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Career Honors:
2024 Peter J. Cutino Award Watch List
2024 ACWPC All-American (Honorable Mention)
2023 ACWPC All-American (Honorable Mention)
2023 Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference Rookie of the Year
2024 All-Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference (First Team)
2023 All-Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference (First Team)
2023 MAWPC Rookie of the Tournament
2024 All-MAWPC Tournament (First Team)
2023 All-MAWPC Tournament (First Team)
MAWPC Offensive Player of the Week (Six Times)
MAWPC Rookie of the Week (Sept. 25, 2023; Nov. 6, 2023; Nov. 20, 2023)
 
2024 (Sophomore): Selected to the Peter J. Cutino Award Watch List, which recognizes the best player in men’s and women’s college water polo … Named Honorable Mention Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) All-American, First Team All-Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference, and First Team MAWPC All-Tournament …Played in all 32 games on the season, leading the team with 171 points on a team-best 94 goals and 77 assists … Registered second consecutive 100-point season, joining Luis Nicolao (118 point in 1990; 114 in 1991) and Doug Munz (113 points in 1993; 184 points in 1994) as the only players in program history with multiple 100-point seasons … His 77 helpers set the Navy single-season record for assists, topping the previous record of 57 originally set by Andrew Sause in 2000 and tied by Black in 2023 … Scored at least one goal in 31 of 32 games played during the season with 25 multi-goal performances and 18 hat tricks … Credited with assists in 28 of 32 games with multiple helpers in 18 contests, including five games with five or more assists … Had a record-breaking performance at the Rare Air Challenge against Cal Lutheran setting new Navy records in points (16), goals (10), and assists (6) … Against Cal Lutheran, broke the previous record of nine goals in a game, originally set by Brian Wineke against Slippery Rock (1993) and matched by Isaac Salinas at Johns Hopkins (2018) and Black against George Washington (2023); The 16 points topped Wineke's previous mark of 11 against Slippery Rock in 1993, while the six assists bested the previous mark of five held by many players – most recently by Black at the Rare Air Challenge against #14 Harvard (2024) and Air Force (2024) … Additionally, scored five or more goals against Mount St. Mary’s (6 goals – MAWPC Tournament), Bucknell (5 goals), Gannon (5 goals – Navy Open), and Johns Hopkins (5 goals) … Reset the Navy record with seven assists in the opening round of the Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Tournament against Mount St. Mary’s … Also had five assists against Wagner … Named MAWPC Offensive Player of the Week three times (Sept. 9; Sept. 23; Nov. 4).
 
2023 (Freshman): Named Honorable Mention Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) All-American, 2023 Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference Rookie of the Year, First Team All-Conference, First Team All-MAWPC Tournament, and MAWPC Rookie of the Tournament … Played in 26 of 27 games during rookie campaign … Led the team with 125 total points on a team-high 68 goals and a team-best 57 assists … Became the 12th player in school history with a 100-point season and the first since Isaac Salinas ('22) finished with 104 points in 2019 … Finished with the third-most points in a single season (125) behind Doug Munz (‘95) who had 184 in 1994 and Paul Pedrotty (‘13) who had 137 in 2012 – tops among Navy freshmen … Registered 19 multiple goal games, including 11 hat tricks … Scored a season-best nine goals against George Washington, which tied for most goals in a game in program history … Also registered hat tricks against Bucknell (2x), nationally-ranked Fordham (2x), George Washington, Johns Hopkins (2x), Mount St. Mary’s, Salem (Salem Invitational), and Wagner … Notched 19 games with multiple assists, including a season-best four helpers against Chapman (Princeton Invitational), #15 Fordham (MAWPC Tournament), #9 Long Beach State (Triton Invitational), and Mount St. Mary’s with three assists versus #20 Air Force, Bucknell, George Washington, Johns Hopkins (MAWPC Tournament), Mount St. Mary’s (Salem Invitational), and Wagner (Princeton Invitational) … Defensively, finished with 33 steals, which was the most among Navy position players, while adding 24 ejections drawn … Named MAWPC Offensive Player of the Week (Oct. 2; Oct. 9; Nov. 6) and Rookie of the Week (Sept. 25; Nov. 6; Nov. 20) three times apiece.
 
High School / Personal: Lettered in water polo (3 years) and swimming (2) at La Jolla High School in San Diego, Calif. … Earned Honorable Mention Junior Olympics All-American (senior) … Three-time All-California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) selection (first team – senior; second team – sophomore, junior) … Named Western League Player of the Year as a senior … First Team All-Western League (sophomore, junior, senior) … Recipient of the Matt Abram’s Most Valuable Player Award … Water polo team captain as a senior … Eagle Scout … Member of the National League of Young Men (president) … Played club water polo with La Jolla United … Son of Phil and Cyndi Black … Father, Phil, played basketball at Yale, while mother, Cyndi, was a member of the Yale swimming team … Brother, Croix, is a current member of the Yale heavyweight crew team.
 
Career Statistics

Year	Games	Goals	Assists	Points	Hat Tricks	Steals	KOD
2023	26	68	57	125	11	33	24
2024	32	94	77	171	18	31	32
Totals	58	162	134	296	29	64	56

 
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