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2014 Men's Water Polo

11 Bennett Royce

11 Bennett Royce

  • Height:
    6-2
  • Class:
    Freshman
  • Hometown:
    Solana Beach, Calif.
  • Highschool:
    Santa Fe Christian

Summary

Biography

At Pomona-Pitzer: Completed his first season as a member of the Pomona-Pitzer Men’s Water Polo team, where he is a utility player…2014: Scored eight goals on the year...Had two goals in his college debut, a loss to No. 6 Long Beach State...Had a hat trick against Caltech...Scored against No. 20 Concordia.

High School: Attended Santa Fe Christian School in Solana Beach, California, where he was a member of the water polo and swimming teams...Was a team captain and MVP of the water polo and swimming teams as both a junior and senior…Set a CIF record for most goals in a season (234)…Earned the San Diego Union Tribune Athlete of the Week for scoring 18 goals in a game…Earned 2013 San Diego County All-Star honors, as well as all-league first-team honors…Earned All-Academic honors from USA Water Polo and the San Diego Union Tribune for three years…Also played for the Carlsbad Water Polo club team in 2014 and the NSD Stars in 2012-13…Will compete in the 18U National Junior Olympics with Carlsbad in 2014 after starting for the NSD Stars at JO’s in 2013…Senior class president…ASB Leadership award winner from 2011-14…Earned “Golden Voice” award from the CSF in 2014…Won Santa Fe Christian’s Most Talented Senior Award…Won the top soloist award at the Music In The Parks Festival (national competition)…2013 scholarship recipient for the Pepperdine Youth Leadership Conference…Earned Top Oceanography/Ecology and Most Outstanding Chamber Chorale honors.

Personal: Attending Pitzer College, where he majors in media studies with an international relations minor…Has an older brother…Great grandfather, Major CC Moseley, served in WWI and won the inaugural Pulitzer Air Race in 1920, before being place in charge of all of the US Army Air Service schools, which taught over 25,000 pilots and 5,000 mechanics for service in WWII…Hobbies include mixed martial arts, skiing, reading and singing…Rocky Marciano is his favorite athlete…Favorite book is Fearless and favorite movie is Lone Survivor…Lists Michael Monsoor, a Navy Seal who died in combat, as the public figure he most admires…Plans to become a US Navy Seal after graduation…Took mission trips to Fiji with “Give Clean Water” and a mission trip to Italy with is Chorale to build fields and teach English to school kids…Chose Pitzer because “I loved that each of the Claremont Colleges has its own distinct personality, and because of the opportunities with the Water Polo team.”

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