Mountain Pacific Sports Federation

2025 All-MPSF Men's Water Polo Announced

11/19/2025 11:00:50 AM

Photo: Ryder Dodd (by: UCLA Athletics)

2025 Delfina All-MPSF West Men's Water Polo Teams (PDF)

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UCLA sophomore attacker Ryder Dodd (Long Beach, CA) leads the MPSF with 82 goals and 107 points entering the postseason. He ranks tied for 16th in MPSF single-season history in scoring, 20 goals from his own MPSF record of 102 he set as a freshman. Dodd has scored in all 50 games he has played in his career and has scored multiple goals in 48 of those contests. He was named Delfina MPSF West Player of the Week a conference-high five times this year, including the last three weeks consecutively. In the final game of the regular season, he scored four goals for the 10^th time in the last 11 regular season games, including the game-winner just prior to his game-winning field block, in a 14-13 come-from-behind win at No. 1 USC. The win secured the top seed for the Bruins in the MPSF Tournament. Dodd, a two-time Delfina All-MPSF first team honoree, is UCLA’s seventh all-time MPSF Player of the Year recipient and the third-straight for the Bruins (Dodd-2024, Rafael Real Vergara-2023, Garrett Danner-2015-16, Scott Davidson-2009, Sean Kern-2000). Dodd also becomes the sixth player in MPSF history to earn back-to-back player of the year awards.
USC freshman center Strahinja Krstic (Belgrade, Serbia) has drawn the second-most exclusions across the entire MPSF, and has scored 39 goals with a 17-game scoring streak entering the postseason. He won a high of four MPSF West/S&R Sport Newcomer of the Week awards. Leading to his last weekly award, Krstic accumulated two goals, three assists, one field block, and six drawn exclusions through conference home wins over No. 3 Stanford and No. 4 California (Nov. 1-2). He earned both weekly newcomer awards following his first two collegiate weeks, which included strong efforts in wins over No. 7 Long Beach State and No. 12 Pepperdine (Sept. 5-7) in which he tallied four goals, three steals and eight drawn exclusions. He is one of just two freshmen to be named to the All-MPSF teams this year. Krstic is USC’s fifth MPSF Newcomer of the Year recipient (Massimo Di Martire-2022, Hannes Daube-2018, Matt Maier-2016, Joel Dennerley-2008).
UCLA Head Coach Adam Wright has guided the Bruins to a 22-1 regular season record and 5-1 in MPSF contests, leading to the top seed in the conference championship tournament. As the top-ranked team for the majority of the season, UCLA has posted 19 wins over ranked opponents, 11 wins over the top-10, and eight over the top-five (seven vs. MPSF teams), while the Bruins scored in double digits in every regular season game. UCLA shared a conference-high of seven players on the 2025 Delfina All-MPSF teams, as well as a high of three on the first team. Wright is 392-69 overall (.850) since taking over the program in 2009. This is the fifth MPSF Coach of the Year award for Wright (2023-25, 2017, 2011), including the last three consecutively, and fifth overall for UCLA Men’s Water Polo.
   
Augustana senior attacker Mark Addison (Eads, TN) scored in 16 regular season games and has contributed 40 goals, nine assists, 49 points, and 23 steals entering the postseason. He tallied five goals and three steals in two different wins over Penn State Behrend and D-I Mercyhurst, as well as a pair of four-goal games vs. D-I Air Force and in a win over Washington & Jefferson. Augustana, competing in just its fifth season overall and fourth in the MPSF, dropped just one conference game through Addison’s collegiate career. He has been a crucial member of a program which seeks to become the first-ever MPSF Water Polo team, in either gender, to win four-straight conference titles. Addison, one of three student-athletes in MPSF Eastern Division history to earn four all-conference awards, is also the third Viking to earn MPSF Player of the Year (Stevan Rasic-2024, Declan Hutton-2023).  
Johns Hopkins freshman Luke Mendelsohn (Old Greenwich, CT) leads the entire MPSF with 51 steals, ranks sixth in points (86), seventh in assists (36) and eighth in goals (50) through the regular season, making him the only player across both divisions to be ranked in the top-10 in each of those categories. He is one of just two freshmen (teammate Mason Hofmann the other) across the entire MPSF to be named an MPSF/Delfina Player of the Week, earning the honor on Sept. 8, to go with three S&R Sport Newcomer of the Week awards. Mendelsohn secured his final newcomer of the week award following an incredible stat line and 16-15 win over D-II Salem to wrap the regular season, in which he scored the last of his seven goals as the sudden-victory game-winner, to go with five steals, and a pair of assists and earned exclusions. Mendelsohn, one of two freshmen to be named to the all-conference first team, becomes the first-ever student-athlete from Johns Hopkins to earn an MPSF major annual award.
Johns Hopkins Head Coach Max Schlegel led the Blue Jays to an unbeaten MPSF regular season in their first year in the conference, while the squad won 20 regular season games overall (.800). Johns Hopkins has ranked as high as No. 2 in the nation in the D-III CWPA Coaches’ poll, securing wins this year over D-II opponents Gannon, UC Merced, and Salem, along with a D-I win over Mount St. Mary’s. JHU was also extremely competitive on the road with D-I Navy, coming within one goal. The Blue Jays placed an MPSF Eastern Division-high of seven players on the all-conference teams, highlighted by newcomer of the year and first team honoree Luke Mendelsohn. Johns Hopkins also picked up an MPSF-high of 13 weekly awards throughout the season. This is Schlegel’s first career MPSF coaching award.