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| Full name | Gary Lee Figueroa | ||||||||||||||
| Born | September 28, 1956 (age 66) Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
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Gary Lee Figueroa (born September 28, 1956, in Phoenix, Arizona) is a former water polo player from the United States, who won the silver medal with Team USA at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. In 1992, he was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame. [1] [2]
He currently coaches boys water polo at York School in Monterey, California .
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