The first MCAL water polo team, boys or girls, to win an NCS Water Polo title. Captain Courtney Louderback scored the winning goal with just 33 seconds remaining in the game. Louderback also scored four other goals earlier in the game and Lauren McGee added the other two goals.

This achievement for the women’s team was a group effort, one that had started the year prior with many of the women from the 1998 team. The strong foundation was built during the ‘98 season, as the team advanced to the NCS Championship and finished as the runner up. The 1999 team took the experience and mentorship of the ’98 players into the following year, capitalizing on it and coming out victorious. 

In 1996, water polo as a sport transitioned from a coed team to boys and girls teams. MC was poised to shine with a legendary amount of swim and water polo talent. Led by Courtney Louderback (four-time team MVP, two-time Marin County Athletic League Player of the Year, 1999 All-American, and NCS Co-Player of the Year in 1999), the Wildcats rose to the top of the Bay Area water polo circuit quickly.  

The success of this team resulted in many of the ’98 and ’99 players going on to play at the collegiate level, including Megan Baumgartner who went on to swim for Stanford University, Lauren McGee who played water polo at the University of California, Berkeley, and Courtney Louderback, who played water polo at the University of California, Berkeley.

Honorees from the 1998 and 1999 teams include:
Lauren Adler, Erin Barni, Megan Barni, Kristen Bohm, Lindsay Boughey, Ashley Chapman, Stephanie Curran, Sara Guidice, Megan Baumgartner Hackett, Stephanie Humber, Bonnie Viera Kauffman, Courtney Louderback, Kelsey Louderback, Lauren Lister Menchavez, Shannon McGee, Kristina Downer Paster, Laura Pinder, Carli Pitchford, Stephanie Haas Sims, Brooke Smith, Whitney Sones, Lauren McGee Todd, Cassi Wright, and Coaches Dave and Paul Stasiowski.

TENNIS PLAYING CAREER: 

• Winner of over 50 sanctioned local, state, and intercollegiate tournaments throughout her junior tennis career.
• As a junior tennis player, Lisa was ranked #1 in girls doubles in Northern California for four consecutive years (ages 14-18).
• Marin Catholic High School Girls’ Varsity #1 High School Tennis Player for three consecutive years (1972-1975).
• Awarded a full athletic scholarship to Brigham Young University 1975-1977.
• Twice selected to the All Western Athletic-Conference teams while at BYU.
• Awarded a full athletic scholarship to the University of San Francisco 1978-1980 (she was one of the first women athletes to be awarded an athletic scholarship at the University of San Francisco) Graduated from USF with honors in 1980.
• Awarded most Valuable player award in Tennis and Cross-Country Track for two consecutive years at University of San Francisco.
• In 1978 played on the Cote A’zur French Circuit and English Lawn Tennis circuit, along with her brother John.

TENNIS COACHING CAREER:

• 1981-83 NCAA Division 1 Assistant Women’s Tennis Coach at University of California Berkeley.
• 1983-86 NCAA Division 1 Head Women’s Tennis Coach at San Jose State University. While at SJSU her teams accumulated more wins in three seasons than the school had won in the previous six seasons.
• 1986-1990 NCAA Division 1 Head Women’s Tennis Coach at the University of California Santa Barbara. While at Santa Barbara she led her team to its first ever Division 1 NCAA national tennis ranking.
• 1990-1993 First Woman to be hired in an Athletic Director position at the Olympic Club in San Francisco, the oldest athletic club in the United States. She was named Director of Tennis and Head Tennis Professional at a time when the Olympic Club was still an all-men’s athletic club.
• During her coaching career she often coached numerous junior regional and national teams that represented the United States Tennis Association.

Carmen Eggert came to Marin Catholic as an outstanding multi-sport athlete. In her freshman year she earned MVP honors for the women’s freshman basketball team before directing her sports focus to the swimming pool. She went on to amass three more MVP honors in swimming 2008 and water polo in 2007 & 2008.
 
