Orange Lutheran Excessive College, a non-public faculty in suburban Los Angeles, has employed water polo legend Brenda Villa as its new head girls’s water polo coach and aquatics director.
The 41-year previous Villa retired from elite water polo after the London 2012 Olympic Video games. She received medals at 4 straight Olympic Video games from 2000-2012 and was named FINA’s Participant of the Decade in girls’s water polo. She is considered one of solely two girls to ever win 4 medals in girls’s water polo on the Olympics, and captained the U.S. to gold in 2012. She is the 4th-highest aim scorer of all-time in Olympic water polo historical past with 31.
She additionally was on three World Championship groups.
She takes over an Orange Lutheran varsity squad that completed 18-10 final season, which resulted in February. The group superior to the CIF State Regional Semifinals, the place they misplaced to Laguna Seashore Excessive.
The season ended on a be aware of controversy: on February eighth, previous to the beginning of the playoffs, former head coach Nestor Nunez was relieved of his duties after serving a three-game suspension for a number of purple playing cards. Kellyn Carlson, who’s the college’s head swim coach and an assistant with the boys group, served as interim coach within the meantime.
Nunez was additionally the pinnacle coach of the boys’ group. The varsity has not introduced a brand new head coach for the boys’ group. Villa is anticipated to help with the boys’ group and the college’s swim groups as nicely. The Lutheran Orange ladies’ swim group completed nineteenth finally yr’s CIF-SS Championship Meet.
Villa had a adorned profession of her personal in highschool at close by Bell Gardnes Excessive College. She went on to play at Stanford the place in 2002 she led Stanford to an NCAA title and was named nationwide participant of the yr.
Villa beforehand labored as the pinnacle water polo coach at Castilleja College in Palo Alto since 2010, together with for the final yr because the Director of Fairness and INclusion.
