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02/21/2012
Joel Dennerley, Jovan Vavic Top National Charts
Dennerley is National Player of the Year, Vavic is National Coach of the Year to lead eight All-Americans.
Former USC All-American Marko Pintaric is in his 11th season at USC, serving as head assistant coach of both the men's and women's water polo teams.
Pintaric was a two-year starter for the Trojans in 1997 and 1998. He recorded 44 goals during the Trojans' 1998 national championship season and earned National Player of the Year and first team All-America honors. He also earned second team All-America honors in 1997. Pintaric was named to the NCAA All-Tournament Team both years. He transferred to USC from the University of Zagreb in Croatia, where he was a member of the Croatian Junior National Team (1989-94).
Along with his current coaching experience, Pintaric served as the varsity coach at Loyola High in Los Angeles during the 1999-2000 school year. He has played club for Shores and Los Angeles Water Polo, and currently plays for the New York Athletic Club, where he also was a member of the 2001 summer national championship team and four consecutive winter national championship teams (1999-2002).
Pintaric graduated from USC in 2000 with a degree in communications and earned his master's in 2003 in communications management.
