Tony Azevedo

Actor · b. 1981 · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Anthony Lawrence Azevedo (born November 21, 1981) is a Brazilian-born American water polo player who competed for Stanford University. He is a 2008 Olympic silver medalist and a five-time Olympian, which included the Olympic years 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016. Azevedo has ranked fourth on the all-time scoring list in Olympic history, with 61 goals. A four-time recipient of the Peter J. Cutino award for the best collegiate water polo player of the year, and a three-time captain of the U.S. National Men's Water Polo Olympic Team, he is considered to be one of the best all-time American Olympic water polo players. After his collegiate years, he had a long career as a water polo professional in Europe playing for teams in Italy, Montenegro, Croatia, and Brazil, and retired from the U.S. national team in June 2017. In 2020, he worked as a podcast co-announcer for the "Tony Azevedo Show", and is a co-founder of 6-8 Sports, which includes an age-group water polo program and an online application that stores member's performance statistics.