Brandon Brooks (water polo)
Brandon Brooks (born April 29, 1981), who played water polo as a goalie for UCLA and the 2004 and 2008 United States National teams, was the head coach of the women's water polo team at UCLA until 2017. The women's team won the 2008 and 2009 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship, and one of his players, Courtney Mathewson, captured the Peter J. Cutino Award as the player-of-the year in 2008.
| Current position | |||||||||||||||
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| Title | Head coach | ||||||||||||||
| Team | UCLA Women's water polo | ||||||||||||||
| Conference | MPSF | ||||||||||||||
| Record | 18-3, (1-1 Conference) | ||||||||||||||
| Biographical details | |||||||||||||||
| Born | April 29, 1981 (age 42) Rock Island, Illinois, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Playing career | |||||||||||||||
| 2001–2005 | UCLA | ||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper (water polo) Center (basketball) | ||||||||||||||
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |||||||||||||||
| 2004, 2006-08 | UCLA Men's water polo (Asst.) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007-09 | Women's water polo (Asst.) | ||||||||||||||
| 2009-2017 | UCLA Women's water polo | ||||||||||||||
| Head coaching record | |||||||||||||||
| Overall | 89-22 | ||||||||||||||
| Accomplishments and honors | |||||||||||||||
| Championships | |||||||||||||||
| 2× MPSF Women's Champion (2010, 2012) (Head Coach) 3× NCAA Women's Champion (2007-09) (Asst. Coach) NCAA Champion (2004) (Asst. Coach) 2× NCAA Champion (1999, 2000) (Player) | |||||||||||||||
| Awards | |||||||||||||||
| 4× All-American (1999–2002) 3× All-MPSF (2000–2002) MPSF Coach of the Year (2012) | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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On June 3, 2009, Brooks was named the head coach of the UCLA Bruins women's water polo team, having served as its men's and women's water polo team assistant coach. He was also named as an assistant coach to the USA water polo women's senior national team for the 2009 FINA World Championships.
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