UC Irvine men's water polo graduate student Jason Evezard was selected to play for South Africa at the upcoming Tokyo Olympics.

The utility was selected as a part the 13-man roster for the South African Men's National Team. This marks the first Olympics for Evezard.

Evezard, who has played two seasons at UCI, was named the Golden Coast Conference Newcomer of the Year in 2018 and has led the Anteaters in scoring in back-to-back seasons with 59 goals in 2018 and 50 in 2019. He holds the UCI single game school record, scoring nine goals in 2019. Evezard also is a GCC All-Academic Team selection.

He is no stranger to the South African National Team as he represented South Africa at the 2019 FINA World Championships where he helped the team to a 12^th place finish.

Evezard will become the 15^th Anteater in men's water polo history to compete at an Olympic Games.

Evezard will kick off Olympic action Sunday, July 25^th against Italy.