Alan Mouchawar

Alan Mouchawar (born August 3, 1960) is a former water polo player who competed for Stanford University, and won a silver medal for the United States at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. After graduating the University of San Diego Medical School around 1987, he competed in the 1988 Seoul Olympics. He later had a career as a cardiac anesthesiologist.

Stanford University Graduating in 1982, Mouchawar attended and played water polo for Stanford University from 1978 to 1982, where he was managed and trained by Water Polo Hall of Fame member and Head Coach Dante Detamanti who coached water polo at Stanford from 1977-2001. While playing for Stanford, Mouchawar helped lead the team to three NCAA team national championships in the years 1978, 1980, and 1981. He was an All American at Stanford in four successive years. A frequent scorer, Mouchawar often played in the driver position in water polo, lining up around the goal posts, and placing him in a good position to score or make assists from the perimeter of play. at the September, 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea, Mouchawar was part of the U.S. Water Polo team that won the silver medal in the 1988 Olympic Men's water polo competition. His Olympic teamates James Bergeson, and Jody Campbell had also played water polo team as team mates at Stanford. Terry Schroeder, who would later serve as a U.S. Olympic team coach, was the 1988 U.S. Olympic water polo team captain.

Pre-Olympic favorite Yugoslavia and the U.S. team were part of group play in their first Olympic match, where the U.S. team bettered Yugoslavia 7-6, with Mouchawar scoring an important goal. Despite the U.S. having beaten Yugoslavia in an early, their water polo team performed better in the remaining rounds of group play, with the U.S. team recording a loss to the team from Spain in a score of 9-7. With more overall goals, the Yugoslavian and U.S. teams both advanced to the semi-final rounds, where they each won their first match and were later paired in the final match to for the gold and silver medals. The U.S. final match with Yugoslavia was tied 6-6 in regular play, but in overtime Yugoslavia took a 9-6 lead making the first three goals, and later won the gold medal with a 9-7 overtime win. The team from the Soviet Union took the bronze, and the West German team placed fourth. The U.S. men's 1988 silver medal water polo team had not been on an Olympic podium since 1972 when they won a bronze at the Munich Olympic games.

After medical school at San Diego State, he did a residency in anesthesiology at U Cal San Francisco and a fellowship in intensive care at Stanford from 1992-93. He has more recently worked at Newport Beach's Hoag Hospital in greater Los Angeles as a cardiac anesthesiologist, and has served in various capacities as a physician for over thirty years.

Honors In 2002, he was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame. In 2025, he was honored by the Aquatic Capital of America Hall of Fame for his international achievements, four time achievement as an All American and Olympic silver medal.