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Senior Alec Zwaneveld garnered MPSF All-Academic honors for the third time in his career.

Men's Water Polo Earns 13 Academic Honors

Men's Water Polo

The UCLA Bruins earned a total of 13 academic awards after the conclusion of the 2016 campaign.

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LOS ANGELES -- Six Bruins captured ACWPC All-Academic accolades, as announced by the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) and seven earned MPSF All-Academic accolades.

The six players that were honored by the ACWPC consisted of senior Patrick Woespe, junior James Robinson, sophomore Austin Rone; redshirt sophomore Alex Wolf and freshmen James Vlachonassios and Evan Feller.

Student-athletes eligible for the ACWPC All-Academic award must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or higher. Athlete merit levels include "excellent" (3.2 to 3.4), "superior" 3.41 to 3.7 and "outstanding" 3.71 to 4.0.

Woepse, a center from Tustin, Calif. (Mater Dei HS), earned "superior" honors. He played in 19 games on the year, making four starts and scoring 12 goals while finishing second on the team in exclusions drawn with 24. His six penalty shots drawn was second on the team.

Robinson, an attacker from Palos Verdes, Calif. (Palos Verdes HS), earned "excellent" honors. This season he played in 18 games making one start while scoring 12 goals and tallying 16 assists, seven steals and four field blocks.

Rone, an attacker from Coronado, Calif. (Cathedral Catholic HS), also earned "excellent" honors for the second straight season. This year he played in 18 games, starting three times, while scoring 16 goals and registering 15 assists and 11 steals. He also added five field blocks, won five sprints and drew five exclusions.

Wolf, a goalkeeper from Huntington Beach, Calif. (Huntington Beach HS), earned "superior" honors. He redshirted the 2016 season.Vlachonassios, an attacker from Huntington Beach, Calif. (Huntington Beach HS), earned "excellent" honors. This year he played in 25 games making 10 starts as a true freshman. He scored 10 goals and registered 16 assists, nine steals and five field blocks.

Feller, an attacker from Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. (Palos Verdes HS), earned "outstanding" honors. He redshirted the 2016 season.

To make the MPSF All-Academic team, the student-athlete must have completed one academic year at the institution, have at least a 3.0 grade point average and have played in 50 percent of the team's games in 2016.

Robinson, Rone and Woepse each also earned MPSF All-Academic honors in 2016. The other four Bruins to earn MPSF All-Academic accolades included senior Garrett Danner, junior Matt Farmer, junior Jack Grover and senior Alec Zwaneveld.

Danner, a goalkeeper from Coto de Caza, Calif. (El Toro HS), earned All-Academic honors for the second straight year. Danner completed his UCLA career atop the leaders in saves (932) and set the all-time single-season record with 278 in 2015.

Farmer, a center from La Grange, Ill. (Fenwick HS), earned All-Academic honors for the first time in his career. This year he played in 27 games making eight starts, scoring 21 goals. He also registered five steals and five field blocks and led UCLA in exclusions drawn with 39 and in penalty shots earned with eight.

Grover, an attacker from Pasadena, Calif. (Loyola HS), earned All-Academic honors for the first time in his career. He played in 25 games making 13 starts on the year. He scored 16 goals and tallied 22 assists, 12 steals and nine field blocks.

Zwaneveld, a center from La Cañada, Calif. (Harvard-Westlake), earned All-Academic honors for the third straight year. This season he played in 23 games making five starts, scoring 16 goals. He also registered 11 steals and drew 20 exclusions.