Head Coach: Brian Weathersby 

Brian Weathersby is the head coach of both the boys and girls water polo programs at SMCHS. Weathersby has served as the head coach of the SMCHS girls water polo program since the 2013-14 season, guiding the team to four Trinity League titles and three CIF titles, including a CIF-SS Division 1 title this past season. Weathersby was named head coach of the boys program in 2023. During his tenure at Santa Margarita, he has also been the assistant varsity coach for the boys program since 2010.

His success as a coach has earned him CIF Coach of the Year twice, Orange County Coach of the Year, First Year Head Coach of the Year and California Coaches Association Coach of the Year. Coach Weathersby has also been successful at the club level, winning numerous Junior Olympic titles. He is currently the Head Coach of the SOCAL Water Polo Foundation 14U boys team. Weathersby was a successful student-athlete at El Toro High School, where he earned first team All-League, All-CIF, All-American and was fortunate enough to be there for a CIF title. He graduated from California Baptist University, where he was selected as a NAIA All-American.

Weathersby’s coaching philosophy seeks to bring out the full potential in each student-athlete by instilling confidence.

 

ASSISTANT Coach: christian macias  

Christian has played and coached water polo for 19 years. He played for OCWPC, SET and SOCAL. During his club experiences, he won All-American and Academic All-American. He played water polo at Mission Viejo High School, where he was MVP for three years and on D1, D2 and D3 CIF teams. Christian was the leading scorer in Orange County his senior year and was an All-American. He played two NCAA D1 at the Naval Academy in college and later transitioned to hole set at UCI. While at UCI, he received the CWPA All-American distinction and Golden Coast Conference All-American Honoree.

Christian coached at Power Aquatics, OCWPC, Trabuco Hills High School and SMCHS. At OCWPC he coached multiple age groups, including splash ball, 10u, 12u and 14u. At Trabuco, he was the JV Boys team's Varsity Assistant Coach and Head Coach. He coached JV girls at SMCHS in 2018. He is now the Director of the Masters program at Power Aquatics. Christian still competes at a higher level in water polo, recently awarded the Masters All-American while competing at the 2022 Masters National Championships.

 

ASSISTANT Coach: Messan Moore  

Messan has been playing water polo for 9 years. He started playing at John W. North High School and continued in college at Concordia University in Irvine. After graduating from Concordia, he joined the AZS University of Warsaw water polo team in Poland for two years. He now coaches 16u boys at SOCAL and plays professionally.

 

Boys Water Polo Alumni

• 2012 - Pablo Carballo, UCI
• 2013 - Riley Smith, LMU
• 2014 - Chandler Kaltenbach, Long Beach State
• 2014 - Troy Kaltenbach, Long Beach State
• 2014 - Garrett Kaltenbach, Long Beach State
• 2015 - Logan Wright, University of Redlands
• 2015 - Spencer Lupin, Pepperdine
• 2015 - Sam Slobodien, USC
• 2015 - Ryan Melosini, Princeton
• 2016 - Austin Clark, LMU
• 2016 - Tanner Kaplan, CLU
• 2016 - Alex Piechuch, US Naval Academy
• 2016 - Rex Sample, La Verne
• 2017 - Jack Baumgartner, UCI
• 2018 - Brock Petersen, UCLA
• 2018 - Chase Petersen, UCLA
• 2018 - Noah Hodge, Harvard
• 2018 - AJ Rossman, Stanford
• 2018 - Jacob Wright, UC Davis
• 2019 - Yurian Quinones, Princeton
• 2019 - Jake Marquez - UCSD
• 2019 - Angel Sanchez - Cal Baptist
• 2019 - Nick Maramica - Claremont McKenna
• 2020 - Will Kieckhafer - Cal
• 2020 - Wyatt Clark - UCSB
• 2020 - Aidan Nettekoven - Claremont Mckenna
• 2021 - Cole McKechnie, Navy
• 2021 - Speedy Laster, Stanford
• 2021 - Marko Maramica, UCSB
• 2021 - Connor Cohen, Pepperdine
• 2021 - Matty Walsh, Pepperdine
• 2021 - Ben Kirshon, Brown