Water Polo

April 2, 2012

No. 15 Gauchos Win Five of Seven Over Break

By Joshua Greenberg

The No. 15 UCSB women’s water polo team has played seven games at home since March 11, including its first two games of the conference portion of their schedule. The Gauchos won five and lost just two of those games to...

March 9, 2012

No. 16 Gauchos Host Harvard in First of Home Stretch

By Joshua Greenberg

On Sunday the No. 16 UCSB women’s water polo team will host Harvard University in the Gauchos’ first home game since January 29. This will be the first of nine straight home games that will take them through the rest...

March 4, 2012

Women’s Water Polo Finishes Weekend Games

By Josh Greenberg

After breaking into the top 10 for the first time in team history, the No. 10 UCSB women’s water polo team traveled to Thousand Oaks on Saturday for the Posada Royale Invitational, a one-day event that saw them move th...

March 2, 2012

Gauchos Ready For Saturday Tournament

By Joshua Greenberg

The No. 10 UCSB women’s water polo team will travel to Thousand Oaks this weekend for the Posada Royale Invitational, a one-day tournament that will take place on Saturday. UCSB will play two games that day, the first ...

February 24, 2012

Gauchos Go South for Irvine Invitational

By Joshua Greenberg

This weekend the No. 15 UCSB women’s water polo team, which moved up from 16th in the polls after running their record to 8-7 to take seventh place in the Triton Invitational, will travel to Irvine for the Irvine Invit...

February 13, 2012

Gauchos Go 1-2 in UC San Diego Triton Invitational

By Joshua Greenberg

The UCSB women’s water polo team returned to action over the weekend after two weeks off as they traveled south for UC San Diego’s Triton Invitational. After playing three games over the course of Saturday and Sunday...

January 31, 2012

No. 17 UCSB Goes 4-2 in Home Tournament Over Weekend

By Joshua Greenberg

The No. 17 UCSB women’s water polo team began a six-game home stand last Friday, four of which were part of the 2012 UCSB Winter Invite. After dropping their first game of the weekend to No. 6 Arizona State, the Gaucho...

January 23, 2012

Gaucho Water Polo Begins Season With Wins at Spartan Invitational Tournament

By Joshua Greenberg

The No. 17 UCSB women’s water polo team opened its season with a 10-9 win over Cal State Monterey Bay last Thursday, bringing the season record to an even 3-3. On Sunday the Gauchos played the final two games of the Sp...

November 17, 2011

Gauchos Travel to Face UCLA

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

After clinching the fifth seed in the MPSF tournament last weekend, the No. 5 UCSB men’s water polo team will travel to face No. 1 UCLA on Saturday in their final regular season game of the year. Last Saturday’s 12-1...

November 14, 2011

Gauchos Clinch Postseason Berth

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

The No. 5-ranked UCSB men’s water polo team guaranteed itself a spot in the MPSF postseason tournament with a 12-10 win over No. 10 UC Irvine on Saturday. “This was a game that we really needed to win,” junior atta...

November 7, 2011

UCSB Drops Two Straight

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

Campus Pool has not been kind to the UCSB men’s water polo team, as the No. 5-ranked squad dropped a pair of matches against No. 3 Berkeley and No. 8 Pacific at home this weekend. Both contests resulted in one-goal def...

November 4, 2011

Big Weekend At Home For Polo

By Paul-Michael Ochoa

Fresh off a crucial come-from-behind win in overtime at No. 9 Pepperdine last week, the No. 5 ranked UC Santa Barbara men’s water polo team returns home for a set of matches against No. 3 California and No. 8 Pacific t...

October 31, 2011

No. 5 Gauchos Take Down No. 6 Waves at Home

By Kristen Henneman

The No. 5 UCSB men’s water polo team came from behind against Pepperdine in Malibu on Sunday, sneaking away with a 16-15 overtime victory against the No. 6 Waves. With the win, the Gauchos improve to 14-7 overall and 2...

October 28, 2011

No. 5 Gauchos Take on No. 6 Pepperdine

By Kristen Henneman

The No. 5 UCSB men’s water polo team looks to move up in the standings Sunday with a win against No. 6 Pepperdine. With a record of 13-7 overall and 1-2 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, the Gauchos sit in six...

October 24, 2011

UCSB Beats No. 9 Long Beach, Falls to No. 2 USC

By Kristen Henneman

After defeating No. 9 Long Beach State 10-6 on Saturday to secure its first Mountain Pacific Sports Federation conference win, the UCSB men’s water polo team fell to No. 2 USC on Sunday. The Trojans proved to be too mu...

October 21, 2011

Freshmen Making Immediate Impact for UCSB

By Kristen Henneman

Most intercollegiate sports teams contain a few freshmen, and maybe one or two play a large role on the team, but that is not the case for the UCSB men’s water polo team, which contains several freshmen — 11 to be ex...