USA Water Polo Women’s Olympic Team Announcement

Dan Klatt

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    Women's Senior National Team Assistant Coach
Dan Klatt—a 2004 Olympian and head coach of the UC Irvine Women’s Water Polo Team—joined the USA Women’s Senior National Team staff as an assistant coach in April2010. In 2013 he was named head coach of the USA Water Polo Women’s Junior National Team. Dan led the Senior “B” Team to a first-place finish at the Canada Cup in late 2009, and he returned to the national team scene after a decorated playing career.

Dan has been a part of multiple Gold-Medal efforts, including the 2012 and 2016 Olympic titles and World Championships, as well as World Cups and World League championships.

He’s a 2001 graduate of UC Irvine and helped guide the Anteaters to multiple Big West Tournament Championships and NCAA Championship appearances in 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, and 2018. He competed with the USA Men’s Senior National Team during the early 2000s and was part of the group that took home a seventh-place finish at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.