Corridor of Fame Participant Merrill Moses Promoted to Pepperdine Water Polo Head Coach
Merrill Moses, a Corridor of Fame participant and the affiliate head coach of Pepperdine males’s water polo program, has been promoted to the highest job.
Moses will exchange his mentor, Terry Schroeder, who will transition to an affiliate head coach function in 2024, his thirty second season with this system.
Moses is a three-time Olympian goalkeeper who performed for Schroeder with the Waves, the place he was an All-American and a member of the 1997 nationwide championship staff. Moses, 46, was on the U.S. Olympic groups in 2008, 2012 and 2016, successful a silver medal on the former.
“I’m extraordinarily honored and excited to be named the pinnacle coach for the Pepperdine males’s water polo,” Moses mentioned in a college assertion. “I wish to thank President Gash, Tim Perrin, Steve Potts and coach Terry Schroeder for believing in me and giving me this chance to steer one of many prime Division I water polo applications within the nation. It was all the time a dream of mine to return again to my alma mater and coach this system that meant a lot to me and made me the person I’m in the present day. I plan to proceed to educate this system with the core values we’ve in place and have our athletes proceed to excel and achieve success within the pool and within the classroom.”
Moses returned to Pepperdine in 2012 to affix the teaching employees. He was promoted to affiliate head coach in 2017. Moses was inducted to the U.S. Water Polo Corridor of Fame in 2021 and the Pepperdine Athletics Corridor of Fame in 2013.
The Waves have gone 179-138 with Moses on employees. He served because the interim head coach in an 11-13 season in 2012.
Schroeder this 12 months crossed 500 profession victories. He has a profession file of 508-345, together with 340-220 over his first 20 seasons. The 1997 nationwide coach of the 12 months was a five-time convention coach of the 12 months throughout three totally different leagues, most lately within the Golden Coast Convention in 2019.
Schroeder is a 2002 inductee to the Worldwide Swimming Corridor of Fame and joined the U.S. Water Polo Corridor in 1998.
“Initially, I need to categorical my deepest gratitude to Pepperdine for giving me the unbelievable alternative to be the pinnacle coach for the previous three many years,” Schroeder mentioned. “It has been an enormous honor and I’ve cherished working with so many nice coaches, athletes and directors. I’m excited for a brand new chapter of Pepperdine water polo. I had the chance to educate Merrill at Pepperdine within the 90’s after which with our Olympic staff in 2008 and 2012. Merrill was an incredible chief within the pool and over the previous 12 years he has been my affiliate head coach. I’ve watched him develop as a person and a coach and now it’s his time to take over this program and lead Pepperdine to a brand new degree of success. Merrill has an incredible imaginative and prescient of the place he desires to steer this system and I’m 100% behind him. I’m right here to assist him in any manner that I can as he takes over as the brand new head coach”.
Moses performed professionally in Croatia, Italy and Spain. The native of Rancho Palos Verdes gained Pan Am Video games gold medals in 2007, 2011 and 2015. He helped the U.S. end within the prime 5 of the FINA World Tremendous League Finals on eight events.
