Loyola Marymount University Athletics

BRIEFLY... Tara DeBrabander is in her fourth season of collegiate water polo at LMU in 2023...
 
AT LMU...
2022
Junior… Played in all 28 games… Scored 11 goals with three assists for 14 points… Recorded 11 steals… Scored a season-best two goals against #22 Pomona-Pintzer (Feb. 26)... Named to the GCC All-Academic Team.
 
2021
Sophomore… Played in all eight games… Third on the team with 11 goals and 15 points… Added four assists… Totaled 22 shots for a .500 shooting percentage… Third on the team with 11 drawn exclusions… Scored three goals in two games, against #22 California Baptist (Mar. 13) and against Concordia (Mar. 27)… First Team GCC All-Freshman… GCC All-Academic.
 
2020
Freshman… Played in five games, making two starts… Logged 100 minutes in the cage for LMU… earned a perfect 2-0 record… Recorded 21 saves finished the year with a 7.68 goals against average and .467 save percentage… Made a season-best six saves after playing half the game against Chapman (Jan. 25)… Earned wins in back-to-back days to close out the shortened season with seven saves against La Salle (Mar. 6) and six saves against Concordia (Mar. 7) at the Claremont Convergence.
 
BEFORE LMU... Graduated Los Alamitos High in May 2019… Competed for four seasons in water polo and swim for Coach Dave Carlson… 2018 Southern CA All-Divisions Girls Water Polo 3rd Team… 2016, 2017, 2018 Sunset League Championship (undefeated)-Los Alamitos High School… CIF-SS Water Polo Quarter-Finalist (2017, 2018)… Sunset League All League Selection-1st Team (2016-2017, 2018)… 2016 Los Alamitos High School Varsity Water Polo Coach's Award… 2017 Los Alamitos High School Varsity Water Polo Defensive Player of the Year… Los Alamitos High School Athletic Award (Varsity Letter 2016, 2017)… Los Alamitos High School Scholar Athletic Award (2016, 2017)… 2018 ODP National Championship-Bronze (Youth-SPA)… 2015 ODP Girl's Development National Team Selections (NTSC)-Goalie (SoPac Zone)… 2014 JO 14U All-American Second Team… 2013 JO 12U All American First Team… MVP 2013 San Diego Cup (Girls U12 United Water Polo Club). 
 
PERSONAL... Tara DeBrabander was born in Long Beach, California… Is the daughter of Lee and Lorri DeBrabander... has one brother, Vance... major is film production.