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Freshman Ben Larsen is one of six newcomers this season that are averaging at least one goal per game in the first seven contests of 2023.
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No. 2 UCLA Faces First True Road Tests of 2023
September 14, 2023 | Men's Water Polo
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LOS ANGELES โ No. 2 UCLA (7-0, 1-0 MPSFย WEST) faces its first true road tests of the 2023 campaign this week as the Bruins travel to take on No. 7 Pacific (5-0), and No. 11 UC Davis (5-1). UCLA and Pacific will square off on Saturday, Sept. 16 at 1:00 p.m. at Chris Kjeldsen Pool and will take on the Aggies at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 17 at Schaalย Aquatics Center. As of now, neither foe is streaming the game, but UC Davis will provide live stats on theย FOSH platform. You can also follow along with live scoring updates on the Bruins' official account on Twitter(X).
SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
Saturday, Sept. 16 (Non-Conference Gameย - Chris Kjeldsen Poolย at the Douglass M. Eberhardtย Aquatics Center)
1:00 PMย PT โ No. 2 UCLA atย No. 7 Pacific
Sunday, Sept.ย 17 (Non-Conference Gameย - Schaalย Aquatics Center)
1:00 PMย PT โ No. 2 UCLA at No. 11 UC Davis |ย LIVE STATS
SERIES HISTORY
UCLA is 54-4 all-time against the Pacific Tigers. The Bruins won last year's meeting, 12-11, at home on Sept. 30.
UCLA is 19-0 all-time against UC Davis. UCLA won last year's meeting, 10-9, at homeย on Oct. 22, 2022.
FREDERICO JUCÁย CARSALADE NAMED MPSF WEST/S&R SPORT NEWCOMER OF THE WEEK
UCLA redshirt freshman attacker Frederico Jucá Carsaladeย (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil/Escola Nova) has been named the MPSFย West/S&R Sport Newcomer of the Weekย as announced by the league office on Sept. 11.ย Jucáย Carsalade helped lead UCLA to a 3-0 record last week and remain undefeated on the year at 7-0. The Bruins picked up two more wins over ranked teams, including opening MPSF play with an 11-9 win at home over No. 6 Stanford on Sept. 9. UCLA also defeated No. 12 UC San Diego, 14-7, and Cal Lutheran, 21-6, at the Inland Empire Classic on Sept. 10.ย After redshirting last season and missing the first weekend of this year due to injury, he finished tied for the team lead with two others in scoring over the three games with seven goals. He made a huge splash in his collegiate debut against the Cardinal, tallying two goals, two assists, two drawn exclusions, and one steal. Scored back-to-back goals in the third quarter with UCLA trailing by two to tie the game at 5-5. Then with UCLA trailing 8-6 in the fourth, he set up his teammates twice with back-to-back assists to tie the game. On the next possession, he registered a steal that led to a counter goal to give UCLA its first lead of the game at 9-8 with 3:18 remaining.ย He came up big against the Tritons as well when his team needed him. With the Bruins leading just 4-3 at halftime, he scored once, recorded three steals, and had one field block in the third period as UCLA would win the quarter, 7-3, en route to the lopsided victory. He finished with the first hat trick of his career against UCSD. He scored twice and added one steal and drew one exclusion in the win over Cal Lutheran.ย For the weekend, he had a team-high-tying seven goals (on just nine shots, shooting at a 77.8 percent clip), five steals, drew three exclusions, talliedย two assists, and registeredย two field blocks. It markedย Jucáย Carsalade's first career MPSF award..
BEN LIECHTY NAMED MPSF WEST/S&R SPORT NEWCOMER OF THE WEEK
UCLA true freshman utilityย Ben Liechtyย (Newport Beach, Calif./Newport Harbor HS) wasย named the MPSFย West/S&R Sport Newcomer of the Weekย as announced by the league office on Sept. 5. Liechty heped lead UCLA to a 4-0 record at the Triton Invitational, including two wins over Top 10 teams.ย He led the Bruins in scoring with 10 goals, netting multiple goals in all four contests.ย He had two goals in the win over No. 7 UC Santa Barbara and followed with a team-high three goals in the win over Cal State Fullerton on Saturday. Then on Sunday, he tallied two scores in the win over No. 10 UC Irvine and registered another hat trick against Concordia University Irvine. He also had one assist against the Gauchos, one assist and drew an exclusion against the Titans, one assist against the Anteaters, and one assist, one steal, one field block, and drew one exclusion against the Golden Eagles.ย For the weekend, he had 10 goals (on just 14 shots, shooting at a 71.4 percent clip), four assists, drew two exclusions, had one field block, and one steal. It marked Liechty's first career MPSF award.
UCLA PICKED TO FINISH SECOND IN MPSF
The UCLA Bruins will enter the 2023 season as the third-ranked team in the CWPAย Men's Varsity Top 20ย Preseason Poll and has been picked to finish second (tie) in the MPSF.ย Back-to-back defending NCAA Champion California recorded 48 points and six first-place votes in the MPSF Men's Water Polo Coaches' poll, and was picked to win the 2023 MPSF's Western Division title.ย UCLA and USC picked up the remaining first-place votes and tied for second in the west with 39 points. Stanford collected 34 points to finish fourth in the poll. In the MPSF's Eastern Division, Austin College was voted first (22 points), followed by Augustana (20), Washington & Jefferson (13) and Penn State Behrend (nine).
RETURNING ALL-AMERICANS
The Bruins return just two 2022 All-Americans for the 2023 season in Bernardo Mauriziย (Second Team)ย and Gianpiero Di Martireย (Second Team). Maurizi, a three-time All-American, returns for his fifth season in the cage for the Bruins. Di Martire earned his first All-America honors after ranking second on the team in scoring with 43 goals last year.
RETURNING ALL-MPSF PLAYERS
The Bruins return four of a league-high eightย 2022 All-MPSF selections for the 2023 season. In addition toย Bernardo Mauriziย (First Team)ย and Gianpiero Di Martireย (Second Team), the Bruins regain the services of super senior attacker Jack Larsen (Second Team) and senior attacker Makoto Kenney (Honorable Mention).
SUPER SENIORS
Super senior goalkeeper Bernardo Mauriziย and super senior attacker Jack Larsenย have both decided to return to Westwood for a fifth and final season. The duo have been afforded the opportunity due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
DODD OUT FOR 2023
Junior attacker Chase Dodd has decided to take an Olympic year and will not be in uniform for the Bruins during the 2023 campaign. He will continue to train with the U.S. National Team in hopes of being named to the 2024 Olympic Games roster.
UCLA 2023 OUTLOOK
UCLA returns three of its top six scorers and all three goalkeepers that saw action a year ago for the 2023 season. The Bruins made their 37th appearance in the NCAA Championship in 2022, finishing with a 22-5 record. Four of the five losses on the year were by just one goal.
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UCLA had a league-best eight players earn 2022 Delfina All-MPSF West accolades, highlighted by attacker Jake Cavano (45 goals, graduated), attacker Tommy Gruwell (31 goals, graduated), and senior goalkeeper Bernardo Maurizi (16-5, returning, using COVID year), who were all named first-team All-MPSF. Redshirt junior attacker Gianpiero Di Martire (43 goals, returning), junior attacker Chase Dodd (39 goals, taking an Olympic year), and senior attacker Jack Larsen (20 goals, returning), were all named to the second team. Utility Evan Rosenfeld (12 goals, graduated) and senior attacker Makoto Kenney (21 goals, returning) both garnered honorable mention plaudits. Cavano was the lone Bruin to earn first-team All-America honors while Maurizi, Di Martire, and Gruwell each earned second-team accolades. Dodd earned honorable mention All-America honors for the first time in his career.
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The Bruins also return some capable scorers in sophomore attacker Noah Rowe (17 goals), sophomore utility Gray Carson (16 goals), redshirt sophomore center Grant Loth (12 goals), redshirt sophomore Eli Liechty (12 goals in 2021), senior attacker Hayden Nightingale (10 goals), redshirt senior utility Giorgio Alessandria (10 goals), redshirt junior utility Maximo Rossi (7 goals), redshirt sophomore attacker Anthony Gross (3 goals), and redshirt sophomore attacker Trey Doten (3 goals).
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UCLA also welcomes back redshirt freshmen Vinnie Merk (Huntington Beach, Calif., Mater Dei HS) and Ben Larsen (Lafayette, Calif., Campolindo HS) who both sat out last season and traveled with UCLA as part of Team USA for the World University Games in China in late July and early August of 2023.
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The Bruins will look to replace Cavano, Gruwell, Rosenfeld, and for one season, Dodd, but also lost the services of Andy Rodgers, Cameron Reagan, Gabe Discipulo, Max Berg, and Jack White to graduation.
