Brown had to play against Harvard without the team’s only goalie after he was given a red-card at the end of their game vs Navy (more details in the article below). A field player stepped in and helped them to the win.
New coach and no home pool - Brown’s doing pretty well this season.

Brown Daily Herald

Foothill HS and Socal standout Emily Klug has committed to join USC next season. There should be more commitments coming out soon - we’ll post when they are published.

Dan Albano of the Register on top of things as usual.

One of the best water polo tournaments in United States Water Polo is the annual Speedo Cup. Founded by Stan and Mary Sprague with the intent to be modeled after the Little League World Series, the Speedo Cup has become helped drive middle school participation across the country. The Speedo Cup counts some of the best players in US WaterPolo as alumni of the tournament including Tony Azevedo and Brenda Villa.
Boys Teams In:

Carlsbad, CA
Miami, FL
El Toro, CA
San Ramon, CA
Houston, TX
Chicago, IL
Clovis, CA
Pasadena, CA
Sammamish, WA
San Juan Capistrano, CA
Lincoln Park, IL
Annapolis, MD

Girls Teams in:

Laguna Beach, CA
San Diego, CA
Commerce, CA
Santa Barbara, CA
Danville, CA
Annapolis, MD
Stanford, CA
Houston, TX
Chicago, IL
Davie, FL
Naperville, IL
Tustin, CA

Click here for schedules

The ninth annual Holiday Cup will be held December 5-9 at Belmont Plaza pool in Long Beach, CA.  The top national women’s water polo teams in the world will be there including the top three (in order): US, Australia, and Russia.

Click here for the schedule

San Diego State will induct Rachel Scott-Ruano as the first water polo player into their Athletic Hall of Fame this Friday.

While Rachel was a member of the National Team for many years as a sharp-shooting lefty, many may not remember that she started at SDSU as a goalkeeper, earning Collegiate Goalkeeper of the Year honors in 1995.

Congrats Rachel - well deserved!

CSTV.com article

Water polo player Gregory Wolfe gives Cornell a piece of his mind in regards to the funding of its club sports.

Cornell Daily Sun

Ala the college football season, men’s college water polo is nuts.

Pacific beat Long beach State

who beat number #2 Stanford

who beat Cal AND UCLA

and just when we think USC is above it all, they lose to UCLA.

Are we having fun yet?

University of Pacific over LBSU

UCLA win in the La Daily 

Usually a tough rivalry game, this time Punahou cruised 10-4 over Iolani. Tim Steinmeier’s seven goals were a big reason for the blowout.

Honolulu Advertiser article

UCLA handed USC its first loss of the year - in convincing fashion.

The Bruins led from wire-to-wire as seven players scored in the 9-7 win. Chay Lapin had a career-high 15 saves.

Article from uclabruins.com

Just some updates from this weekend in polo.  Biggest news is obviously Stanford men’s recent run of losing to LBSU last week and to famous alum Wolf Wigo’s UCSB men’s squad.

 MIT wins CWPA small college crown over Mercyhurst

 Stanford bounce back game winning 11-7 over Pepp

Saturday UCSB upset of Stanford 

Cal crushes famous alum Gavin Arroyo’s LBSU 49er men’s waterpolo team 

Santa Clara water polo over LMU in overtime, congats Keith Wilbur 

LMU over UCSD 9-4 

Cal over Pepp 6-4 

Olympic champion coach Joan Jane will be back on the bench at the Olympic Games - the famous Spaniard will lead the Chinese women at the Beijing Games this summer.

Report from waterpolo-world.com