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Saturday night at Duke Kahanamoka Aquatic Center in Honolulu was not just another night for the top-ranked USC women\u2019s water polo team, but it was more of the same over the past year, as the Trojans\u2014behind interim Head Coach Casey Moon<\/strong>\u2014extended a winning streak that has spanned 36 straight over two seasons.<\/p>\n

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New USC Interim Head Coach Casey Moon last year with Victoria Chamorro. Photo Courtesy: USC Athletics<\/p><\/div>\n

Outside of winning, everything related to Southern California\u2019s women\u2019s and men\u2019s polo is breaking new ground, now that Jovan Vavic<\/strong>, the Trojans\u2019 leader for a quarter century, was indicted in a federal sting operation into illegal payments for admission to top American universities. After being arrested in Waikiki last Wednesday by the FBI, Vavic is out on bail and scheduled for a court appearance next Monday in Boston\u2019s federal court.<\/p>\n

[After a Quarter Century in Troy, Jovan Vavic Fired as USC Men\u2019s & Women\u2019s Head Water Polo Coach]<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

One indicator that USC will continue its prolific winning\u2014despite Vavic\u2019s abrupt removal, fired by Interim President Wanda M. Austin<\/strong>, also on Wednesday\u2014was Maud Megens<\/strong>. The junior striker from the Netherlands torched the Hawai\u2019i defense for five goals as the Trojans sprinted out to an 11-4 lead at the end of the third quarter, then held on for a 12-8 victory over the #5 Rainbow Wahine.<\/p>\n

Chipping in two goals apiece for Interim Head Coach Casey Moon were sophomore Paige Hauschild<\/strong> and freshman sensation Alejandra Aznar<\/strong>, who upped her season total to an impressive 28 goals. Amanda Longan, the reigning National Player of the Year, stopped nine shots in the USC cage.<\/p>\n

Senior Irene Gonzalez<\/strong> contributed her hat-trick to Hawai\u2019i’s total; she was joined by Elyse Lemay-Lavoie\u2019s<\/strong> two goals. Gonzalez, in her final season at Hawai\u2019i, now has 210 goals in her career, good for third all-time in the Rainbow Wahine record books, 28 goals behind Kelly Mason<\/strong>, who graduated in 2009.<\/p>\n

Despite being hastily elevated as the leader of the women\u2019s program, Saturday night\u2019s win was not Coach Moon\u2019s first-ever as the Trojan head coach. Last year during the NCAA quarterfinals he was pressed into service because Vavic had been red-carded in the finals of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation tournament, arguing calls as his Trojans captures a 13-12 overtime decision<\/a> against Stanford.<\/p>\n

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Freshman Alejandra Aznar. Photo Courtesy: John McGillen<\/p><\/div>\n

Given the circumstances surrounding Moon\u2019s unlikely elevation to leading USC\u2019s women\u2019s polo program, there was no mention on the USC website<\/a> of the coaching milestone that took place Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Swimming World<\/em>, which covered last year\u2019s NCAA Women\u2019s Water Polo Tournament<\/a>, just happened to be on hand at the press conference after Moon\u2019s very first NCAA win as a head coach. Predictably, he heaped praise to his former mentor, but there was also an honesty that in hindsight is revealing.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also absolutely certain that no one could have predicted the turnabout that led to an assistant of 11 years taking control of women’s polo from Jovan Vavic, now a disgraced ex-Trojan.<\/p>\n

– Casey Moon on Friday, May 11th, following top-seeded USC\u2019s 12-5<\/a> win over Wagner in NCAA quarterfinal action:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I think for him [Vavic], he trusts in myself, but ultimately his players. He will be the first one to tell you [that] he knows the ins and outs of his players, and he knows the pulse of his team.<\/em><\/p>\n

We told him before the game today: there\u2019s going to ebb and flow for sure. Learn how to control your emotions and don\u2019t scoreboard watch.<\/em><\/p>\n

We tell him: No need to watch the scoreboard. They\u2019re gonna go on a run, we\u2019re gonna go on a run. It’s all about the next possession.<\/em><\/p>\n

For me it\u2019s a little weird\u2014I\u2019m gonna be honest! For the 11 years I\u2019ve been here I\u2019ve never had the opportunity to be a head coach in an NCAA water polo game. We’ve always had our leader there in Jovan. He\u2019s prepared me if some instance happens where if I need to take over the team, he\u2019s done an incredible job preparing [me] and the rest of the coaching staff to be able to take over.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m fortunate and grateful that I have a mentor in Jovan. There\u2019s nobody out there\u2026 he\u2019s so passionate about water polo [and] so passionate about winning.<\/em><\/p>\n

We want that with our players and it comes down from the head man, which is him as well as our coaching staff and goes down to his players.<\/em><\/p>\n

Vavic was in the stands that past May, watching his team perform and knowing he’d return the next day. Now, everyone’s one looking over Moon’s and his Trojan’s shoulders\u2014except for their former coach, who has lengthy legal battles to contend with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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