Luke Pavillard

Luke Pavillard began playing water polo aged 12. After graduating high school in Perth, Luke began studying at the University of the Pacific in 2015, playing for the school's water polo team.

In his first season for the Pacific Tigers, Luke scored 25 goals and got 12 assists in just 12 games before a season ending injury. In the following years from 2017 to 2019, Luke earned the Golden State Conference Player of the Year twice in three seasons.

By the end of his time in the USA, Luke had scored an impressive 248 goals for the Pacific Tigers.

After finishing studying in the US, Luke finally returned to the Aussie Sharks in 2022. Despite making his debut in 2015, Luke had not been a part of Australia's squad for seven years.

In his first campaign back with the Sharks, Luke was a part of the squad that won silver at the 2022 FINA World League Intercontinental Cup in Peru, after a narrow loss to the USA 7-6 in the final.

Since then Luke has become a regular in the Aussie Sharks squad, featuring at the 2022, 2023 and 2024 World Aquatics Championships.

At the Paris 2024 Olympics Luke and the Sharks recorded statement wins over defending Olympic champion Serbia, host nation France and Hungary in the group stage. Luke scored four goals in the 8-3 defeat of Serbia, including a first-half hat-trick.

Finishing second in their group, it gave Australia a place in the men's Olympic quarter-finals for the first time since London 2012.

A penalty-shootout loss to the USA in the quarter-finals sent the Sharks into the 5th-8th classification games and they came away in 8th place, up from the team's 9th overall placing at Tokyo 2020.