UCLA signs water polo coach Adam Wright to six-year extension

Adam Wright was the primary coach to win an NCAA title beneath Martin Jarmond and the UCLA athletic director is making certain the water polo coach will stick round to strive for extra.

UCLA signed Wright to a six-year contract extension Tuesday, retaining the four-time NCAA championship-winning coach by way of the 2028 season.

After profitable two nationwide titles as a participant for the Bruins, Wright coached the lads’s program to championships in 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2020. He took over this system in 2009 and added head coach duties for the ladies’s program following the 2017 season.

The Olympic silver medalist led the lads’s staff to an unprecedented 57-game profitable streak whereas profitable back-to-back nationwide championships and has overseen a resurgence of the ladies’s program that returned to the nationwide championship sport final 12 months for the primary time since 2017.

Although formally contested in spring 2021, UCLA’s 2020 males’s nationwide championship was the primary throughout Jarmond’s tenure at UCLA. The season was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which brought on an overlap between the lads’s and ladies’s seasons. Wright coached each groups concurrently.

“It takes a particular type of chief to construct each a males’s and a girls’s water polo program, and to maintain them at an elite stage concurrently,” Jarmond mentioned in a press release. “Adam is that chief. He brings out the very best within the younger women and men he coaches.”

The ladies’s staff, hoping to win its first NCAA title since 2009, is 21-1 this season and 3-0 in convention.