Brenda Villa

Brenda Villa (born April 18, 1980) is a highly accomplished American water polo player, who played for Stanford and won a silver medal in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, a bronze medal in the 2004 Athens Olympics, a silver medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and a gold medal in the 2012 London Olympics. She is one of the most decorated athletes in the world of women’s water polo. Villa was named Female Water Polo Player of the Decade for 2000-2009 by the FINA Aquatics World Magazine. She is one of only four female players who competed in water polo at four Olympics; and one of two female athletes who won four Olympic medals in water polo. She is a leading goalscorer in Olympic water polo history, with 31 goals. In 2018, she was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame and the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame.