UCLA Places 13 Bruins on MPSF All-Academic Team
May 21, 2025 | Women's Water Polo
LOS ANGELES – UCLA Women's Water Polo placed a total of 13 members on the 6-8 Sports/MPSF Women's Water Polo 2025 All-Academic Team, the league announced today.
Highlighting the list of 2025 Bruins are two three-time, five two-time, and six first-time honorees.
In order to qualify as an MPSF All-Academic Scholar-Athlete, a student-athlete must have a 3.00-or-better cumulative grade point average (GPA), be no lower than a sophomore in academic standing, have competed in at least 50 percent of the team's competitions, and have completed one full academic year at the institution prior to the season for which the award is received.
Senior attacker Molly Renner (Laguna Beach, Calif. - sociology major), and senior utility Nicole Struss (Laguna Beach, Calif. - communication major) earned MPSF All-Academic honors for the third time in their careers.
The five Bruins that were named to the MPSF All-Academic Team for the second time in their careers includes junior utility Lily Gess (Newport Beach, Calif. - history major), junior attacker Carly McMurray (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif. - sociology major), junior utility Anna Pearson (Irvine, Calif. - psychology major), junior utility Genoa Rossi (Laguna Beach, Calif. - sociology), and junior attacker Taylor Smith (Newport Beach, Calif. psychobiology major).
The six Bruins that landed on the 6-8 Sports/MPSF All-Academic Team for the first time in their careers in 2025 includes redshirt sophomore utility Sienna Green (Mosman, Australia - pre-economics major), sophomore utility Natasha Kieckhafer (San Juan Capistrano, Calif. - has yet to declare a major), redshirt junior attacker Emma Lineback (Laguna Beach, Calif. - psychology major), sophomore attacker Becca Melanson (Pittsburgh, Pa. - has yet to declare a major), sophomore utility Olivia Ouellette (Los Alamitos, Calif. - has yet to declare a major), and sophomore goalkeeper Lauren Steele (Old Greenwich, Conn. - has yet to declare a major).
