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Postgame Interview (11/4/23)
Former Triton standout Arman Momdzhyan was named associate head coach with the UC San Diego men's water polo team in July of 2025 after serving as an assistant coach for the previous three seasons.
With Momdzhyan on staff, the Tritons finished with a winning record in each of the last three seasons. Overall, the team went 48-38, good for a .558 win percentage. UC San Diego also posted a winning record in conference action, going 6-4 over the team's first two seasons as a Division 1 member of the Big West (2023 and 2024) and 6-2 in its final campaign as a Division II team and member Western Water Polo Association (2022).
Momdzhyan was instrumental in helping UC San Diego land standout recruits
Landon Akerstrom,
Eamon Hennessey, and
Lucas Romaguera in 2023 and 2024. Akerstrom earned ACWPC All-America Honorable Mention and All-Big West First Team accolades in 2024. Hennessey was an All-Big West Second Team performer in 2024 and Romaguera was an ACWPC All-America Honorable Mention and All-Big West First Team pick in 2024.
Momdzhyan played for UC San Diego for two seasons after transferring from Los Angeles Valley College. He was named the Association of Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) NCAA Division 2 Player of the Year in both 2016 and 2017. Momdzhyan also earned ACWPC All-America Division 2 First Team as well as All-Western Water Polo Association First Team accolades in each of his seasons with the Tritons. Over 43 career games, he scored 98 goals and added 16 assists for 114 points. His 44 goals in 2016 led the team and his 54 goals in 2017 were second on the Triton roster. He led UC San Diego to back-to-back WWPA final appearances and a No. 9 national ranking.
Momdzhyan currently serves as the technical director and head coach of the La Jolla United Water Polo Club, where he trains over 300 youth athletes between the ages of 7 to 19. La Jolla United Water Polo Club has become a nationally-ranked youth program since its inception in 2018 under Momdzhyan's leadership, highlighted by the first USA Water Polo National Championship in club history in 2023 as well as multiple top-10 finishes across all age groups nationwide.
From 2019-21, Momdzhyan was the head men's water polo coach and a member of the Adjunct Exercise Science Faculty at Miramar College in San Diego. He led the Jets to their first conference championship appearance in program history and was tabbed the Miramar Athletics Coach of the Year and the Pacific Coast Conference Co-Coach of the Year in 2021.
The Glendale, Calif., native graduated from UC San Diego in 2018 with a bachelor's degree in human developmental sciences. He earned a master's in kinesiology from Fresno Pacific.
