By This Wednesday the CWPA will release its next coaches’ ranking and it is possible, maybe likely, that the University of the Pacific men’s water polo team will ascend to the top spot, the first time a non-“big four” squad will have done so in at least six years. Since 2008
Cal Heads South to Battle Bruins in LA on Friday
Updated, Wednesday, October 30 Men’s collegiate water polo gets more television coverage this Friday when Cal travels to UCLA for a NorCal vs. SoCal battle. The second-ranked Bruins and number five Bears will try to break the bottleneck in the current Mountain Pacific Sports Federation standings where both stand in
NCAA Men’s “Parity,” Greenwich Perfection, OH Prep Champs Set, Mater Dei vs. H-W boys
* A top former collegiate coach told TWp earlier this season that any of the five best men’s college teams could beat each other on a given day. That observation has held form, most recently exemplified by Stanford’s “surprising” win over second-ranked UCLA last Saturday. (The rare loss puts the
Bears Host Pacific on Pac-12 Network Saturday
The Pac-12 Network resumes its TV coverage of men’s intercollegiate water polo Saturday the 5th with a UC Berkeley home match. The Bears will host third-ranked Pacific at 10:30AM in an early-season MPSF matchup, one in which the Tigers are ranked higher than the fourth-ranked Cal for the first time
2013 Pac-12 Network Men’s Water Polo TV Schedule & Channel Finder
Friday’s Pepperdine vs. UCLA match is the first of many to be broadcast on the Pac-12 Network this fall. Here is the entire Pac-12 Network water polo schedule: 9/27/13 Pepperdine @ UCLA – 4:00PM – Los Angeles, CA10/5/13 Pacific @ California – TBD – Berkeley, CA10/19/13 UCLA @ Stanford –
Details of Auto Qualification for SCIAC Men, Date Set for Play-in Match
More on the move by the NCAA to expand automatic qualifying for the men’s championship tournament to include the SCIAC. The specifics of the matter were included in a report by the NCAA Division I Championships Management Cabinet of June 11-12, a copy of which TWp reviewed. The language related to the
SCIAC Coaches Enthusiastic About Automatic Qualification for Men’s NCAA Championships
Whittier College water polo coach Justin Pudwill shared more details of the NCAAs move toward approving an automatic spot to the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) men’s champion this coming fall. The CWPA reported today that the NCAA Championship Cabinet approved the change during their meetings in Indianapolis June
Litvak Departs Agoura (Again), Marist Seeks a Coach, LSU Club Featured, LEN Final 4 Viewership
AGOURA, CA – Agoura High School boys’ coach Dusty Litvak has left the program to take a position as assistant to men’s head coach Adam Wright at UCLA. Wright was forced to look for a new deputy once former assistant Dan Leyson left the Bruins to take the men’s head
A Final Day, and NCAA Championship Match, Worth the Wait and More
That was the game we’ve been waiting for. The NCAA Championship tournament is a celebration of the interscholastic game, not a tournament of champions where only the best programs participate. And that’s the way we want it. An eight-team field of the top ranked squads would rub us the wrong
NCAA Women’s Conference Championships, Hawai’i Breaks Through, Pomona Rises Again, LMU vs. UCSD
Six conference championships tournaments, five of them streaming online, four of them at no cost (where were you, WWPA?). If you’ve complained about the lack of coverage of women’s college water polo this was not the weekend to voice it. The best three days of competition of the year were
