UCLA CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
• ACWPC All-Academic Team member (Superior - 2026)
• Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2025)
• 2-time Big Ten Spring Academic Honor Roll member (2026, 2025)
• 7-time Athletic Director's Honor Roll member (last Spring 2026)
2026
Played in one of 26 games … qualified for ACWPC All-Academic Team, earning “Superior” designation … earned spot on Big Ten Spring Academic Honor Roll ... named to Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for Fall 2025, Winter 2026 and Spring 2026.
2025
Was on the team but didn't see any action ... named to Athletic Director's Honor Roll for Fall 2024, Winter 2025 and Spring 2025.
2024
Redshirted the season ... named to Athletic Director's Honor Roll for Spring 2024.
HIGH SCHOOL/CLUB
Was a four-time letterwinner as an attacker in water polo and swimming (200 M freestyle and 100 M butterfly) at Downey High School … All-CIF-Southern Section Division 4 Second-Team honors in 2020 … two-time First-Team All-CIF-SS Division 2 (2022, 2023) … two-time San Gabriel Valley League water polo MVP (2022, 2023) … San Gabriel League swimming MVP in 2022 … played club for Commerce Water Polo … helped lead team to a silver medal at the 2018 Junior Olympics … earned back-to-back bronze medals at the Junior Olympics (2022, 2023) … member of the 2022 U.S. Club Championship bronze medal team … recipient of the 2022 Role Model of the Year Award and Most Improved Award.
PERSONAL
Full name: Alexsa Nicole Gimenez … born in Huntington Park, Calif. … parents are Gladys Saravia and Alejandro Gimenez … has an older sister, Ayelen … describes her greatest athletic thrill as her third place finish at the 2023 Junior Olympics with her Commerce club team and seeing the, “huge family that we had made throughout the eight years we had played together. The happiness of seeing everyone grow through adversity and become not just amazing players but people was a wonderful feeling.” … lists Lionel Messi as the athlete she admires most … decided to attend UCLA because, "As a first-generation college student, I knew that I needed to go somewhere that provided me with a variety of opportunities to keep progressing in my future. These pathways are there for me to create as I have throughout my life. UCLA is also close to the people I call home, the people who have taught me to be strong and have helped me to rise to the challenge that is being a student-athlete at the number one public university.” … hobbies include road tripping to national parks, hiking, painting, and photography … major is psychology with a career goal of becoming a sports medicine physician.
| ALEXSA GIMENEZ'S CAREER STATISTICS | ||||||||
| YEAR | GAMES | GOALS | SHOTS | PCT | AST | STL | BLK | EE |
| 2024 | Redshirted | |||||||
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -- | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -- | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 1 | 0 | 0 | -- | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |