July 14, 2015 
Huntington Beach, CA - July 14 - The UCLA Men's Water Polo Team and the Stanford University Women's Water Polo Team represented Team USA at the World University Games this year in Gwangju, South Korea. The USA Men took home the bronze medal, the first medal of any kind for the USA Men in this competition since winning gold in 1993. The USA women earned a fifth place finish. See below for recaps from each final match.
Men's Bronze Medal Match - UCLA 5 Serbia 4 - Via UCLABruins.comGWANGJU, South Korea -- Team USA (6-2) won its first medal of any kind at the World University Games since winning gold in 1993 with a thrilling 5-4 victory over Serbia (3-1-4) in the bronze medal match of the 2015 World University Games on July 14 at the Yeomju Indoor Aquatics Center.
Maxwell Irving scored a game-high two goals, including the game-winner at the 5:40 mark of the fourth period.
After both teams put forth a strong defensive effort, holding each other scoreless in the first period, Serbia's Nemanja Vico scored a goal at two meters for a 1-0 lead at the 7:07 mark of the second. Then Ryder Roberts got a steal and scored off a Kent Inoue assist on a 6-on-5 opportunity to tie it at 1-1 (5:45). Anthony Daboub then set up Jack Fellneras Team USA took a 2-1 lead (4:58). Chancellor Ramirez continued the great passing for the Americans, setting up a goal by Austin Rone as the lead was extended to 3-1 (1:49). Roberts then picked up an assist on a goal by Irving (1:04) to end the scoring in the first half with the U.S. leading 4-1.
Mateja Asanovic snapped Team USA's four consecutive goals with a score from the front court to make it 4-2 at the 7:12 mark of the third period. Vico scored another goal from two meters to cut the lead to 4-3 (5:10) to end the scoring in the third.
Irving scored his second and the ultimate game-winner off another assist by Roberts to stop Serbia's momentum to push the lead to 5-3 with 5:40 remaining in the match. Drasko Gogov scored on a power play for Serbia to cut the lead to 5-4 with 0:52 to go. After Matt Farmer's shot at two meters missed, the Americans got a huge steal from goalie Alex Wolf, that capped his stellar play all match long.
Wolf had a tournament-high 15 saves, stopping 15-of-19 shots by Serbia (79.0%). Serbia's goalkeeper, Lazar Dobozanov, was credited with stopping 12 of America's 17 shots (70.6%).
The United States was again let down by its power play offense, scoring on just 1-of-4 opportunities. But that was better than Serbia's execution, which was just 1-for-6. Neither team attempted a penalty shot.
USA vs. Serbia (World University Games - Bronze Medal Match)
Serbia Goals: Nemanja Vico 2, Mateja Asanovic 1, Drasko Gogov 1
Serbia Saves: Lazar Dobozanov 12
USA Goals: Maxwell Irving 2, Ryder Roberts 1, Jack Fellner 1, Austin Rone 1
USA Saves: Alex Wolf 15
Women's 5th Place Match - USA 9 Hungary 4 via GoStanford.com
GWANGJU, South Korea - For the second time in four days, the United States defeated Hungary, this time claiming a 9-4 win on Saturday morning to secure fifth place at the 2015 World University Games in Gwangju, South Korea.
Jordan Raney, who had scored three times in Team USA's first six games, fired home four while Jamie Neushul notched her fourth hat trick of the tournament. After going 1-2-1 in pool play, the U.S. went 2-1 in its final three games to come in fifth out of the 10-team field.
Saturday's victory was the United States' second against Hungary. On July 7, Neushul's six goals paced the USA to a 10-8 win over the Hungarians for its first victory of the tournament.
Up two at halftime on Saturday, the U.S. locked down Hungary and allowed just one score in the final 16 minutes to pull away. A trio of third-period goals did the trick beginning with Raney on Team USA's first possession of the second half.
The reigning MPSF Newcomer of the Year scored off an assist from freshman Madison Berggren at 7:01. Berggren herself added an unassisted power-play goal less than two minutes later (5:16), her ninth of the tournament, to put her country up 7-3.
Hungary's final goal came from Diana Ziegler came with 4:40 on the clock in the third, but Berggren set up Neushul for another at 1:52 to extend the United States advantage to 8-4.
Berggren again played the role of facilitator when she hit Raney for the game's final tally with 5:32 to go in the fourth quarter. Berggren was responsible for four of the United States' seven assists against Hungary and led her squad with 10 assists in seven games.
A Raney goal just over four minutes after the ball dropped was the only action of the first quarter, but a high-powered second saw seven combined strikes, including four from the United States. Raney and Neushul went back-to-back at 5:23 and 4:56 and later in the period
Cassidy Papa and Neushul did the same when the clock read 2:07 and 1:30, respectively.
Gabby Stone stopped 10 of the 14 shots she faced in the cage and finished her tournament with 58 total saves on 98 shots for a 59.1 save percentage.
Neushul led the U.S. at the World University Games in goals, scoring 18 (2.6 per game) and freshman Kat Klass joined her in double figures rattling the cage 11 times (1.6 per game).
Defensively, Raney contributed five field blocks in South Korea, while Cassidy Papa and Shannon Clearyadded four each. Gabby Stone and Jamie Neushul had nine steals apiece, Dani Jackovich added seven and Kat Klass five.
The international competition continues for other current and former Stanford student-athletes this week in Canada. Five Cardinal - Makenzie Fischer, Ashley Grossman '15, Kiley Neushul '15, Melissa Seidemann '13,Maggie Steffens - are on the roster for the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, where the United States is already 2-0.
Stanford vs. Hungary
July 11, 2015 • Gwangju, South Korea
HUN 0 - 3 - 1 - 0 = 4
STAN 1 - 4 - 3 - 1 = 9
Hungary Goals: Zsofia Polak, Vivien Takacs, Fanny Valyi, Diana Ziegler
Hungary Saves: Anna Horvath 9, Diana Agnes Gundl 1
Stanford Goals: Jordan Raney 4, Jamie Neushul 3, Madison Berggren, Cassidy Papa
Stanford Saves: Gabby Stone 10
