Brandon Brooks (water polo)
Current position | |||||||||||||||
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Title | Head coach | ||||||||||||||
Team | UCLA Women's water polo | ||||||||||||||
Conference | MPSF | ||||||||||||||
Record | 18-3, (1-1 Conference) | ||||||||||||||
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Born | April 29, 1981 Rock Island, Illinois, U.S. | (age 43)||||||||||||||
Playing career | |||||||||||||||
2001–2005 | UCLA | ||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper (water polo) Center (basketball) | ||||||||||||||
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |||||||||||||||
2004, 2006-08 | UCLA Men's water polo (Asst.) | ||||||||||||||
2007-09 | Women's water polo (Asst.) | ||||||||||||||
2009-2017 | UCLA Women's water polo | ||||||||||||||
Head coaching record | |||||||||||||||
Overall | 89-22 | ||||||||||||||
Accomplishments and honors | |||||||||||||||
Championships | |||||||||||||||
2× MPSF Coach of the Year (2012) | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Brandon Brooks (born April 29, 1981), who played water polo as a goalie for
On June 3, 2009, Brooks was named the head coach of the
Early years
Brooks is the oldest in his family of three children. He has twin sisters. He was born in
College
He was the goalkeeper at UCLA for four years and was a four-time All-America selection (1999 hm, 2000, 2001 and 2002). He helped UCLA to
Brooks was a walked-on to UCLA basketball team his freshman year. He graduated from UCLA in 2005 with a degree in sociology.
Olympic Games
In the summer 2004 Olympic Games, Brooks, Adam Wright and Brett Ormsby, two former UCLA teammates, completed for Team USA in Athens Greece. He was a member of 2008 Water Polo Team USA.[5] In the gold medal championship match, Brooks had four saves and helped the USA team to win the silver medal, losing to Hungary 14–10. He was a big cheerleader on the bench for the United States team.
Coaching
During his three years as the head women's water polo coach at UCLA, Brooks' team has won two MPSF Tournament championships. In the 2012 tournament title game, the team defeated Stanford 8–7 in overtime, and he was rewarded with the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Coach of the Year honor. [6]
See also
- List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
- List of men's Olympic water polo tournament goalkeepers
References
- ^ NCAA News: UCLA wins fourth straight[permanent dead link]
- ^ UCLA defeats USC, claims NCAA women's water polo title Archived 2011-06-03 at the Wayback Machine, Los Angeles Daily News, May 10, 2009.
- ^ NCAA News: UCLA's Mathewson Captures Cutino Award[permanent dead link]
- ^ UCLA Names Adam Wright Head Men's Water Polo Coach, Brandon Brooks Head Women's Water Polo Coach Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ USA Men's Senior National Team
- ^ 2012 All-MPSF Women's Water Polo Selections Archived 2016-01-04 at the Wayback Machine, MPSF, May 3, 2012
External links
- Brandon Brooks at World Aquatics
- Brandon Brooks at Olympics.com
- Brandon Brooks at Olympedia
- Brandon Brooks at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (archived)
- Brandon Brooks at the Hawaii Sports Hall of Fame (archived)