Brenda Villa is the most decorated athlete in the world of women's water polo.
18 Facts About Brenda Villa
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Brenda Villa is one of four female players who competed in water polo at four Olympics; and one of two female athletes who won four Olympic medals in water polo.
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Brenda Villa is a leading goalscorer in Olympic water polo history, with 31 goals.
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Brenda Villa started swimming with a club team, Commerce Aquatics, at the age of six, and followed her brother into water polo at eight years old.
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Brenda Villa made the girls Junior Olympic Team while in high school.
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At Bell Gardens High School, Brenda Villa played with the boys' water polo team because her school did not have a girls' team, and went on to become a 4-time 1st team All-League, 4-time 1st team All-C.
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Brenda Villa came to Stanford in 1998 as the program's most heralded recruit.
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Brenda Villa retired in 2012 and took up coaching waterpolo and swimming at a private all-girl high school.
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Brenda Villa scored 10 goals for Team USA at the 2003 Pan American Games, which qualified the team for the 2004 Summer Olympics.
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Brenda Villa had a team-high 13 goals to lead the US to gold at the 2003 FINA Water Polo World Championship.
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In June 2004, Brenda Villa scored the first goal in overtime, her third of the game, and another in a penalty shootout, to propel the US team past Hungary and win the gold medal at the Women's Water Polo World League Super Finals.
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Brenda Villa was the US women's team top scorer with 7 goals in 5 games at the 2004 Athens Olympics, earning a bronze medal.
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Brenda Villa was team captain of the 2005 US national team coached by two-time Olympian Heather Moody, winning a silver medal at the FINA World Championship in Montreal.
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In 2005, Brenda Villa became assistant coach of the women's water polo team at Cerritos College in Norwalk, California.
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Brenda Villa is playing professionally for the Italian power team Geymonat Orizzonte in Catania, Sicily, which won the LEN Women's Champions' Cup in 2005 and 2006.
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In March 2007 Brenda Villa led the USA women's national water polo team in Melbourne, Australia, at the 2007 FINA World Water Polo Championships.
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Brenda Villa scored a total of 11 goals throughout the whole tournament helping team USA achieve first place naming them the 2007 FINA World Champions.
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In June 2009, Brenda Villa was named to the USA water polo women's senior national team for the 2009 FINA World Championships.