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Jersey Number 8
Ian Shultz
- Position:
- Attacker
- Height:
- 6-1
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Bellevue, Wash.
- High School:
- Newport
Career: 33 goals...
2025 (Senior): Tallied ten points on four goals and two assists...Nabbed eight steals...
2024 (Junior): Scored one goal and tallied 11 steals...
2023 (Sophomore): Scored nine goals with 10 blocks and 10 steals.
2022 (Freshman): Key contributor to the Bison in first season, making 28 appearances and seven starts overall...scored 19 goals on the year...scored first career goals in win over Mount San Antonio, netting two in the victory (9/4)...had big game in avenging a season-opening loss to Cal Lutheran, scoring three goals in win (9/12)...also had hat tricks against Salem (9/19) and Fresno Pacific (10/23)...scored in MAWPC Semifinal win over GW (11/19).
Before Bucknell: Four-year letterwinner in water polo and swimming at Newport High School under head coach Farrah Kunkel…team captain in 2021-22…set school record for goals in a single season with 148…also had second-most steals in a single season with 144, third-most assists with 84, and third-most exclusions drawn in a season with 54…named state defensive MVP…three-time First Team All-State selection…two-time team MVP…in swimming, was also named a team captain in 2021-22…qualified as a member of the 4x100 free relay at the state swim meet…helped water polo squad to fourth in the state in two seasons, before going on to help the squad to a runner-up finish in 2021-22…swim team finished top four in the state in three of his four seasons.
Personal: Ian Paul Deno Shultz…born on 12/15/2003 in Bellevue…has one brother, Cole, and one sister, Hailey…father Timothy played NAIA football at Western Washington.
2025 (Senior): Tallied ten points on four goals and two assists...Nabbed eight steals...
2024 (Junior): Scored one goal and tallied 11 steals...
2023 (Sophomore): Scored nine goals with 10 blocks and 10 steals.
2022 (Freshman): Key contributor to the Bison in first season, making 28 appearances and seven starts overall...scored 19 goals on the year...scored first career goals in win over Mount San Antonio, netting two in the victory (9/4)...had big game in avenging a season-opening loss to Cal Lutheran, scoring three goals in win (9/12)...also had hat tricks against Salem (9/19) and Fresno Pacific (10/23)...scored in MAWPC Semifinal win over GW (11/19).
Before Bucknell: Four-year letterwinner in water polo and swimming at Newport High School under head coach Farrah Kunkel…team captain in 2021-22…set school record for goals in a single season with 148…also had second-most steals in a single season with 144, third-most assists with 84, and third-most exclusions drawn in a season with 54…named state defensive MVP…three-time First Team All-State selection…two-time team MVP…in swimming, was also named a team captain in 2021-22…qualified as a member of the 4x100 free relay at the state swim meet…helped water polo squad to fourth in the state in two seasons, before going on to help the squad to a runner-up finish in 2021-22…swim team finished top four in the state in three of his four seasons.
Personal: Ian Paul Deno Shultz…born on 12/15/2003 in Bellevue…has one brother, Cole, and one sister, Hailey…father Timothy played NAIA football at Western Washington.
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