Casey Greenawalt joined Concordia University Irvine as the school's new women's water polo head coach in July 2022.
Under his leadership, the Golden Eagles have won 35 games in his first three seasons. This included a program-best 12-game stretch in his first year 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. Â He worked his way up to head coaching positions with the club and was club director by 2009. Â 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.
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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.
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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.
