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[5] [6] In 2016, she became the first African-American woman to make the US Olympic team in water polo. She was part of the gold-medal winning 2016 and 2020 U.S. women's water polo Olympic teams, and earned a spot on the 2024 U.S. women's water polo Olympic team. [7] [8] She is a 2017 graduate of Princeton University. She is 6'1" tall and her ...
The United States women's national water polo team represents the United States in international women 's water polo competitions and friendly matches. It is one of the leading teams in the world since the late 1990s. Women's water polo has been on the international stage since 1978 and was an exhibition sport at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics ...
t. e. These are the rosters of all participating teams at the women's water polo tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The ten national teams were required to submit squads of 12 players. Additionally, teams could name one alternate player. In the event that a player on the submitted squad list suffered an injury or illness, that ...
She also participated at among others the 2017 Summer Universiade, [3] 2017 FINA Women's Water Polo World League, 2018 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup, [4] 2019 Pan American Games, and 2019 FINA Women's Water Polo World League. [5] She was part of the gold medal winning US team in the women's water polo tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics. [6]
Women's water polo became an Olympic sport at the 2000 Sydney Olympics . As of 2016, women's teams from Europe, North America and Oceania won all five gold medals. [ 1] The United States is the most successful country in the women's Olympic water polo tournament, with three Olympic gold medals. The team won three gold medals in 2012,2016, and ...
Women's water polo became an Olympic sport at the 2000 Olympics. Since then, the United States women's team has won six consecutive medals. There are thirty-five female athletes who have won two or more Olympic medals in water polo. Heather Petri and Brenda Villa of the United States are the only two female athletes to win four Olympic medals ...
Giulia Gorlero of Italy holds the record for the most saves by a female water polo goalkeeper in a single Olympic tournament, blocking 65 shots in the 2016 edition. At the 2016 Summer Games, Ashleigh Johnson saved 51 shots, including nine in the gold medal match, helping the American team win the Olympics.
Rachel Fattal (/ f ə ˈ t ɑː l / fə-TAHL; born December 10, 1993) [1] is an American water polo player. Fattal attended Los Alamitos High School and graduated in 2012. She then attended UCLA, where she majored in history and played water polo; she graduated in 2017.