Carmen led the Lady Wildcats to two MCAL Water Polo Championships in 2007 and 2008. Along the way she garnered MCAL All-League selections all four years, including three First Team selections and in 2008 was named MCAL Player of the Year. She was also a two time Prep All-American and All-North Coast Section honoree. In her senior year, Carmen set a school record for goals in a single season at 109, including 13 in a single game. As Carmen’s water polo career excelled at the high school level, she was also selected to the USA Women’s Water Polo Cadet National Team.  She flourished on the national stage earning a spot on the USAWP Youth National Team in 2008 and won a gold medal in the Global Championships in Brisbane, Australia. 
 
After her graduation from Marin Catholic, Carmen accepted a scholarship offer from the University of California, Davis. During her stellar career she garnered 189 total goals, 279 total points, 163 steals and 90 assists and ranks among the program's top 7 in each category, including third in goals and points, and ranks first in minutes played per game in a single season. She was selected as the team’s MVP in 2011 & 2013, earned ACWPC All-America honorable mention in 2011, 2012 and 2013 and three All-Big West Conference awards, with a pair of first-team All-League nods in 2012 and 2013. Carmen also claimed five Big West Conference Player of the Week honors across her final three seasons.
 
After graduating in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in Communications, Carmen achieved another UC Davis program milestone by becoming the first player in the varsity era to earn a spot with the U.S. Senior National Team, where she trained and competed at the USAWP Olympic Training Facility in Los Alamitos, Ca. In September of 2020, in honor of her exceptional collegiate career, she was inducted into the Cal Aggie Athletics Hall of Fame.

Richard “Dick” Ghilotti has a family lineage in construction dating back to his grandfather, James Ghilotti who started a stone masonry business in Marin County, CA shortly after emigrating from Italy in 1914.  He initially transported stones by horse and cart from the hills of Marin County to the job sites to build walls. His company evolved from stone walls into grading, paving and excavating with the help of his four sons after returning from WWII. 

Eventually James Ghilotti Contractors expanded into total site preparation for public and private works and began operating under the name Ghilotti Brothers Incorporated, led by Richard’s father Dino and his three brothers.

As with most family businesses, and certainly with one of the region’s longest operating construction families, Richard became involved very early, tasked with washing trucks at the age of 13.  After graduating from Marin Catholic High School in 1964, he entered a journeyman trainee program to become a heavy equipment operator. During the late 1960’s, Richard earned a degree in finance from Santa Clara University and served as a Marine reservist before joining Ghilotti Brothers Construction full time in 1969. He began as a superintendent developing sites for mobile home parks in Sonoma County. In the mid 1970’s Richard and his father purchased property in Santa Rosa to establish a branch office and pursue work in the North Bay area.

In the midst of the early 1990’s, economic recession followed by the death of Richard’s father Dino’s in 1990, Ghilotti Brothers began succession planning. In 1992, Richard, his cousin Jim Ghilotti, and nephew Brian Ongaro split off and founded Ghilotti Construction Company (GCC) in Santa Rosa. From its launch, GCC has grown exponentially, opening five additional offices in San Rafael, Livermore, Sunnyvale, American Canyon, and Ukiah. Today, Richard is CEO and his nephew Brian Ongaro is President of one of the largest commercial general contractors in the North Bay, #379 of the top 400 contractors in the nation ranked by the Engineering News Record. During the peak of the construction season, GCC employs approximately 450 people, runs 149 pieces of off-highway equipment, and 125 highway support vehicles.

Just as impressive as his success in construction is Richard’s commitment to philanthropy and community.  Ghilotti Construction has been recognized by the North Bay Business Journal as a Community Philanthropy leader four times in the last five years, both for its in-kind donation of sitework and financial support of countless non-profit organizations in the North Bay.

Richard has been a major supporter of Marin Catholic throughout his entire career. He’s supported the following projects both financially and through in-kind donations of site work; Dino J. Ghilotti Basketball Court in honor of his father in partnership with the Dino J. Ghilotti Foundation and his sisters Diane and Linda Ghilotti, Richard Ghilotti Family Football Field, Saint John Paul II Student Center Campaign, Saint Francis Chapel and Bell Tower Campaign, Saint John Paul II Student Center Campaign, Administrative Wing, Library and Classroom Renovation Campaign

Tragically, in 2013, Richard lost his son Dino, a Marin Catholic Alumni, to a car accident just days after graduating from University of Miami, followed by the passing of his wife Nancy in 2015. In response, Richard and his family established The dg Foundation in honor of his son and his wife. The non-profit is dedicated to providing scholarships to students who share a passion for academics, athletics, and the arts. The dg Foundation also works to  improve art and athletic facilities in the North Bay. Since inception, Ghilotti Construction, The dg Foundation, along with many generous donors, have partnered to complete numerous athletic and art facilities in the Bay Area. The dg Foundation has donated over $2,000,000 through scholarships and facility enhancements allowing students to follow their dreams and unlock their full potential. The dg Foundation has contributed $367,587 to the Dino Ghilotti Motta Memorial Endowed Scholarship at Marin Catholic, which has distributed $70,000 to students through 2023. 

Since Dino’s passing, Richard, Ghilotti Construction Company and The dg Foundation have contributed to the following projects; Dino Ghilotti Motta Stadium and Field House Complex, Dino Ghilotti High Jump Pit, and the Bishop Thomas A. Daly Baseball Field Campaign.

In addition, Richard has been an active supporter of Marin Catholic events and fundraisers including the Grand Sponsor program, Evening of Elegance Sponsor, MC Gala Sponsor, Marin Catholic Athletic Hall of Fame Sponsor, Marin Catholic Golf Tournament Sponsor, and an annual Marin Catholic Athletic Booster.

Jared Goff graduated from Marin Catholic in 2013. During his time as a Wildcat he was a standout on the football field leading his team to a 2012 Section and NorCal Championship respectively. He was also the CIF State finalist and an Elite 11 finalist in that same year. Goff was the MCAL “Back of the Year” both in 2011 & 2012. His varsity career record at MC was 39-4 and his overall MC career was 49-4 with 7,914 passing yards and 93 touchdown passes. 

Goff started his college career at the University of California, Berkeley in 2013, where he began all 37 games during his three seasons (2013-15) at Cal and is the only quarterback in school history to start his first game as a true freshman. He set 26 Cal records including career marks for passing yards (12,220), passing yards per game (329.7 ypg), TD passes (96), completions (977), passing attempts (1,569), total offense (12,086) and total plays (1,739). In his final season as a junior in 2015, Goff established then-Pac-12 single-season records with 4,719 yards passing and 43 touchdown passes while becoming the first Cal quarterback to earn first-team All-Pac-12 honors since Aaron Rodgers in 2004. In 2015, Goff led the Cal team to an 8-5 Cal winning record and a bowl game appearance for the first time since 2011, as well as a post-season win for the first time since 2008 with a 55-36 victory over Air Force in the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl. Goff became Cal's second No. 1 overall selection in the NFL Draft when the Los Angeles Rams made him the first pick on April 28, 2016. Goff has been to the Pro Bowl three times (2017, 2018, 2022) during his first seven NFL seasons with the Los Angeles Rams (2015-20) and the Detroit Lions (2021-22).
 
Jared Goff finished his collegiate career at Cal with 26 school records and launched his NFL career as the 1st overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft to the Los Angeles Rams. Following 4 seasons with the Rams, including a Super Bowl LIII appearance in 2018 and two Pro Bowl selections in 2017 and 2018, Goff was traded to the Detroit Lions in 2021. In 2022, Goff led the Lions to a winning season in which the team won eight out of their final ten games.  In addition to leading the league in touchdown-interception ratio (4.14), coming second in the league in 25+ yard passes (35), and posting 4,438 passing yards, Goff was also named the 15th most valuable player of the 2022 NFL season by ESPN. During the 2022 season, Goff had five 300-yard games, bringing his 300-yard game career total to 31 games through seven NFL seasons, surpassing Kurt Warner, Peyton Manning, and Matthew Stafford and setting the record for 4th most 300-yard games through 7 seasons in NFL history. Goff holds the Lions franchise records for most consecutive passes without an interception (324), most consecutive home games with at least two touchdown passes (6), highest touchdown to interception ratio (4.14), highest completion percentage in a single season (67.2% in 2021), highest single season passer rating (99.2% in 2022), and lowest interception percentage in a single season (1.2% in 2022).