Head Coach - Scott Decker
Scott Decker started his coaching career in
1984 at UC Davis as an assistant coach for the Women's Water
Polo Program. During the next 4 years, he assisted then,
and current, Head Coach Jamey Wright until he graduated
in 1987. Upon graduation in 1987, Scott Decker was hired
as the Men's Water Polo and Men's & Women's Swimming Coach
at El Camino HS in Sacramento. Over the next 10 years, Decker
guided the Eagles Water Polo Teams to over 200 victories
during his tenure, and was twice named Capital Athletic
League Coach of the Year (91 & 95).
In 1994, Decker started the first Women’s High School Water Polo team in the Northern part of the Sac-Joaquin Section, and was credited with starting Women’s water polo in the Sacramento Area as other teams followed suit. In 1995, Decker guided his team to the Championship of the Inaugural 8 team Sierra Shootout High School Women’s Water Polo Tournament held here at Sierra College. Because of the start, and growth, of the sport, the tournament now has a field of 64 teams each year, the largest High School Water Polo Tournament in the Western United States. Scott Decker has been the Head Coach of the Women’s Water Polo Team at Sierra College since its inception in 1996. After one year as a club sport on campus, the Lady Wolverines water polo team received recognized intercollegiate status.
During the past 11 seasons, Coach Decker has guided the Women’s water polo team to an overall record of 227-112-3, while capturing 6 Conference Championships and 5 Northern California Championships, as well as 7 top 4 finishes at the California Community College State Championships, the most success of any Women’s water polo program in Northern California history. Because of the programs accomplishments, Decker was named Conference Coach of the Year in 1999, 2002, and 2005. Even with all of the success that the Lady Wolverines have had, Coach Decker is the most proud of the fact that in the last 11 years he has had 44 athletes offered Division 1 Water Polo scholarships, and in 2001 the Lady Wolverines Water Polo team was named the winner of the Commission on Athletics Team Scholar Award for their academic, as well as athletic, excellence.
916-660-8112, sdecker@sierracollege.edu
An accomplished player and coach, Eric Sturgeon returns to Sierra College this season as an assistant to Scott Decker with the Wolverines women's water polo team. A former goalkeeper, Sturgeon was named the Wolverines Male Athlete of the Year in 1995, following a season in which he led the state in blocks, earned All-Conference honors and was named as the college's first men's aquatics All-American. Sturgeon resides in Rocklin with his wife of eight years and their one-year old son and four-year old daughter.
Marisa Fernandez is a first-year assistant coach at Sierra. Upon graduating with an AA in Liberal Arts from Sierra College, she received a water polo scholarship to Colorado State University, in Fort Collins, Colorado. At Colorado, she was team captain of the university’s inaugural water polo team. Marisa graduated from Colorado State University with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology.