University of California-Los Angeles Men's Water Polo

Adam Wright was named National Coach of the Year in 2014, 2015, 2017, and 2020. Adam Wright begins his 17th season as UCLA’s head men’s water polo coach in 2025 with an overall record of 370-68 (.845) and an MPSF mark of 72-25 (.742). Wright is the head coach for both the UCLA men's and women's teams as on July 20, 2017, then UCLA Director of Athletics, Dan Guerrero, announced that Wright would guide both programs. His teams have been successful in and out of the water, earning perfect APR (Academic Progress Rate) scores of 1,000 in 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2022 while winning NCAA Championships in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2020, and 2024. Wright guided the Bruins to a 26-2 overall record in 2024, culminating with an 11-8 win over USC for the 13th NCAA Championship in UCLA's storied past. It also marked the 124th NCAA title in the Bruins' history, the second-most of any university in the nation. He also helped produce the Bruins' fourth different Peter J. Cutino Award winner in Ryder Dodd in 2024. Dodd was the third player under Wright and the fifth overall on the UCLA men's side, to win the Cutino Award (Nicolas Saveljic in 2021 and Garret Danner in 2016). Dodd also became the first player in MPSF history to be named the Player of the Year and the Newcomer of the Year in the same season. The 2024 NCAA Championship was Wright's ninth NCAA title overall and his fifth as the head coach of the UCLA men's team (2014, 2015, 2017, 2020, 2024). He also won two as a player at UCLA (1999 and 2000

Athletic Trainer Florida '09, Michigan State '12 Sport Assignments: Men's & Women’s Water Polo Additional Specializations: Manual Medicine, Proprioceptive Ne...

Jason Falitz (center) celebrates the 2015 NCAA Championship. Jason Falitz entered his 11th year with the men’s water polo program at UCLA in 2025 and his eighth as the Associate Head Coach. He reported to the post of Assistant Coach for the men's program in May of 2015, replacing Dustin Litvak, who assumed the head coaching duties for the boy’s water polo program at Agoura High School and is now the men's head water polo coach at Princeton. Falitz was promoted on to Associate Head Coach on August 16, 2017 after Head Coach Adam Wright was named the Head Coach of the UCLA women’s water polo program on July 20, 2017. Then in August of 2021, he was named the Associate Head Coach for the women's water polo program and will be in his fifth season at that post in 2026. Falitz was named the 2023 Assistant (Associated Head) Coach of the Year as announced by the ACWPC on May 31, 2024. It marked the first time a Bruin has won this award. Falitz won an NCAA title with the Bruins in his first year as UCLA went 30-0, defeating USC, 10-7, in the national championship game. He won his second championship in 2017 as UCLA defeated the Trojans at USC, 7-5. He won his third NCAA title (for the 2020 season) as the Bruins again defeated the Trojans at USC, 7-6, on March 21, 2021. He won his fourth and fifth NCAA Championships as the Bruins repeated as National Champions in 2024 and 2025, both at Stanford, and both over the Trojans. In addition to his duties at UCLA, Falitz is the Head Boy’s Coach

Kyle Hashimoto joined the UCLA Athletic Performance team in September of 2024. He is responsible for implementation of training programs for baseball, women's water polo, and men's and women's cross country. Prior to UCLA, Hashimoto worked at California State University Long Beach working with the Dirtbags baseball team. He was also Director of Basketball Performance at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas where he worked with men's and women's basketball. Previous to that he also made stops at Towson University in Towson, Maryland and was also a Graduate Assistant at Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa. He began his career in athletics as an intern with the University of Washington football team in 2016-2017. Hashimoto received his Bachelor of Science degree in Human Physiology with a minor in Computer Science from Gonzaga University. He also received his Masters of Science in Human Physiology from Briar Cliff University. He is a Certified Registered Strength and Conditioning Coach (RSCC) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association as well as Precision Nutrition Level 1 Certified.

UCLA Head Coach Adam Wright has hired former Long Beach State goalkeeper Matt Kubeck to the post of assistant coach on July 3, 2024. He will be in his second season during the 2025 campaign. Kubeck, who replaced Max Berg, played four seasons for the Beach from 2008-11 and was a four-time All-CIF and All-Ocean League at El Segundo High School. He just 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 201

The UCLA men's and women's water polo head coach, Adam Wright, announced on July 1, 2025, the hiring of Bruin All-American and Pepperdine standout Nico Tiern...