Girls water polo: Tars’ Belden to UCLA
NEWPORT BEACH - Newport Harbor High senior Katherine Belden, a
three-time All-CIF Southern Section Division I performer who was the Sea
View League girls water polo Player of the Year last season, has verbally
committed to continue her career at UCLA, her father, Dwight, announced
Thursday.
Belden, who boasts a 4.1 GPA, said she selected UCLA, where her
brother Peter is a freshman on the men’s water polo team, over Princeton
and Stanford.
“It was a hard decision, but after taking my recruiting trips, I felt
I connected better with the whole UCLA atmosphere,” Katherine Belden
said. “I like the coaching style there and appreciate the balance of
academics, athletics and social life.”
Belden earned first-team All-CIF honors last year, when she amassed 53
goals, 34 assists, 85 steals to help the Sea View League champions
advance to the Division I quarterfinals.
She was second-team All-CIF as a sophomore and a third-team All-CIF
pick as a freshmen, when she started for the Tars’ CIF Division I
champions.
Newport is 65-22 during Belden’s first three years and opens its
2001-02 season Dec. 9 against Long Beach Wilson.
-- by Barry Faulkner
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