2022 SCIAC Men's Water Polo All-SCIAC Teams
REDLANDS, Calif. – The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) announced their 2022 Men's Water Polo All-SCIAC teams Wednesday with a pair of Bulldogs finding their way onto the 2nd Team, including defender Alec Abrahamian (Glendale, CA) and attacker Ron Gvishi (Kiryat Tivon, Israel).
This is the first season since 2019 the Bulldogs have had a representative on an All-SCIAC team with no representatives in 2020 (No Season) or 2021. Prior to the last two years, the Bulldogs had an All-SCIAC representative for 33-straight years.
Abrahamian earns his first All-SCIAC recognition, making the second team after a very strong first season as a Bulldog. He scored 23 goals and posted nine assists. He had a .469 shooting percentage, drew five exclusions, had ten steals, and blocked two shots.
He was also named the SCIAC Offensive Athlete of the Week in November thanks to a seven-goal week that included six goals against Occidental. Abrahamian posted three multi-goal games with a hat trick coming against Concordia University Irvine (CUI) and a brace versus the University of La Verne.
The second All-SCIAC member was Gvishi who also receives the recognition for the first time in his career. He is the Bulldogs' leading scorer with 43 goals and leading assister with 20. He took 86 shots on the season giving him a .500 shooting percentage. He added three drawn exclusions, 27 steals, seven field blocks, and won 25 sprints with a .481 sprint percentage. His 25 sprints won is the sixth most in the conference and his sprint percentage is seventh best. He posted nine multi-goal games and five multi-assist games.
Gvishi won SCIAC Offensive Athlete of the Week back in September following a six-goal, six-assist week against Division I Air Force, and Division II schools Fresno Pacific (FPU) and CUI. He had a massive ten-point game with five goals and five assists in a 22-7 win against FPU.
The Bulldogs finished fifth in SCIAC and qualified for their first SCIAC Tournament since 2019.