18 Stephen Blaauw
18 - Stephen Blaauw
Height: 6-2
Weight: 190
Year: JR
Hometown: Thousand Oaks, CA
High School: Thousand Oaks HS
Position: ATT

2019-20 (Swimming)
Competed in six events in his junior campaign for the Kingsmen...Posted three season-best times at the SCIAC Championships in the 200-yard free, 1000-yard free and 1,650-yard free...Also recorded a personal best time at the meet with a time of 4:33.19 in the 500-yard free...Grabbed a pair of second-place finishes at the Caltech/Occidental meet...Took first place in the 200-yard free in the meet against Whittier...Earned another top finish against Redlands in the 1,650-yard free.

2019 (Water Polo)
Competed and started in 27 games as an attacker… he tallied 11 goals, scoring a season-high three goals vs Chapman (Oct. 12)... he finished the season with nine assists, 21 steals, 12 drawn ejections, and one field block.

2018-19 (Swimming)
Competed in eight events as a sophomore for the Kingsmen…Recorded three seasonal-best at Banana Slug Invitational: 3:25.22 in the 400-free relay, 51.28 in the 100-free,and 7:21.89 in the 800-free relay… Additionally notched five more seasonal-best at five different meets… 1:49.15 in the 200-free at Chris Knorr Invitational… 1:35.55 in the 200-free relay at Pomona-Pitzer… 9:50.10 in the 1000-free at Occidental… 15:46.13 in the 1650-free at SCIAC Championship

2018 (Water Polo)
The Kingsmen tallied the most wins (16) for a season in program history… in his sophomore season, he competed in 27 games while starting 17 of them as an attacker… was second on the team with 16 assists and fourth on the team with 34 steals… recorded a season-high four steals against CMS (Nov. 27) and three drawn ejections versus Conn. College (Sept. 15)… for the season, he added five goals, 20 drawn ejections and 12 field blocks.

2017 (Water Polo)
Started 3 of the 22 games he appeared in for the Kingsmen…as a freshman he recorded 9 goals and 1 assists…he drew 5 ejections and 14 steals with 5 field blocks.

Thousand Oaks High School
Graduated in 2017…played four years of water polo and two years of swimming for the Lancers…named First Team All-Marmonte League in both water polo and swimming his senior year…earned Second Team All-Marmonte League his junior year…was named the MVP of his water polo and swimming teams his senior year…greatest personal sports moment was “becoming really fast” in the 200m and 500m in only two years

Personal
Full name: Stephen Blaauw…born in Burbank, Calif…parents are Roxanne and Charles…has an older sister Haley who was a two-time NCAA Champion in swimming…chose CLU because of the personal fit…majoring in business with aspirations to eventually take over his father’s business.