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2024 Water Polo Roster

8 Henry Williams

  • Class Senior
  • Position Attacker
  • Height 5-10
  • Weight 175
  • Hometown San Diego, Calif.
  • High School Steele Canyon

Biography

2024 (Senior): Played in all 32 games on the year, finishing the season with 40 points on 22 goals and 18 assists, while adding 19 steals and nine ejections drawn … Scored goals in 14 games with four multi-goal performances, including three hat tricks … Finished with a season-high three goals against Biola (Navy Open), Mercyhurst, and Mount St. Mary’s (MAWPC Tournament), while adding a pair of scores against Wagner … Also found the back of the net against Salem (Navy Open), Mount St. Mary’s (Navy Open), Occidental (Navy Open), Iona (Princeton Invitational), #7 Pacific (Princeton Invite), Concordia (Rare Air Challenge), Cal Lutheran (Rare Air Challenge), UC Merced (Brown / Harvard Invitational), #2 Fordham, and #20 George Washington … Credited with assists in nine games with multiple helpers in six contests … Notched a season-high three assists against Cal Lutheran (Rare Air Challenge), and Mount St. Mary’s, while adding a pair of helpers against Gannon (Navy Open), Concordia (Rare Air Challenge), Biola (Rare Air Challenge), and Mercyhurst.
 
2023 (Junior): Played in 25 of 27 games during the season, closing out the year with 22 points on a balanced 11 goals and 11 assists with nine steals and eight ejections drawn … Found the back of the net in eight games, including a season-high three goals against #19 Santa Clara (Princeton Invitational) and two scores vs. Johns Hopkins (MAWPC Tournament), while also scoring against Cal State Fullerton (Triton Invitational), #20 Air Force, Salem (Salem Invitational), and Bucknell (3x, including the MAWPC Tournament) … Recorded a season-best two assists versus #20 Air Force and Johns Hopkins (MAWPC Tournament), while adding helpers against Mount St. Mary’s (Salem Invitational), Salem (Salem Invitational), McKendree (Salem Invitational), George Washington, Bucknell, Johns Hopkins (2x) … Credited with a season-high two steals against Mount St. Mary’s and Johns Hopkins (MAWPC Tournament), while adding takeaways against Biola (Triton Invitational), Salem (Salem Invitational), George Washington, and Bucknell (2x).
 
2022 (Sophomore): Played in 27 of Navy’s 31 games during the year … Finished the season with 25 points on nine goals and 16 assists … Recorded nine games with at least one assist, including five games with multiple helpers … Had a season-high four assists against Mount St. Mary’s, while also adding multiple helpers versus Wagner, Mercyhurst, and Johns Hopkins (2x – including Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference Tournament) … Registered a pair of multi-goal games, finishing the Aggie Roundup with two scores against both Occidental and #10 San Jose State … Also found the back of the net against #3 USC (Aggie Roundup), #19 George Washington, Wagner, McKendree, and Bucknell … Additionally, finished the year with five ejections drawn and four steals.
 
2021 (Freshman): Played in 12 games during the season as a freshman … Scored five goals with two assists for seven total points, while adding a pair of steals and an ejection drawn … Scored goals in four games, including a season-best two goals against Iona at the Navy Open … Also netted goals against Johns Hopkins, George Washington, and Gannon (MAWPC Tournament) … Credited with assists against Mount St. Mary’s and Johns Hopkins … Made collegiate debut at the Navy Open against Salem.
 
High School / Personal: Lettered for four years in water polo at Steele Canyon High School in Spring Valley, Calif. … Named All-League (4x), All-CIF (3x), and All-County in water polo … Selected Team Captain as a senior … Helped team win 2019 California Cup Championship, as well as League Championship (2x) and CIF Championship (2x) … Earned USA Water Polo Academic All-American accolades, while also being named to the San Diego Union Tribune All-Academic Team … Played club water polo with San Diego Shores … Son of Christy and Hank Williams … Father Hank played football at the University of Richmond, while Aunt Col. Amanda Williams (ret.) played basketball at the Air Force Academy and aunt Andrea Williams played volleyball and basketball at Texas A&M … Aunt Andrea Williams is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the College Football Playoff.
 
Career Statistics
Year Games Goals Assists Points Hat Tricks Steals KOD
2021 12 5 2 7 0 2 1
2022 27 9 16 25 0 4 5
2023 25 11 11 22 1 9 8
2024 32 22 18 40 3 19 9
Totals 96 47 47 94 4 34 23
 
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Historical Player Information

  • 19

    2021Freshman

    Attacker
    5'10" 175 lbs
    19
  • 19

    2022Sophomore

    Attacker
    5'10" 175 lbs
    19
  • 8

    2023Junior

    Attacker
    5'10" 175 lbs
    8
  • 8

    2024Senior

    Attacker
    5'10" 175 lbs
    8