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2025 Triton Men's Water Polo Roster

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8 Mark Laurlund

  • Position Utility
  • Height 6-4
  • Weight 205
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Alamo, Calif.
  • High School Monte Vista
  • Major Psychology
  • College Muir

Biography

ACADEMIC AWARDS
• Big West Fall Academic All-Conference (2024)
• ACWPC All-Academic (2024)

UC SAN DIEGO DEBUT
• Sept. 7, 2024 vs. UC Merced: 4 assists, 2 steals

AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2024
ACWPC All-Academic...Big West Fall Academic All-Conference ... Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll.

NATIONAL
On the USA Water Polo Men's Youth National Team Roster in 2019-20 … Took part in the BIWPA (Barcelona International Water Polo Academy) in 2017-18 and played for Club Natació Barcelona (CNB), winning the Spanish Championship ... Helped the U.S. Men's Cadet National Team win the gold medal at the Darko Cukic Memorial Tournament in Belgrade, Serbia in 2015.

AT UCLA IN 2023
Played in 19 of 29 games … Scored nine goals on 15 attempts, converting at a 60.0 percent rate … Finished with 20 total points and 11 assists … Scored two goals in a game three times … Scored at least one goal in six of the 19 games he played, including three multiple-goal games … Scored at least one goal in back-to-back games vs. UC Davis and Occidental ...Registered 16 steals, two drawn exclusions, and three field blocks.

AT UCLA IN 2022
Did not play.

AT UCLA IN 2021
Redshirt.

CLUB
Played with CC United Water Polo Club ... CC United Black won the 2021 18U Junior Olympic Championship ... Second with CC United Black at the 2018 16U Junior Olympics

HIGH SCHOOL
A four-year varsity letterwinner at Monte Vista … The team's leading goal scorer all four years … A second team NISCA All-American in 2020-21

PERSONAL
Born: Sept. 6 in Alamo, Calif.
Parents: Mom attended Arizona State and dad went to Cal Poly
Siblings: Has one older sister
Most memorable moment in water polo: Winning the Spanish championship at 15
Major: Psychology
College: Muir
Future plans: A stable job and a family
Roots for: Las Vegas Raiders
Favorite athlete: Manu Ginóbili
Favorite movie: Step Brothers
Hobbies: Surfing
Favorite food: Anything Asian
Fun fact: Lived in Spain for a year
 
SINGLE-GAME HIGHS
Goals 3 vs. La Verne 8/29/25
Assists 5 vs. UC Davis 11/23/24
Points 6 vs. UC Davis 11/23/24
Shots 3 3 times 8/29/25 vs. La Verne
Steals 3 2 times 9/27/24 vs. Concordia
Field Blocks 1 3 times 9/27/24 vs. Concordia
Drawn Exclusions 2 vs. UC Davis 11/23/24
 
CAREER STATISTICS
Year GP G A P Sh. Sh. % EX DEX STL FB
2024 29 11 38 49 23 .478 30 7 15 3
Totals 29 11 38 49 23 .478 30 7 15 3

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Historical Player Information

  • 15

    2024Redshirt Sophomore

    Utility
    6'4" 215 lbs
    15
  • 8

    2025Junior

    Utility
    6'4" 205 lbs
    8

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