UC Davis Athletics

HONORS & AWARDS
• 2020 ACWPC Academic Honor Roll - "Outstanding"
• 2019 ACWPC Academic Honor Roll - “Superior”

2021: Appeared in all 28 matches for the Aggies, finishing with 13 goals and 19 assists for 32 points… Attempted 41 shots and added seven steals… Collected four multi-goal performances... Scored a season-high four assists and five points against Mount St. Mary's (9/4)... Posted a season-high two steals at California Baptist (10/7).

2020: Team opted out of competition for the 2020-21 school year due to COVID-19, student-athletes will not lose a year of eligibility and maintain their athletic standing for the 2021-22 academic year.

2019: Appeared in 13 matches for the Aggies, finishing with three goals and five assists for eight points… Attempted six shots and added four steals… Scored single goals against Chapman (9/7) and Fresno Pacific twice (10/18 and 11/22) — the latter in the opening round of the WWPA Tournament… Finished with a season-high three shots against the Sunbirds (10/18)… Added two assists in two wins over Fresno Pacific… Swiped single steals in four different matches.

2018: Redshirted.

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE HS ’18: Helped team to its first-ever North Coast Section Division I title, thanks to two goals in championship game... Earned All-Marin County Athletic League in both 2016 (second team) and 2017 (first team)...  Also swam for four years, competing in breastroke and individual medley events... Played club ball for Sleepy Hollow Aquatics, which twice finished 2nd at Junior Olympics.

PERSONAL: Born in San Francisco, Calif.... Majoring in aerospace engineering... Parents are Ralf & Jenifer Venne... Older brother, Riley, is a senior for the Aggies... Enjoys working on and fixing cars... Chose UC Davis because he could combine high-level water polo with his academic dreams at a top engineering school.