Ellen Estes

Ellen Estes played water polo for the United States at the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games, winning silver in 2000 and bronze in 2004. She also won gold at the 2003 World Championships and a silver medal at the 1999 Pan American Games.

Estes played in college at Stanford, leading them to the 2002 NCAA title. She was a two-time All-American and as a sophomore broke the Stanford scoring record with 93 goals. She graduated from Stanford with an engineering degree.

Estes was named the 2003 USA Water Polo Female Athlete of the Year. She later went into coaching, working as an assistant at Harvard while she pursued an MBA degree there. She has served on the Board of Directors for USA Water Polo and has been an athlete representative on the US Olympic Committee and Paralympic Athlete Advisory Council. Estes was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame in 2012.