The USA Water Polo Hall of Fame, located in
Irvine, California
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, is a
hall of fame
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dedicated to honoring players, coaches and officials who have contributed greatly to the game of
water polo
Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with the ...
in the
United States of America
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. It was established in 1976 by the
USA Water Polo
USA Water Polo is the governing body of the sport of water polo in the United States and is a member of the United States Aquatic Sports. USA Water Polo is responsible for fielding national teams and hosts 20 annual tournaments. The Organization h ...
, which is the national
governing body
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in the country.
Committee
* Brent Bohlender, Chair
*
Adam Wright
*
Brenda Villa
Brenda Villa (born April 18, 1980) is an accomplished American water polo player. She is the most decorated athlete in the world of women’s water polo. Villa was named Female Water Polo Player of the Decade for 2000-2009 by the FINA Aquatics Wo ...
* Dion Gray
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Heather Moody
*
Kirk Everist
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Natalie Golda Benson
* Scot Schulte
Inductees
As of 2020, 230 individuals have been elected.
1970s
Class of 1976
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Kenneth M. Beck
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Lemoine S. Case
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Austin R. Clapp
# John J. Curren
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Harold N. Dash
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Phillip B. Daubenspeck
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Dixon Fiske
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Samuel J. Greller
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Lou DeBrenda Handley
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Robert E. Hughes
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Edward L. Jaworski
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William A. Kooistra
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Michael J. McDermott
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Perry McGillivray
# Jay-Ehret Mahoney
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Wallace O'Connor
# John Robinson
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Urho (Whitney) Saari
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George E. Schroth
# James R. Smith
# Frank Sullivan
# Vernon "Vern" Tittle
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Herbert E. "Hal" Vollmer
# Paul Wacker
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Wallace P. "Wally" Wolf
Class of 1977
# Frederick Bassett
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Marvin "Ace" D. Burns
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Ronald Crawford
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Joseph Farley
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Robert Horn
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Samuel Kooistra
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John Miller
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H. Jamison Handy
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Joseph Ruddy
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Raymond Ruddy
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Ronald Severa
Class of 1979
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Arthur Austin
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Charles Bittick
Charles Greene Bittick Jr. (November 2, 1939 – April 28, 2005) was an American water polo player and swimmer. He was a member of the American water polo team that finished seventh at the 1960 Olympics. He played five matches and scored three goa ...
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Ralph Budelman
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James Gaughran
James Alan Gaughran (born July 5, 1932) was an American water polo player, competitive swimmer, and former Hall of Fame Stanford Head Swimming and Water Polo Coach from 1960–73. Gaughran competed in Water Polo for the U.S. in the 1956 Summer O ...
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Fred Lauer
1980s
Class of 1980
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Bob Bray
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Harry A. Bisbey
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Harry Hebner
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Charles McCallister
# Francis McDermott
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Charles McIlroy
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George Mitchell
# R. Max Ritter
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Clyde Swendsen
Clyde Acle Swendsen (May 25, 1895 – December 1, 1979) was an American diver, water polo player and coach. He won the Amateur Athletic Union, AAU titles in the 10 m platform in 1918 and in the springboard in 1919–20 and competed at the 1920 S ...
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Donald Tierney
Class of 1981
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Robert Frojen
Robert "Bob" Charles Frojen (December 1, 1930 – December 11, 2005) was an American water polo player of German descent who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Frojen was a member of the American water polo team which finished fifth in th ...
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Donald Good
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Neil Kohlhase
# Charlie Schroeder
# Albert Schwartz
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John Spargo
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Calvert Strong
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William Vosburg
Class of 1982
# Carl Bauer
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Steven Barnett
# Andrew Burke
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Elmer Collett
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Kenneth Hahn
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# Arthur Koblish
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Robert Koehler
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Koehler was born in Hamburg; his family spelled their name Köhler until ...
# Francis Moorman
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John Parker
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Roy Saari
Roy Allen Saari (February 26, 1945 – December 30, 2008) was an American swimmer and water polo player. He qualified for the 1964 Summer Olympics in both disciplines, and chose swimming, as the Olympic rules of the time did not allow him to c ...
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Gary Sheerer
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Anthony Van Dorp
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Dean Willeford
Class of 1983
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David Ashleigh
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Devere "Chris" Christensen
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Charles Finn
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William Kelly
# Bruce Kidder
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Edwin Knox
# Richard "Hoot" Newman
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William Ross
# Burton Shaw
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Herbert Wildman
Class of 1984
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Peter Asch
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Bruce Bradley
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Stanley Cole
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# Robert Helmick
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George Stransky
George Stransky (born January 16, 1944) is an American water polo player. He competed in the Water polo at the 1964 Summer Olympics, men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics. In 1984, he was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame.
Se ...
