Lauren Wenger Trapani (2018) - USC Athletics Hall of Fame

Lauren Wenger Trapani

Induction:
2018
Class:
2006

Lauren Wenger Trapani won the 2006 Peter J. Cutino Award as the top collegiate women’s water polo player. Also an All-American in 2006, she scored 127 career goals. Known as a strong defender and a perimeter scorer, she was a key member of USC’s 2004 NCAA championship team. Representing the USA, she won a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics after getting a silver in 2008. The 2007 USA Water Polo Female Athlete of the Year, she was the MVP at the FINA World Championship that year as the Americans won the gold medal (her USA squad repeated in 2009). She also played professionally in Europe. In 2019, she became the first USC woman named to the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame. She also is in the Aquatics Capital of America Hall of Fame. She then was in medical device sales.