Amanda Longan

Amanda Brooke Longan ( ; born January 16, 1997) is an American water polo goalkeeper who competed for the University of Southern California and won a gold medal in 2024 women's water polo team competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. She later participated in water polo at the 2024 Olympics in Paris where the women's team placed fourth overall. In her Senior year at Oaks Christian, where she served as captain, and was coached by Jack Kocur, she was selected as a Most Valuable goaltender by the Ventura County Star. In Club water polo play, she competed for the strong 805 Santa Barbara water polo team.

University of Southern California

Longan attended and played water polo for the University of Southern California (USC), where she was coached by Jovan Vavic, and majored in psychology. At USC, she had the third highest total career saves for a goalie in school history with 580. In 2019, she made 260 saves which were the fourth most for any goalie from USC in one season. She received first team All-American honors by the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches as a Senior, earned honors as a First Team selection from the All-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation League, and was selected to the NCAA All-Tournament Second Team.

In 2018, while at USC, she had the distinction of receiving the Peter J. Cutino Award as the top women's collegiate water polo athlete of the year and was named both a National Player of the Year, and a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Player of the Year.

In 2020, the U.S. women were a distinct pre-Olympic favorite to capture the gold medal, having won the two previous Olympic medals in 2012 and 2016 under Krikorian, as well as having won the 2015, 2017, and 2019 World Championships.

2024 Paris Olympics Longan participated in the 2024 Paris Olympics, where the U.S. women's water polo team placed fourth overall in competition, again under Head Coach Adam Krikorian. It was the first Olympic water polo tournament since women were allowed to participate, that the women's U.S. women's team did not medal. Spain took the gold medal, Australia took the silver, and the team from the Netherlands took the bronze. She also participated in the 2017 Summer Universiade, 2017 FINA Women's Water Polo World League, and the 2018 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup. She won a gold medal with the U.S. team at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile.

Life outside water polo After graduating USC, in 2024 she studied clinical psychology, working towards a master's degree at Pepperdine University.

Coaching Longan coached briefly at her alma mater USC in 2021, and in 2022, served as an Assistant coach for Women's water polo at the University of California Los Angeles.