Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges

At CMS
2021 (Senior)
Second-Team ACWPC All-American ... SCIAC Defensive Player of the Year ... First-Team All-SCIAC ... Two-time SCIAC Defensive Player of the Week ... Had a 15-12 record and a 9.97 goals against average, to go along with a .513 save percentage ... Had a .543 save percentage and a 9.10 goals against average in SCIAC matches ... Had a career-high 18 saves and allowed only six goals in a SCIAC Semifinal win over Cal Lutheran, which clinched a USA Water Polo Division III Championship bid ... Had 17 saves in a win over Concordia (Irvine) ... Closed out the regular season with 16 saves and only seven goals allowed in a win over Whittier ... Tallied 15 saves and only three goals allowed in a win over Johns Hopkins ... Had seven steals against Ottawa ... Picked up four steals in the national championship game against Pomona-Pitzer ... Had 14 assists on the year, including three in a win over McKendree.   

2019 (Sophomore)
Second-Team All-SCIAC Selection ... Honorable Mention ACWPC Division III All-American ... Started all 30 matches for CMS on the season, finishing with an 18-11 record ... Had a 9.21 goals against average and a .515 save percentage ... Two-time SCIAC Defensive Player of the Week ... Had an impressive performance at the USA Water Polo Division III National Championships, with a season-high 15 saves in a semifinal win over Johns Hopkins and 13 saves and only five goals allowed in a finals loss (5-3) to Whittier ... Had 13 saves in a one-goal loss to Division I UC Irvine ... Had nine saves, five in the fourth quarter, of a 9-8 win over Pomona-Pitzer ... Had 11 saves in a SCIAC Semifinal win over Pomona-Pitzer, which earned CMS a USA Water Polo Division III Championship berth.

2018 (First-Year)
Played in all 27 matches in goal for the Stags, playing the second half of all matches in a platoon with classmate Matt Tran ... Had a 9.28 goals against average and a .516 save percentage ... Had a .572 save percentage in SCIAC matches ... Had a season-high nine saves in a home win over Johns Hopkins, allowing only four goals ... Had five saves and allowed only two goals to get the win in a SCIAC semifinal victory over Whittier ... Had seven saves and a season-high three steals in a win over Caltech. 

Prior to CMS
Attended Menlo Atherton High School, where he was a member of the water polo team ... Also played for Stanford Water Polo club ... Named his league's Most Valuable Goalie as a senior, as well as an All-CCS third-team selection ... First-team all-league and first-team All-CCS as a junior, when he helped his team to a CCS DI runner-up finish ... Earned USAWP Junior Olympics MVP Award in both 2015 and 2017. Part of a PAL Championship team as a freshman ... USA Water Polo academic All-American all four years of high school ... CSF Life Member

Personal
Attends Harvey Mudd ... Mother, Tina Niu Smith, ran track at Stanford ... Also a classical pianist ... Member of jazz band in high school, where he started a water polo scholarship fund ... Chose CMS "because it combines high level athletics with rigorous classes."