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University of the Pacific

Hall of Fame

Brad Schumacher

Brad Schumacher

  • Class
    1996
  • Induction
    2008
  • Sport(s)
    Men's Swimming, Men's Water Polo

Brad Schumacher established himself as one of the all-time greats in aquatic sports, earning two gold medals at the 1996 Olympic Games and representing the United States in water polo at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. He is the only aquatics athlete in the world to become a world champion in both swimming and water polo, as he helped the U.S. National water polo team win gold in the 1997 FINA World Cup held in Athens, Greece.

Brad was also the first athlete since Matt Biondi in the late 1980s to have earned All-America status in both water polo and swimming. Schumacher earned All-America honors for water polo in 1992, 93, 94 and 96 while collecting All-America honors for swimming in 1994 and 95. As a swimmer at Pacific, he recorded the fastest ever times in Big West Conference's 50, 100 and 200 Freestyle events.

He led the water polo team to a No. 5 national ranking during 1993 season and a No. 6 national ranking in 1996, also helping the Tigers' swim team to 18th at the 1995 NCAA Championships.

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