{"id":267342,"date":"2017-07-22T08:45:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T15:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=267342"},"modified":"2017-07-22T08:51:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T15:51:13","slug":"adam-wright-to-lead-ucla-mens-and-womens-water-polo-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/adam-wright-to-lead-ucla-mens-and-womens-water-polo-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Wright to Lead UCLA Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Water Polo Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Correspondent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the UCLA Athletics Department announced that <strong>Adam Wright<\/strong>, current head coach for the Bruin\u2019s men\u2019s water polo program, will also assume coaching responsibility for the UCLA women\u2019s program. The selection puts Wright, a Bruin alum who also starred for the U.S. Men\u2019s National Team, in charge of two of the most prestigious water polo programs in the country.<\/p>\n<p>UCLA Director of Athletics <strong>Dan Guerrero<\/strong> moved quickly fill the position vacated last month when <strong>Brandon Brooks<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/uclas-brooks-steps-down-after-8-seasons-stanford-is-likely-culprit\/\" target=\"_blank\">stepped down<\/a> after eight seasons makes Wright\u2014who coached the UCLA men\u2019s water polo team to back-to-back NCAA Championships in 2014 and 2015\u2014one of the few coaches in America coaching both men and women at the varsity level. In the NCAA Division I water polo coaching community, only <strong>Jovan Vavic<\/strong>, head coach for the University of Southern California\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s programs, has comparable responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released Thursday, <strong>Guerrero<\/strong> spoke glowingly of Wright and his success in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUCLA Water Polo could not be in better hands,\u201d said Guerrero. \u201cAdam\u2019s winning record as the men\u2019s coach speaks for itself, but just as impressive is the culture he is able to create through his exceptional leadership abilities, as well as his talent for helping student-athletes develop into well-rounded individuals. I fully expect both programs to thrive, individually and together, under Adam\u2019s oversight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wright was understandably excited about the expanded coaching opportunities at his alma mater. In addition to his titles as a head coach, the forty-year old helped bring back-to-back NCAA championships to Westwood during his junior and senior years (1999, 2000).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am extremely honored to serve as the head coach for both UCLA men\u2019s and women\u2019s water polo teams,\u201d Wright said in the UCLA\u2019s Athletic Department\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uclabruins.com\/news\/2017\/7\/20\/wright-to-lead-mens-womens-water-polo-teams.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a>. \u201cIt is an incredible opportunity to coach the most storied program in women\u2019s water polo. The foundation is already in place for both teams, and I am looking forward to this new challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Wright\u2019s men\u2019s team had an NCAA-record 57-match winning streak snapped by USC. The nation\u2019s top ranked team for much of the season, UCLA was beaten in the semifinals of the 2016 NCAA Men\u2019s Water Polo Tournament by eventual champs Cal.<\/p>\n<p>The Bruin\u2019s women\u2019s team finished last season on a sour note with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/steffens-goal-all-around-effort-leads-stanford-past-ucla-in-2017-ncaa-title-match\/\" target=\"_blank\">8-7 loss<\/a> to archrival Stanford in the finals of the 2017 NCAA Women\u2019s Water Polo Tournament. Brooks\u2019 veteran squad\u2014there were four 5th-year seniors on the team\u2014went into the match as the country&#8217;s top team, only to fall to the Cardinal in the NCAA title match for the third time in the last four season.<\/p>\n<p>Graduating seniors <strong>Rachel Fattal <\/strong>and<strong> <strong>Alys Williams<\/strong><\/strong>\u2014currently with the U.S. women\u2019s team competing in the 2017 FINA World Championships\u2014will be missed next season as well as graduates <strong>Kodi Hill <\/strong>and <strong>Alexa Tielmann<\/strong>. But the Bruin talent reservoir is hardly depleted. <strong>Maddie Musselman<\/strong>\u2014also in Budapest with Team USA\u2014is arguably the most exciting young player in American women\u2019s water polo. Musselman will return for her sophomore year in 2018, as will <strong>Bronte Halligan<\/strong>, currently playing for the Australian team competing at FINA Worlds.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his tenure as UCLA men&#8217;s head coach, Wright was a four-year letter winner at UCLA from 1997-2000. He totaled 128 goals in his four seasons and was a two-time All-American. Following his collegiate career, he served as a key member on the USA National Team, participating in the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games, helping lead Team USA to its highest-ever Olympic finish,\u00a0 a silver medal in 2008 at the Beijing Games.<\/p>\n<p>One challenge for the accomplished player and coach is the incredible record of success at UCLA, as typified by <strong>John Wooden<\/strong>. The \u201cWizard of Westwood\u201d won an unprecedented 10 NCAA men\u2019s basketball championships from 1963-1975\u2014including seven in a row\u2014and is universally acknowledged as the greatest college basketball coach in history. Until May of this year, the Bruins held the record for NCAA championships at 113, until tied ironically by Stanford, a result of the Cardinal\u2019s win over UCLA in the women\u2019s water polo title match.<\/p>\n<p>Wright is now the third coach in UCLA water polo history to oversee both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams simultaneously. The other two \u2013 <strong>Guy Baker<\/strong> and <strong>Adam Krikorian<\/strong> \u2013 are both in the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame. The expectations are high but Wright\u2019s success at UCLA\u2014including an overall men&#8217;s record of 206-33 (.862) and an Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) mark of 50-10 (.833)\u2014suggests that he is well equipped to lead both the Bruins men\u2019s and women\u2019s programs to additional championship hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Correspondent Earlier this week, the UCLA Athletics Department announced that Adam Wright, current head coach for the Bruin\u2019s men\u2019s water polo program, will also assume<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4875,"featured_media":267351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[3384,383,62700,61254,4368,61256,62701,1756,10498,2763,61960,37598,32490,60880,60863],"class_list":["post-267342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-water-polo","tag-adam-krikorian","tag-adam-wright","tag-alexa-tielmann","tag-alys-williams","tag-brandon-brooks","tag-bronte-halligan","tag-dan-guerrero","tag-guy-baker","tag-john-wooden","tag-jovan-vavic","tag-kodi-hill","tag-maddie-musselman","tag-rachel-fattal","tag-ucla-mens-water-polo","tag-ucla-womens-water-polo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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