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April 26,
2007
Poets Name New Men's Water Polo Coach
Justin Pudwill has been named the new head coach of the Whittier
College men's water polo program. He is no stranger to the
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, having been the
assistant men's and women's water polo coach at Occidental College since
2004.
Pudwill majored in Sports Management at Salem International University
in Salem, West Virginia. While there he was a member of the
baseball, swimming and water polo teams, earning Academic All-American
honors in all three sports for three years. Water polo at Salem
International is a Division I sport.
Pudwill also played semi-professional water polo for the Ontario Water
Polo Club in Ontario, Canada. His team won the Canadian Junior
Club Championships in 1999. |
Justin Pudwill
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Pudwill has been both a water polo and
swimming coach since 2000 in Texas and California. He began his
coaching career as a swimming assistant for the Space City Aquatics Team
in League City, Texas. He then moved on to Ross S. Sterling High
School in Baytown, Texas where he was the assistant for the swimming and
water polo programs. In 2001, Pudwill co-founded the first
year-round age group water polo program in the state of Texas, the Dirty
Bay Water Polo Club in Baytown. Within two years, the program grew
from 20 members to over 100. In 2004, he moved back to California
to become the assistant at Occidental. He is also coaching at
Huntington Beach High School as the assistant to all the aquatics
programs.
Pudwill takes over a program that has been run by Mitch Carty for the
past ten seasons. Carty is Whittier's all-time leader with 153
victories. In 2004, the Poets won a SCIAC Championship under his
direction.
"I am honored to be taking over for Mitch Carty, a very successful coach
that has built a foundation for Whittier College men's water polo and
swimming," said Pudwill. "Whittier College is a great school
with a ton of tradition and I look forward to building a long lasting
relationship with the faculty, administration, and most of all the
student-athletes. I am very happy to be calling Whittier my home. I
look forward to bringing the men's programs back up to championship
form." |
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