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Arriving in Westwood this season and looking to make an immediate impact are freshmen Ben Liechty (Newport Beach, Calif., Newport Harbor HS), Max Matthews (Tiburon, Calif., Redwood HS), Wade Sherlock (Long Beach, Calif., Orange Lutheran HS), Nathan Tauscher (Sunset Beach, Calif., Mater Dei HS), and Marcell Szécsi (Budapest, Hungary, Kolping Katolikus Iskola). UCLA also welcomes in one player from the transfer portal, two-time Golden Coast Conference Player of the Year, Rafael Real Vergara (Long Beach State, 192 goals in three seasons).
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A CHAMPIONSHIP PROGRAM
The UCLA Bruins captured their 12th NCAA Championship in men's water polo with a 7-6 win at USCย on Mar. 21, 2021, at USC's Uytengsu Aquatics Center. The win also marked the 119th NCAA Championship for the UCLA Athletic Department. It was a balanced scoring effort by the Bruins, who received goals from six different players. Juniorย Jake Cavano, who was named to the 2020 First-Team All-NCAA Tournament,ย scored two goals, including the eventual difference maker with 6:23 left in the game. Sophomore goalkeeperย Bernardo Maurizi, who also was named First-Team All-NCAA Tournament, held the Trojans scoreless throughout the first half and racked up nine saves. UCLA never trailed in the game, though USC briefly pulled even at 4-4. Nicolas Saveljic was named the NCAA Tournament MVP.
THE WRIGHT STUFF
After guiding the Bruins to the NCAA Championship in 2020 and being named the ACWPC National Coach of the Year, Adam Wright returns for his 15th season as UCLA's head men's water polo coach in 2023 with an overall record of 325-63 (.838) and an MPSF mark of 62-24 (.721). His teams earned perfect APR (Academic Progress Rate) scores of 1,000 in 2014, 2015 and 2016 while winning the school's 112th, 113th and 114th NCAA Championships in 2014, 2015 and 2017. Wright added the fourth NCAA Championship to his resume as a head coach in 2020 (Mar. 21, 2021) and a fourth perfect APR score in 2021. On July 20, 2017, then-UCLA Director of Athletics, Dan Guerrero, announced that Wrightย will guide both the UCLA men's and women's water polo teams. Wright was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame on June 20, 2019, and to the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2020. On March 22, 2022, UCLA Director of Athletics, Martin Jarmond, announced that Wright had signed a new six-year contract, starting in July of 2022, as the Head Coach for both of the Bruins' Men's and Women's Water Polo programs.ย
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RECAPPING 2022
Overall Record: 22-5 |ย Final Ranking: 3rd | NCAA Finish: T-3rd |ย MPSFย Tournament Finish: 4th
The UCLA Bruins made their 37th appearance in the NCAA Championship in 2022, finishing with a 22-5 record. Four of the five losses on the year were by just one goal. UCLA had a league-best eight players earn 2022 Delfina All-MPSF West accolades, highlighted by super senior attacker Jake Cavano, senior attacker Tommy Gruwell, and senior goalkeeper Bernardo Maurizi, who were all named first-team All-MPSF. Redshirt sophomore attacker Gianpiero Di Martire, sophomore attacker Chase Dodd, and junior attacker Jack Larsen, were all named to the second team. Super senior utility Evan Rosenfeld and junior attacker Makoto Kenney both garnered honorable mention plaudits. Cavano was the lone Bruin to earn first-team All-America honors while Maurizi, Di Martire, and Gruwell each earned second-team accolades. Dodd earned honorable mention All-America honors for the first time in his career.
POLLING THE BRUINS
UCLA jumped a spot toย No. 2 in this week's CWPAย National Men's Varsity Top 20 Poll (95 points), released on Sept. 13.
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LOS ANGELES โ No. 2 UCLA (7-0, 1-0 MPSFย WEST) faces its first true road tests of the 2023 campaign this week as the Bruins travel to take on No. 7 Pacific (5-0), and No. 11 UC Davis (5-1). UCLA and Pacific will square off on Saturday, Sept. 16 at 1:00 p.m. at Chris Kjeldsen Pool and will take on the Aggies at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 17 at Schaalย Aquatics Center. As of now, neither foe is streaming the game, but UC Davis will provide live stats on theย FOSH platform. You can also follow along with live scoring updates on the Bruins' official account on Twitter(X).
SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
Saturday, Sept. 16 (Non-Conference Gameย - Chris Kjeldsen Poolย at the Douglass M. Eberhardtย Aquatics Center)
1:00 PMย PT โ No. 2 UCLA atย No. 7 Pacific
Sunday, Sept.ย 17 (Non-Conference Gameย - Schaalย Aquatics Center)
1:00 PMย PT โ No. 2 UCLA at No. 11 UC Davis |ย LIVE STATS
SERIES HISTORY
UCLA is 54-4 all-time against the Pacific Tigers. The Bruins won last year's meeting, 12-11, at home on Sept. 30.
UCLA is 19-0 all-time against UC Davis. UCLA won last year's meeting, 10-9, at homeย on Oct. 22, 2022.
FREDERICO JUCÁย CARSALADE NAMED MPSF WEST/S&R SPORT NEWCOMER OF THE WEEK
UCLA redshirt freshman attacker Frederico Jucá Carsaladeย (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil/Escola Nova) has been named the MPSFย West/S&R Sport Newcomer of the Weekย as announced by the league office on Sept. 11.ย Jucáย Carsalade helped lead UCLA to a 3-0 record last week and remain undefeated on the year at 7-0. The Bruins picked up two more wins over ranked teams, including opening MPSF play with an 11-9 win at home over No. 6 Stanford on Sept. 9. UCLA also defeated No. 12 UC San Diego, 14-7, and Cal Lutheran, 21-6, at the Inland Empire Classic on Sept. 10.ย After redshirting last season and missing the first weekend of this year due to injury, he finished tied for the team lead with two others in scoring over the three games with seven goals. He made a huge splash in his collegiate debut against the Cardinal, tallying two goals, two assists, two drawn exclusions, and one steal. Scored back-to-back goals in the third quarter with UCLA trailing by two to tie the game at 5-5. Then with UCLA trailing 8-6 in the fourth, he set up his teammates twice with back-to-back assists to tie the game. On the next possession, he registered a steal that led to a counter goal to give UCLA its first lead of the game at 9-8 with 3:18 remaining.ย He came up big against the Tritons as well when his team needed him. With the Bruins leading just 4-3 at halftime, he scored once, recorded three steals, and had one field block in the third period as UCLA would win the quarter, 7-3, en route to the lopsided victory. He finished with the first hat trick of his career against UCSD. He scored twice and added one steal and drew one exclusion in the win over Cal Lutheran.ย For the weekend, he had a team-high-tying seven goals (on just nine shots, shooting at a 77.8 percent clip), five steals, drew three exclusions, talliedย two assists, and registeredย two field blocks. It markedย Jucáย Carsalade's first career MPSF award..
BEN LIECHTY NAMED MPSF WEST/S&R SPORT NEWCOMER OF THE WEEK
UCLA true freshman utilityย Ben Liechtyย (Newport Beach, Calif./Newport Harbor HS) wasย named the MPSFย West/S&R Sport Newcomer of the Weekย as announced by the league office on Sept. 5. Liechty heped lead UCLA to a 4-0 record at the Triton Invitational, including two wins over Top 10 teams.ย He led the Bruins in scoring with 10 goals, netting multiple goals in all four contests.ย He had two goals in the win over No. 7 UC Santa Barbara and followed with a team-high three goals in the win over Cal State Fullerton on Saturday. Then on Sunday, he tallied two scores in the win over No. 10 UC Irvine and registered another hat trick against Concordia University Irvine. He also had one assist against the Gauchos, one assist and drew an exclusion against the Titans, one assist against the Anteaters, and one assist, one steal, one field block, and drew one exclusion against the Golden Eagles.ย For the weekend, he had 10 goals (on just 14 shots, shooting at a 71.4 percent clip), four assists, drew two exclusions, had one field block, and one steal. It marked Liechty's first career MPSF award.
UCLA PICKED TO FINISH SECOND IN MPSF
The UCLA Bruins will enter the 2023 season as the third-ranked team in the CWPAย Men's Varsity Top 20ย Preseason Poll and has been picked to finish second (tie) in the MPSF.ย Back-to-back defending NCAA Champion California recorded 48 points and six first-place votes in the MPSF Men's Water Polo Coaches' poll, and was picked to win the 2023 MPSF's Western Division title.ย UCLA and USC picked up the remaining first-place votes and tied for second in the west with 39 points. Stanford collected 34 points to finish fourth in the poll. In the MPSF's Eastern Division, Austin College was voted first (22 points), followed by Augustana (20), Washington & Jefferson (13) and Penn State Behrend (nine).
