2018 Men's Water Polo Roster
Roster
Austin Rone
- Position:
- Attacker
- Height:
- 5-11
- Weight:
- 160
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Coronado, Calif.
- High School:
- Cathedral Catholic HS
2017
Played in 25 matches, making 12 starts … earned MPSF All-Academic and ACWPC All-Academic "excellent" honors … made the Director's Honor Roll all three quarters (fall, winter, spring) … scored 12 goals on 39 attempts, converting at a 30.8 percent rate … scored a season- and career-high four goals in a 20-9 win over No. 17 Cal Baptist (Oct. 13) … had at least one goal in eight of the 25 games he played, including two multiple goal games … also had 31 assists (second on the team), eight steals, eight earned exclusions and two field blocks.
2016
Played in 18 matches, making three starts … earned his second-straight 2016 ACWPC All-Academic "Excellent" honors and second straight MPSF All-Academic accolades ... tied for 8th on the team in scoring with 16 goals on 32 attempts, converting at a 50.0 percent rate ... scored a season- and career-high three goals in a 20-2 win over Chapman (Sept. 4) and in a 18-7 victory over Pomona-Pitzer (Sept. 23) ... he scored at least one goal in 11 of the 18 games he played, including three multiple goal games ... also had 15 assists (9th on the team), 11 steals (tied for 10th on the team), five field blocks and two earned exclusions ... tied for 5th on the team in sprints won with five.
2015
Played in 22 matches, making two starts … earned 2015 ACWPC All-Academic "Excellent" honors and MPSF All-Academic accolades ... tallied 13 goals on 37 attempts, converting at a 35.1 percent rate ... scored a season- and career-high three goals in a 22-6 win over Pomona-Pitzer (Oct. 10) ... he scored at least one goal in nine of the 22 games he played, including three multiple goal games ... also had 22 assists (7th on the team), 11 steals (tied for 10th on the team), one field block, and three earned exclusions ... was 7th on the team in sprints won with three.
2014
Redshirted the season.
Team USA
2015: Played in all eight games (45 minutes), making one start for Team USA at the 2015 World University Games in Gwangju, South Korea (July 2-14) … he scored two goals on three shots, converting at a 66.7 percent rate … scored one goal in a 12-8 win over China in pool play and one goal in the 5-4 bronze medal win over Serbia … also tallied one assist and one steal.
High School
Three-year varsity water polo letterwinner at Cathedral Catholic High School for the Dons under Head Coach Brett Ormsby ... was named the CCHS MVP in 2012 and 2013 after guiding the Dons to back-to-back CIF Championships (Division III), the first consecutive titles in Cathedral Catholic HS history ... garnered first team All-CIF accolades as a senior in 2013 ... was named first team All-North County as a sophomore in 2011 (only sophomore to make the list) ... older brother Chris Fahlsing, current UCLA men's water polo player, was a member of the first-ever CCHS men's water polo team to win a CIF Championship in 2008.
Club
Competed for the Del Mar Water Polo Club and was a member of the club's 18U team that won a silver medal at the 2013 Junior Olympics ... served as team captain for the DMWPC 16U team that won the U.S. Club Championships in 2012 ... was a member of the Kap7 International Water Polo Tournament 19U Plutonium Division Championship team (Del Mar Water Polo Club) in 2013 ... also named a 2013 Academic All-American by USA Water Polo.
Personal
Full name: Austin Timothy Rone … born May 20, 1996 in San Diego, Calif. … his parents are Deborah Hilinski and Tom Rone … has two older brothers, Chris Fahlsing, a senior on the 2014 UCLA men's water polo team and Shane, and one younger brother, Jack ... he also has one younger sister Jessica ... says he chose to attend UCLA because "I wanted to play water polo with the best water polo team while attending a top-ranked university" ... says his biggest athletic thrills to date are "Winning the CIF title for two-consecutive years and beating Mater Dei HS to end its 105-game winning streak" ... lists playing basketball and golf as something he likes to do in his spare time … majoring in political science.
| Austin Rone's Career Statistics | ||||||||
| Year | GP/GS | G | ATT | PCT | AST | STL | BLK | EE |
| 2015 | 22/2 | 13 | 37 | .351 | 22 | 11 | 1 | 3 |
| 2016 | 18/3 | 16 | 32 | .500 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 2 |
| 2017 | 25/12 | 12 | 39 | .308 | 31 | 8 | 2 | 8 |
| Totals | 65/17 | 41 | 108 | .380 | 68 | 30 | 8 | 13 |
