University of California - San Diego Women's Water Polo

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In his six seasons at the helm, Kreutzkamp has led UCSD to four Western Water Polo Association (WWPA) championships and four appearances at the NCAA Championship. The Tritons are 129-102 (.588) overall during his tenure. During the 2015 season, Kreutzkamp led his team to its third straight WWPA title and fourth in five years with a 10-8 victory over Cal State East Bay. The Tritons made their fourth NCAA appearance, finishing eighth at the championship. In 2014, Kreutzkamp led the Tritons to a 27-13 overall record, which was the second most wins in the program's 30-year history. UCSD earned its third WWPA title in four years after downing Cal State East Bay, 16-3. The Tritons went on to finish in eighth place at the NCAA Championship. The Tritons took eight wins against nationally-ranked NCAA Division I programs in addition to being featured in the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Top-20 poll all 17 weeks, beginning at No. 14 and finishing as No. 12. The Tritons reached as high as sixth in the rankings, which marked their highest ever ranking under Kreutzkamp. Kreutzkamp was named the Division II Coach of the Year by the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) for the third time. The Tritons places four platers on the ACWPC All-American teams, the most of any NCAA Division II team. UCSD had seven players make WWPA All-Conference teams. The seven Tritons honored by the league marked a program record for Kreutzkamp. In his fourth season, Kreutzkamp led UCSD to an NCAA Championship berth after knocking off Loyola Marymount, 10-8, in the WWPA title game. The 12th-ranked Tritons finished a program-best sixth place at NCAA Championship and closed the season with a 26-15 overall mark, recording the most wins since the 1994 national championship squad went 28-2. The schedule featured 21 games against nationally-ranked NCAA Division I programs. The Tritons finished with an 8-13 record and proved that they are a team to watch for. UCSD was featured in the CWPA Top-20 poll all 16 weeks, beginning at No. 20 in the preseason poll and concluded as No. 12 in the final poll. Kreutzkamp was honored as the Division II Coach of the Year by the ACWPC and was also named WWPA Coach of the Year. The Tritons placed four players on the ACWPC All-American team, six on the WWPA All-Conference teams, eight on the WWPA All-Academic team and four on the ACWPC All-Academic team. In 2012, Kreutzkamp led the Tritons to a 21-14 overall and narrowly missed their second straight trip to the NCAA Championship. The Tritons were 8-2 in WWPA play and earned the No. 2 seed for the conference championship, but fell by a goal to Loyola Marymount in the WWPA title game. UCSD won 10 of its final 13 contests. Kreutzkamp guided the Tritons to an 18-20 overall record in 2011, leading the Tritons to their first WWPA title since 2000 and the schools first appearance at the NCAA Championship in program history. UCSD defeated No. 8 LMU, 13-11, to earn its first conference title in more than 10 years. The Tritons went 1-2 at the NCAA Champion­ship in Ann Arbor, Mich., taking down No. 20 Iona, 15-9, in the seventh-place match. In 2010, Kreutzkamp guided the Tritons to an 18-19 overall record in his first season as coach. UCSD finished fourth in the conference at the end of the regular season after posting a 10-3 mark in WWPA competition. UCSD would advance to its first WWPA championship match since 2004 after beating Sonoma State and Colorado State in the first two rounds of the conference tournament. However, the squad fell to No. 8 Loyola Marymount, 13-10, in the championship. Four players earned All-WWPA accolades, while two Tritons were named All-Americans in 2010. Kreutzkamp was named the head coach of the womens water polo team in September of 2009. He came to UCSD as an assistant with the womens team in 1999, before joining longtime head coach Denny Harper on the mens staff the following season. He served as an assistant under Harper until 2006, when he was promoted to associate head coach (2006-10). The Triton men went 194-106 (.646) during Kreutzkamps tenure, winning WWPA championships in 2000, 2002 and 2006. In his first year with the program, Kreutzkamp helped guide UCSD to a 9-8 victory over USC in the NCAA semifinals, as the Tritons became the first non-Division I program to play for a national championship. Prior to his arrival on the La Jolla campus, Kreutzkamp was the head coach of both the boy's and girl's varsity programs at Grossmont High School from 1996-99 and held both positions at Patrick Henry High School for two seasons prior to that. While at Patrick Henry, he led the girl's squad to the inaugural San Diego CIF Division I championship in 1995 and was named both the Girl's Eastern League and CIF D-I Coach of the Year. He also served as the head girl's coach with the highly-successful Sunset Water Polo Club, winning a pair of silver med­als at the 18-U Junior Olympics.

Williamson helped lead the Tritons to their second most wins in the program's 30 year history as UCSD posted a 27-13 record. Additionally, the Tritons claimed its third Western Water Polo Association (WWPA) title in the past four years and went on to place eighth at the NCAA Championship in 2015. In 2013, the Tritons finished sixth at the NCAA Championship in a 26-15 season. It marked the highest national finish as a program. In 2012, the Tritons finished runner-up to Loyola Marymount in the WWPA Championships, narrowly missing out on their second straight conference title. UCSD finished the season at 21-14 overall. During her second season as assistant coach in 2011, Williamson helped guide the Tritons to a WWPA title and the team's first-ever appearance at the NCAA National Championships. UCSD finished in seventh-place at the tournament and ended the year with a No. 14 national ranking. In her four seasons as a UCLA student-athlete, Williamson helped capture three consecutive NCAA titles from 2005-07, including UCLA's historic 100th NCAA Championship title during her senior year. During her freshman year, she led the team in assists, with 31, and had the second-most steals on the team, with 41. Williamson continued to compete for the remaining three seasons, finishing with 23 goals, 40 assists and 60 steals. Highlights from her senior year included four goals against Pacific and All-Academic Team accolades for outstanding efforts in the classroom. Prior to Williamson's collegiate career, she was a standout high school water polo player for Bill Barnett at Newport Harbor. She was named to the National Youth Team in 2002 and 2003 and earned a trip to Australia to compete internationally. Williamson graduated from UCLA with a degree in sociology.