PEPPERDINE 2014 WATER POLO GAME NOTES GAME 11: Pepperdine Waves at UCLA Bruins Oct. 3, 2014 p Spieker Aquatics Center p Los Angeles, Calif. GAME 12: Pepperdine Waves vs. Concordia Eagles Oct. 4, 2014 p Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool p Malibu, Calif. Competing With Purpose WATER POLO CONTACT: Jacob Breems TEAM INFORMATION Asst. Athletic Communications Director [email protected] Record: 5-5 Home: 1-3 Road: 1-0 Neut: 3-2 MPSF: 0-1 Home: 0-1 Road: 0-0 2014 SCHEDULE 09/06 vs. Concordia (Calif.) W, 10-9 Pepperdine UCLA Concordia Waves Bruins Eagles at Whittier W, 9-8 2014 Record ............. 5-5; 0-1 MPSF 2014 Record ........... 13-1, 1-0 MPSF 2014 Record ............................... 5-5 09/11 vs. UC Santa Barbara L, 12-6 2013 Record ........... 9-13, 1-7 MPSF 2013 Record ........... 28-4, 7-1 MPSF 2013 Record ............................. 21-9 09/12 vs. Loyola Marymount L, 15-12 2013 Postseason .........................N/A 2013 Postseason .....................MPSF 2013 Postseason .........................N/A Head Coach ..........Terry Schroeder Head Coach ...............Adam Wright Head Coach ................ John Wright 09/13 UCLA Invite (ex) TBA Web ...........pepperdinesports.com Web ......................uclabruins.com Web .......................cuieagles.com 09/20 Long Beach State L, 11-4 Santa Clara W, 12-10 GET SOCIAL WITH THE WAVES 09/21 UC Irvine L, 12-11 Air Force W, 15-7 @PeppWaterPolo Pepperdine Water Polo 09/27 vs. USC * L, 21-5 GAME NOTES 09/28 vs. Claremont W, 13-6 This Week: The No. 11 Pepperdine men’s water polo team resumes MPSF play as it heads to No. 1 UCLA on Friday for a 7 p.m. game. The Waves then come home 10/03 at UCLA * 7:00 p.m. and host Concordia on Saturday for a non-conference game at noon, followed by 10/04 vs. Concordia (Calif.) 12:00 p.m. an exhibition against Long Beach City College at 2 p.m. vs. Long Beach City (ex) 2:00 p.m. 10/11 SoCal Tournament TBA Multimedia: Saturday’s game against Concordia will be broadcast live on WaveCasts. Fans can also follow @PeppWaterPolo on Twitter for live, in-game 10/12 SoCal Tournament TBA updates. 10/18 at Long Beach State * 12:00 p.m. 10/25 vs. California * 12:00 p.m. Last Week: The Waves opened MPSF play last week, falling to No. 4 USC at home 10/26 vs. Stanford * 1:00 p.m. in their conference opener on Saturday. Pepperdine was able to rebound, however, taking down Claremont Mudd-Scripps at home in a non-conference matchup the 11/01 vs. UC Irvine * 11:00 a.m. following day. Luke Hewko led the way with a season-high five goals in the 13-6 11/08 at UC Santa Barbara * TBA victory for the Waves. 11/14 at Santa Clara 7:00 p.m. Waves in the Rankings: Pepperdine dropped one spot in the most recent rankings 11/16 at Pacific * 12:00 p.m. this week, moving to No. 12 after its 1-1 weekend at home. The Waves started the season ranked No. 9 in the preseason poll. MPSF Tournament 11/21-23 TBA TBA Leading the Charge: Luke Hewko has led the Waves offensively this season, scoring a team-high 32 goals in 10 games played. His 3.2 goals per game are good NCAA Tournament for second in the MPSF. Hewko scored 55 goals last year and recorded 20 steals 12/6-7 TBA TBA and eight assists. His brother Adam Hewko was a two-time All-American, playing four years at Pepperdine and is the Waves’ 13th all-time goal scorer. * MPSF contest Freshman in Net: Freshman goalkeeper Zack Rhodes has started all eight games Home matches in BOLD at Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool so far for the Waves, recording 82 total saves. His 8.52 saves per game are good All time Pacific for seventh in the conference as he is the only player on the list to start every game in goal for his team. Follow the Waves: Follow Pepperdine Water Polo on Twitter at @PeppWaterPolo and like the Waves on Facebook at Pepperdine Water Polo to get updates on everything happening with the program. Also follow Pepperdine Athletics on Instagram at @PepperdineWaves. PEPPERDINE WAVES WSOATCCERER P OLO- PAGE - P 2AGE 2 2014 PEPPERDINE MEN’S WATER POLO No. Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Yr. Exp. Hometown (Last School) 1 Zackery Rhodes GK 6-6 195 Fr. HS Palm Desert, Calif. (Palm Desert HS) 1A Philippe Marco GK 6-3 202 Fr. HS Atherton, Calif. (Sacred Heart Prep) 2 Wesley Sherburne ATK 5-10 185 Jr. 2V Newport Beach, Calif. (Corona del Mar HS) 3 Thomas Patten ATK 6-2 194 Sr.* TR Newport Beach, Calif. (Orange Coast College) HEAD COACH 4 Chase Mendoza C 6-3 210 Fr. HS Irvine, Calif. (Irvine HS) TERRY SCHROEDER 5 Kenneth Keller ATK 5-10 180 Fr. HS Long Beach, Calif. (Los Alamitos HS) 6 Brock Liebhardt CB 5-11 195 So.* 1V Fremont, Calif. (Washington HS) (PEPPERDINE, 1981) 7 Cristian Bridley C 6-8 200 So. 1V Santa Barbara, Calif. (Santa Barbara HS) 22ND YeAR AT PEPPERDINE 8 Justin Cowan ATK 5-9 165 Fr. HS Rossmoor, Calif. (Los Alamitos HS) 1997 NCAA 9 Grant Rawlins ATK 5-10 175 So.