After playing 23 games beginning with the Cal Cup tournament in January and three more in the coming week, the Pomona-Pitzer women’s water polo team looks forward to their first SCIAC match against Occidental March 31 Predict all you want about SCIAC water polo standings, but upsets happen every year.
Author: Sarah Tuggy
Sagehens Win Three But Fall to Cal State Monterey
At the Posada Royale Invitational in Thousand Oaks this past weekend, the Pomona-Pitzer women’s water polo team flew through the tournament with wins over Concordia, Azusa Pacific and St. Francis, but suffered a defeat at the hands of Cal State Monterey Bay in its final match. With the return of
Water Polo Coach Alex Rodriguez Named DIII Coach of the Year
Since Pomona-Pitzer men’s and women’s water polo head coach Alex Rodriguez accepted the position in 2006, the water polo programs have become one of the most formidable opponents to Division III teams nationwide. The men’s and women’s teams each boast three SCIAC Championships, the most recent being the men’s victory
Sagehen Swim and Dive Breaks Records at SCIACs
There are 19 weeks in the Pomona-Pitzer swim and dive season, all in preparation for last weekend’s SCIACs Championship swim meet: 19 weeks of 6:30 a.m. mornings and double days, all-out sprint test sets for time, CMC brunches and dinners, listening to the same locker-room CD on repeat and figuring
Women’s Water Polo Wins Shorthanded Thriller against CMS
If any game could have given a coach a heart attack, it would have been the Pomona-Pitzer women’s water polo 15-13 victory over CMS at Las Flores Park in La Verne last Saturday. On this cold and rainy Saturday afternoon, umbrella-less fans huddled together under the shelter of the pool’s
Women’s Swim and Dive Edges out Oxy to Continue Streak
Both the men’s and women’s Pomona-Pitzer swim and dive teams defeated Occidental in hard-fought matches to solidify their status as two of the top teams in SCIAC. The hype over the Oxy v. Pomona-Pitzer swim meet began when the Oxy Tigers women’s swim team defeated the formidable University of Redlands Bulldogs
PPSD Makes Waves in Strong Opening
At 7 a.m. last Saturday morning, four lonely Pomona-Pitzer swimmers sat on the curb outside the University of Redlands pool, eagerly awaiting the FedEx truck bearing the team swimsuits and caps to be worn during that day’s competition. They watched as teams from Cal Baptist, Concordia, Grand Canyon, La Verne,
Sagehens Upset Redlands, Fall to CMS
Revenge is so very, very sweet. Especially when it targets an opponent that was already looking right past you. In January, the Pomona-Pitzer women’s water polo team lost to the Redlands Bulldogs 6-14, marking the first time the team has lost to Redlands for as long as Coach Alex Rodriguez
Women’s Polo Sweeps Spring Classic
Fledgling Sagehen Squad Takes Down Two Division I Teams At the beginning of the first match last Saturday against Cal State Bakersfield, Head Coach Alex Rodriguez explained what he expected out of the team during the tournament. “I want these games to be conditioning for us,” he said. No matter
Water Polo Looks to Rebuild Championship Team
Despite being perhaps the smallest team in the nation, water polo has big goals This past May, the Pomona-Pitzer women’s water polo team sealed a double overtime victory over Occidental College to take the SCIAC Championship, and with it the first-place rank in Division III and a trip to the