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Earlier this week,  Sonoma State University, a Division II institution and a part of the 23-member California State University System, announced that it is dropping women's water polo from its athletic program effective at the end of the academic year. Chelsea Hennan, the team's head coach the past ...

Doug Peabody, a San Diego native, has been at the helm of the San Diego Shores Water Polo Club since he founded the club in 1992. In that time, the Shores Club has enjoyed phenomenal success, winning 35 national championships and developing more than 350 players who have gone on to play in college. ...

SAN DIEGO, CA. The scene two weeks ago at UC San Diego's Canyonville Aquatics Center was one of confusion. Hawai'i's women's water polo team had flown in for a Friday, March 13th match against host UCSD—but news was rampant that the polo season was in peril due to the novel coronavirus outbreak. The...

These are unprecedented times, and the announcement earlier today by Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), to postpone the Tokyo Games has addressed uncertainty caused by the global coronovirus pandemic. But, for teams like the U.S. Senior Women's national water polo t...

FOMO: Fear of missing out. Nearly everyone has experienced that feeling of disappointment when they miss out on an important event in their lives. Whether it’s a game, a meet, a life event, the feeling is the same. It’s a loss of an opportunity. In most cases it’s for a singular reason; an injury, a...

IRVINE, CA. The 2020 USC women’s water polo team made a grand statement this weekend, sweeping through the Barbara Kalbus Invitational at UC Irvine with four straight victories, including a 10-5 thrashing of Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) rival and top seed the Stanford Cardinal in Sunday...

The UC Irvine Invitational was renamed The Barbara Kalbus Invitational in 2017 to honor Dr. Barbara Kalbus, who was seemingly at every important competition involving college or USA Water Polo events in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Kalbus—inducted in 1993 into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame—worked tireles...

LA JOLLA, CA. The Canyonview Aquatic Center at the University of California at San Diego is as perfect a venue for a big-time water polo tournament as any in America. The pristine facility has two 50 meter pools approximately 50 yards apart, conveniently separated by locker rooms and a climbing cent...

Since the first NCAA Women’s Water Polo tournament was held in 2001, only three teams have claimed the title and all are members of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF). The defending NCAA Champion Stanford has won seven, UCLA has seven, and USC has five. In the last decade though, the Card...

With the start of a new decade, the Big West Conference Women’s Water Polo has made significant changes to its conference: First, it has added a seventh member in UC San Diego, as the Triton's athletic department was invited to join the Big West Conference as a part of their four-year transition fro...

STOCKTON, CA. Almost without fail, championships are won by the team that takes charge. The Stanford Cardinal did just that Sunday afternoon at the Chris Kjeldsen Pool,  racing to a 9-3 halftime lead over host Pacific before rolling to a 13-8 victory in the title match of the 2019 NCAA Men's Water P...

STOCKTON, CA. In a hard fought and well-played game which was tied 8 times, the top seed Stanford Cardinal advanced to the championship game with 15-14 sudden victory over #4 seed USC. Redshirt Junior Ben Hallock finished off a set play with his 3rd goal 11 seconds into the 3rd overtime period to gi...

Stockton, CA.Tournament host Pacific used their lethal offense and first-time starting goalkeeper Joey MacLeane to dispatch their GCC rival Pepperdine 17-13 in the NCAA semifinal Saturday night at Chris Kjeldsen pool. [caption id="attachment_405869" align="alignnone" width="700"] Joey MacLeane, Paci...

And then there were six. The Bucknell Bison opened the 2019 Men's NCAA Water Polo Tournament with a hard fought 13-12 victory in the opening round against the 29-0 Harvard Crimson at Blodgett Pool in Cambridge, MA.  In the survive and advance portion of the season, John McBride's team earned a trip ...

After a season of streaks, upsets, and tremendous promise, the UC Santa Barbara men's water polo team now has a major distraction to overcome on the way to perhaps its first national championship tournament in three decades: the NCAA. Sanctions that were leveled earlier this week have focused unwant...

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has imposed Level II violation sanctions on UCSB’s men’s water polo program after the school self-reported multiple violations of NCAA bylaws that involve impermissible contacts with recruits, the school announced today. It was nearly a year ago (11/15/18...

The current men’s NCAA Water Polo season is one of the most competitive in recent memory: With only a few weeks remaining in the regular season, all the conferences have pivotal games ahead, and parity seems to be the norm. One of the breakout teams this season is UC Santa Barbara. Wolf Wigo’s squad...

Did anyone foresee the surprising success of the University of California Santa Barbara’s men’s water polo varsity, 2019 edition? Ranked #7 in NCAA preseason polls, Coach Wolf Wigo’s Gauchos broke out of the gates with 15 straight victories, including wins over California, USC and Stanford, and for ...

LOS ANGELES, CA. In a contest marked by 38 total exclusions and nine players fouling out, USC (8-2) built a five-goal lead through the first three quarters then withstood a late rally by California (9-5) to take fifth place at the 2019 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Invitational by a scor...

LOS ANGELES, CA. The Pacific Tigers (10-1) led most of the way in tight game which was tied only once late in the fourth quarter, and held off #1 UCSB (15-2) 11-10 in the third place game of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Invitational at UCLA's Spieker Aquatic center. Pacific attacker...