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2010 Men's Water Polo Roster

13 Ali Arat

  • Position 2M Off.
  • Height 6-6
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Istanbul, Turkey
  • Highschool Sisli Terakki Secondary (Koc University)

Biography

AratVertical2010: Recipient of the 2010 Vincent T. Lombardi Award as Fordham's Male Studet-Athlete of the Year... Named Captial One/CoSIDA Second Team Academic All-American, as well as to the the Academic All-District First Team... ACWPC Honorable Mention All-American for the second straight year... First Team CWPA All-Northern Division and Second Team All-East... Ranked among the NCAA leaders with a team-best 91 goals (2nd)... Added 11 assists for 102 points, while collecting 40 steals and 14 blocks... Named CWPA Northern Division Offensive Player of the Week once... Scored four goals in the opener against George Washington (9/4)... Scored six times versus #18 Bucknell (9/5)... Scored a career-high seven goals in a win over Queens (9/15)... Had three goals and a steal at Harvard (9/25)... Scored four times and added an assist at MIT (9/25)... Matched his career-high with seven goals and eight points against Connecticut College (10/3)... Netted four goals at #15 Cal Baptist (10/7)... Posted five goals, an assist, and two steals vs. La Verne (10/9)... Had six goals, an assist, and two steals versus MIT (11/7)...  Selected to both the ACWPC All-Academic Team and the CWPA Scholar-Athlete Team.

2009: ACWPC Honorable Mention All-American... CWPA Northern Division Rookie of the Year and Rookie of the Eastern Championship... First Team All-East and CWPA All-Northern Division... Tied for the team lead in points (79) and was second in goals (71)... Finished among the top ten nationally in goals scored... Added 28 steals and a team-high 10 blocks... Opened his career with a five-goal game against Bucknell (9/6)... Tallied five goals and two steals versus Harvard (9/13)... Had two goals and two steals against Connecticut College (9/18)... Totaled three goals, two steals and an assist versus #20 Princeton (9/19)... Had his third five-goal game of the season to go with two blocks vs. Connecticut College (9/26)... Posted four goals and two steals vs. Brown (9/27)... Scored three times in games against La Verne (10/1) and Cal Baptist (10/2)... Recorded four goals and an assist against Harvard (10/17), while also having a four-goal game against Iona (10/27)... Tallied two goals and two assists vs. Connecticut College in the opening round of the Northern Division Championship (11/7)... Registered three goals in the Northern Division Championship game against Brown (11/8)... Netted five goals against Johns Hopkins at the Eastern Championship (11/20), and followed with four goals and a season-high six steals against Brown (11/22)... Selected to both the ACWPC All-Academic Team and the CWPA Scholar-Athlete Team.

Before Fordham: Member of the Turkish National Team Program since 2003, playing for the Senior National Team from 2006-08... Competed for the Senior team in tournaments in Italy, Poland, France, and Thailand, where the team's best finish came at the 2006 Poland Cup, where they placed second... Member of the IYIK Club, which is one of the pioneer sports clubs for swimming and water polo in Turkey... Served as team captain of the Sisli Terakki Secondary School swim team, competing in the freestyle and butterfly events.

Major: Masters of Business Administration degree with a concentration in Finance.
 
CAREER HIGHS
Goals: 7, 2x, last vs. Connecticut College, 10/3/10
Assists: 2, vs. Connecticut College, 11/7/09
Points: 8, 2x, last vs. Connecticut College, 10/3/10
Steals: 6, vs. Brown, 11/22/09
Blocks: 2, 4x, last at #14 St. Francis (NY), 10/14/10
 
CAREER TOTALS
Year GP Goals Assists Points Steals Blocks
2009 30 71 8 79 28 10
2010 32 91 11 102 40 14
TOTALS 62 162 19 181 68 24

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Historical Player Information

  • 13

    2009Graduate Student

    2M Off.
    6'6"
    13
  • 13

    2010Graduate Student

    2M Off.
    6'6"
    13