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Matt Kubeck

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Interim Co-Head Coach
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Matt Kubeck serves both of the Bruins' water polo teams but in different capacities. UCLA Head Coach Adam Wright hired Kubeck, a former Long Beach State goalkeeper, to the post of assistant coach on July 3, 2024. He just completed his second season with the Bruins' Men's Water Polo team in 2025. Then on Dec. 29, 2025, when Wright stepped away from day-to-day activities with the women's team, UCLA promoted Kubeck, along with Associate Head Coach, Jason Falitz, to the post of Interim Co-Head Coach. Both will be in their first seasons in the role for the 2026 women's season.

Kubeck played four seasons for the Beach from 2008-11 and was a four-time All-CIF and All-Ocean League selection at El Segundo High School.

Prior to UCLA, he completed his first season in the spring of 2024 as an assistant coach for the LMU Women’s Water Polo team after serving for two seasons (2022-23) as an assistant coach for the Stanford Men’s Water Polo team. While with the Cardinal, he served as the goalies coach as well as handled video and analytics for the program.

“Matt comes to UCLA with a wealth of experience, not only from playing in college, but from coaching at one of the top high schools in the country as well as at Stanford,” Wright said. “Being at the forefront of analytics, he will fit in perfectly to what we are doing here at UCLA. He has also been on the staff with the USA National Teams, which will put our program in a great position from a recruiting standpoint - not only in seeing the top domestic players but the international players as well. Matt was a goalkeeper throughout his career and has worked with goalies at the high school, collegiate, and national team levels, and that will be an area of support that he will bring to help our student-athletes get better.”

Prior to coaching at Stanford, Kubeck was an assistant coach at Harvard-Westlake School from 2016-22. Kubeck served as the assistant for both the boys and girls teams since and was the head coach of the girls’ program from 2019-21, winning a handful of championships with each.

Kubeck also worked at LA Premier Water Polo Club, spending time as both head and assistant coach at various levels with some of the highest-rated prep talent in the country. Kubeck has also spent time working with the USA National Team, serving as an assistant coach with the men’s youth national team since 2018 and helping earn a silver medal at the 2019 World University Games.

From the Los Angeles area, Kubeck earned his bachelor’s degree in communication from Long Beach State, graduating in 2012, after starting as a goalkeeper for two seasons for the Beach.

He got his coaching start as an assistant coach for the boy’s and girl’s water polo teams at Mission Viejo High School from 2012-13. He then served in the same position to both teams at El Toro HS from 2013-14. He spent the 2014-15 season as the head coach for the boy’s water polo and swimming teams at Trabuco Hills HS. During the span of 2012-16, he also served as the Goalie Director for SET Water Polo Club, where he was also the assistant coach for the 16U team from 2012-14, and the assistant coach for the 18U team from 2014-16.