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2025 Men's Water Polo Roster

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10 Barnabas Eppel

  • Position Utility
  • Height 6-3
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Budapest, Hungary
  • Highschool Budenz József Alapítványi Gimnázium

Biography

EppelVertical242024: MAWPC Champion... Selected to the MAWPC All-Championship First Team... Saw action in all 33 games... Posted 39 goals and 15 assists for 54 points... Added 10 steals... Scored his first of five hat tricks on the year against Mt. St. Mary's (9/21)... Followed with three straight two-goal games against Bucknell (9/21), John Hopkins (9/22), and Salem (9/22)... Notched three goals and three steals in a win over #16 UCSB (10/22)... Had three goals and an assist against George Washington (11/2)... Scored three times at #20 Wagner (11/8)... Tallied a goal and two assists in games against Mercyhurst (11/9) and Mt. St. Mary's (11/9)... Totaled six goals and two assists during the MAWPC Championship (11/22-24), which including a four-goal game against Wagner in the semifinals... Drew a total of six ejections in the Rams' two NC Championship games (12/6-7).

2023: MAWPC Champion... Named MAWPC Rookie of the Week four times... Appeared in all 32 games... Was third on the team with 63 goals, while drawing a team-best 65 exclusions... Added 13 assists, 28 steals, and 11 blocks... Had a goal and two steals in the opener against #11 Pepperdine, while having a goal, two assists, and four steals versus Augustana (9/2)... Had a hat trick at Brown (9/3)... Notched a pair of goals in games against Chapman (9/9) and #18 Harvard (9/10)... Notched his second hat trick against Johns Hopkins (9/16)... Scored four times to go with two assists against George Washington (9/30)... Netted a season-high six goals against Gannon (10/14)... Had two goals and an assist at #15 Pacific (10/18)... Recorded five goals against #15 Cal Baptist, while netting a hat trick against #17 Santa Clara (10/21)... Also had hat tricks against George Washington (10/28) and Iona (11/1)... Registered three goals and an assist at #20 Brown (11/11)... Totaled five goals at the MAWPC Championship, which included four in the semifinal against Wagner (11/18)... Scored twice in the Rams' NCAA Championship match versus #2 Cal (12/1).

Before Fordham: Attended Budenz József Alapítványi Gimnázium in Budapest, Hungary... Grew up playing for the prestigious club program at UVSE... Helped his team to a first-place finish at the U19 Hungarian National Championship and the U22 Komjádi Kupa, which is the highest junior age group tournament in Hungary... Spent a summer playing in the USA alongside Fordham goalie, Thomas Lercari, finishing 12th in the Platinum Division of the Junior Olympics, the highest finish at JO's in their club's history... Member of the Hungarian national team system... Earned a third-place finish at the U17 Youth European Championship.

Major: Business Administration.
 
CAREER HIGHS
Goals: 6, vs. Gannon (10/14/23)
Assists: 2, 4x, last vs. Mt. St. Mary's (11/9/24)
Points: 6, 2x, last vs. Gannon (10/14/23)
Steals: 4, vs. Augustana (9/2/23)
Blocks: 2, 2x, last vs. George Washington (10/28/23)
 
CAREER TOTALS
Year GP Goals Assists Points Steals Blocks
2023 32 63 13 76 28 12
2024 33 39 15 54 10 4
Totals 65 102 28 130 38 16

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Historical Player Information

  • 3

    2023Freshman

    Utility
    6'3"
    3
  • 3

    2024Sophomore

    Utility
    6'3"
    3
  • 10

    2025Junior

    Utility
    6'3"
    10