15 Matthew Skinas
15 - Matthew Skinas
Height: 5-9
Weight: 164
Year: Soph
High School: La Serna
Position: Utility
Major: Communications

Cerritos College Water Polo (2014): Spent the season as a red-shirt…..

Cerritos College Water Polo (2013): Played in 26 games and scored four goals, with three assists and 24 steals… Scored his four goals in single games, while he had a season-high three steals against Ventura College and San Diego Mesa College… Posted a pair of steals in seven different games…..

Cerritos College Swimming (2015): Swam the 50-yard freestyle (23.66), 50-yard breaststroke (35.55), 50-yard butterfly (28.06), 100-yard freestyle (51.53), 100-yard butterfly (58.06), 200-yard freestyle (2:05.04), 200-yard IM (2:26.46)

Cerritos College Swimming (2014): Competed in the 50-yard freestyle (25.77), 50-yard butterfly, (28.74), 50-yard backstroke (33.77), 50-yard breaststroke (37.96), 100-yard IM (1:01.57), 100-yard freestyle (53.55) and 200-yard freestyle (2:08.46)…..

La Serna HS: As a senior on the water polo team, he was named 2nd Team All-CIF and 1st Team All-Del Rio League… Earned 3rd Team All-CIF honors his junior season… Helped the team win the league championship… Voted his team’s Best Defensive Player two years in a row… Spent one season on the swimming team and four years on the water polo team… Specialized in the 100-yard freestyle (52.19)…..

Personal: Most memorable moment was when he scored the game-winning goal against Pasadena Poly High… His father and brother played water polo at La Serna High… His brother Michael (23) was an All-American goalie for the Falcons in 2012 and played at Concordia University… Has one other brother – Brandon (28), who was a three-sport athlete in high school… Hobbies include relaxing… Is the son of Michael and Karen Skinas… Born in Whittier, CA on February 2, 1995…..

Favorite Athlete:  Mike Trout                     Favorite Movie:  “Entourage: The Movie”
Favorite Food:  Pizza                                 Favorite TV Show:  “Entourage”
Favorite Book: “Game of Thrones”