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Russell Webb
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Barry Weitzenberg
Class of 1985
# A. M. "Pete" Archer
# Heber Holloway
# Marty Hull
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Arthur Lambert
# Terry Sayring
Class of 1986
# David "Jay" Flood
Class of 1987
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Peter Schnugg
Class of 1988
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Eric Lindroth
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Gus Sundstrom
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George Van Cleaf
George W. Van Cleaf (October 8, 1879 – January 6, 1905) was an American water polo player and swimmer who represented the United States at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri. At the 1904 Olympics, Van Cleaf was sponsored by the ...
Class of 1989
# Frank F. Connor
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Christopher "Chris" T. Dorst
# Ogden Reid
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John Siman
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Jon Svendsen
# William Hale Thompson
1990s
Class of 1990
# John R. Felix
# William "Bill" W.R. Schroeder
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Ronald "Ron" L. Volmer
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Otto Wahle
Otto Wahle (5 November 1879 – 11 August 1963) was an Austrian-American swimmer who took part in two Summer Olympic Games and won a total of three medals. Wahle coached the men's US swim team at the 1912 Olympics, and the men's US water polo t ...
Class of 1991
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Andrew "Drew" McDonald
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Timothy A. Shaw
Class of 1992
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Gary Figueroa
# Robert K. "Bob" Gaughran
# Becky Shaw
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Joseph Michael "Joe" Vargas
Class of 1993
# William "Buck" Dawson
# Barbara J. Kalbus
# William "Eagle" McMarthy
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Kenneth M. "Monte" Nitzkowski
# James W. "Jim" Schultz
Class of 1994
# Arthur D. "Art" Adamson
# Jules J. Ameno
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Douglas Lambert "Doug" Burke
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Jody D. Campbell
# Charles B. "Shorty" Dwight III
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Steven "Harpo" Hamann
# Charles "Chuck" Metz
# George Ratkovic
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Kevin Robertson
Kevin George Robertson (born February 8, 1959) is an American former water polo player, who won two Olympic silver medals during his career: in 1984 and 1988. He was affiliated with the University of California. In 1994, he was inducted into th ...
# Norton D. "Nort" Thorton
Class of 1995
# Paul "Bear" Barren
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Peter J. "Pete" Cutino
# Tom Hermstad
Class of 1996
# Charles H. "Charlie" Harris
# Ralph W. Hale M.D.
# Robert E. Lee Jr.
Class of 1997
# Andrew F. "Andy" Habermann
# William U. "Bill" Harris
# Stanley E. "Stan" Sprague
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Kenneth "Ken" Lindgren
Class of 1998
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Greg Boyer
# Richard J. Foster
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Steve Heaston
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# Janice Krauser
# Sandra H. "Sandy" Nitta
Class of 1999
# Jane Hale
# Edward W. "Ed" Reed Jr.
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Terry A. Schroeder
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James "Jim" Slatton
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Craig "Willy" Wilson
2000s
Class of 2000
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William "Bill" Barnett
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Peter Campbell
# Dennis "Fos" Fosdick
# William "Bill" Frady
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Gordon "Gordie" Hall
# Ken "Ham" Hamdorf
# Richard F. "Doc" Hunkler
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Douglas "Doug" Kimbell
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Craig Klass
Edward Craig Klass (born June 20, 1965 in Wiesbaden, Hessen) is a former water polo player who won the silver medal for the United States at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. A graduate of Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek, Cali ...
# John D. Williams
Class of 2001
# Brent Bohlender
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Jeffery Campbell
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Christopher D. "Chris" Duplanty
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Mike "Evo" Evans
# Roger Nekton
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Michael "Mike" Schofield
# Scott Schulte
# Mary Sprague
Class of 2002
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James Bergeson
# Donald H. Clooney
# Dante Dettamanti
# Jeffery N. Heidmous
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Dr. Alan Mouchawar
Class of 2003
# William K. Anttila
# Laura Baker
# Theresa Bixby
# Richard Draz
# Dion Gray
# Frank Hassett
# David A. Heck
# Kathy Jo Horne
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Lynn Comer Kachmarik
# Kelvin Parker Kemp
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Maureen "Mo" O'Toole
Class of 2004
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Kirk Everist
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Vaune Kadlubek
# Maggi Kelly
# Walter "Wally" Lundt
# James "Moose" Mulcrone
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Alex Rousseau
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# Lynn Wittstock
2010s
Class of 2010
# Bret Bernard
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Heather Moody
# Edward Rudloff
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Kathy "Gubba" Sheehy
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Peter Ueberroth
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# Jamey Wright
Class of 2011
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Robin Beauregard
Robin Mary Beauregard (born February 23, 1979 in Long Beach, California) is an American water polo player, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She also won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Beauregard plays the posit ...
# Michael Garibaldi
# Jennie Jacobsen-Huse
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Kyle Kopp
Kyle Kopp (born November 10, 1966) is an American water polo player. He competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics. In 2011, he was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame The USA Water Polo Hall of Fame, located in ...
