Jason Falitz

Biography

Jason Falitz (center) celebrates the 2015 NCAA Championship. Jason Falitz entered his 11th year with the men’s water polo program at UCLA in 2025 and his eighth as the Associate Head Coach. He reported to the post of Assistant Coach for the men's program in May of 2015, replacing Dustin Litvak, who assumed the head coaching duties for the boy’s water polo program at Agoura High School and is now the men's head water polo coach at Princeton. Falitz was promoted on to Associate Head Coach on August 16, 2017 after Head Coach Adam Wright was named the Head Coach of the UCLA women’s water polo program on July 20, 2017. Then in August of 2021, he was named the Associate Head Coach for the women's water polo program and will be in his fifth season at that post in 2026. Falitz was named the 2023 Assistant (Associated Head) Coach of the Year as announced by the ACWPC on May 31, 2024. It marked the first time a Bruin has won this award. Falitz won an NCAA title with the Bruins in his first year as UCLA went 30-0, defeating USC, 10-7, in the national championship game. He won his second championship in 2017 as UCLA defeated the Trojans at USC, 7-5. He won his third NCAA title (for the 2020 season) as the Bruins again defeated the Trojans at USC, 7-6, on March 21, 2021. He won his fourth and fifth NCAA Championships as the Bruins repeated as National Champions in 2024 and 2025, both at Stanford, and both over the Trojans. In addition to his duties at UCLA, Falitz is the Head Boy’s Coach