Verica Bakoc
Verica Bakoc | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born |
Toronto, Ontario | May 3, 1999||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Canadian | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Field player | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Mediterrani | ||||||||||||||||||||||
College(s) | USC Trojans | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Verica Bakoc (pronounced [ʋêritsa bǎkotʃ]; born May 3, 1999) is a Canadian water polo player who plays for Mediterrani and for the Canada women's national team.[1]
Career
College and club career
Bakoc was part of the USC Trojans side that finished first in the 2018 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship,[2] second in 2019 and first in 2021.[3]
She was also part of the Ethnikos Piraeus side that won the 2021–22 Women's LEN Trophy.[4]
International career
Bakoc represented Canada at the youth and junior level at the FINA Youth World Championships in 2016 where she won bronze and at the 2019 Universiade and 2019 FINA Junior World Championships.[5]
She represented the Canada senior side at the 2017 FINA Intercontinental Tournament, the 2022 FINA Water Polo World League and at the World Aquatics Championships in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Bakoc also won silver at the 2023 Pan American Games.
Personal life
Bakoc's father Dragan is involved in professional soccer as the president of Serbian White Eagles FC and the Canadian Soccer League.[6] Her family hails from Herceg Novi, Montenegro.[7][8]
References
- ^ "Mediterrani: Two Canadians Bakoc and Crevier to sign for Spaniards". Total Waterpolo. 20 August 2022. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
- ^ "USC women's water polo wins fifth national title, 5-4 over Stanford". NCAA. 13 May 2018. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
- ^ "USC Defeats UCLA 18-9 To Win 2021 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship". USA Water Polo. 16 May 2021. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
- ^ "Ethnikos win the LEN Trophy". Total Waterpolo. 2022-03-30. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
- ^ "Verica Bakoc - Women's Water Polo - USC Athletics". USC Trojans. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
- ^ "An Olympian in the making has CSL connections - FC Continentals". continentalsfc.com. 11 November 2023. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- ^ "Djevojka našeg porijekla napada olimpijsku medalju: Verica u kapici Kanade u Parizu" (in Serbian). sportfem.me. 5 July 2024. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ^ "Ponosna Novljanka u kapici Kanade ispunila olimpijski san: Navijaću za ajkule u Parizu, želim da pokrenem ženski vaterpolo u CG" (in Serbian). sportfem.me. 8 July 2024. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
External links
- CS1 Serbian-language sources (sr)
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- Pages using infobox water polo biography with unknown parameters
- Pages with Serbo-Croatian IPA
- 1999 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Etobicoke
- Canadian female water polo players
- Canadian people of Serbian descent
- Canadian people of Montenegrin descent
- University of Southern California alumni
- USC Trojans women's water polo players
- Ethnikos Piraeus Water Polo Club players
- Competitors at the 2019 Summer Universiade
- Water polo players at the 2023 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada
- Pan American Games medalists in water polo
- 21st-century Canadian sportswomen