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Pepperdine Sports
Men’s basketball
adds to roster
Submitted by Pepperdine
University
Pepperdine men’s basketball
coach Marty Wilson
announced last week
that Southern California
native Chris Reyes will
join the Waves this season
as a graduate transfer from
Utah.
The 6-foot-7 forward
was admitted to Pepperdine
last week, and he will
pursue a master’s degree in
learning technology. The
2016-17 season will be his
final season of college basketball.
“The fact that Pepperdine
is near home and that
it’s a great academic university,
that’s what caught
my eye,” Reyes said. “I
really like the basketball
staff and have become
close with them. It’s a great
team. I’ve watched some
of their games the last
couple of years and it’s an
up-and-coming program.
Hopefully we can have another
great season.”
Reyes started 33 of 35
games as a 2014-15 sophomore
and averaged 4.3
points and 3.7 rebounds.
As a 2015-16 junior, he
came off the bench in 35 of
36 games and averaged 2.6
points and 2.3 rebounds.
He and the Utes played
in the NCAA Tournament
both seasons. Reyes graduated
from Utah this summer
with a degree in communication
studies.
“Chris will bring a
wealth of experience on
and off the court that is
needed in our program,”
Wilson said. “His size,
strength, athleticism and
toughness fill an immediate
need and will give
him the opportunity to be
a valuable contributor. His
ability to score in a variety
of ways and his ability to
rebound in traffic are two
things that will allow him
to be successful at Pepperdine.”
Pepperdine Sports
2016 Pepperdine water polo schedule announced
Submitted by Pepperdine
University
The 2016 Pepperdine
men’s water polo schedule
was announced as the
Waves get set to open their
first season of play in the
Golden Coast Conference.
Pepperdine opens the
2016 campaign on Sept. 3
at the Triton Invitational,
hosted by UC San Diego in
La Jolla, Calif. The Waves
have seven home dates on
the 2016 slate, the first of
which being a GCC contest
against Pacific on Oct. 2.
The Waves formed a sixteam
men’s division of the
GCC this offseason along
with former Mountain Pacific
Sports Federation
members Pacific, UC Santa
Barbara, Long Beach State,
San Jose State and UC Irvine.
A GCC women’s water
polo league was already
in existence.
The inaugural GCC Tournament
will be held Nov.
18-20 at Pacific’s Chris
Kjeldsen Pool Complex
in Stockton, Calif. NCAA
postseason play starts with
play-in games on Dec. 1
and then the NCAA Championships
will be played
Dec. 3-4 at University of
California.
The Waves play in three
early-season tournaments,
opening the season at the
aforementioned Triton Invitational
and then heading
to the Inland Empire Classic
on Sept. 10-11 hosted
by Redlands and the Mountain
Pacific Invitational on
Sept. 23-25 hosted by Cal.
Pepperdine will host two
GCC games at home, facing
Pacific in the team’s
home-opener and then UC
Irvine on Nov. 4.
2016 Water Polo Full Regular Season Schedule
Sept. 3 at Triton Invitational La Jolla, Calif. TBA
Sept. 10-11 at Inland Empire Classic Redlands, Calif. TBA
Sept. 16 at UCLA Los Angeles, Calif. 7 p.m.
Sept. 17 at Loyola Marymount Los Angeles, Calif. 2:30 p.m.
Sept. 23-25 at Mountain Pacific Invitational Berkeley, Calif. TBA
Oct. 2 host Pacific Malibu, Calif. Noon
Oct. 6 host UC Santa Barbara Malibu, Calif. 6:30 p.m.
Oct. 7 at USC Los Angeles, Calif. 5 p.m.
Oct. 9 host Air Force Malibu, Calif. Noon
Oct. 14 at Long Beach State Long Beach, Calif. 7 p.m.
Oct. 15 host Loyola Marymount Malibu, CA 5:30 p.m.
Oct. 23 host Stanford Malibu, Calif. Noon
Oct. 28 at San Jose State San Jose, Calif. 7 p.m.
Oct. 29 at UC Davis Davis, Calif. 12:30 p.m.
Nov. 4 host UC Irvine Malibu, Calif. 5 p.m.
Nov. 6 host California Malibu, Calif. Noon
Nov. 11 at UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, Calif. 7 p.m.
Pepperdine’s Kim Hill makes USA Volleyball Olympic team
Submitted by Pepperdine
University
Pepperdine University
alumna Kim Hill will be
a first-time Olympian as
USA Volleyball announced
its 12-player indoor women’s
roster for the upcoming
Rio Olympics on Tuesday,
July 12.
Hill will be joined in
Brazil by Pepperdine men’s
volleyball coaches Marv
Dunphy and David Hunt,
who will serve on the
U.S. coaching staff, and
Kayla Banwarth, a libero
for the USA. Dunphy will
be coaching at his seventh
Olympics and his second
with the women’s team.
Hunt is an assistant coach.
Banwarth played at Nebraska
but just finished her
first season as a volunteer
assistant at Pepperdine.
The U.S. is part of Pool
B and begins competition
on August 6 against Puerto
Rico. The Americans will
also face the Netherlands,
Serbia, Italy and China before
the quarterfinals begin
on August 16.
Hill has been a mainstay
with the U.S. squad the past
couple of years. She earned
the Most Valuable Player
award at the 2014 FIVB
World Championships as
the team won a gold medal.
At the recently concluded
FIVB World Grand Prix,
where the U.S. won the silver
medal, she was named
the tournament’s secondbest
outside spiker.
“Kim’s is a great story to
inspire every junior – trying
out for USA one year,
helping lead us to a world
championship the next, and
playing some of her best
volleyball this year,” USA
coach Karch Kiraly said in
a USA Volleyball release.
“And you can search hard,
but you won’t find a better
teammate than Kim.”
The 6-foot-4 outside hitter
played club volleyball
in Turkey in 2015-16, and
was named MVP of the
Turkish League after leading
VakifBank to the title.
Hill was one of the top
indoor players in Pepperdine
history between 2008-
11 and also was a standout
on the beach. She is the
first and only person to earn
AVCA All-America first
team honors in both sports
in the same school year
(2011-12).
With the Waves’ indoor
team, Hill was a three-time
All-American, earning
honorable mention status
in both 2009 and 2010, and
she was the West Coast
Conference Player of the
Year in 2011. She finished
with 1,300 kills, good for
sixth all time at Pepperdine.
On the beach, Hill was a
member of the Waves’ inaugural
team, which won
the 2012 AVCA national
championship. She repeated
as an All-American
during her second and final
season in 2013.