By A setback in men’s intercollegiate water polo as Notre Dame College of Ohio has abruptly abandoned its 2014 season according to the Collegiate Water Polo Association. The Falcons completed their 2013 season with a 12-14 record. The program began competing in 2010 and entered its first CWPA Southern Championships in
UC Santa Barbara Sophomore Nick Johnson Dies After Swim Workout
The intercollegiate water polo community has suffered the loss of another young athlete. UC Santa Barbara sophomore poloist Nick Johnson was found unresponsive at the bottom of a local high school pool and pronounced dead later monday morning at Cottage Hospital according to the Santa Barbara Independent. Johnson was 19.
Surgeon: Cause of Heart Attacks Among Young Often Undiagnosed Cardiac Issues
A heart attack reportedly took the life of USC freshman water polo standout Jon Walters on Wednesday, but was likely quite different from the kind of “classic” myocardial infarction that afflicts older heart attack sufferers, according to a pediatric surgeon familiar with similar cases. The physician, a former intercollegiate water
CBS Los Angeles: Walters Endured Multiple Illnesses Before Succumbing
CBS Los Angeles reports that USC water polo standout Jon Walters battled pneumonia and kidney failure before suffering a fatal heart attack on Wednesday. The 19-year-old rising star fell in to a coma on New Years Day, according to several reports, under circumstances that are still unknown. News of Walters’s
Pacific Attempts to Finish It
Menlo Park, CA – No game synopsis will outshine Greg Mescall’s review of Pacific’s historic win over Stanford to gain a spot in today’s NCAA Championship match against top-seeded USC. The Trojans are seeking their sixth straight title while the Tigers, at the end of their most successful season in
MPSF Championship Highlights Selection Sunday
For the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championship today, Stanford faces USC, which upset the nation’s number one squad, Pacific, yesterday in a semi-final rout. The winner gets an automatic bid and an almost certain number one seed after the NCAA makes its final selections for its Championship tournament Sunday night.
Princeton Earns Top Billing at Southerns
Coaches of the Collegiate Water Polo Association have voted to place Princeton in the top spot for this weekend’s three-day Southern Division Championship to be held at the US Naval Academy. The Tigers and the other top three seeds, Bucknell, Mercyhurst, and Johns Hopkins, receive first round byes and won’t
Air Force Academy Water Polo Returns to the Road
The US Air Force Academy water polo team will be back on the road after its travel agenda was allowed to resume. Melissa McKeown, Assistant Media Relations Director, wrote in an email that, “[a]s of today, travel for all of our intercollegiate teams has been reinstated…” An Academy press release
Update: Chapman U. Men’s Water Polo Suspension Lifted
The Chapman University men are back in the pool after their suspension was lifted yesterday according to Chapman Radio’s Trent Schlom. The water polo team will next compete against Connecticut College on October 10. The Student Affairs investigation in to hazing among water polo athletes is still under way even
Reports: Hazing Investigation Forces Suspension of Chapman U. Men’s Season
Trent Schlom, Sports Director at Chapman Radio, reported on Saturday via Twitter that the Chapman men’s water polo season had been suspended pending a school investigation in to “hazing.” The Panther, Chapman’s student newspaper, reported in a September 29 story that an incident at the Alpha Phi sorority house on
