Career Honors:
2023 ACWPC All-Academic Team (Excellent)
2020 ACWPC All-Academic Team (Excellent)
2023 (Senior): Named to the 2023 ACWPC All-Academic Team … Played in 26 of 27 games during the year … Recorded 29 total points on 22 goals and seven assists with 13 steals and 12 ejections drawn … Registered six multiple-goal games with a season-high three goals against #19 Santa Clara for a hat trick at the Princeton Invitational … Also had multi-goal performances against #9 Long Beach State (Triton Invitational), Wagner (Princeton Invitational), Gannon (Salem Invitational), Bucknell, and Johns Hopkins … Posted a season-high two assists versus George Washington while being credited with helpers against #9 Long Beach State (Triton Invitational), Wagner (Princeton Invitational), McKendree (Salem Invitational), Johns Hopkins, and Mount St. Mary’s.
2022 (Junior): One of three players to play in all 31 games during the season … Registered 39 points on 26 goals and 13 assists … Notched three multiple-goal performances – all three hat tricks … Posted a season-high eight points on a season-best seven goals and an assist at #19 George Washington, while adding hat tricks against Mount St. Mary’s and Salem … Also found the back of the net against Biola (Navy Open), Iona (Princeton Invitational), Air Force, #3 USC (Aggie Roundup), Occidental (Aggie Roundup), Wagner (2x), Gannon, Mount St. Mary’s, Bucknell, and Johns Hopkins (3x) … Credited with an assist in 10 games with multiple helpers against Mount St. Mary’s, Johns Hopkins, and Bucknell … Defensively, recorded 11 ejections drawn and 10 steals.
2021 (Sophomore): Played in 28 of Navy’s 29 games during the season … Scored 12 goals with six assists for 18 total points, while adding nine steals and seven kickouts drawn … Registered goals in nine games with two multi-goal performances, including a hat trick … Recorded first collegiate hat trick with three goals against Gannon in the first round of the Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference Tournament … Also had a pair of goals against Iona at the Navy Open … Tallied assists in six different games with helpers against #3 Stanford (Princeton Invitational), Wagner (at Princeton), #16 Fordham, Mount St. Mary’s, Bucknell, and Gannon (MAWPC Tournament).
2020 (Freshman): Named to the 2020-21 ACWPC All-Academic Team … Played in all seven games during the season, which was shortened by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) … Scored five points on a goal and four assists … Registered a season-high three points with three assists at La Salle … Scored a goal and added a helper for two points against #10 Bucknell … Defensively, recorded a pair of steals.
High School / Personal: Lettered in water polo (3 years) and swimming (4) at St. Francis High School in Mountain View, Calif. … Helped St. Francis to the CIF NorCal Division II Championship in 2017 … Selected as team captain in 2018 … Member of the West Valley Water Polo Club … Helped West Valley to a sixth place finish at the 18U Boys National Junior Olympics … Selected to the CCS All-Star Senior Team and Third Team All-CCS … Member of the Olympic Development Program (ODP) Pacific Youth Team (2018) and All-Stars (2019) … Member of the school concert and marching band (2015, ’16, ’17, ’18), playing the trombone … Spent the 2019-20 academic year at the Hill School in Pottstown, Pa., which is a Naval Academy Foundation school … Son of Romain Duchez and Anne Volpert … Brother, Nicolas (’22), currently attends the Naval Academy.
Career Statistics
| Year |
Games |
Goals |
Assists |
Points |
Hat Tricks |
Steals |
KOD |
| 2020 * |
7 |
1 |
4 |
5 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
| 2021 |
28 |
12 |
6 |
18 |
1 |
9 |
7 |
| 2022 |
31 |
26 |
13 |
39 |
3 |
10 |
11 |
| 2023 |
26 |
22 |
7 |
29 |
1 |
13 |
12 |
| Totals |
92 |
61 |
30 |
91 |
5 |
34 |
30 |
* – 2020 season played in the spring of 2021
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