* RS Newport Beach, Calif. (Mater Dei HS) COACH OF THE YeAR 10 Robert Beck UTL 6-4 185 So.* 1V San Diego, Calif. (Cathedral Catholic HS) 11 Chandler Rockwell C 6-6 205 Fr.* HS Newark, Calif. (Newark Memorial HS) SCHROEDER FILE 12 Conner Kashyap UTL 6-0 180 Fr. HS Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. (Palos Verdes HS) 13 Jacob Schrimpf ATK/L 6-0 165 Sr.* 2V San Diego, Calif. (Cathedral Catholic HS) Water polo icon Terry Schroeder returned 14 Luke Hewko UTL 6-2 195 Jr.* 2V Santa Ana, Calif. (Servite HS) last season for his second tour of duty as 15 Ahmed Wahba ATK 6-0 188 Fr.* RS Cairo, Egypt the Pepperdine men’s water polo head 16 Jonathan Hirsch ATK 5-10 173 So.* TR Los Angeles, Calif. (Santa Monica College) 17 Charles Olsen ATK 6-1 180 Fr.* RS Santa Monica, Calif. (Santa Monica HS) coach. In his first stint with Pepperdine 19 Ka’ikena Naone UTL 6-4 185 Fr. HS Honolulu, Hawaii (Kamehameha HS) (1986-2005) he amassed 340 wins and 20 Sam Paur UTL 6-6 186 Fr. HS Poway, Calif. (Poway HS) a national championship in 1997. The Luka Simic ATK 6-4 224 Fr.* HS Belgrade, Serbia (Belgrade HS) head coach for USA Water Polo at the Coaching Staff last two Olympics, Schroeder has been Head Coach: Terry Schroeder (Pepperdine ’81) Assistant Coach: Merrill Moses (Pepperdine ’99) inducted into the Capital One Academic All- Volunteer Assistant: Mike Tragitt (Pepperdine ’14) America Hall of Fame (2013), International *Utilized a redshirt season Swimming Hall of Fame (2005), U.S. ^Cap Numbers Subject To Change Water Polo Hall of Fame (1998) and the Pepperdine Athletics Hall of Fame (1985). Expected Redshirts Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Yr. Exp. Hometown (Last School) Jens Cole ATK 5-10 150 Fr. HS Malibu, Calif. (Malibu HS) Evan Grimes C 6-9 180 Fr. HS Houston, Texas (Strake Jesuit Prep) Jack Harryman ATK 6-2 175 So. 1V Newport Beach, Calif. (Corona del Mar HS) Marko Madaras ATK 5-10 190 Sr. 3V Eger, Hungary (Golden West College) Alex Rose ATK 6-3 180 Fr. HS Coronado, Calif. (Coronado HS) Julian Stark C 6-1 185 Fr. HS Portland, Ore. (Lincoln HS) Zack Trotter ATK 6-0 194 Fr. HS Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. (Palos Verdes HS) ASSISTANT COACH MERRILL MOSES Pronunciation Guide Mike PEPPERDINETragitt – TRAD-jitt UNIVERSITY WATER POLO HISTORY (PEPPERDINE, 1999) Brock Liebhardt – QUICKLeeb-HART FACTS 3RD YeAR AT PEPPERDINE Welsey Sherburne – SHER-burn First Year ........................................................... 1975 Two-tIME OLYMPIAN Christian Bridley – BRIDE-lee All-Time Record (entering 2014) ...................702-452-8 Location ......................................Malibu, Calif. 90263 All-AmericAN Luke Hewko – HUE-ko seasons............................................................. 39 Founded .......................1937 (Malibu Campus 1972) Conner Kashyap – Kash-up All-Time Conf. Record (entering 2014) ............ 168-135 Enrollment ....................8,000 (3,000 undergraduate) MOSES FILE Ka’ikena Naone – Ka-EE-kena Na-OH-nee seasons ............................................................ 35 Nickname........................................................ Waves Sam Paur - Par NCAA Championship Appearances ....................... 12 Two-time U.S. Olympian (2008, 2012) and Colors ..................................Blue, Orange and White NCAA Championships .............................1 (1997) Conference ..............................................West Coast former Pepperdine All-American Merrill 2013 Record ....................................................... 9-13 President ...................................... Andrew K. Benton MPSF ....................................................1-7 (T-7th) Moses returns for the 2014 season as Athletic Director ................................ Dr. Steve Potts an assistant. A 2013 inductee into the Athletic Department phone ................(310) 506-4150 Pepperdine Athletics Hall of Fame, Moses Ticket Office phone ..........................(866) WAVE-TIX ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS Home Venue .............Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool led the United States to a gold medal at capacity ........................................................ 1,000 Director ..................................................Roger Horne the 2007 and 2011 Pan American Games. opened .......................................................... 1975 office phone ..................................(310) 506-4455 Moses also led the Waves to the 1997 renovated ...................................................... 2013 e-mail ..................... [email protected] national championship where they captured Assistant/MWP Contact ...................... Jacob Breems WATER POLO COACHES office phone ..................................(310) 506-4333 their first title. e-mail .................