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Dusty currently serves as the Head Men’s Coach and Assistant Women’s coach for the Princeton Tigers.  The Tigers men’s team just wrapped up a great 2022-23 season where they were the Northeast Water Polo Conference champions and made a deep run into the NCAA Championships at Cal.  

Before his time at DeNunzio Pool, Litvak spent five seasons at 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 2015-2018, highlighted by an MPSF championship and a second-place finish at the 2017 NCAA Tournament.  

We are here to talk about is Dusty’s role as the League Commissioner and SoCal Director for the Futures Water Polo League.  The Futures league prides itself for providing high level competition for the top water polo clubs in the nation.

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Brian Alexander currently serves as the athlete mental skills coach for USA Water Polo for ODP and now the US Men's National team.  You can regularly see him speak at JOs, ODP camps and read his column in Skipshot! magazine.    

He had an awesome water polo career graduating from Foothill HS, then playing for the Gauchos of UC Santa Barbara.  From college he played professionally in Spain, Greece, and Australia.  Brian played and represented Team USA at multiple junior and senior FINA world championships.   While on the senior national team he trained for the 2008 and 2012 Olympic team but was ultimately one of the last athletes cut from the Olympic roster.  

Brian adds a significant value to our sport helping with both the peak performance of athletes and also helping to create awareness around mental health issues in sport. 

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Instagram: @athletementalskillscoach - https://www.instagram.com/athletementalskillscoach/ 

Twitter - @BA_Pos_Mind - https://twitter.com/BA_Pos_Mind 

LinkedIn - Brian Alexander, MA, CMPC - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianalexander3/  

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Welcome to the Game On! Water Polo Podcast. The Game On! Water Polo Pod will take a look at water polo growth, culture and best practices from the perspective of water polo athletes, clubs, parents, referees and coaches from around the United States. Exploring issues facing the growth of the sport we love at a local and national level and will seek to have interesting and collaborative conversations with stakeholders to the game.

Hosted by Shawn Stringham and Genai Kerr.

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