2021 Women's Water Polo Roster
Lena Kotanchyan
- Position:
- Attacker
- Height:
- 5-5
- Class:
- Junior
- Major:
- Eoonomics
- Hometown:
- Moscow, Russia
- High School:
- Elk Island School
- Prev School:
- Hartwick
Long Beach State (2021): Earned ACWPC All-America Honorable Mention honors … Named an ACWPC Academic All-American after achieving a 4.0 … Earned First Team All-Big West honors … Led the Beach with 23 goals in 11 games … Scored a season-high five goals on March 21 against UC Irvine.
Long Beach State (2020): Earned CWPA All-America Honorable Mention honors … Led Long Beach State with 54 goals in just 18 games … Named the Big West Player of the Week on March 4 after scoring 19 goals over four games at the Wolverine Invitational … Twice tied the school record with seven goals in a game, first against St. Francis (Pa.) on February 29 and then against Bucknell on March 1 … Selected as Long Beach State’s 2020 Big West Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
Hartwick College: Starred for two seasons at Hartwick before the program was cut … A two-time first-team All-CWPA honoree … Earned Honorable Mention All-America honors as a sophomore in 2018 … Led the team with 112 goals scored while adding 58 assists … Her 112 goals tied for fourth-all-time at Hartwick … Played in 38 games as a sophomore, and scored five or more goals six times … As a freshman was named the CWPA Rookie of the Year while also earning first-team honors … Scored 84 goals as a true freshman … Scored in all but one game in her first season … Named to the CWPA All-Academic Team twice … Earned the Phillip S. Wilder Jr. Award for academic distinction at Hartwick.
Prior to Long Beach State: Was a member of the Russian Junior National Team from 2014 to 2016 … Won the Gold Medal at the first European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan in 2015.
Personal: Graduated in three years at Hartwick … Pursuing a Master’s Degree in Economics … Member of Omicron Delta Epsilon (International Economics Honor Society).
