Loyola Marymount University Athletics

BRIEFLY... Mei Vilanova is in her fourth season of collegiate water polo at LMU at 2023...
 
AT LMU...
2022
Redshirt Junior… Played in all 28 games… Scored 10 goals… Finished third on the team with 19 assists… Totaled 29 points… Added nine steals… Scored a season-high two goals against #5 Hawaii (Feb. 25)… Posted multiple assists in five games including a season-high four against #9 Arizona State (Jan. 30)... Named to the GCC All-Academic Team.
 
2021
Redshirt Sophomore… Did not play in the shortened 2021 season.
 
2020
Sophomore… Played in all 18 games… Scored nine goals on 18 shots for a .500 shooting percentage… Finished tied for fifth on the team with nine assists… Totaled 18 points… Added eight steals… Scored two goals and recorded three assists for five points in the Chapman (Jan. 25) to close out the Lancer Joust… Scored two goals against #7 California (Feb. 22) in the UC Irvine Invitational… Recorded a three-point game with a goal and two assists on the final day of the shortened season to defeat St. Francis (Mar. 7).
 
2019
Freshman... Played in 30 games… Scored seven goals… added eight assists for 15 points… Recorded five steals… Best game was in the CBU Mini Tournament against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (Mar. 1) where she finished with season highs with three goals on three shots, two assists, and five points.
 
BEFORE LMU... Graduated from Frederic Mistral Tecnica Eulalia in June 2018…
Competed for Coach Gabor Egadi and helped win the Spanish National Championship in the under 14, under 16 and under 18 categories… Spanish national championship, gold medal, under 18 category, 2015… Spanish national championship, gold medal, under 16 category, 2013, 2015… Spanish national championship, gold medal, under 14 category, 2013… Spanish national championship, fifth place, under 18 category, 2016… Catalan championship, gold medal, under 18 category, 2015… Catalan championship, gold medal, under 16 category, 2013, 2014, 2015 • Catalan championship, gold medal, under 14 category, 2013… Catalan championship, silver medal, under 18 category, 2016… Catalan championship, seventh place, under 18 category, 2017… League champion, senior division (professional), Catalan league, 2017… Winner of the AESE tournament… Called to train with the Japanese youth national team… Participating in the 2017 under 18 JO with HBWP blue team. 
 
PERSONAL... Mei Vilanova was born in Barcelona, Spain… Parents are Marc Vilanova Pichot and Noriko Imamura… Has two sisters, Hana and Yuki… Sister, Hana was an All-American water polo player at LMU and competed for the Lions from 2015-19… major is studio arts.