Adam Wright was named the MPSF Coach of the Year for the second straight time.
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Seven Bruins Earn MPSF Postseason Accolades
April 24, 2025 | Women's Water Polo
LOS ANGELESย โ Seven different Bruinsย received postseason honors from the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, as announced by the conference office today.
The awards were highlighted byย Bruin Head Coach Adam Wright being named the 2025 MPSF Coach of the Year, the second-straight year he has won the award.
Wright led the Bruins to their second-straight top seed in the MPSF Tournament. In the regular season finale, third-place UCLA needed to defeat No. 1 USC by at least four goals to leap into the MPSF's top seed, in which it exactly did. That result marked the squad's third top-five win of the year, and ninth over the top-10. UCLA placed a high of three players on the Delfina All-MPSF first team and matched an overall high of five players across each of the all-conference teams. This is Wright's second MPSF Coach of the Year honor on the women's side, repeating his honor from last year.
Three Bruins earned Delfina All-MPSF First-Team accolades and all were honored for the second time, which included junior utility Anna Pearson (Irvine, Calif./Orange Luthern HS), redshirt junior attacker Emma Lineback (Laguna Beach, Calif./Laguna Beach HS), and sophomore goalkeeper Lauren Steele (Old Greenwich, Conn./Orange Lutheran HS).
Two Bruins landed on the Delfina All-MPSF Honorable Mention team, which included junior utility Genoa Rossi (Laguna Beach, Calif./Mater Dei HS) and junior center Bia Mantellato (Sao Paulo, Brazil/Hawai'i).
Freshman attacker Tali Stryker (Lafayette, Calif./Miramonte HS) was the lone Bruin on theย MPSF All-Newcomer Team.
The Bruins are currently 18-4 overall and finished 5-1 in the MPSFย and are seeded first for the upcoming 2025 MPSF Women's Water Polo Championship held this weekend at UCLA. UCLA has received a bye in the first round and will take on the winner of No. 4 California and No. 5 San Jose State in the first semifinal on Saturday, April 26 at 12:45 p.m. PT.
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