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By UCLA Shuts Down Stanford in MPSF WWP Final
LOS ANGELES, CA. An old sports adage suggests that defense wins championships. Given its dominant defensive effort Sunday against Stanford in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation title match, the UCLA women’s water polo team appears destined for greatness. In a suffocating performance at UCLA’s Spieker Aquatics Center, the Bruins forced
#1 UCLA Hangs On to Beat Cal, Advance to MPSF Final
LOS ANGELES, CA. If Coralie Simmons and her California Golden Bear women’s water polo team are any example, perhaps you can go home again. #5 Cal gave the top-ranked and #1 seeded UCLA Bruins everything they could handle before falling 9-8 in a semifinal match in the Mountain Pacific Sports
#2 Stanford Holds Off #3 USC, Advances to MPSF Final
The #2 Stanford Cardinal needed all the defensive prowess they could muster to stop the #3 Trojans of USC, taking a 6-5 decision in the semifinals of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation’s (MPSF) Women’s Water Polo Tournament. Anchored by goalie Gabby Stone and a bend-but-don’t break approach towards the explosive SC
Women’s Water Polo in Gotham: A Critic’s Delight
Water polo is undeniably a California-based phenomenon. Plentiful access to expansive outdoor pools coupled with brilliant weather simply makes the sport better, and more popular, out West. But polo is expanding across America, as recently documented by USA Water Polo with growth in Connecticut, Georgia, Florida, Ohio, Washington, Pennsylvania, Illinois,
Bittersweet Senior Day for Ashleigh Johnson, Princeton Water Polo
Senior Day provides one last chance for athletes at the end of their college careers to be recognized in the final home contest of the season. Last Friday at Princeton’s DeNuzio Pool saw a bittersweet scene as four graduating members of the Tigers’ women’s water polo team, including Olympian Ashleigh
On The Record: Marcelo Leonardi of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI. Since arriving in Ann Arbor in 2014, Michigan head coach Marcelo Leonardi has directed one of the country’s top women’s water polo programs to even greater heights. Last year the Wolverines went 30-8, beat U Cal Berkeley for the first time and — following a fourth-place finish
