from east of the Rockies to make the US Olympic team in water polo since 1956. Wigo competed in the Olympic Games in 1996, 2000, and 2004, and was team captain from 2001 to 2004. He led his 2000 Olympic team in Sydney, Australia as the leading scorer, having earned 16 goals. Wigo also helped the U.S. Men's National Team win the 1997 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup. Between the 2000 and the 2004 Olympics Wolf was a star on the Ethnikos Piraeus team in Athens, Greece. He is still active in USA Water Polo's Premier League, playing for the New York Athletic Club team. He netted 3 goals in the 2006 final game, notching a second consecutive Premier League championship for the NYAC. Other athletic distinctions include: Top US scorer at the 1993 and 1995 World University Games (22 goals in 8 games) Leading overall scorer in the 1995 US Olympic festival game Leading US scorer at the 1993 Junior World Championships Coaching career Wigo served as an assistant water polo coach at Stanford in 1995,1996, and later in 2001 when the Cardinals won the NCAA Championship. He was head coach for the Saddleback El Toro Water Polo Club for two years, and became the UC Santa Barbara men's water polo coach in April 2005, and women's water polo coach in May 2008. Wigo served as an analyst for NBC Sports coverage of water polo at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. As of 2022, Wigo is the technical director of the Santa Barbara Premier Water Polo Club program. Awards and honors Two year winner of Utzinger Award, the prestigious citation from the NYAC Inducted into the NYAC's Hall of Fame Four-year AWPCA All-American (1991, 1992, 1993, 1994). 1994 NCAA Player of the Year American Water Polo Coaches' Association National Scholar-Athlete Stanford University Biff Hoffman Award for the school's top senior male athlete. Three-time USA Water Polo Male Athlete of the Year (1999, 2000, and 2003) First Team All-World by NBC Sports and USA Water Polo (2000) Inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame (2011) Personal life Wigo's given name is Wolfgang, reportedly from a character in James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Heidenmauer. His father, Bruce Wigo, is the former executive director of US Water Polo, and now CEO of the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Ft Lauderdale, Florida. Wolf Wigo's mother, Dawn Young, an