UC SANTA BARBARA
2024
ACWPC Academic All-American, Excellent level … Big West Academic All-Conference honoree … Played in all 27 games ... Recorded 49 goals, 19 steals, and set a career-high for 38 assists during the season … Totaled six hat-trick games … Scored at least one goal in 26 games and at least one assist in 21 out of the 27 games … Posted a season-high of seven points in a game versus Loyola Marymount (Sept. 21).
2023
All-Big West First Team selection … ACWPC Academic All-American, Excellent level ... Big West Academic All-Conference honoree ... Led the team and ranked third in The Big West in total points with 88 … Set career highs for goals (64, third in The Big West) and assists (24) ... Led the team in steals with 25 ... Named Big West Player of the Week on Sept. 27 after tallying 11 goals across two games on Sept. 23 … Scored a hat-trick against No. 9 San Jose State and eight goals against No. 15 Loyola Marymount to help the Gauchos win both games (Sept. 23) … Totaled 10 hat-tricks in 30 games, including four in a row from Sept. 23 to Sept. 30 … Scored or assisted at least once in each of the season’s final 18 games, including five goals in the home finale against UC San Diego (Oct. 29) and six in The Big West Semifinal, also against the Tritons (Nov. 18).
2022
GCC All-Academic Team honoree ... Scored 17 goals in 18 games for the Gauchos, doing so on a .436 shooting percentage … Also assisted 11 goals, fifth-most on the team … Scored four goals and provided four assists in the same game against No. 13 UC San Diego (September 4) … Scored a hat-trick with two assists against No. 5 Long Beach State, also on September 4, giving him seven goals and 13 points on the day … Also recorded multi-goal games against No. 10 San Jose State (September 10), Westcliff (September 15), and No. 2 seeded Long Beach State in the GCC Semifinal (November 19).
2021
GCC All-Academic Team … Scored 30 goals and assisted 13, both career highs … Recorded his first Gaucho goal and hat-trick in the same game against Occidental (September 4) … Tallied a total of five hat-tricks on the season, including three in as many games, against Occidental (September 11), Redlands (September 11), and La Verne (September 12) … His final hat-trick of the season came against No. 8 Pacific (September 26), when he also assisted three goals … Tallied three-steal games against Occidental (September 4) and Chapman (September 11).
HIGH SCHOOL
Attended Toldy Ferenc Gimnazium in Budapest.
PERSONAL
Son of Tunde Kovacs and Gyula Gyenis … Has a younger sister, Petra … Majoring in Economics at UC Santa Barbara … His most memorable athletic achievement is winning the U19 Hungarian National Championship … Roots for FC Barcelona and the Ferencvaros water polo team … Enjoys reading, watching movies, and hanging out with friends in his free time … Favorite movies include Cinderella Man and Greater … Favorite books are Flowers for Algernon and Sapiens.