RETURNING ALL-AMERICANS
The Bruins return just two 2022 All-Americans for the 2023 season in Bernardo Mauriziย (Second Team)ย and Gianpiero Di Martireย (Second Team). Maurizi, a three-time All-American, returns for his fifth season in the cage for the Bruins. Di Martire earned his first All-America honors after ranking second on the team in scoring with 43 goals last year.
RETURNING ALL-MPSF PLAYERS
The Bruins return four of a league-high eightย 2022 All-MPSF selections for the 2023 season. In addition toย Bernardo Mauriziย (First Team)ย and Gianpiero Di Martireย (Second Team), the Bruins regain the services of super senior attacker Jack Larsen (Second Team) and senior attacker Makoto Kenney (Honorable Mention).
SUPER SENIORS
Super senior goalkeeper Bernardo Mauriziย and super senior attacker Jack Larsenย have both decided to return to Westwood for a fifth and final season. The duo have been afforded the opportunity due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
DODD OUT FOR 2023
Junior attacker Chase Dodd has decided to take an Olympic year and will not be in uniform for the Bruins during the 2023 campaign. He will continue to train with the U.S. National Team in hopes of being named to the 2024 Olympic Games roster.
UCLA 2023 OUTLOOK
UCLA returns three of its top six scorers and all three goalkeepers that saw action a year ago for the 2023 season. The Bruins made their 37th appearance in the NCAA Championship in 2022, finishing with a 22-5 record. Four of the five losses on the year were by just one goal.
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UCLA had a league-best eight players earn 2022 Delfina All-MPSF West accolades, highlighted by attacker Jake Cavano (45 goals, graduated), attacker Tommy Gruwell (31 goals, graduated), and senior goalkeeper Bernardo Maurizi (16-5, returning, using COVID year), who were all named first-team All-MPSF. Redshirt junior attacker Gianpiero Di Martire (43 goals, returning), junior attacker Chase Dodd (39 goals, taking an Olympic year), and senior attacker Jack Larsen (20 goals, returning), were all named to the second team. Utility Evan Rosenfeld (12 goals, graduated) and senior attacker Makoto Kenney (21 goals, returning) both garnered honorable mention plaudits. Cavano was the lone Bruin to earn first-team All-America honors while Maurizi, Di Martire, and Gruwell each earned second-team accolades. Dodd earned honorable mention All-America honors for the first time in his career.
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The Bruins also return some capable scorers in sophomore attacker Noah Rowe (17 goals), sophomore utility Gray Carson (16 goals), redshirt sophomore center Grant Loth (12 goals), redshirt sophomore Eli Liechty (12 goals in 2021), senior attacker Hayden Nightingale (10 goals), redshirt senior utility Giorgio Alessandria (10 goals), redshirt junior utility Maximo Rossi (7 goals), redshirt sophomore attacker Anthony Gross (3 goals), and redshirt sophomore attacker Trey Doten (3 goals).
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UCLA also welcomes back redshirt freshmen Vinnie Merk (Huntington Beach, Calif., Mater Dei HS) and Ben Larsen (Lafayette, Calif., Campolindo HS) who both sat out last season and traveled with UCLA as part of Team USA for the World University Games in China in late July and early August of 2023.
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The Bruins will look to replace Cavano, Gruwell, Rosenfeld, and for one season, Dodd, but also lost the services of Andy Rodgers, Cameron Reagan, Gabe Discipulo, Max Berg, and Jack White to graduation.
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Arriving in Westwood this season and looking to make an immediate impact are freshmen Ben Liechty (Newport Beach, Calif., Newport Harbor HS), Max Matthews (Tiburon, Calif., Redwood HS), Wade Sherlock (Long Beach, Calif., Orange Lutheran HS), Nathan Tauscher (Sunset Beach, Calif., Mater Dei HS), and Marcell Szécsi (Budapest, Hungary, Kolping Katolikus Iskola). UCLA also welcomes in one player from the transfer portal, two-time Golden Coast Conference Player of the Year, Rafael Real Vergara (Long Beach State, 192 goals in three seasons).
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A CHAMPIONSHIP PROGRAM
The UCLA Bruins captured their 12th NCAA Championship in men's water polo with a 7-6 win at USCย on Mar. 21, 2021, at USC's Uytengsu Aquatics Center. The win also marked the 119th NCAA Championship for the UCLA Athletic Department. It was a balanced scoring effort by the Bruins, who received goals from six different players. Juniorย Jake Cavano, who was named to the 2020 First-Team All-NCAA Tournament,ย scored two goals, including the eventual difference maker with 6:23 left in the game. Sophomore goalkeeperย Bernardo Maurizi, who also was named First-Team All-NCAA Tournament, held the Trojans scoreless throughout the first half and racked up nine saves. UCLA never trailed in the game, though USC briefly pulled even at 4-4. Nicolas Saveljic was named the NCAA Tournament MVP.
