Ned McIlroy

Ned Leroy McIlroy (born July 26, 1939) is a former American water polo player who competed for El Camino College. He participated in the men's water polo tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. After his athletic career, he worked as a Los Angeles area Lifeguard, and later as an insurance salesman.

Collegiate years After graduating high school, McIlroy attended El Camino College in greater Los Angeles where continued to be coached by Urho Saari and was honored as a First Team Water Polo All-Metropolitan Conference team player in December 1958.

In non-Olympic international competition in 1963, Ned won the silver medal playing with the U.S. National team in Sao Paulo, Brazil at the Pan American Games. After semi-final play, pre-games favorite Hungary took the gold medal, Yugoslavia took the silver, and the Soviet Union took the bronze.

At the 1964 Olympics, Ned played with his brothers, Paul and Chick McIlroy. Ned's brother Paul McIlroy qualified in water polo for the 1964 U.S. Olympic team but did not get to play that year.

After the Tokyo Olympics, Ned worked as a lifeguard in LA County, and later worked in insurance sales.