Stanford Athletic Communications Doug Drabik • Assistant Director Stanford Cell: 650.683.5528 WATER POLO [email protected] Kap7 SoCal Invitational • Oct. 10-11 • Malibu, Calif. • Los Angeles, Calif. RESULTS WHAT’S NEXT: No. 3 Stanford travels to Southern California for the second straight week when the Cardi- overall ......................................................................................12-2 nal competes in the Kap7 SoCal Invitational this weekend, hosted by Pepperdine and Loyola Marymount. MPSF ........................................................................................0-1 The Cardinal will open play in the two-day event Saturday, Oct. 10 against Concordia at 8 a.m. home ........................................................................................3-1 away ........................................................................................3-1 SoCal Invitational: Similar to the Kap7 NorCal Invitational Sept. 19-20 at Avery Aquatic Center, the Kap7 neutral ........................................................................................6-0 SoCal Invitational features 16 of the top teams in the nation in the two-day tournament. Pepperdine and LMU will serve as co-hosts for the event, with the Cardinal beginning play against Concordia on the LMU SCHEDULE campus Saturday morning. Should Stanford win each of its two games on Saturday, it will play two games September on the Pepperdine campus on Sunday. Bruno Fall Classic (Cambridge, Mass.) 5 #19 MIT ........................................................W, 29-9 HOW TO FOLLOW: All of the Kap7 SoCal Invitational games played at Pepperdine this weekend will be 5 at Harvard ................................................... W, 21-5 streamed live on CampusInsiders.com. Stanford’s first two games on Saturday will be at the Burns Aquat- Bruno Fall Classic (Providence, R.I.) ics Center on the campus of Loyola Marymount. Should the Cardinal win its first two games, it will move 6 #19 Bucknell ............................................... W, 20-4 over to Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool on the Pepperdine campus. Live stats are available for each game 6 #17 St. Francis ............................................W, 19-3. played at LMU by visiting http://www.lmulions.com/sports/m-wpolo/spec-rel/tourney-central.html. 6 at #11 Brown ...............................................W, 19-6 A LOOK AT THE POLLS: The Cardinal moved to No. 3 in this week’s Collegiate Water Polo Association na- Kap7 NorCal Invitational (Stanford, Calif.) tional poll, swapping places with USC following its defeat to the Trojans last Saturday. Stanford has been 19 RV Santa Clara ............................................ W, 18-0 in the top four of the national poll every week this season. #7 Long Beach State ...................................W, 11-4 20 #2 USC ........................................................... W, 6-5 #1 UCLA .......................................................... L, 8-7 CHASING THE RECORD: Senior Bret Bonanni enters the Kap7 SoCal Invitational just 21 goals shy from tying Tony Azevedo’s Stanford and MPSF record of 332 from 2001-04. Aft er concluding his junior season Aggie Roundup (Davis, Calif.) with a conference-leading 96 goals, he has a team-leading 45 goals in Stanford’s first 14 games. The senior 26 Concordia ....................................................W, 20-3 recorded a career-best nine goals in the season-opening victory over MIT on Sept. 5. Bonanni is the only at #10 UC Davis ........................................... W, 18-6 Cardinal in history to post multiple 90-goal seasons. He has scored in 13 of Stanford’s 14 games with mul- 27 Santa Clara ..................................................W, 18-5 tiple goals in 10 contests this season. #19 San Jose State ..................................... W, 20-5 October Bonanni has recorded 80 career multiple goal games and 60 career hat tricks. 3 at #3 USC * (P12N) ............................... L, 12-8 (OT) SoCal Tournament (Malibu, Calif.) Stanford’s All-Time Scoring Leaders 10 Concordia ......................................................8 a.m. 1. Tony Azevedo (2001-04) 332 TBD ...................................................................TBD 2. Bret Bonanni (2012-pres.) 311 11 TBD ...................................................................TBD 3. Alex Bowen (2011-14) 253 TBD ...................................................................TBD 17 UCLA * (P12N) ................................... 10:30 a.m. 18 at Pacific * .......................................................noon 51 STRAIGHT: Senior Bret Bonanni scored at least one goal in 51 straight games from Oct. 13, 2013 to 24 UC Santa Barbara * .....................................TBD Sept. 20, 2015. His streak was snapped when he was held scoreless in Stanford’s 6-5 victory No. 2 USC in 25 at San Jose State *..........................................noon the semifinals of the NorCal Invitational. 