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2023 MIT Men's Water Polo Roster

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11 Evan Kowal

  • Position ATK
  • Height 6-4
  • Weight 230
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown South Pasadena, Calif.
  • High School South Pasadena
  • Major Biology

Biography

Career Stats
Year Goals Shots Assists Ejections Drawn Ejections Vs. Steals Sprints Won
2021 19 49 36 13 20 23 5
2022 62 136 20 15 31 24 2
2023 22 52 12 6 19 17 4
Totals 103 237 68 34 70 64 11

Career Highs
Goals 5 vs. Gannon (October 16, 2022)
Assists 4 Twice - Most recently vs. Iona (October 31, 2021)
Ejections Drawn 3 Twice - Most recently vs. Gannon (October 16, 2022)
Steals 3 Four Times - Most Recently vs. Brown (October 8, 2023)
 
Accolades:
- ACWPC Outstanding Honors (2021, 2022, 2023)
- NWPC Honorable Mention Player of the Week (Oct. 19, 2022)
- CWPA DIII Eastern All-Tournament Second Team Team (2022)
- ACWPC Honorable Mention All-American (2022)
- College Sports Communicators Academic All-District (2022-23)
In the Record Books:
- Assists in a Season: 5th (36 - 2021)

2023 (Season Stats):
- Scored 22 goals and had 12 assists
- Collected a season-high four goals against Penn St. Behrend on October 21


2022: (Season Stats)
- Finished third on the team in goals, fourth in assists and fifth in ejections earned
- Scored in all but two matches during the season
- Put up 18 multi-goal games including 14 hat tricks
- Recorded a hat trick against Hopkins in the USA Water Polo DIII Championship Third-Place match.


2021: (Season Stats)
- Scored first career goal against Fordham on September 4
- Finished the year with 19 goals and 36 assists


2020:
- Season Cancelled Due to Covid-19


Out of the Pool at MIT:
- Majoring in biology
- Minor in history
- 2021 MIT PKG Center Fellow
- ER volunteer at Verdugo Hospital
- UROP at Engelward Bioengineering Lab using CRISPR to genetically engineer liver cells to become sensors for carcinogens (Feb 2023-Present)
- Tutor for Mulholland Test Prep
- Used AI to measure metastatic potential in breast cancer cells at Professor Keyue Shen's Biomedical Engineering Lab at USC (Summer 2021)
- Taco Bell Live Mas Scholar (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
- College Football Playoff Foundation Scholar
- Beta Theta Pi Men of Principle Scholar
- Associate Academic Advisor
- Oneonta Swann Scholar
- Edgerton Center Outreach Coordinator
- Theta Tau Professional Engineering Society Regent
- Cofounder of YOSE, an organization to teach outdoor science to low-income kids


Favorite Sports Memory:
- Winning my second league championship in high school.


Favorite Memory as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Beating Johns Hopkins last year.


High School:
- Graduated from South Pasadena High School
- Salutatorian
- Earned four varsity letters in water polo and three in swimming
- All-SoCal Varsity Team
- 1st Team All-Rio Hondo League
- Team MVP
- Tiger Pride Award
- Most Inspirational Swimmer
- Highest Scoring JV Swimmer
- Water Polo Captain
- Swim Team Captain
- Founder of Youth Outdoor Science Education
- ASB Commissioner of Assemblies
- Intern for the Dragon Kim Foundation
- 2020 Taco Bell Live Mas Scholar
- 2020 Oneonta Swan Scholar
- AP Scholar with Distinction


Club:
- 
Rose Bowl Water Polo
- Foothill Water Polo
 

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 2020First Year

    6'3" 0 lbs
  • 11

    2021Sophomore

    C
    6'3" 0 lbs
    11
  • 11

    2022Junior

    ATK
    6'4" 0 lbs
    11
  • 11

    2023Senior

    ATK
    6'4" 230 lbs
    11