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Brian Flacks leaves Harvard-Westlake to be Stanford’s water polo coach
Brian Flacks, the extremely regarded aquatics director at Harvard-Westlake in Studio Metropolis who constructed the boys’ program right into a highschool powerhouse, has been employed because the water polo coach at Stanford.
He replaces John Vargas, who retired at Stanford after 20 years and two NCAA championships.
Hiring a highschool coach to run a university program is just not uncommon for water polo. Flacks has nationwide crew teaching expertise.
Flacks, 34, is a 2006 Harvard-Westlake graduate who starred on the water polo crew and performed at UCLA and Loyola Marymount. He turned head coach in 2011 and guided the Wolverines to 4 Southern Part boys championships and one ladies’ title.
“I’ve spent over half my life at Harvard-Westlake, and it’s unattainable to place into phrases how significant the college has been to me,” he mentioned in a press release.
It’s not the primary time Harvard-Westlake has misplaced a water polo coach to the school ranks. Wealthy Corso was the USA Olympics coach earlier than leaving for California.