31 at Long Beach State * .....................................noon HC JOHN VARGAS NATIONAL POLL (OCT. 7) November 1 at UC Irvine * ...................................................noon Year Record NCAA Rank School Previous Points 6 Pepperdine *............................................7 p.m. 2002 24-5 CHAMPIONS 1 UCLA 1 100 10 Santa Clara ..............................................7 p.m. 2003 22-5 Second 2 USC 3 95 15 California * (P12N) ......................................TBD 2004 23-5 Second 3 Stanford 2 90 2005 20-7 Second 4 California 4 86 2006 17-9 — MPSF Tournament (Los Angeles, Calif.) 5 Pacific 5 80 2007 17-8 — 20 TBD ...................................................................TBD 6 UC Santa Barbara 6 75 21 TBD ...................................................................TBD 2008 25-6 Second 7 UC Irvine 8 69 22 TBD (P12N) .......................................................TBD 2009 21-4 — 2010 15-8 — 8 Long Beach State 7 67 December 2011 19-7 — 9 Pepperdine 9 60 NCAA Championships (Los Angeles, Calif.) 2012 16-7 — 10 UC Davis 10 51 5 TBD ...................................................................TBD 2013 23-6 Third 11 Princeton 11 50 6 TBD ...................................................................TBD 2014 26-4 Third 12 Brown 12 43 2015 12-2 — 13 Bucknell 15 39 * – MPSF game; All times Pacific and subject to change; Home Overall 280-83 .771 14 Air Force 13 33 games in bold; P12N - Game televised on Pac-12 Networks 15 UC San Diego 14 31 2015 Stanford Men’s Water Polo #GoStanford STANFORD QUICK FACTS NINE IN A ROW: Stanford’s eight wins to open the 2015 season, coupled with its victory over UCSD in the Location ........................................ Stanford, Calif. NCAA Third Place game to close the 2014 campaign, gave the Cardinal nine-straight wins. It’s the longest Founded .........................................................1891 winning streak since Stanford won 11 consecutive contests during the 2013 season. Enrollment ............16,795 (7,019 undergraduate) Colors .....................................Cardinal and White MPSF LEADER: Senior Bret Bonanni (45) leads the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation in scoring, averaging 3.21 Aff iliation ......................................NCAA Division I goals per game. Redshirt junior Adam Abdulhamid (37) ranks third in the league, averaging 2.64 goals per game. Conference ...................................................MPSF Senior Drew Holland ranks fourth among regular starters in the MPSF in goals against average at 6.01. President ..................................... John Hennessy Athletic Director ..............................Bernard Muir As a team, Stanford ranks second in scoring (16.71 Goals/Game) and third in defense (giving up 5.36 Goals/Game). Men’s Water Polo Administrator ...Earl Koberlein ABDULHAMID SCORING: Redshirt junior Adam Abdulhamid, who scored 14 goals in four wins at the Aggie Athletic Department Phone ......... (650) 723-4591 Roundup Sept. 26-27, is second on the team with 37 for the season. The 37 goals in 14 games has already Ticket Off ice Phone ................... (800) STANFORD surpassed his 31 goals in 30 games during the 2014 season. Abdulhamid has scored a career-high five goals Home Pool ..........................Avery Aquatic Center twice this season, in the season opener against MIT and Sept. 27 against Santa Clara. Capacity ...................................................2,530 MENDOZA STARTING STRONG: In his first season of action aft er redshirting as a true freshman last year, COACHING STAFF Mitchell Mendoza has scored at least one goal in 13 of Stanford’s 14 games. He ranks third on the team in Head Coach ............... John Vargas (14th season) scoring with 23 goals. Mendoza has scored in each of the last seven contests for the Cardinal. Alma Mater...................................UC Irvine ‘83 Record at Stanford ................................280-83 MOST GOALS SINCE: Stanford’s 29 goals against MIT on Sept. 5 were its most in a game in nearly three Career Record ..........................................same decades, matching the Cardinal’s 29 scores against Harvard in the Brown Invitational on Sept. 26, 1986. Assistant Coach ........ John Barnea (11th season) Alma Mater.................... UC Santa Barbara ‘02 19 IN SIX: Stanford scored at least 19 goals in six straight games (first six games of the season) for the first Assistant Coach .......... Lea Maurer (third season) time in the John Vargas era (dating back to 2002). The Cardinal posted 19 each