Now in his second season as the women’s swimming and water polo coach, Sergio Macias led the swim team to a sixth place in the South Coast Conference Championships, while one swimmer advanced to the state championships in two events. This season’s team will be dominated by freshmen, but Macias is excited about the possibilities of what his team can accomplish this year. In the last two seasons, Macias has turned around the water polo program and led them to the South Coast Conference Tournament Championships for the first time in school history and their first-ever berth in the Southern California Regional Playoffs. The team finished with a school-record 28-3 mark and were seeded #2 in Southern California. In their first season, the team won a then-school-record 21 games and just missed out on the playoffs. 

Macias comes to Cerritos College with a successful background as both a coach and a player. He started his water polo coaching career with one of the top club programs in the nation, Commerce Aquatics, where he also learned how to play water polo. Macias then took over the Montebello High School water polo team who, at the time of his arrival, had only won one league championship for both the boy’s and girl’s varsity team. In a four-year span, Macias guided both the boy’s and girl’s water polo teams to three consecutive league champions. He guided the boy’s water polo team to back-to-back C.I.F. Div III. Championships and become the first sport in school history to win back-to-back C.I.F. championships titles. He also led his girl’s team to the C.I.F. semi-finals Div I in 2005. Macias was named C.I.F. Coach of the Year in 2003 and 2004, Los Angeles Times Coach of the Year 2003 and Whittier Daily News Coach of the Year 2004. 

Macias played age group club water polo with the City of Commerce where he had the privilege to participate in several Junior Olympics and Junior National Tournaments. At Bell Gardens High School, Macias helped lead his team to four consecutive league championships and back-to-back C.I.F. championships in 1995 and 1996. As a player, he earned league’s Most Valuable Player, CIF Most Valuable Player, 1^st Team All C.I.F. 1^st Team All-Southern California and 1^st Team All-American honors. Macias was also a member of the USA National Youth Team in 1994. After graduating high school he attended Whittier College where he became the school’s first ever water polo player to receive SCIAC Conference Player of the Year as a sophomore. While at Whittier College, he was named 1^st Team All-Conference, 1^st Team WWPA, and 1^st Team All-American.