Read more02019 CWPA Top 20; After NCAA Win, Stanford Finishes Number One15 December 2019The final men's varsity water polo poll in 2019 from the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) does not fully represent just how tumultuous this season was. Stanford, the top team in the country at the end after 15 weeks of polling, started off tied for second in the coaches preseason poll. In th...
Read more0Whittier, Oh! Whittier Say Have You Seen Whittier?14 December 2019BROOKLYN, NY. That the first-ever DIII men’s national was an unqualified success was abundantly clear to this observer. No, the match-ups at the DIII Collegiate Men’s Water Polo National Championship weren’t as compelling as the action at the 2019 NCAA men’s tournament; not many games can top the sc...
Read more0SW Polo Roundtable With Jen Dubow, John Abdou & Dan Sharadin On Biggest Issues Facing The Sport13 December 2019WHITTIER, CA. It was, as seminal moments in recent American water polo history go, not the most noteworthy backdrop. A media room on the Whittier College campus is where three of the most important decision-makers in NCAA varsity water polo explained a shared goal that came to fruition last weekend:...
Read more0On The Record With Whittier's David Kasa, Head Coach of the DIII Men's Polo National Champs11 December 2019WHITTIER, CA. In one of the year’s most noteworthy polo developments, USA Water Polo, the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) and the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) staged the first-ever national DIII men’s championship. On Sunday at Whittier’s Lillian Slade Aqu...
Read more0“We Love This Sport and We Love Winning” Whittier, CMS Primed to Compete for DIII Men’s Water Polo Title08 December 2019WHITTIER, CA. It should come as little surprise to experienced polo fans that the two finalists for the first-ever DIII Collegiate Water Polo National Championship are both from California. Whittier and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps — rivals in the hyper-competitive Southern California Intercollegiate Athl...
Read more0In Festive Opening to First-Ever DIII National Championship, Whittier and CMS Advance to Finals08 December 2019WHITTIER, CA. Saturday night in front of an energized standing room only crowd at Whittier College’s Lillian Slade Aquatic Center, the host Poets and their Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) rivals Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS) both won over Eastern foes to advance to the...
Read more0Logan Schofield: A Polo Legacy Grows at Bucknell07 December 2019Bucknell University, a prestigious academic institution located in the idyllic Pennsylvania countryside, is far from the Northeast mega-city corridor, where Boston bleeds into Stamford into New York and into Philadelphia. A destination for future engineers, doctors and financial titans, for decades ...
Read more0First-Ever DIII Collegiate National Men's Water Polo Championship Opens Saturday at Whittier07 December 2019WHITTIER, CA. It’s not Stockton and it’s not NCAAs, but the first-ever DIII Collegiate National Water Polo Championship offers something decidedly different and — for its target audience — higher level competition for a sport eager to embrace a spurt in growth. Located on the campus of Wittier Colle...
Read more2USC, Pepperdine Win Quarterfinals at 2019 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament06 December 2019In 2019 NCAA Men's Water Polo Tournament action Thursday at Pacific’s Chris Kjeldsen Pool, third-seeded Pepperdine and #4 USC won and advanced to the semifinals, to be held Saturday. The Waves, appearing in the national championship for the first time in two decades, rode a six-goal explosion by Chr...
Read more0UC Santa Barbara's Danny Roland On the Gaucho's Great Year — and GCC Rivals Pacific and Pepperdine05 December 2019The UC Santa Barbara men’s water polo team was one of the enduring stories for 2019. A program record 16-match winning streak to open the season included wins in consecutive weeks against the nation’s #1 team. That success pushed the Gauchos to the top of the CWPA rankings for the first time ever. [...
Read more0Defending Champion Trojans on Familiar Ground as They Seek Another NCAA Men's Water Polo Title05 December 20192019 has been a challenging season for the USC men’s water polo program, the defending national champions. With a new head coach — and missing key members from what is typically one of the country's strongest rosters — the Trojans struggled early and looked to be out of the picture for a 15th-straig...
Read more0Bison Ride Roughshod Over Undefeated Harvard in NCAA Men's Water Polo Contest02 December 2019CAMBRIDGE, MA. Saturday in Blodgett Pool, plucky Bucknell and host Harvard competed in a winner take-all match, in this case a play-in game for the 2019 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament. It ended as a most memorable day in recent Bucknell men’s water polo—and one most devastating for Harvard, seekin...
Read more0Bucknell Men's Water Polo Head Coach John McBride on Winning the East in 201902 December 2019Saturday at Harvard's Blodgett Pool was a shining moment for the Bucknell men's water polo program, one that will not be soon forgotten. Not only did the Bison tag an undefeated Crimson team with a 13-12 defeat — their first loss in more than a year — they also won an NCAA tournament play for the fi...
Read more0Bucknell Snaps Host Harvard’s 29-Match Win Streak, Advances to NCAA Men’s Water Polo Quarterfinal Against USC30 November 2019CAMBRIDGE, MA. Behind an inspired performance from freshman goalie Adrien Touzot and an offensive explosion by senior Rade Joksimovic, Bucknell, the Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference (MAWPC) champions, came to Blodgett Pool and shocked host Harvard 13-12 in an NCAA play-in game, ending the Crimson'...
Read more0Armen Deirmenjian and Brown University: A Bond Forged by Water Polo30 November 2019CAMBRIDGE, MA. Last weekend saw a bittersweet ending to an impressive water polo career at one of the East’s top programs. Two minutes into sudden death overtime — in his final game wearing his school’s colors — Armen Deirmenjian hit the winning shot to give Brown a 19-18 win over St. Francis Brookl...
Read more0In the Heart of Trump Country, A Trio of Foreigners Power Bucknell Men’s Water Polo to Success29 November 2019In Union County, Pennsylvania, more than 60% of the votes in the 2016 presidential election went for Donald J. Trump. An elite liberal arts institution, Bucknell University is in Lewisburg — dead center of the county's unexpected groundswell of support for a politician whose signature issue was immi...
Read more0Harvard Water Polo’s Austin Sechrest: Maximum Effort Equals Unparalleled Success for Undefeated Crimson29 November 2019CAMBRIDGE, MA. That the undefeated Harvard men’s water polo team (29-0) is enjoying the best streak in program history — and the greatest season within memory in the East — is the result of a number of factors, but perhaps none bigger than the influence of senior co-captains Charlie Owens and Austin...
Read more0Bucknell, Harvard, Pepperdine, Stanford and UC Davis Qualify for 2019 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament; Whittier and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps to New DIII Championship28 November 2019The 2019 NCAA Men's Water Polo Tournament field was set on Sunday, with five conferences bestowing automatic bids on their tournament champions, and two at-large bids being designated by selection. In a change from the past five years, there will not be eight participants; the Southern California In...
Read more0Pacific, Not UCLA, in as At-Large Team for 2019 NCAA Men's Water Polo Tournament26 November 2019Sunday saw a whirlwind of activity in pools across the country, as championships were decided in the nation’s varsity water polo conferences. But, the most contentious decision for the 2019 polo season — which teams would receive at-large berths — was resolved outside the water. In a web-update post...
Read more42019 NCAA Men's Tournament Selection Thoughts: It's Anybody's Guess!24 November 2019 Following another day of close matches — and a couple of surprise outcomes — the bracket for the 2019 NCAA Men's Tournament is almost complete. Following are the conference winners:Golden Coast Conference: Pepperdine (24-7; on a seven-match winning streak) captures the title and NCAA automatic qual...