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
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
Water Polo Community Mourns Mercyhurst Coach Curtis Robinette
The condensed universe that is American water polo—and compact it is, with so many coaches, college programs and athletes present and past connected through a shared love for the sport—is just like family. Every memory treasured. Every win celebrated. Every loss lamented. And like any family, at the passing of
COVID-19 Claims Tom Burek, Beloved Monmouth Swim and Diving Coach
It’s a convenient conceit to wax poetic about life tragically cut short, but in the midst of a global pandemic whose death toll is approaching two million—and almost 320,000 in this country—it feels trivial to speak to the significance of one life in contrast to oh so many lost. But
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