I am the Mens and Womens Head Water Polo Coach at Vanguard University of Southern California, as well as the Boys

and Girls Head Water Polo Coach at Northwood High School.  I coach for Northwood Water Polo Club and in 2009 I began a year around swim school based out of Irvine called Woodbury Aquatics.

My aquatic experience began at the early age of seven with Irvine Novaquatics. I was coached by greats including Lydia Abishier, Mindy Dougherty, Ed French, Ken Lamont, Dave Saelo and Flip Darr.  I was a four year lettermen, at Irvine High School, and qualified for CIF by the time I was a sophomore. I also earned my junior national time standards for the 200yd BREASTROKE. 

I began playing water polo as a sophomore (I was a true swimmer and chose not to play as a freshmen.  Ironically, the year I began playing water polo I qualified for swimming CIF) and was a two-year varsity letter winner at Irvine High School. After I graduated, I attended Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, where I was coached by legendary head coach Flip Darr, along with co-head coach Mike Santos and Larry Larsen.  I was in the top 10 for scoring, assists, and steals for the state of California.  I also rank 3rd among all dual season scorers in Saddleback water polo history. 

I then attended Chapman University with Coach Dennis Ploessel, and was made team captain during summer training of '97.  I dropped out 2 weeks into the school year because of financial difficulty.  I then attended Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana for a semester and focused on studying music.

I then traveled to Argentina and played for Club Belgrano (Amatuer) as well as training with the Argentinian JR National Team (training only, I am not Argentinian). I played two seasons in Argentina before coming back to the US to accept a coaching position.  I was the assistant coach for Water Polo and Swimming at Woodbridge High School under Alex Abishier and Tom Norton, for three years, and later became the head coach for two years. In 2008 I played on the North Irvine Premier League Division II, and placed 5th in the Masters Nationals USA Water Polo under 40.  

In the Fall of 2008 I decided to go back to school at Concordia University to complete my degree and to my surprise discovered that through NAIA collegiate rules I had remaining eligability.  So I returned to college play in 2008 for the Concordia University Irvine Water Polo Team as Player/Assistant coach. 

In January of 2010, I was hired as the Vanguard University of Southern California Head Men's and Women's Water Polo Coach.  It is a start up program that will be ready to compete Fall 2010.

In March of 2010 I was selected to the Ecuadorian National Water Polo Team to compete in the South American Games held in Medillin, Colombia.  I was the high scorer for the Ecuador Team with a total of 12 goals in 6 games.