2023 Men's Water Polo Roster
Cole Kopperud
- Height:
- 6-3
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Alta Loma, CA
- High School:
- Los Osos
- Position:
- UT
2022 (Junior): Played in 34 games ... tied for sixth on the team with 49 points ... fourth on team with 31 assists ... scored 18 goals ... fourth on team with 16 drawn exclusions ... had 18 steals ... career-high three goals against #20 Navy and Fresno Pacific ... career-high four assists against Redlands ... matched career-high of four points with three goals and assist against Fresno Pacific.
2021 (Sophomore): Played in all 26 games and had 17 points on six goals and 11 assists … also had eight steals, seven drawn exclusions and two field blocks on the year … won five of the seven sprints he took … three points (2-1-3) against Fresno Pacific … five games with two or more points.
2020 (Freshman): Played in all 11 games and had 10 points on five goals and five assists … three steals and one drawn exclusion … fourth on the team with three field blocks … career-best three points (1-2-3) in the win over Austin College … matched his career high of two assists against Loyola Marymount … career-best two goals against Austin College and California Baptist.
High School: Lettered four years in water polo and three in swimming … helped lead the water polo team to the Baseline League title three times … academic-athlete award three years … second-team all-league twice and honorable mention once … team competed in the CIF-SS playoffs all four years, placing second in Division II as a senior … competed in the 100 free, 100 breast, 400 free relay and 200 medley relay in swimming … earned the Renaissance Leadership Award in 2016-17 … 2017 National Society of High School Scholars … played for the Foothill Club Water Polo team, 2011-2016, and the SoCal Water Polo Foundation, 2016-2018 … team won the 2016 and 2017 Junior Olympics Invitational (16U) … team placed first in the Junior Olympics Classic Division … in 2017, team won the Commerce Invitational and was fourth at the DelMar Invitational and the Cal Cup Star Finals.
Personal: Member of cadet squadron 17 … major is military strategic studies … son of Natalie and Ronald Kopperud … has one brother … hobbies are surfing and snowboarding … this past summer, traveled to Columbus AFB, Miss., on Operation Air Force to experience undergraduate pilot training.
