It has been eight years since UCLA, the team with the most NCAA women’s water polo championship titles, last won the crown. But once again, the Bruins have only three games and seven teams separating them from their eighth national championship title. No. 1 UCLA (22-1, 6-0 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) begins its NCAA postseason […]
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Scouting report: 2017 NCAA women’s water polo championship
The stage for the 2017 NCAA women’s water polo championship is set. Half of the field will be familiar faces for UCLA women’s water polo, as three other teams from the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation were selected. The remaining four teams, however, are conference champions from four other conferences, some the Bruins have faced, some […]
Women’s water polo’s No. 1 seed holds weight in NCAA Tournament
One of the two most important collegiate water polo tournaments of the year – the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation championship – has come and gone, but the NCAA championship is just around the corner. For each, the No. 1 UCLA women’s water polo team (22-1, 6-0 MPSF) secured the one seed. Though there is little relation […]
Far from home, Dutch water polo player Lizette Rozeboom shines at UCLA
A thick Dutch accent rang through the air at Spieker Aquatics Center as the UCLA women’s water polo team was practicing its drills in the winter of 2015. Lizette Rozeboom, a sophomore attacker from the Netherlands, was simply following directions when her teammates began laughing. “We did a drill where we had to yell, ‘One […]
Women’s water polo clinches No. 1 seed for NCAA, multiple MPSF awards
The NCAA selection show was just the beginning. In less than 18 hours, the UCLA women’s water polo team officially won the No. 1 seed to the NCAA Tournament, Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Coach of the Year, Newcomer of the Year and conference tournament MVP. Coach Brandon Brooks, after leading the Bruins to a 22-1 […]
Women’s water polo takes MPSF tournament with victory over Stanford
UCLA women’s water polo hadn’t trailed to a top-three team in more than nine quarters. That changed Sunday – for a grand total of two minutes and 23 seconds. From there on, the No. 1 Bruins (22-1, 6-0 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) held the No. 2 Stanford Cardinal (20-3, 5-1) scoreless for the rest of […]
Women’s water polo completes comeback over Cal to advance to MPSF final
UCLA women’s water polo had to overcome something on Saturday it hasn’t faced in two months – a deficit heading into the fourth quarter. With a little over five minutes left in the game and after losing a three-goal lead it had built up earlier in the game, freshman attacker Maddie Musselman netted her thid […]