THE WRIGHT STUFF
After guiding the Bruins to the NCAA Championship in 2020 and being named the ACWPC National Coach of the Year, Adam Wright returns for his 15th season as UCLA's head men's water polo coach in 2023 with an overall record of 325-63 (.838) and an MPSF mark of 62-24 (.721). His teams earned perfect APR (Academic Progress Rate) scores of 1,000 in 2014, 2015 and 2016 while winning the school's 112th, 113th and 114th NCAA Championships in 2014, 2015 and 2017. Wright added the fourth NCAA Championship to his resume as a head coach in 2020 (Mar. 21, 2021) and a fourth perfect APR score in 2021. On July 20, 2017, then-UCLA Director of Athletics, Dan Guerrero, announced that Wrightย will guide both the UCLA men's and women's water polo teams. Wright was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame on June 20, 2019, and to the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2020. On March 22, 2022, UCLA Director of Athletics, Martin Jarmond, announced that Wright had signed a new six-year contract, starting in July of 2022, as the Head Coach for both of the Bruins' Men's and Women's Water Polo programs.ย
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RECAPPING 2022
Overall Record: 22-5 |ย Final Ranking: 3rd | NCAA Finish: T-3rd |ย MPSFย Tournament Finish: 4th
The UCLA Bruins made their 37th appearance in the NCAA Championship in 2022, finishing with a 22-5 record. Four of the five losses on the year were by just one goal. UCLA had a league-best eight players earn 2022 Delfina All-MPSF West accolades, highlighted by super senior attacker Jake Cavano, senior attacker Tommy Gruwell, and senior goalkeeper Bernardo Maurizi, who were all named first-team All-MPSF. Redshirt sophomore attacker Gianpiero Di Martire, sophomore attacker Chase Dodd, and junior attacker Jack Larsen, were all named to the second team. Super senior utility Evan Rosenfeld and junior attacker Makoto Kenney both garnered honorable mention plaudits. Cavano was the lone Bruin to earn first-team All-America honors while Maurizi, Di Martire, and Gruwell each earned second-team accolades. Dodd earned honorable mention All-America honors for the first time in his career.
POLLING THE BRUINS
UCLA jumped a spot toย No. 2 in this week's CWPAย National Men's Varsity Top 20 Poll (95 points), released on Sept. 13.
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ย 2023 MEN'S VARSITY TOP 20 (WEEK 2 - SEPTEMBERย 13) |
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| ย Rank | ย Team | ย 2022 Final Poll | ย Points |
| ย 1 | ย California | ย 1 | ย 100 |
| ย 2 | ย UCLA | ย 2 | ย 95 |
| ย 3 | ย USC | ย 3 | ย 89 |
| ย 4 | ย Pepperdine | ย 8 (T) | ย 79 |
| ย 5 | ย Princeton | ย 6 (T) | ย 75 |
| ย 6 | ย Stanford | ย 6 (T) | ย 74 |
| ย 7 | ย Pacific | ย 5 | ย 70 |
| ย 8 | ย Long Beach State | ย 8 (T) | ย 63 |
| ย 9 | ย UC Irvine | ย 8 (T) | ย 60 |
| ย 10 | ย San Joseย State | ย 16 | ย 48 |
| ย 11 (T) | ย UC Davis | ย 4 | ย 45 |
| ย 11 (T) | ย UC Santa Barbara | ย 11 | ย 45 |
| ย 11 (T) | ย California Baptist University | ย 15 | ย 45 |
| ย 14 | ย UC San Diego | ย 12 | ย 42 |
| ย 15 | ย Loyola Marymount | ย 14 | ย 34 |
| ย 16 | ย Brown | ย 17 | ย 24 |
| ย 17 | ย Fordham | ย 20 (T) | ย 17 |
| ย 18 | ย Navy | ย 13 | ย 13 |
| ย 19 | ย Harvard | ย 18 | ย 9 |
| ย 20 (T) | ย Santa Clara | ย 19 | ย 8 |
| ย 20 (T) | ย Air Force | ย 20 (T) | ย 8 |
| ย RV | ย Cal State Fullerton | ย NR | ย 4 |
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