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By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor<\/em><\/p>\n

Luis Nicolao<\/strong>, head coach for the Princeton men\u2019s and women\u2019s water polo teams, is a true original. A fan of the Oakland Raiders<\/strong> and Bruce Springsteen<\/strong> as well as a fierce competitor who played polo at the U.S. Naval Academy, Nicolao\u2014now in his 19th season at Princeton\u2014has shaped the Tigers into the strongest varsity water polo program on the East Coast.<\/p>\n

Following an outstanding playing career at Navy, where he graduated in 1992 as the Academy\u2019s all-time leading scorer, Nicolao served his tour of duty and then returned to the Middies in 1996 as an assistant coach.<\/p>\n

He came to Princeton in 1998 where his teams have consistently excelled. The Tiger men have won nine\u00a0Collegiate Water Polo Association<\/a> (CWPA) Southern titles, four\u00a0Eastern crowns and made four\u00a0NCAA tournament appearances. Over that same period, Princeton women have captured nine Southern titles, four Eastern crowns and three NCAA berths.<\/p>\n

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Princeton’s DeNunzio Pool. Photo Courtesy: M. Randazzo<\/p><\/div>\n

At the conclusion last Sunday of his annual elite water polo camp, where 60+ age group players worked with coaches from George Washington, Harvard, Iona, Penn State Behrend and Wagner\u2014as well as Ashleigh Johnson, recently awarded the Peter J. Cutino Award<\/strong> as the nation\u2019s best female college water polo player\u2014Nicolao spoke with Swimming World<\/em> about the Ivy League\u2019s recent dominance of the East, expectations this season for his men\u2019s team, Johnson\u2019s future, and how his beloved Raiders will fare in the 2017-18 NFL season.<\/p>\n

The Ivy League has captured NCAA tournament berths in 2014, 2015 and 2016. What has changed in the competitive balance in Easter water polo?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know that there\u2019s change. I think things go in cycles. You look at Navy winning three years in a row [2006-2008]<\/p>\n

The new alignment<\/a> has helped us\u2014that the three Ivies are in their own conference. It gives us more of a chance to win because now we\u2019re no longer playing Navy, [Johns] Hopkins, Bucknell, George Washington. The chance of an Ivy winning is now greater because there\u2019s less teams in our conference. That\u2019s probably the biggest factor.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re going to see more Ivies win now that we\u2019ve got the split conference because there\u2019s less opponents for us to go through.<\/p>\n

What makes Brown, Harvard and Princeton consistently good in men\u2019s water polo?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What I see on the West Coast happening is club coaches that are now starting to have kids of their own that are recognizing that education is a big part of [their kid\u2019s future]. Some coaches maybe seven, eight years ago weren\u2019t pushing their kids to go East, but now coaches are much more willing to have their kids go all over the country.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re seeing a lot more top-level players leaving California, understanding what\u2019s being offered to them from a Hopkins, Princeton, Brown, Harvard, Navy. That\u2019s the maturity of high school coaches that you didn\u2019t see seven, eight years ago.<\/p>\n

Also, some of the West Coast rosters are so big, kids get to come East and play as a freshman. That\u2019s a big selling point.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s talk about your freshman class; <\/strong>how impact will <\/strong>Miles Cole, Casey Conrad, Alec Mendelsohn and William Victor Ueberroth will have this season?
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This class coming in gives us a bench that we can now stay at the same level as the starting group. Every team that we\u2019ve had success with at Princeton, it\u2019s because of depth. Depth wins you championships. Everybody has a great first six. It\u2019s how you come off the bench with your next 7 \u2013 10 that makes the difference.<\/p>\n

Every year\u2019s different and obviously, those players we lost last year brought something to us. But more importantly to us is health. Not only did we not have a big senior class, we had some injury problems. Sean Duncan hurt his hand, Chris Xi hurt his cheekbone in a game. Our bench [last year] got weaker.<\/p>\n

With not losing a lot and bringing in a good freshman class and guys being healthy, we\u2019re going to be a lot deeper this year than we were last year.<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s your star freshman \u2013 now sophomore \u2013 Sean Duncan. What do you expect for him this season?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Duncan was one of the top hole sets in the entire country last year. [He] had an amazing freshman year. Unfortunately, towards the end of last season he jammed his thumb and he tried to play through the pain. He\u2019s a fierce competitor. You have to drop on him. And now you\u2019re bringing a freshman hole set\u2014Miles Cole\u2014who\u2019s another big kid. We\u2019re going to have two legitimate hole sets this year that will really strengthen the position for us.<\/p>\n

When he\u2019s on his game\u2014as he was two years ago when you won the East\u2014<\/strong> Vojislav Mitrovic is a difference maker. In his final season at Princeton, does he have enough to lead the Tigers to another NCAA Men\u2019s Water Polo Tournament berth?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Voja\u2019s really excited about his senior year. The thing that he\u2019s capitalized on is taking advantage of what Princeton has to offer, to the point last year he got too spread out. And it impacted polo. He got a bit worn out and missed some practices.<\/p>\n

This year he\u2019s focused on water polo. He\u2019s coming in with a different focus. He\u2019s a high-level goalie and this is his last year to compete. I\u2019m looking forward to see how he steps up this year.<\/p>\n

Jordan Colina, who was number two in scoring 956 goals] for Princeton last year. Can you say that pound-for-pound he\u2019s the best player in college water polo?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think so. Jordan, the first thing you notice is: \u201cHe\u2019s so small!\u201d But you don\u2019t realize how smart he is. He has the ability to stay out of trouble on defense and has an amazing motor. He\u2019s always moving on offense, always countering hard.<\/p>\n

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Jordan Colina. Photo Courtesy: Beverly Schaefer<\/p><\/div>\n

He\u2019s one of those guys who you just don\u2019t teach it; he\u2019s always one play ahead. He knows what to do with the ball before it hits his hand. I\u2019m looking forward to a huge senior year from him because he\u2019s a dominant player.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s not the biggest player but\u2014as Japanese men\u2019s team demonstrated<\/a> last month at the 2017 FINA World Championships\u2014size is not the only criteria for winning polo.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our sport\u2019s constantly evolving. When you watch the game and you see what\u2019s happening with the drop [pass to the hole set] and a lot less movement, the rules change. For us, it\u2019s about movement. We can\u2019t just pass the ball around and shoot. We\u2019ve got a Mikey Swart<\/strong>, Jordan\u2014these guys have got to move. You’re your opponent is a lot of big men, they hate guarding little guys, little drivers. So, it\u2019s Jordan\u2019s job to take that guy who\u2019s bigger than him and put defensive pressure on him. Make him play defense, get him in foul trouble.<\/p>\n

For us it\u2019s constantly about trying to create motion, trying to get movement so there is confusion and ejections for guys who are hips down and hands down.<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t just sit around and play catch. You see the European teams\u2014they\u2019ve got six elite shooters in the water. They can do that. We can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Ashleigh Johnson was on the pool deck helping out campers? What does the future hold for her?<\/strong><\/p>\n

She just talked to Adam [Krikorian<\/strong>, head coach for U.S. Women\u2019s Senior National Team]. She\u2019s coming back. She took a little break, she missed it.<\/p>\n

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Ashleigh Johnson. Photo Courtesy: M. Randazzo<\/p><\/div>\n

I knew she was missing [polo] because she was always the first to \u201clike\u201d everything on social media. Every accomplishment the girls were having overseas you saw Ashleigh liking it.<\/p>\n

Her senior year was a real grind academically and athletically. That Olympic hangover is tough. I think it mentally dragged her down some.<\/p>\n

But she talked to Adam and she\u2019ll be going to the next Olympics [in 2020].<\/p>\n

Last season may have been a grind but\u2014as the first-ever player from the East to win the Cutino Award<\/a>\u2014it\u2019s arguably one of the best anyone from Princeton has ever had.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s awesome for our sport and it\u2019s awesome for Ashleigh. Coaches that confided in me how they\u2019re voting [said] she took the hard way. She didn\u2019t go to a big-four school. She\u2019s not surrounded by Olympians. She was asked to do a lot more every year on a team that wasn\u2019t as talented as some of those other teams.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a great accomplishment, it\u2019s great for our program and for East Coast water polo.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your prediction for the Oakland Raiders this season?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m giddy. This is going to be a big year for the Raiders.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard because the NFL\u2019s so balanced. You can be one-two players [difference] from 4-12 to 12-4. They have the pieces and I\u2019m excited for that next 3 \u2013 4 year run to [Las] Vegas.<\/p>\n

If the Raiders aren\u2019t playing the Patriots in the AFC Championship Game, I\u2019m going to be very disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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