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Wolf Wigo
Wolf Wigo (b. May 8, 1973) is an American water polo player and water polo coach. He has played competitive water polo at the national level since age 13. Wigo was a four-year All-America collegiate water polo player and led his Stanford Universi ...
Class of 2012
# Bill Brown
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Ellen Estes Lee
# Margo Miranda
Class of 2014
# Edward Newland
# Jim Sprague
# Andy Takata
# Sandy Vessey-Schneider
Class of 2015
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Natalie Golda Benson
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Richard Corso
# Amber Drury
Class of 2018
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Guy Baker
Guy Baker was the head coach for the United States women's national water polo team competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympic games. He is now the Director Of Olympic Development of USA Water Polo. Baker had guided the team to a silver medal in the 2 ...
# Scott Hinman
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Chris Humbert
Christopher A. Humbert (born December 27, 1969 in Modesto, California) is a former water polo center forward from the United States, who competed in three Summer Olympics ( 1992, 1996 and 2000) for his native country. He was part of the Unite ...
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Heather Petri
Heather Danielle Petri (born June 13, 1978) is an American water polo player, who won the silver medal with the US women's national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics, a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics, a silver medal in Beijing in 2008 ...
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Brenda Villa
Brenda Villa (born April 18, 1980) is an accomplished American water polo player. She is the most decorated athlete in the world of women’s water polo. Villa was named Female Water Polo Player of the Decade for 2000-2009 by the FINA Aquatics Wo ...
Class of 2019
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Elizabeth Armstrong
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Ryan Bailey
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Jeff Powers
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Jessica Steffens
Jessica Marie Steffens (born April 7, 1987) is an American water polo player. She was a member of the United States national teams that won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics and a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She also played ...
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John Tanner
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Lauren Wenger
Lauren Ashley Wenger (born March 11, 1984, in Long Beach, California) is an American water polo player for the University of Southern California, who received the 2006 Peter J. Cutino Award as the best collegiate water polo player among Division ...
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Adam Wright
2020s
Class of 2020
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Gavin Arroyo
# Gary Robinett
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Kelly Rulon
Kelly Kristen Rulon (born August 16, 1984 in Point Loma, California) is an American water polo player. She won a gold medal with the United States at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the water polo competition. She is also a bronze medalist from the ...
# Bruce Wigo
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Elsie Windes
Elsie Ann Windes (born June 17, 1985) is an American water polo player. After playing for the University of California, she joined the United States women's national water polo team, United States national team in 2006. She helped the U.S. win a ...
Class of 2021
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Courtney Mathewson
Courtney Lynn Kaiulani Mathewson (born September 14, 1986) is an American water polo player, part of the US team that won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She played water polo for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Brui ...
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Kami Craig
Kameryn Louise "Kami" Craig (born July 21, 1987) is an American water polo player. She was a member of the US water polo team that won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and a gold medal in London in 2012 and Rio in 2016.
Craig attende ...
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Ericka Lorenz
Ericka Denise Lorenz (born February 18, 1981) is an American water polo player, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She also won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Lorenz was born in San Diego, California. Nicknamed ...
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Tony Azevedo
Anthony Lawrence Azevedo (born November 21, 1981) is a Brazilian-born American water polo player. He is a 2008 Olympic silver medalist and a five-time Olympian (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016). Azevedo ranks fourth on the all-time scoring list ...
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Merrill Moses
Merrill M. Moses (born August 13, 1977) is a United States Olympic silver medalist, three-time Olympian, and three-time Pan American Games gold medalist water polo goalkeeper. He played college water polo for Pepperdine University, where he ...
Class of 2022
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Layne Beaubien
Ronald Layne Beaubien (born July 4, 1976) is an American water polo player. He was a member of the United States men's national water polo team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In the championship game, the USA team won the silver medal, after defe ...
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Kelli Billish-Fitter
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Bob Corb
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Russ Hafferkamp
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John Vargas
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Early life
John Vargas was born in the Bronx and moved to Puerto Rico when his father Jua ...
See also
*
Peter J. Cutino Award: another water polo award in the United States
*
International Swimming Hall of Fame
The International Swimming Hall of Fame and Museum (ISHOF) is a history museum and hall of fame, located at One Hall of Fame Drive, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States, operated by private interests and serving as the central point for the s ...
*
Water Polo Australia Hall of Fame The Water Polo Australia Hall of Fame, located in Sydney, is a hall of fame dedicated to honoring players, coaches and officials who have contributed greatly to the game of water polo in Australia. It was established in 2009 by Water Polo Australia ...
References
External links
Hall of Fame - USA Water Polo
{{United States men's national water polo team
Hall of Fame
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United States
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Water Polo
Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with the ...
Water Polo
Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with the ...
Awards established in 1976