Jeremy Laster

Jeremy Todd Laster (born February 24, 1974) is an American water polo player who competed for Stanford. He participated in the men's tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He has worked as a high school water polo coach and as CEO and President of the Real Estate Company Rancho Mission Viejo. He has served on the boards of several community youth, high school, and hospital foundations as well as on the board of USA water polo.

Laster was San Clemente's all time leading career scorer in water polo, with a three season total of 220 goals and was a CIF and Orange County Player of the Year . At San Clemente, he usually played defense as a two-meter defender handling the opposing team's center, and on offense usually played driver, a perimeter player. In scholastics, he maintained a 3.8 grade point average and was a National Merit Scholar finalist.

Stanford University Graduating with a B.A. in Economics in 1996, Laster attended Stanford University, where he was coached in water polo by Dante Dettamanti, who headed Stanford's water polo program from 1977-2002. Laster received All American honors in three years, and as part of a strong nationally recognized team, helped lead Stanford to two NCAA national championships. He was recognized as most Outstanding Male Athlete at Stanford as a recipient of the school's exclusive Block “S” Award in 1995, was an NCAA Most Valuable Player, and as a well-round athlete was an All American in Academics.

Laster married wife Frandy, and the couple had six children. Jeremy's oldest son Anthony also played water polo for Stanford in the driver position, with his first year in 2021.

1996 Atlanta Olympics Laster participated in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, under Head Coach Richard Corso, a USA Hall of Fame inductee, where the US team placed seventh overall among 12 competing countries. One of Laster's Olympic team mates was Chris Oeding, the second highest scorer on the US Olympic team. Though Hungary and Italy were the strong pre-Olympic favorites, Spain defeated Hungary 7-6 in the semi-finals. In the final game Spain beat Croatia, and captured the gold medal with a score of 7-5, leaving Croatia the silver medal, and pre-game favorite Italy the bronze. In both 1994 and 1998 he was part of the US National teams that won the FINA World Championships, and was a 1997 FINA Cup Gold Medalist.

Service to the community In community service, Laster has been active with the Community Board at Providence Mission Hospital, and directs the Santa Margarita Catholic High School Eagle Foundation. He has been a board member of the Orange County Youth Sports Foundation, of USA Water Polo and of the Real Estate Professionals of Stanford.