Sport: Water Polo (Defender)

Birthday: June 26th, 1990

Hometown: Walnut Creek, CA

College: Stanford University, Bachelor’s in Psychology ’13

Two-time Olympic gold medalist (2012 London, 2016 Rio), three-time member World Championships winning US team (2015, 2017, 2019), 10-time member World League Super Final winning US team (2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021), two-time member World Cup winning US team (2010, 2014), three-time member Pan Am Games winning US team (2011, 2015, 2019), member 2011 NCAA Championship-winning Stanford team.

Tokyo will be Melissa’s third Olympic Games (2012 London, 2016 Rio, 2020 Tokyo). While attending College Park High School in Pleasant Hill, CA, she played water polo and soccer, and swam. She has served as a volunteer assistant coach at UC Irvine and at the SOCAL Water Polo Club, and she is presently the head women’s water polo coach at Corona del Mar High School in CA. She is also pursuing a master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on STEM.

Melissa, along with her fellow American teammates, secured the gold medal for the USA in women’s water polo at the Tokyo Games.