Chase Dodd

Dodd attended and played for the University of California Los Angeles from around 2021-2025, where he was managed by Head Coach Adam Wright, a former Olympian and UCLA graduate. In 2024, the UCLA water polo team won the NCAA championship with an 11-8 win over the University of Southern California. At UCLA, Dodd was twice a ACWPC All-American, making first team in 2024, and receiving an honorable mention in 2022. Dodd left UCLA in 2023 to train for the 2024 Olympics. He was later voted to the 2024 NCAA All-Tournament Team. Chase Dodd was also an accomplished student, making the Honor Roll of the UCLA Athletic Director in seven semesters from 2021-2025. Chase's younger brother Ryder Dodd also played for UCLA, was a recipient of the Peter Cutino Award in 2025, and also participated in water polo on the 2024 U.S. Olympic team.^[3][2]

Dodd participated in the 2024 Paris Olympics, where the U.S. water polo team won a bronze medal. In the final Olympic match for the bronze, in a penalty shot, the U.S. defeated Hungary for the bronze, to take its first medal since the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Hungary placed fourth overall, with Serbia taking the gold medal, and Croatia taking the silver.^[4]

In international competition, at the Doha 2024 World Aquatics World Championships, where the U.S. placed ninth, he made two goals. In the 2023 Fukuoka, Japan World Championships, he was credited with eight goals, and the U.S. National team placed seventh. At the 2023 Pan American games in Santiago, Chile, Dodd played with the U.S. team that won a gold medal in the Pan American Water Polo team competition.