By Editor’s Note: The end is already here for the 2021 water polo season. TWp looks back on the five biggest story lines of the year. Today we focus on what challenges from the previous year will carry on into 2022. This year will be pivotal for American water polo for
Top Five Stories from 2021: No 2—Will Water Polo be Better in 2022?
Editor’s Note: The end is near for the 2021 water polo season. TWp is looking back on the five biggest story lines of the year. Today we focus on positive developments for the upcoming year. Tomorrow we’ll consider what challenges from the previous year will carry on into 2022. As
Top Five Stories from 2021: No 4—Tokyo Olympics
Editor’s Note: The end is near! 2021 is almost in the books, so TWp is looking back on the five biggest story lines of the year. Today we focus on the spectator-less 2020 Tokyo Games in and how an aging Serbian men’s team and a dominant U.S. women’s team overcame
Top Five Stories from 2021: No 5—Water Polo is Back!
Editor’s Note: The end is near! 2021 is almost in the books, so TWp is looking back on the five biggest story lines of the year. Today we focus on the joy of playing; after a rough start due to COVID-19 bans and outbreaks, the NCAA men played an abbreviated
USC is Up, Cal is Down, St. Francis on the Rise
It was a busy weekend for the nation’s top twenty men’s water polo teams, as all but #8 UC Davis saw action. The weekend’s most notable surprises: #12 Pepperdine finding their winning form in a 16-14 decision over #2 Cal; #15 Harvard losing it’s first Northeast Water Polo Conference (NWPC)
2021 MPSF Invite Report: This WILL be a Great Season for Men’s Water Polo
Results are in from this year’s edition of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Invitational—the annual early-season get together of the country’s best men’s collegiate water polo teams—and all indications are this will be a fantastic season for the sport. Which, given how the last 18 months have played out,
Men’s College Water Polo Week One: Fordham Up; Pepperdine, Harvard Down
Notable changes in this week’s Collegiate Water Polo Association Men’s Varsity Poll: Pepperdine dropped five spots due to a loss to host UC San Diego at the Triton Invitational; Harvard dropped seven spots due to a loss at home to Fordham—a decision that pushed the Rams up four spots into
Talent-laden USC Begins ’21 Campaign MPSF, NCAA Favorites
Despite any protestations to the contrary, there’s no real parity in men’s college water polo. Over a half-century of NCAA championship play, only three programs outside the “Big Four” have won a national championship: UC Irvine (three times) Pepperdine (once) and UC Santa Barbara (once). Do the math: that’s less
Augustana Begins First MAWPC-West Season as Monmouth Departs
The most important water polo region in America—contrary to opinions out West—is located primarily in the middle of the country. If the ill-named Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference-West can find a path to success, then there’s hope for polo to grow out of its small—and still precarious—footprint as a primarily West
GCC Coaches Favor Gauchos to Take Conference Title
When the University of California system chose to go remote for the entire 2020-21 academic year, the Golden Coast Conference was effectively sidelined for the fall 2020 season. GCC members Pepperdine and San Jose State did compete in an abbreviated 2020 season which ran earlier this year from January to
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