The Cutino Trophy (photo courtesy of the Olympic Club)

The Peter J. Cutino Award, named after former college water polo player and UC Berkeley coach Peter J. Cutino, is considered the most prestigious individual award in American collegiate water polo. It is given annually to the top male and female player in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

History

The award was first presented in 1999 by the Trustees of The Olympic Club in San Francisco.[1] The Club, founded in 1860 to support amateur athletics in the Bay Area, is one of America's oldest athletic clubs.[2] Nominees for the Cutino Award are selected by the Division I water polo coaches.[1] These coaches vote for three players as nominees, none of which can be members of their own team. The eventual winner is voted on again by the same coaches, who now rank the nominees and can vote for members of their own teams. The Olympic Club, which tabulates the votes, does not release the number of votes to avoid manipulation of the totals. Each winner receives a brass and walnut trophy, and the perpetual trophy is on display at the Olympic Club of San Francisco.

Originally the award was announced after the end of both the men's (December) and women's (May) college seasons. Former major league baseball commissioner and US Olympic Committee chair Peter Ueberroth, himself once a water polo player at San Jose State, presented the first awards on January 22, 2000. The 2001 women's winner, Coralie Simmons, was presented with her award almost a year after her season had ended because the Trustees decided to change the cycle to coincide with the academic year. Thus in June 2002, Simmons won the 2001 award, while Brenda Villa received the 2002 women's Cutino at the same ceremony. The nominees are now announced each spring, before the end of the women's NCAA water polo season, but well after the men's season ends in December of the prior year. The award ceremony is held at an Olympic Club facility in San Francisco, shortly after the Women's NCAA Championship is decided.

Peter J. Cutino Award winners

YearMen's winnerSchoolYearWomen's winnerSchool
1999Sean KernUCLA1999Bernice OrwigUSC
2000Sean KernUCLA2000Aniko PelleUSC
2001Tony AzevedoStanford University2001/2002Coralie Simmons / Brenda Villa[3]UCLA / Stanford
2002Tony AzevedoStanford University2003Jackie FrankStanford University
2003Tony AzevedoStanford University2004Moriah van NormanUSC
2004Tony AzevedoStanford University2005Natalie GoldaUCLA
2005Juraj ZatovicUSC2006Lauren WengerUSC
2006John MannUniversity of California, Berkeley2007Kelly RulonUCLA
2007Tim HuttenUC Irvine2008Courtney MathewsonUCLA
2008J. W. KrumpholzUSC2009Kami CraigUSC
2009J. W. KrumpholzUSC2010Kami CraigUSC
2010Ivan RackovUniversity of California, Berkeley2011Annika DriesStanford University
2011Joel DennerleyUSC2012Kiley NeushulStanford University
2012Balazs ErdelyiUniversity of the Pacific2013Melissa SeidemannStanford University
2013Balazs ErdelyiUniversity of the Pacific2014Annika DriesStanford University
2014Konstantinos GenidouniasUSC2015Kiley NeushulStanford University
2015Garrett DannerUCLA2016Stephania HaralabidisUSC
2016McQuin BaronUSC2017Ashleigh JohnsonPrinceton University
2017Luca CupidoUniversity of California, Berkeley2018Amanda LonganUSC
2018Ben HallockStanford University2019Makenzie FischerStanford University
2019Ben HallockStanford University2020COVID - No Season
2020Nicolas SaveljicUCLA2021Maud MegensUSC
2021Nikolaos PapanikolaouUniversity of California, Berkeley2022Makenzie FischerStanford University
2022Nikolaos PapanikolaouUniversity of California, Berkeley2023Aria FischerStanford University

(Source: Olympic Club[4]) (Source: Swimming World Magazine[5]) (Source: Swimming World Magazine[6])

Notes

  1. 1 2 The Cutino Chronicles "The Cutino Chronicles". Archived from the original on 2009-07-07. Retrieved 2007-08-09. Retrieved 2007-08-08
  2. ↑ The Olympic Club: History Archived 2007-07-17 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2007-08-08
  3. ↑ Coralie was awarded in June 2001, but celebrated in June 2002, Brenda won for 2002 and was celebrated in 2002
  4. ↑ Olympic Club San Francisco: 2015 Peter Cutino Awards Banquet Retrieved 2015-06-14
  5. ↑ Swimming World: Goalies Rule - Princeton’s Johnson, USC’s Baron Win Cutino Awards Retrieved 2018-09-20
  6. ↑ Swimming World: Cupido and Longan Capture 2018 Cutino Awards at The Olympic Club Retrieved 2018-09-20

See also

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