By A match-up between St. Francis College Brooklyn and Stanford has often been a measuring stick for Terrier’s men’s water polo. At Princeton’s DeNunzio Pool Friday night, St. Francis will face one of the nation’s top teams with a new coach behind the bench. Ilija Duretic, who played for St. Francis
Five Questions with Ryan Pryor of Augustana Water Polo
This Saturday the fledgling Vikings men’s water polo team takes to the water against Penn State Behrend in Erie, Pennsylvania, the result more than a year of preparation by Head Coach Ryan Pryor and the Augustana athletic department. The launch of a new men’s and women’s program in Rock Island,
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
Five Questions with Fordham Head Coach Brian Bacharach
A ball drop at 9 a.m. in Harvard’s Blodgett Pool this past Saturday signaled collegiate water polo’s return to the Northeast following interruptions due to COVID-19. For Fordham men’s water polo, which during this period has seen a (mostly) revamped roster and a shifting of leadership, it was worth all
Five Questions with Alyssa Diacono, Mount St. Mary’s Head Coach
When Alyssa Diacono took the head men’s and women’s water polo job at Mount St. Mary’s in March 2020, she had no inkling that a global pandemic was about to halt all intercollegiate athletic competition in America less than two weeks later. Undeterred, the former standout for Carin Crawford at
Navy, Fordham Seek to Knock Bucknell from MAWPC Throne
Actually two conferences—East and West—which will compete for a berth in the national championship, its the Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference East that has represented the East Coast in the past three NCAA quarterfinals. The team primarily responsible for this success has been Bucknell; in 2019 the Bison stormed into Cambridge
Princeton Beefs Up Roster to Challenge NWPC Champs Harvard
The Northeastern U.S.—particularly the large metropolitan areas surrounding Boston and New York City—was perhaps the region hit hardest by the coronavirus. So, it was no surprise that many universities in the region went fully remote for the 2020-21 academic year. Included in this group were the members of the Northeast
Aggies, Tritons Return to Challenge WWPA Champs Lancers
After an almost two-year layoff for many of its teams, starting this weekend the Western Water Polo Association will see all nine of its squads in action, including Biola University, which will field a men’s team for the very first time. Besides the fact that members UC Davis, UC San
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