Kameryn Louise "Kami" Craig (born July 21, 1987) is an American

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 th ...

player. She was a member of the US water polo team that won a silver medal at the

2008 Beijing Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Nat ...

and a gold medal in London in 2012 and Rio in 2016. Craig attended

Santa Barbara High School Santa Barbara Senior High School, "Home of the Dons," is situated on a sprawling campus in Santa Barbara, California in the Santa Barbara Unified School District. Among the oldest high schools in California and one of five high schools in the Dis ...

, graduating in 2005 and the

University of Southern California , mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it" , religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist , established = , accreditation = WSCUC , type = Private research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $8.1 ...

, graduating in 2010. She played water polo for the Trojans.USC OLYMPIANS: 1904–2008
USC Trojans Athletic Department, accessed August 26, 2008.

Career

Craig played on the women's varsity team in high school as well as playing on the Youth National Team from 2003 to 2006. She played for four years at USC. In June 2009, Kami was named to the USA water polo women's senior national team for the

2009 FINA World Championships The 2009 World Aquatics Championships ( it, Campionati mondiali di nuoto 2009) or the XIII FINA World Championships were held in Rome, Italy from 18 July to 2 August 2009. The 2009 Championships featured competition in all 5 aquatics discipline ...

. In 2011, she played her first professional season in

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, playing for the Greek giants

Olympiacos Olympiacós Sýndesmos Filáthlon Peiraiós ( el, Ολυμπιακός Σύνδεσμος Φιλάθλων Πειραιώς, Olympic Club of Fans of Piraeus) is a major multi-sport club based in Piraeus, Greece. Olympiacos is parent to a numbe ...

.USA Water Polo Bio of Kami Craig
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Awards and honors

She,

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California ...

women's water polo senior Tanya Gandy, and her teammate Michelle Stein have been selected as the three finalists for the 2009

Peter J. Cutino Award The Peter J. Cutino Award, named after former college water polo player and UC Berkeley coach Peter J. Cutino, is considered the most prestigious individual award in American collegiate water polo. It is given annually to the top male and female pl ...

, an accolade presented annually to the outstanding female and male collegiate water polo players in the United States. The winners were announced at the 10th annual Peter J. Cutino Awards Night Dinner on Saturday, June 6, at The

Olympic Club The Olympic Club is an athletic club and private social club in San Francisco, California. First named the "San Francisco Olympic Club", it is the oldest athletic club in the United States. Established on May 6, 1860, its first officers were ...

's City Clubhouse in

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17t ...

. She was the 2009

female winner. Craig won the Peter J. Cutino Award again in 2010, making her the only female player to have won it twice in a row.

Personal life

While at USC, Craig majored in sociology and minored in

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USC player bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Craig, Kami 1987 births Living people American female water polo players Water polo centre forwards Olympiacos Women's Water Polo Team players USC Trojans women's water polo players Water polo players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Water polo players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Water polo players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the United States in water polo Olympic silver medalists for the United States in water polo World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo Water polo players at the 2011 Pan American Games Water polo players at the 2015 Pan American Games Pan American Games medalists in water polo Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States People from Camarillo, California Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games

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