Wolf Wigo (b. May 8, 1973) is an American water polo player and water polo coach. He has played competitive water polo at the national level since age 13. Wigo was a four-year All-America collegiate water polo player and led his Stanford University team to two consecutive NCAA Championships in 1993 and 1994. A member of the U.S. National Polo Team since 1993, Wigo competed in the Olympic Games in 1996, 2000, and 2004. Since 2005, he has been the head coach of the UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) men's water polo program. In 2008 he began coaching the UCSB women's water polo team. Early life At an early age, Wigo and his sister would travel to a community pool on the West Side in New York City and compete with the Gotham Aqua Kings, having been inspired to swim by his parents who were also swimmers. He was named Swimmer of the Decade at New York's Bronx High School of Science and quickly found success in the activity. Wigo longed for competitive play, however, and soon took up water polo, playing with the St. Francis College Youth Water Polo Club in Brooklyn Heights, New York. At 13 he was the youngest player on the New York Athletic Club (NYAC) team and had earned the Club's prestigious Utzinger Award two years consecutively. Wigo was a National Prep All-American three years in a row. Additionally, while Wigo was still in high school he became a member of the only 17-and-under team from outside California to win the national Junior Olympics in water polo. Stanford University Wigo's college career was plagued by chronic back pain caused by degenerative discs, and he missed substantial parts of his sophomore and junior seasons at Stanford due to his condition. In spite of his back problems, he earned All-American honors in both years. Wigo scored 203 goals from 1991–94 and helped lead the Cardinals to two NCAA championships during his junior and senior seasons. He remains one of only 9 athletes in Stanford's history to be named All-American all four years in college. In 1995, along with swimmer Jenny Thompson, Wolf was named an outstanding senior athlete. He is a 1996 graduate of Stanford with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. Olympics and international play Wigo was chosen for the United States National Water Polo team in 1993. In 1996, he became the first player