Gavin Arroyo
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Full name | Gavin Arroyo | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | May 10, 1972 Orange, California, U.S. | (age 52)|||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Water polo | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gavin Arroyo (born May 10, 1972) is a former water polo defender from the United States, who competed in two Summer Olympics (1996 and 2000) for his native country.[1] He was part of the United States national team that won the gold medal in the 1997 FINA World Cup in Athens.[2]
At club level, he played overseas in Greece for Olympiacos, Vouliagmeni, Glyfada and in Spain for Barcelona and CN Atlètic-Barceloneta.[3] As a member of Olympiacos from 1997 to 1999, Arroyo won the Greek Championship (1999), the Greek Cup (1998) and the Greek Super Cup (1998) and was twice runner-up of the LEN Cup Winners' Cup in 1998 and 1999.[4]
In 2020, Arroyo was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame.[5][6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Gavin Arroyo". olympic.org. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
- ^ "Interview with Gavin Arroyo Coach of Long Beach State University". waterpoloplanet.com. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
- ^ "Gavin Arroyo". longbeachstate.com. Archived from the original on 24 July 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
- ^ ΑΘΛΗΤΙΚΗ ΗΧΩ, 17/03/1999, σελ. 34, "Ο Ολυμπιακός συνέτριψε την ιταλική Φλωρεντία κι είναι από χτες μ'ένα πόδι στον τελικό του Κυπελλούχων" (in Greek)
- ^ "Gavin Arroyo (2020)". usawaterpolo.org. USA Water Polo. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
- ^ "Hall of Fame Inductees". usawaterpolo.org. USA Water Polo. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
External links
[edit]- Gavin Arroyo at World Aquatics
- Gavin Arroyo at the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame
- Gavin Arroyo at Olympics.com
- Gavin Arroyo at Olympedia
- Gavin Arroyo profile at h2opolo.com
Categories:
- 1972 births
- Living people
- American male water polo players
- Olympic water polo players for the United States
- Water polo players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Water polo players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympiacos Water Polo Club players
- Sportspeople from Orange, California
- Water polo players at the 1995 Pan American Games
- Water polo players at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in water polo
- American water polo coaches
- Coaches at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American water polo biography stubs