2025 Women's Water Polo Roster

Jersey Number 10
Brooke Hourigan
- Position:
- Attacker
- Height:
- 5-7
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Newport Beach, Calif.
- High School:
- Orange Lutheran HS (Harvard)
- Prev School:
- Harvard
- Major:
- Psychological Science
2025 (Graduate Student)
2024 (Graduate Student)
AT HARVARD
Career Highs
Orange Lutheran High School
Personal
- All-Big West Second Team
- Led the team with 39 assists
- Second on the team in points (80) and steals (33)
- Converted 41 goals at a .477 clip
- Also added five field blocks
- Matched her career high with four goals vs UCLA (February 15), UC Davis (April 12) and
Long Beach State (April 17)
2024 (Graduate Student)
- College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team
- Big West Commissioner’s Honor Roll (Highest Honors)
- ACWPC All-Academic Team
- UC Irvine Scholar Athlete
- Third on team with 31 goals
- Scored first goal as an Anteater against Stanford on Jan. 20
- Notched five hat-tricks during the season
- Recorded 74 shots
- Dished out 13 assists
- Added 17 steals and seven field block
AT HARVARD
2023 (Senior)
- ACWPC Honorable Mention All-American
- All-CWPA Second Team
- CWPA All-Tournament First Team
- Scored 53 goals, added 26 assists, 31 steals, 21 blocks, and 19 drawn exclusions
- Scored three of the four Harvard goals against Princeton (Feb.26)
- Netted a hat-trick in the victory over CSUN (Mar.5)
- Tallied a three-goal and three assist effort against Pacific (Mar.18)
- Tallied four steals against Bucknell (Apr.1)
- Netted a hat-trick including two goals via the penalty shot against Saint Francis (Apr.2)
- Netted four goals against Brown to end the regular season (Apr.22)
- Scored three goals in the first round playoff win over Bucknell (Apr.28)
- Scored twice in the semi-final including the game-winning goal with less than a second left in the win over Michigan(Apr.29)
- Scored two goals in the CWPA finals while also adding two assists and two steals (Apr.30)
2022 (Junior)
- Earned ACWPC All-Academic honors
- Earned CWPA Player of the Week honors twice (April 11, Feb. 17)
- Finished the season with a team-high 56 goals to go along with 19 assists, 27 steals and 14 drawn exclusions
- Scored three goals in season-opener against Villanova (Jan. 29)
- Picked up three goals, an assist and two drawn exclusions versus Pomona-Pitzer (Feb. 6)
- Recorded three goals, an assist and a block against Villanova (Feb. 12)
- Netted a career-high six goals with two steals versus Saint Francis (NY) (Feb. 12)
- Registered a career-high six steals and an assist versus Mount Saint Mary's (Feb. 26)
- Netted three goals with two assists and a steal versus No. 10 Arizona State (Mar. 12)
- Scored game-high four goals in victory over No. 21 Princeton (April 9)
- Added three goals and a steal against Saint Francis (PA) (April 10)
- Picked up two goals and two assists in CWPA Semifinal against No. 20 Princeton (April 23)
2020 (Freshman)
- Totaled four assists against Villanova at the Harvard Mini (Jan. 25)
- Recorded four steals against Whittier (Feb. 1)
- Found the back of the net four times against Saint Francis (Pa.) and had one block against St. Francis (N.Y.) at the Bucknell Invite (Feb. 9)
- Drew two DKO''s against St. Francis (N.Y.) (Feb. 15)
Career Highs
- Goals: 4, Five times (last vs. Long Beach State, 04/17/2025)
- Assists: 5, vs. UC Santa Barbara (03/28/2025)
- Steals: 4, vs. Cal State Fullerton (03/05/2025)
- Field Blocks: 2, vs. CSUN (03/14/2025)
- Drawn Exclusions: 3, Three times (last vs. UC Davis, 04/12/2025)
Orange Lutheran High School
- All-Orange County First Team
- Division 1 CIF SS Regional Championship team (2019)
- Two-time Santa Barbra Tournament of Championship
- Two-time Trinity League Champions team
- Four-time All-Trinity League team
- Two-time Division 1 All-CIF SS Team
- Santa Barbra Tournament of Champions MVP (2019)
- Lettered in water polo and swimming all four years
- Served as the captain of the water polo and swim teams
Personal
- Beta Gamma Sigma Honors Society (2024)
- Deans Scholar (2024)
- Junior Olympic All-American (2017)
- Three-time USA Water Polo Outstanding Academic All-American
- Two-time NISCA and Speedo Girls Water Polo All-American (2017-19)
- Sister plays water polo at USC
- Aspires to be a doctor in pediatric oncology
- Was a research intern at CHOC (2024), research intern at FOUNT (2022), and cardiology intern at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Orange County Heart Institute (2021)
- Loves to travel and has been to 17 countries already
- Her family was participants on the game show Family Game Night
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Monday, April 20
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Monday, March 23
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