UC SANTA BARBARA
2024
ACWPC Academic All-American, Excellent level … Big West Academic All-Conference honoree … Featured in all 27 games for the Gauchos … Scored seven goals and assisted eight … Had 12 steals and six field blocks in total … Also recorded four multi-steal games, against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (Sept. 8), La Verne (Sept. 14), UCLA (Sept. 28), and Santa Clara (Oct. 5).
2023
ACWPC Academic All-American, Excellent level ... Big West Academic All-Conference honoree ... Featured in all 30 games for the Gauchos … Scored 11 goals and assisted 18, both career highs by far … Scored his first goal of the season against No. 1 California (Sept. 3), kicking off a five-game points streak (Sept. 3 – Sept. 10) … Recorded multi-goal games against No. 6 Stanford (Sept. 17) and UC San Diego in The Big West Semifinal (Nov. 18) … Also recorded three multi-assist games, against Westcliff (Sept. 9), Austin College (Sept. 9) and Loyola Marymount (Oct. 1).
2022
Finished fourth on the team with nine field blocks … Scored in four different matches, including against No. 10 Loyola Marymount (October 8) and No. 8 UC Irvine (October 22) … Recorded three steals in a game against No. 10 San Jose State (September 10) … Made a career-high three field blocks in one game against No. 5 Pacific (November 5).
2021
GCC All-Academic Team … Scored four goals and assisted three more, both career highs … Finished the season with nine steals … Recorded first career three-steal game against Occidental (September 4) … Had his first career multi-goal game against Redlands (September 11).
2020
Season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
HIGH SCHOOL
Four-year letter winner at Arroyo Grande High School under coaches Russel Peterson and Steven Allen ... Holds school records for goals in a season with 134 (2018) and field blocks with 28 (2018) ... Named 2019-20 Pac-8 League MVP and Arroyo Grande HS Varsity MVP ... All-CIF Division I honoree ... Named Most Outstanding Senior Athlete and Senior Scholar Athlete for both water polo and swimming with a 4.08 grade-point average ... Swam personal bests of 22.0 in the 50-yard freestyle, 49.01 in the 100 freestyle, and 1:47.01 in the 200 freestyle.
PERSONAL
Son of Stephanie and Robert Hoover ... Has an older brother, Ryan ... Majoring in Geography at UC Santa Barbara ... Rooted for the Raiders before they left Oakland ... Lists Tommy Witt, Tiger Woods and Shaquille O'Neal as his favorite athletes ... Enjoys surfing, playing guitar, fishing and gaming in his free time ... Listens to AC/DC, America, Bob Marley and Jon Pardi ... Favorite movies include Animal House, Caddyshack and Say Anything ... Watches The Office and How I Met Your Mother ... Lists J.D. Salinger, Cormack McCarthy and Sylvia Plath as his favorite writers ... Favorite books inluce Catcher in the Rye, All the Pretty Horses, The Outsiders and Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
