Brenda Villa

Brenda Villa is an American water polo player, born on 18 April 1980 in greater Los Angeles and raised in Commerce, California, who is one of the most decorated athletes in women's water polo. She played for Stanford, was named NCAA Women's Water Polo Player of the Year after scoring 69 goals in 2001, and won the 2002 Peter J. Cutino Award as the top female college player in the United States. Competing at four Olympics for the United States, she won silver in 2000, bronze in 2004, silver in 2008 and gold in 2012, and scored 31 Olympic goals. FINA Aquatics World Magazine named her Female Water Polo Player of the Decade for 2000 to 2009, and in 2018 she was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame and the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame.