruins.com RADIO/TV ROSTER Andrew Mesesan Matt Rapacz Cullen Hennessy Ben Hohl Clay Jorth Griffin White Blake Hubbell 1 RS Jr. – 6-5, 205 1 RS So. – 6-5, 200 2 RS Jr. – 6-1, 195 3 Sr. – 6-5, 205 4 RS Sr. – 6-0, 210 5 So. – 6-3, 200 6 RS Jr. – 6-0, 180 Santa Ana, CA (Servite) Orange, CA (Villa Park) Fairfax, CA (Sir Francis Drake) Atherton, CA (Menlo School) Costa Mesa, CA (Newport Harbor) Mission Viejo, CA (El Toro) Malibu, CA (Pepperdine) Clinton Jorth Emilio Vieira Jacob Murphy Brett Hays John Wilkins Matt Preciado Kevin Kuga 7 RS So. – 6-0, 195 8 Sr. – 6-2, 205 9 RS Sr. – 6-3, 200 10 RS Jr. – 6-2, 220 11 RS So. – 6-2, 190 12 RS Jr. – 6-4, 235 13 RS Sr. – 6-1, 180 Costa Mesa, CA (Newport Harbor) Sao Paulo, Brazil (Golden West JC) Corona del Mar, CA (Corona del Mar) Fontana, CA (Bonita) Palos Verdes Estates, CA (Palos Verdes) Murrieta, CA (Murrieta Valley) Goleta, CA (Dos Pueblos) Zach Wherry Clayton McFadden JD Marcin Bret Lathrope Paul Pickell Aimone Barabino Lucas Reynolds 14 RS Fr. – 6-1, 200 15 RS Fr. – 6-3, 190 16 RS Fr. – 6-4, 180 17 So. – 6-3, 180 18 RS Fr. – 6-1 185 19 Fr. – 6-2, 210 20 RS Fr. – 6-5, 215 Tustin, CA (Mater Dei) Santa Ana, CA (Foothill) Huntington Beach, CA (Servite) Moraga, CA (Miramonte) Santa Ana, CA (Foothill) Recco, Italy (La Scuola d’Italia [NY]) Newport Beach, CA (Corona del Mar) Scott Snyder Chris Wendt Josh Samuels Cristiano Mirarchi Zack Golda Jamie Tyrrell Preston Head 21 RS Fr. – 6-4, 205 22 RS Fr. – 6-3, 200 23 So. – 6-4, 205 24 Fr. – 6-1, 190 25 RS Fr. – 5-10, 190 26 RS Fr. – 6-6, 170 27 RS Fr. – 6-4, 205 Simi Valley, CA (Royal) River Forest, IL (Fenwick) Villa Park, CA (Villa Park) Rome, Italy (Evangelista Torricielli) Fullerton, CA (Servite) Granite Bay, Calif. (Granite Bay) Laguna Beach, CA (Laguna Beach) James Adams David Culpan Chris Fahlsing James Hartshorne Alex Johnson Daniel Lenhart Christopher Meinhold Fr. – 6-5, 190 Fr. – 6-1, 170 Fr. – 6-0, 175 Fr. – 6-1, 170 Fr. – 6-1, 210 Fr. – 6-3, 180 Fr. – 6-0, 190 San Marino, CA (San Marino) Hillsborough, CA (Sacred Heart Prep) San Diego, CA (Cathedral Catholic) Irvine, CA (Northwood) Coronado, CA (Coronado) Yorba Linda, CA (Esperanza) San Clemente, CA (JSerra) Jed Springer Alex Wherry Stephen White Brendan Zwaneveld Adam Wright Adam Krikorian Krsto Sbutega Fr. – 6-9, 250 Fr. – 6-0, 180 Fr. – 6-6, 205 Fr. – 6-2, 195 Head Coach (2nd year) Assoc. Head Coach (15th year) Graduate Student Manager (1st year) Menlo Park, CA (Menlo-Atherton) Tustin, CA (Mater Dei) San Diego, CA (Cathedral Catholic) La Cañada, CA (Harvard-Westlake) Alma Mater – UCLA ‘01 Alma Mater – UCLA ‘97 Alma Mater – UCLA ‘09 SPIEKER AQUATICS CENTER entering its second season as UCLA’s home . SPIEKER AQUATICS CENTER The long-awaited new home to UCLA’s aquatics program heights of three, five seven and one half, and 10-meter individual student-athletes’ achievements, record-holders has become a reality. The Spieker Aquatics Center platforms, as well as one and three-meter springboards. and Olympians. opened in September 2009, in time for the start of In addition, the aquatics center features a warming pool Separate men’s and women’s locker rooms house enough last year’s men’s water polo season. PCL Construction for divers directly behind the tower. lockers for all team members, with shower space and broke ground on the facility in July 2008. Adjacent to Sunset Canyon Recreation Center on the bathroom stalls and sinks for each team. Equipment In 2010, the Bruins plan to host 10 home contests in northwest portion of campus, the Spieker Aquatics needed for meets and matches have storage capacity addition to hosting the SoCal Tournament the weekend Center was made possible thanks to a generous lead on the facility’s south side. of Oct. 2-3 at both Spieker Aquatics Center and Sunset gift from former student-athlete Tod Spieker and his wife, When walking through the public entryway to the center, Canyon Recreation Center. Catherine. Tod, a 1971 UCLA graduate and All-American, visitors first notice the Donor Wall. All donors who UCLA enjoyed playing six home games at Spieker swam for the Bruins from 1968-71 and still competes generously made gifts to the Spieker Aquatics Center Aquatics Center in 2009, as evening matches under successfully in Master’s Swimming. are recognized on this wall. Additionally, over 50 former the lights produced capacity crowds. The athletics The main pool, Dirks Pool, is named after Carolyn Dirks, UCLA water polo players, swimmers and divers made department officially opened its newest facility on Sept. who provided the lead gift for the swimming pool. Dirks gifts to “name” a locker. Those names will forever be 26, 2009, as the men’s water polo team defeated UC Pool has also been used for special use events and part of the locker rooms in the new facility. Irvine, 10-4, after a dedication ceremony that evening Masters Swim meets.