Hannes Daube

University of Southern California Majoring in communications, Daube attended and played college water polo at the University of Southern California from around 2018-2022 under Head Coach Marko Pintarac where he earned All-American honors in three years. In 2021, Daube was USC's second leading scorer in goals with 37, and earned First Team recognition as an All-American, though he took off part of the 2020-2021 season to compete with the U.S. National team and train for the Olympics. In 2019 as a Sophomore, he was USC's third leading scorer, credited with 36 points.

2020-24 Olympics Daube competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo where the U.S. team placed sixth overall. Serbia took the gold, Greece took the silver, and Hungary took the bronze.

Daube represented the U.S. again in the 2024 Paris Olympics where the U.S. team captured the bronze medal in the Men's Olympic water polo competition and he was managed by Head U.S. Water Polo Coach Dejan Udovičić. His Olympic water polo teammate Marko Vavic also had played for the University of Southern California. Serbia, a pre-game favorite performed well in its semi-final matches, and beat the U.S. team, 10-6, before capturing another close win against the team from Croatia in the finals with a score of 13-11. In the match for the bronze, the U.S. team defeated Hungary in a penalty shot to take the bronze and the team's first water polo medal since winning silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.