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

Editor’s Note: To sign the petition trending on Change.org to reinstate Hartwick Women’s Water Polo click on the link here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Given his history, one might say that Hartwick Head Coach Alan Huckins<\/strong> is double-cursed. Back in 2002, he took on the task of building a water polo program from scratch at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton\u2014only to have the FAU Athletic Department cut the program for lack of funding before the Owls ever played a match.<\/p>\n

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16 years later\u2014after what has been perhaps a Hall of Fame-worthy career leading Hartwick in the highly competitive Collegiate Water Polo Association\u2019s women\u2019s bracket, Huckins is again fighting for his program’s existence. Only this time the Hawks (11-2) are a well-established, successful team which is currently 13th<\/a> in the nation and riding a 10-match winning streak.<\/p>\n

An announcement<\/a> Wednesday\u2019s by Hartwick President Margaret Drugovich<\/strong>, Board of Trustees Chair Francis Landrey<\/strong> and Student Affair Committee Chair David Long<\/strong> said that\u2014in addition to stepping the men\u2019s soccer program down to DIII status from DI\u2014the decision had been made to eliminate women\u2019s water polo as a varsity sport.<\/p>\n

Swimming World <\/em>spoke earlier today with Coach Huckins about his president\u2019s abrupt decision to terminate a program that has enjoyed noteworthy success, as well as any slivers of hope\u2014based upon previous down-sizing efforts\u2014that signal perhaps this is not the last we will hear of the Hartwick Hawks.
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-Talk about the impact of Wednesday\u2019s announcement that Hartwick College will eliminate women\u2019s water polo after this season.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hartwick College was unique as we were a multi-divisional school. We have two Division 1 sports, men\u2019s soccer and water polo. A few years ago [2009] this decision was based upon money. After numerous donors, and supporters and looking at numbers it was decided that DI was going to be kept, and the trustees at that time had said that DI was here to stay.<\/p>\n

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I know in the last year that a lot of private schools in New York took a hit because of the Excelsior Program, and I know that a lot of those schools have done different things on how their strategic planning on how they were going to increase enrollment.<\/p>\n

I know that Hartwick\u2019s enrollment is hurting, but we were under the impression that we were okay. We were even asked a couple of months ago by the Vice President what we needed to do to make our programs even more successful.<\/p>\n

So this came out of the blue. What\u2019s a lot more disappointing is men\u2019s soccer being re-classified down to DIII and yet women\u2019s water polo wasn\u2019t even given that opportunity and being eliminated altogether.<\/p>\n

– Your team is riding a 10-game winning streak and is currently ranked #13 in the country. It seems that this decision could not have come at a less opportune moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our girls are all focused on finishing this season. We definitely feel we\u2019re in a position this season that we\u2019ve been building to win a conference championship. In fact, the letter that the President sent to the community and to the students mentioned that, one of the reasons for us being eliminated and soccer being [reclassified] is that we had not had an NCAA appearance in 10 years. Men\u2019s soccer has only had three NCAA appearances in the last 10 years.<\/p>\n

We were never given that that was the expectation. [Qualifying for] NCAAs is not something that\u2019s easy to do; apparently that was her expectation for us. That was stated that one of the reason we\u2019re not as competitive as she thinks we should be. She also said that we\u2019re not allowed to host any games, which\u2014that is false. We\u2019re hosting Michigan, Brown and Princeton next weekend and we have another invitational the week after that.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true we can\u2019t host an NCAA championship but there\u2019s a lot of schools [who can\u2019t host]; there\u2019s even pools with 50-meter pools that can\u2019t host NCAA championships just because they don\u2019t have enough seating capacity.<\/p>\n

– The East is always going to be challenged for swimming facilities; how much water does it hold to say that the Hartwick pool is not \u201cNCAA compatible\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think it holds anything, and I\u2019ve always stated that we don\u2019t need a $20 million-dollar facility upgrade to be more competitive. [With a shallow\/deep pool] it\u2019s harder what we have to do. We\u2019ve seen it with St. Francis [Brooklyn] on the men\u2019s side; Wagner has created a strong team on the women\u2019s side and their men\u2019s team\u2014a new program\u2014is getting a lot better, all in a shallow\/deep pool.<\/p>\n

