Matt Kubeck

Biography

Matt Kubeck serves both of the Bruins' water polo teams but in different capacities. UCLA Head Coach Adam Wright hired Kubeck, a former Long Beach State goalkeeper, to the post of assistant coach on July 3, 2024. He just completed his second season with the Bruins' Men's Water Polo team in 2025. Then on Dec. 29, 2025, when Wright stepped away from day-to-day activities with the women's team, UCLA promoted Kubeck, along with Associate Head Coach, Jason Falitz, to the post of Interim Co-Head Coach. Both will be in their first seasons in the role for the 2026 women's season. Kubeck played four seasons for the Beach from 2008-11 and was a four-time All-CIF and All-Ocean League selection at El Segundo High School. Prior to UCLA, he completed his first season in the spring of 2024 as an assistant coach for the LMU Women’s Water Polo team after serving for two seasons (2022-23) as an assistant coach for the Stanford Men’s Water Polo team. While with the Cardinal, he served as the goalies coach as well as handled video and analytics for the program. “Matt comes to UCLA with a wealth of experience, not only from playing in college, but from coaching at one of the top high schools in the country as well as at Stanford,” Wright said. “Being at the forefront of analytics, he will fit in perfectly to what we are doing here at UCLA. He has also been on the staff with the USA National Teams, which will put our program in a great position from a recruiting standpoint - not only in seeing the