UC SANTA BARBARA
2022
ACWPCA All-American Honorable Mention … All-GCC Honorable Mention … Appeared in 25 games for the Gauchos, making 19 starts … Finished second in the GCC with 203 saves and a .468 save percentage … Had the best goals-against average in the conference (10.28) … Led the team with 15 steals … Made 13 saves against No. 3 UCLA on September 3 … Had six straight double-digit save performances, bookended by a season-high 15 stops against No. 10 Loyola Marymount (October 8) and No. 5 Pacific (November 5) … Matched his season high with 15 saves against San Jose State in the first round of the GCC Championship on November 18.
2021
Appeared in 26 of the Gauchos’ 30 games, starting 20 of them … Ranked sixth in the GCC with 144 saves … Finished among the GCC’s top five goalies by save percentage and goals-against average … Ranked fifth on the team with 17 steals … Recorded a season-high 12 stops against No. 10 Pepperdine on September 16.
2020
Season cancelled due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
2019
AWPCA All-America 3rd Team selection … Named to GCC All-Conference First Team … Earned first career GCC Player of the Week Award on September 12 … Finished fifth in the conference with 199 saves … Had the third-lowest goals-against average in the GCC … Played in 20 games, starting 15 … recorded 30 steals, the second-most on the team and the fifth-most in the conference … Tallied 10 assists, 10 saves, and five steals against USC on September 15 … Also recorded 10 stops against No. 6 Pepperdine (September 18), No. 5 USC (October 6) … Made a season-high 13 saves to help the Gauchos defeat No. 8 Cal on October 27.
UCLA
2018
Earned an AWPCA All-America Honorable Mention as a freshman at UCLA before transferring to UC Santa Barbara.
HIGH SCHOOL/CLUB
Roland earned three varsity letters at Sir Francis Drake high school...Protected the cage for coach Matt Swanson and the Pirates, averaging 10.6 saves per game and 266 total in his sophomore year...Earned First Team All-League honors each three years and won best goalie at Iron Man in 2015 (16u) and 2018 (18u)...Second Team California/Hawaii All-American in 2017 as well as First Team NISCA/Speedo Water Polo Alll-American 2017...Most memorable moment came during his freshman year against Los Lomas in the Quarterfinals of the NCS...Roland helped lead his team League titles all three years and in 2017 won NCS and the Nor-Cal high school tournament...Also competed in Basketball and Volleyball, winning MVP of the team in each.
PERSONAL
Daniel "Danny" Patrick Roland was born on February 26, 2000 in Marin County, Calif. to parents Linda and William...Grew up in San Rafael with his brothers Michael and Ryan...Hasn't yet decided on a major at UCSB but wants to pursue a career as an insurance broker...Roots for the Golden State Warriors and Steph Curry is his favorite athlete...Danny loves cooking food, biking, and wakeboarding in his down time and chooses Family Guy to watch over other shows...Also likes the movie Paul Blart: Mall Cop and the documentary Travis Scott: Look Mom I can fly...Favorite artists are Illenium and Kygo.
