BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — Princeton University men’s water polo coach/assistant women’s water polo coach Dusty Litvak was a recent guest on Episode 1 of Season 2 for the Game On! Water Polo Podcast hosted by Shawn Stringham.
Litvak recently competed his fourth season as head men’s coach at Princeton.
In 2022, he guided the Tigers to a school single season wins record with a 27-6 mark as Princeton claimed the Northeast Water Polo Conference (NWPC) Championship, a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Championship tournament berth and an appearance in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Championship.
The title marked the second consecutive crown for Princeton as he previously guided the Tigers to a then record with 26 victories (26-7) in 2021 and collected the team’s sixth conference crown by winning the NWPC Championship.
Prior to a 2020 season lost to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Princeton men’s squad went 16-15 overall in 2019 and advanced to the NWPC Tournament Championship title game. The Tigers went 19-11 in 2018 and won the NWPC crown.
Before his time at DeNunzio Pool, Litvak spent five seasons at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), working with the men’s and women’s water polo teams. From 2013-15, he was an assistant with the men’s team that won the 2014 national title, the first time UCLA had won the national championship in ten years. Litvak then assisted with the women’s squad from 2015-2017, highlighted by an Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Championship and a second-place finish at the 2017 NCAA Tournament.
Prior to UCLA, Litvak earned coaching experience at Occidental College for one year (2007). He also was the head coach of the boys’ water polo team at his alma mater, Agoura High School, where he earned Marmonte League Coach of the Year nine straight years. Agoura won its first-ever CIF Championship in 2007 and three more additional crowns in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Litvak was a four-time CIF Coach of the Year (in Divisions 4 and 2) and a seven-time Los Angeles Daily News Coach of the Year. He was also a finalist for the Positive Coaching Alliance’s Double Goal Coach Award.
He held a variety of assignments with USA Water Polo, serving as a coach with the men and women’s youth national squads. In 2017, the men’s youth national team won the goal medal at the 2017 UANA Youth Championships in Lima, Peru.
Litvak graduated from Pepperdine University in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications.
