Women’s water polo opens 2024 season on Saturday vs. UC Merced
Match 1
UC Merced Bobcats (0-0)
at
Cal Maritime Keelhaulers (0-0)
Saturday, Jan. 26 – 12 p.m.
Vallejo, Calif. – PEAC Pool
PEAC Pool — Match Day Information
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Fans and visitors can park in Lot O on game day (first parking lot on your right when you enter main campus), please note that a daily parking permit is required and available for purchase on site through a yellow permit machine located at the lot's entrance.
Admission
Admission is free for all water polo fans attending Cal Maritime's season-opening match.
Concessions
Fans are able to bring in outside food and beverages to PEAC Pool and encouraged to dispose their items in the proper receptacles, located throughout the facility.
Restrooms
Fans can use restrooms located on PEAC's second floor, located just a short walk away from PEAC's spectator seating. Signage will direct visitors to appropriate locations.
VALLEJO, Calif. – After conducting its inaugural set of practices throughout the past few weeks, Cal Maritime is ready for its first match of the season when the UC Merced Bobcats visit campus for Saturday's 12 p.m. match.
Eight cadet-athletes from last year's roster return for second-year head coach Matt De Trane, led by a group of five seniors: Meghan Abbott Alanna Hardin, Olivia Larwood, Ashlinn McGovern and Sriya Santhanam. Combined with returning juniors Hannah Durheim and Maya Sortor, Coach De Trane's roster is filled with upperclassmen who provide valuable in-game and leadership experience.
Sophomore Petra Angstenberger also returns for the Keelhaulers this season.
Five new cadet-athletes joined the program for the 2024 season and are eager to compete and showcase their skills.
Even though the 2024 campaign is the first for senior Anjali Sharma, she knows firsthand the amount of hard work needed to help a program succeed since she also represented Cal Maritime's women's basketball and women's cross country teams throughout her undergraduate career.
Junior Jonni Fenton and Sharma are the lone newcomers who are upperclasswomen; Cate Andersson and Autumn Lashmet join the program as sophomores with Ryan Wallace capping her freshman year as a women's water polo cadet-athlete.
Four tournaments are slated throughout the spring season following Saturday's matchup against the Bobcats, starting in mid-February with the first of consecutive Collegiate Water Polo Association tournaments. Conference teams will head to PEAC Pool on February 17 and 18 before returning to action the following weekend at UC Santa Cruz.
The CWPA's second tournament is scheduled for February 24 and 25.
Following a near-three-week hiatus, PEAC Pool will welcome all CWPA teams once again for the Sierra Pacific Division Championship. The champion of this tournament, taking place March 16 and 17, will earn the league's automatic bid for the national playoffs.
As was the case with the men this past fall, women's water polo will compete as a member of the CWPA and Cal Pac Conference since the latter is in the process of officially sponsoring the sport in future seasons.
Even though discussions will continue with the national organization and its institutions throughout the spring, men's and women's water polo are currently not sponsored by the NAIA.
Cal Maritime, Ottawa University (AZ), UC Merced and Westcliff will end their respective season in Merced when the Bobcats host the Cal Pac / NAIA Finals April 5-7.