BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — Former University of Massachusetts’ athletes Javier Gonzalez, Alex Mujica, Luis Limardo and Brian Stahl were inducted into the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Hall of Fame during an online induction ceremony on Thursday, December 18.
The quartet – who join former UMass head coach Russ Yarworth and women’s athlete Katie Grogan to increase the number of former Minutemen in the Hall of Fame to six – raise the number of CWPA Hall of Fame members to 49 as they join Richard Hunkler (Slippery Rock University/Coach, 2002), Dick Russell (Bucknell University/Coach, 2002), Lynn Kachmarik (Slippery Rock University/Athlete, Bucknell University/Coach, 2003), Ed Reed (Brown University/Coach, 2003), John Barrett (University of Maryland/Athlete, 2004), Paul Barren (West Chester University/Referee, 2004), Sue Kolczak (Slippery Rock University/Athlete, 2005), George Gross (Yale University/Athlete, 2005), Robbie Bova (Slippery Rock University/Athlete, 2006), Scott Schulte (Bucknell University/Athlete, 2006), Katie Grogan (University of Massachusetts/Athlete, 2007), Russ Yarworth (University of Massachusetts/Coach, 2007), Betsey Armstrong (University of Michigan/Athlete, 2008), Tom Popp (United States Naval Academy/Athlete, 2008), Diane Stein Swigart (Slippery Rock University/Athlete, 2009), Lars Enstrom (Brown University/Athlete, 2009), Leslie Entwistle (Slippery Rock University/Athlete, 2010), Chris Judge (Fordham University/Athlete, 2010), Carrie Basye-Becker (Slippery Rock University, University of Maryland/Athlete, 2011), John Benedick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Coach, Administrator, 2011), Kristin Stanford (Indiana University/Athlete, 2012), Mark Gensheimer (Bucknell University/Athlete, 2012), Adele McCarthy-Beauvais (Princeton University/Athlete, 2013), Simon Gould (University of Arkansas-Little Rock/Athlete, 2013), Tom Tracey (Villanova University/Director of Officials, 2014), Mike Schofield (United States Naval Academy/Coach, 2014), Goga Vukmirovic (Princeton University/Athlete, 2015), Rich Russey (Brown University/Athlete, 2015), Shana Welch (University of Michigan/Athlete, 2016), Tony Paxton (Bucknell University/Athlete, 2016), Krista Peterson Polvi (Indiana University/Athlete, 2017), Jeff Hilk (Bucknell University/Athlete, 2017), Patricia Ann “Trish” McGuire (Slippery Rock University/Athlete, 2018), Steve Ennis (Brown University/Athlete, 2018), Elyse Colgan (Princeton University/Athlete, 2019), Garrin Kapecki (Bucknell University/Athlete, 2019), Julie Hyrne (University of Michigan/Athlete, 2020), Luis Nicolao (United States Naval Academy/Athlete, 2020), Dan Sharadin (West Virginia University/Villanova University/Collegiate Water Polo Association/Coach & Administrator, 2023), Ted Bresnahan (Johns Hopkins University/Coach, 2024), Carl Quigley (St. Francis College Brooklyn/Coach, 2024), Peter Sabbatini (Princeton University/Athlete, 2024), Aaron Recko (United States Naval Academy/Athlete, 2024), Igor Mladenovic (St. Francis College Brooklyn/Athlete, 2024) and Ashleigh Johnson (Princeton University/Athlete, 2025).
In the history of the league, Slippery Rock University (nine), Bucknell University (six), the University of Massachusetts (six), Princeton University (five), Brown University (four), the Untied States Naval Academy (four), the University of Michigan (three), Indiana University (two), St. Francis College Brooklyn (two), Villanova University (two), Fordham University, Johns Hopkins University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Arkansas-Little Rock, the University of Maryland, West Chester University, West Virginia University and Yale University have an alumnus/former employee in the Hall of Fame.
