Skip To Main Content

University of California, Santa Barbara

2024 Women's Water Polo Roster

Jeff Liang
Jeff Liang
Jeff Liang
Jeff Liang

4 Leigh Lyter

  • Height 5-8
  • Year Redshirt Junior
  • Hometown Manhattan Beach, Calif.
  • High School Mira Costa HS
  • Position Utility

Biography

UC SANTA BARBARA
2024
All-Big West Second Team Selection … Voted Team MVP … Team Captain … ACWPC All-Academic Team, Superior level ... CSC Academic All-District selection ... Big West Academic All-Conference honoree ... Led the team in goals with 40, her third straight 40-goal season … Drew 57 exclusions while being called for just 17 … Started all 29 games for the Gauchos … Scored five goals in the season opener against Azusa Pacific (Jan. 20) … Finished the season with seven hat-tricks … Scored the 100th goal of her career on Jan. 27 against No. 18 San Jose State … Finishes her career with 128 goals, the ninth-most in Gaucho history.

2023
ACWPC All-Academic Team, Excellent level ... Big West Academic All-Conference honoree ... Played all 29 games this season … Finished second on the team in goals (41) and total points (51) … Scored the 50th goal of her career on Jan. 21 against No. 14 Indiana, one of four goals she scored in that match … Tallied two more four-goal games, against No. 17 Wagner (Jan. 28) and Cal State Monterey Bay (March 3) … Drew nearly twice as many exclusions (32) as she was called for (17) … Recorded at least one point in each of her first 10 matches, scoring a goal in nine of them … Finished the season with a .456 shooting percentage.

2022
ACWPC All-Academic Team, Excellent level ... Big West Academic All-Conference Team selection ... Voted team Co-MVP ... Scored a team-high 42 goals in 24 games on a .467 shooting percentage ... Added 12 assists, 29 steals, and drew 20 exclusions ... Ranked third in The Big West for steals per game (1.2), sixth in steals (28), eighth in goals per game (1.8) and ninth for points per game (2.3) ... Scored four goals, including a buzzer-beating game-winner from the middle of the pool against No. 19 Princeton (Jan. 22), adding an assist and a steal in the game.

2021
ACWPC All-Academic Team, Outstanding level ... Scored five goals over the course of UC Santa Barbara’s shortened, eight-game season … Found the back of the cage twice against No. 1 USC on March 13 for the first multi-goal game of her career … Scored her first career goal on Feb. 17 against No. 17 San Diego State.


HIGH SCHOOL
Attended Mira Costa High School.


PERSONAL
Born November 25, 2001 in Manhattan Beach … Majoring in Biological Sciences at UC Santa Barbara.

Statistics

Season Statistics

Season Statistics

No statistics available for this season.

Career Statistics

There are no statistics available for this player.

Historical Player Information

  • 4

    2021Freshman

    Attacker
    5'8"
    4
  • 4

    2022Redshirt Freshman

    Attacker
    5'8"
    4
  • 4

    2023Redshirt Sophomore

    Utility
    5'8"
    4
  • 4
    C

    2024Redshirt Junior

    Utility
    5'8"
    4
    C