Eli Liechty Season 2021

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
• 3-time ACWPC All-Academic Team member (Superior - 2025, Excellent - 2024, 2023)
• 3-time MPSF All-Academic Team member (2023-25)
• 2-time Big Ten Spring Academic Honor Roll member (Spring 2026, Spring 2025)
• 2-time Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll member (2023, 2022)
• 12-time Athletic Director's Honor Roll (last Fall 2025)

2025
Played in all 29 games … Bruins captured program’s 14th NCAA title and No. 125 for UCLA Athletics, beating top-seeded USC in 11-10 thriller (Dec. 7) … totaled 24 goals on 48 shot attempts (50.0%) … ranked among team leaders with 65 earned exclusions (second) … qualified for ACWPC All-Academic Team, earning “Superior” designation … member of MPSF All-Academic Team … earned spot on Big Ten Spring Academic Honor Roll ... recorded six multi-goal games, including three hat tricks … scored season-high five goals to help earn 36-4 win against Penn State Behrend in MPSF Championship Tournament quarterfinal round (Nov. 21) … recorded game- and season-high seven earned exclusions in 22-10 victory against No. 12 LMU (Sept. 27) … named to Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for Fall 2025.Played in all 29 games … Bruins captured program’s 14th NCAA title and No. 125 for UCLA Athletics, beating top-seeded USC in 11-10 thriller (Dec. 7) … totaled 24 goals on 48 shot attempts (50.0%) … ranked among team leaders with 65 earned exclusions (second) … qualified for ACWPC All-Academic team, earning “superior” designation … member of MPSF All-Academic Team … earned spot on Big Ten Spring Academic Honor Roll ... recorded six multi-goal games, including three hat tricks … scored season-high five goals to help earn 36-4 win against Penn State Behrend in MPSF Championship Tournament quarterfinal round (Nov. 21) … recorded game- and season-high seven earned exclusions in 22-10 victory against No. 12 LMU (Sept. 27) … named to Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for Fall 2025.

2024
Played in 25 of 28 games … Bruins captured program’s 13th NCAA title and No. 124 for UCLA Athletics, defeating USC 11-8 (Dec. 8) … was tied for seventh on the team in scoring with 24 goals on 43 attempts, converting at a 55.8 percent rate … scored 25 total points with one assist … qualified for ACWPC All-Academic Team, earning “Excellent” designation … member of MPSF All-Academic Team … earned spot on Big Ten Spring Academic Honor Roll ... scored a season-high three goals three times on the year, in a win vs. No. 15 LMU (Sept. 28), in a win vs. Washington & Jefferson (Nov. 22) at the MPSF Championship, and in an NCAA Championship win over No. 20 Salem (Dec. 6) … he scored at least one goal in 17 of the 25 games he played, including four multiple-goal games, and three games with a hat trick … scored at least one goal in five straight games (Nov. 16 to Dec. 6) … recorded eight steals and two field blocks … also drew 48 exclusions (second on the team and fourth in the MPSF) ... named to Athletic Director's Honor Roll for Fall 2024, Winter 2025 and Spring 2025.

2023
Played in all 29 games … scored 18 goals on 31 attempts, converting at a 58.1 percent rate … finished with 19 total points (one assist) … qualified for ACWPC All-Academic Team, earning “Excellent” designation … member of MPSF All-Academic Team … earned spot on Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll ... scored a season-high four goals in a win vs. Concordia University Irvine on Sep. 3 … scored at least one goal in 14 of the 29 games he played, including two multiple-goal games … scored at least one goal in a season-high four games in a row (Sep. 2 - Sep. 9), with two of those games having scored two goals or more … also registered five steals and three field blocks on the year … was second on the team in drawn exclusions (46) which ranked fifth in the MPSF ... named to Athletic Director's Honor Roll for Fall 2023, Winter 2024 and Spring 2024.

2022
Redshirted the season ... earned spot on Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll ... named to Athletic Director's Honor Roll for Fall 2022, Winter 2023 and Spring 2023.

2021
Played in 15 games … scored 12 goals on 25 attempts, converting at a 48.0 percent rate … scored a season-high four goals in a win over Whittier (Sept. 4) … he scored at least one goal in seven of the 15 games he played, including three multiple goal games … was third on the team in drawn exclusions (25) … also had three steals and two assists ... named to Athletic Director's Honor Roll for Winter 2022, Spring 2022.

HIGH SCHOOL/CLUB
Was a three-year varsity letterwinner at center in water polo at Newport Harbor High School under coach Ross Sinclair … named to All-CIF Southern Section Division I second team in 2019 … named Sunset League Co-MVP in 2020 … named to Daily Pilot's Dream Team (first team) in 2019 and also named Daily Pilot High School Male Athlete of the Week (Oct. 19, 2019) … earned All-Sunset League first team honors in 2019 … also named first team NISCA All-American in 2019-20 … was a fourth team California/Hawaii All-American in 2019 (top five among juniors) … served as team captain at NHHS in 2020-21 … played club for Newport Beach Water Polo … well-established in the United States national team pipeline system and was on the ODP, SPA Cadet Team in 2018 and the SPA Youth Team in 2020 … also part of the Academy Team in the National League in 2020 and the Youth National Team in 2019-20 … took part in the Academy Training Program in 2018, 2019, and 2020 … was named a second team All-American in 2014 at 12U Junior Olympics … earned the Nick Johnson Award at the ODP National Championships in 2020.

PERSONAL
Full name: Elias John Liechty, prefers Eli … born in Newport Beach, Calif. … his mother is Beth Silverman and his father is Dan Liechty … has an older brother, Jake Liechty, and a younger brother, Ben Liechty … says he chose UCLA because, "I knew that I wanted to go to UCLA before I even started playing water polo. With its strong tradition of water polo excellence, it was really a no-brainer." … describes his greatest athletic thrill as “making the CIF-SS finals two years in a row” … lists NBA legend Michael Jordan, American golfer Phil Mickelson, and the late Kobe Bryant as the athletes he admires most … lists basketball, going to the beach, traveling and hanging out with friends as his hobbies … major is political science.