Concordia Irvine Athletics

Casey Greenawalt joined Concordia University Irvine as the women's water polo head coach in July 2022.

Under his leadership, the Golden Eagles have reached new heights in the pool and won 55 games in four seasons.

The 2026 season was a historic campaign for Greenawalt and the Golden Eagles in many ways. CUI women's water polo made the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history, won the WWPA regular season title and emerged as WWPA Conference Tournament champions in their first year in the league. The 20 victories were the most in program history and the seven conference victories also shattered the previous mark. 

Greenawalt was named ACWPC DII Coach of the Year and that 2026 team was led by three ACWPC First Team All-Americans. Goalkeeper Jaden Soto was featured as ACWPC DII Player of the Year and joined by teammates Mia Hueston and Anna Tyukasz, who were also All-Conference selections by the WWPA.  Hueston was WWPA Newcomer of the Year as a true freshman and Tyukasz became a two-time All-American in her first two seasons at Concordia.  

Under Greenawalt's tutelage, a total of six CUI women's water polo players earned All-Conference honors during that 2026 season - and all six of them were non-seniors. CUI also went a stunning 11-1 down the stretch, limiting back-to-back opponents in the WWPA Conference Tournament to only three goals. Soto led the defensive stand against Biola in the championship game to clinch the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament with a thrilling 4-3 win. Soto was named Most Outstanding Player of the Tournament after racking up 11 saves and had a total of 26 in those two epic victories.

His first season at the helm also included a program-best 12-game stretch when the 2023 team went 11-1 on its way to compiling a 16-16 record and a Top 5 finish at the GCC Tournament that included multiple NCAA D1 programs in the field.  Standouts Madison Ravelo and Tamsyn Evezard have both been honored as ACWPC First Team All-Americans during his tenure, and Ravelo was named the school's Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year at the 2023 CUI Senior Awards Legacy Banquet.  Most recently, Anna Tyukasz and goalie Jaden Soto were both recognized as ACWPC All-Americans in 2025.

Greenawalt has an extensive coaching background after working with many different age groups in the region over the past two decades.  He joined CUI after serving the past five years as an assistant coach with the men's water polo team at California Baptist University.

While at CBU, Greenawalt helped the Lancers finish each season ranked in the NCAA Top 16 and secure the program's first-ever WWPA title.  CBU also qualified for its first NCAA Championship appearance and earned four All-American and 21 All-WWPA awards during that five-year span.

The Arlington High graduate started as a youth coach at the Riverside Aquatics Water Polo Club in 2001.  He worked his way up to head coaching positions with the club and was club director by 2009.  He also climbed the ranks at Martin Luther King High and then with the USA Women's Water Polo National Development Team in recent years.
 
In 2011, Greenawalt began working as an assistant coach in the Olympic Development Program (ODP) and eventually became the women's head coach of the Southern Pacific Zone in 2014. He became an assistant coach of the USA Women's National Development Team in 2016, and a few years later took over as head coach of the program.

Four of his teams won gold medals in ODP competition, including two at the Regional Championships in 2013-14 and two more at the 2015-16 National Championships.  Greenawalt has earned four USA Water Polo coaching awards in his career and also the ODP Top Coach Award at the 2013 Regional Championships. He later received the Brent Bohlender Development Coach Award in the Southern Pacific Zone in 2013 and 2016 and also picked up the national honor in 2016.
 
Greenawalt led the girls water polo program at Martin Luther King High for five seasons after originally joining the program as an assistant for both the boys and girls teams with Kevin Rosa.  The Wolves went 85-45 in five seasons under Greenawalt, who was named Coach of the Year in both the Big VIII League (2014) and CIF Southern Section Division III (2016). During his time at the school, King won eight (four boys, five girls) Big VIII League titles and two CIF Southern Section Division III championships.

As a player, Greenawalt spent eight years with the Riverside Water Polo Club, was a part of Arlington High's 1998 CIF championship team and competed two years at Riverside Community College.  He finished top-three in the state for goals and assists both years and still holds several records for the Tigers for his offensive prowess.

You can reach him at casey.greenawalt@cui.edu via email.