It can be done. It takes different conditioning, different practice plans and everything else but to me that doesn\u2019t hold water at all.<\/p>\n

– You were the 2017 CWPA Coach of the Year, and your team is having a fantastic season. How do you personally process all of this?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s heart-breaking; as I said, it\u2019s something that we didn\u2019t expect. We thought at worst that if we were re-classified from DI, we would be a DIII team. I think we\u2019d be very successful and could sustain a DIII program. I have 25 girls on my roster, and I know everyone thinks that because we have a lot of foreigners on the roster that everyone\u2019s on scholarship. But I have 13 \u2013 15 girls who are not receiving any athletic aid. And I have international kids who are not receiving international aid.<\/p>\n

It would be a different environment, but yes, we could sustain a DIII team.<\/p>\n

My wife, being an alumna, and me being here, in my 15th year, we\u2019ve put everything we have into this at the college and in the community. We\u2019re both heavily involved in the community, and it\u2019s gut-wrenching right now.<\/p>\n

– Is there a scenario where this situation is not final and Hartwick women\u2019s water polo can be preserved?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019re hoping it\u2019s not definitive. The biggest questions we have right now [is that] nobody who made the decision has been willing to step up and talk to anybody. [The announcement] was given to somebody else who was on campus, who came and read a statement to us. When questions were asked there were no answers.<\/p>\n

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Hartwick’s Alan Huckins<\/p><\/div>\n

We\u2019ve had donors and parents and families and friends in the water polo community asking [about this] because there\u2019s always a dollar amount behind something like this. We haven\u2019t been told that dollar amount, be it $2 million, be it $10 million, be it $20 million. Whatever it is, realistic or outrageous, we haven\u2019t even been given a number to say that we might be able to meet.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re hoping that someone will talk to us and give us some answers and maybe give us something we can fight for. But, with it being so new right now, and every time this happens, the respond in the first 24 hours or 48 hours is always huge but then it dies down. We\u2019re hoping that it won\u2019t die down, and that\u2019s when we hope to have some discussions and get some answers.<\/p>\n

– Your team does have an opportunity to make a statement, and that\u2019s by playing well this season. I imagine the Hawks will fight until the end to prove that they deserve to keep playing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Absolutely! This was the year that [we\u2019ve been building for] the last three or four years. Last year we didn\u2019t have any seniors on the team. \u00a0At the beginning of last year we knew it was a two-year process.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s always hard playing that first tournament of the season and that\u2019s what happened [at the beginning of the season]; a game against Pacific and then Wagner\u2014and going into a big pool for the first time of the year. It\u2019s tough. I feel we have the two best players in our conference [Zsofia Polak<\/strong> and Lena Kotanchyan<\/strong>], and we were really looking forward to this weekend in Indiana.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be interested to see which team shows up, because a lot has hit them this week. The timing is absolutely horrible.<\/p>\n

We will be there at the end of the year, but winning each conference game makes the path a bit easier.<\/p>\n

If the team shows up that\u2019s been playing the way it has the last two weeks, we\u2019ll be very successful this weekend.<\/p>\n

– Unfortunately, this is NOT a new situation and maybe it\u2019s a bit of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu!<\/strong><\/p>\n

FAU is not really d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu just because we\u2019ve had a team here in place that\u2019s been so successful. We have people who are willing to do whatever they can to keep it.<\/p>\n

If this were the same thing at FAU; it was a dollars and cents thing there. I\u2019m sure we would have been able to save it at that time. They admitted that they just started football and were losing a lot of money on that. They knew they needed to add a women\u2019s sport; they just rushed in too quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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I was at Hartwick the two other times they tried to do, and before that I was hired<\/a> to start a program at Florida Atlantic University. After recruiting 25 girls, they cut the program.<\/p>\n