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Brooke Maxson

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UCLA Head Coach Adam Wright has completed his coaching staff for the UCLA Women's Water Polo program with Bruin standout Brooke Maxson to the post of assistant coach, he announced today. She will be in her second season on the coaching staff in 2025.

Maxson was a three-time All-America selection at defender for the Bruins (2019-21) and played five seasons at UCLA (2017-21). She played in 98 career games as a Bruin, registering 46 goals, 30 steals, 29 assists, and 27 field blocks.

"We are very excited to have Brooke Maxson back in Westwood joining our women's water polo staff," Wright said. "Brooke not only understands the expectations and standards of being a UCLA student-athlete, but also the standards and expectations of our program. She will be a great resource not only for our student-athlete development but for continuing to move our culture forward in which she had a large role in during her time here as a player. Brooke's commitment during her five years here played an integral role in where we are as a program today. Our goal is to keep moving our women's water polo program forward each year and having Brooke on staff will allow us to do that. Her experiences as a player and more recently as a coach will be a big asset to not only myself and our staff, but most importantly, to our student-athletes."

Upon graduation in 2021, she joined Matt Flesher's staff as an assistant women's water polo coach at Golden West College where she also assisted with the women's swimming and diving program from 2021-22.

She then spent 2023 as a high school English teacher in Madrid, Spain.

"I am thrilled to be back at UCLA and I'm looking forward to helping out in any way that I can," Maxson said.