2013 WWPA WOMEN’S WATER POLO WEEKLY RELEASE • MAY 9, 2013 • NCAA TOURNAMENT
Women’s Collegiate Top-20 Poll Week #16 - May 9, 2013 Rk Team
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1 USC 1 100 2 Stanford 2 95 3 UCLA 3 90 4 Arizona State 4 84 5 University of California 5 79 6 University of Hawaii 6 75 7 UC Irvine 7 69 8T Long Beach State 8T 57 8T San Jose State 8T 57 10 Princeton 10 55 11 San Diego State 11 53 12 UC San Diego 12 48 13 University of Michigan 13 36 14 Loyola Marymount 14 35 15 Cal State Northridge 15 31 16 Indiana University 16 27 17 UC Santa Barbara 17 21 18T UC Davis 18T 13 18T Hartwick College 18T 13 20 Iona College 20 6 RV Pacific (5), Wagner College (1) 2013 WWPA CHAMPIONSHIPS: Friday, April 26 G1 - No. 1 UC San Diego 14, No. 8 CSU San Bern. 1 G2 - No. 4 Colorado St. 9, No. 5 Sonoma St. 8 G3 - No. 2 LMU 14, No. 7 CSU East Bay 8 G4 - No. 3 Santa Clara 8, No. 6 CSU Monterey Bay 5 Saturday, Apr. 27 G5 - Sonoma St. 9, CS San Bernardino 4 G6 - CS Monterey Bay 8, CS East Bay 3 G7 - UC San Diego 14, Colorado St. 6 G8 - LMU 8, Santa Clara 5 Sunday, Apr. 28 7th - CS East Bay 11, CS San Bernardino 7 5th - CS Monterey Bay 10, Sonoma St. 7 3rd - Santa Clara 12, Colorado St. 7 Championship UC San Diego 10, LMU 8
The teams traded goals to start the first quarter and after Jolene Guiliana scored to tie the game at 2-2, it started a three goal run that saw the Tritons go up 5-2. Freshman Ivana Castro would end the run, cutting the lead to 5-3 with 3:51 to play. UC San Diego wasn’t done as they rattled off two more goals - the first by Bartow and the second by Sarah Lizotte to go up 7-3. The teams would trade goals to end the half with UC San Diego up 8-5. The Tritons defense never allowed the Lions to get back-to-back goals until the final five minutes of the game when the Lions cut the lead to two. The Tritons held, getting a save from Miller in the closing minute to ice it. WWPA HONORS UC San Diego Head Coach Brad Kreutzkamp was named the 2013 WWPA Coach of the Year after leading the Tritons to the 2013 WWPA Championship last weekend and a trip to the upcoming NCAA tournament. Kreutzkamp led the Tritons to one of its best seasons in school history at 25-13 overall and No. 11 in the national polls. The Coach of the Year honor is voted on by the league’s eight coaches following the annual championships. Prior to the championships, the 2013 WWPA Postseason Honor were released. Junior Sarah Lizotte has been named the Western Water Polo Association Women’s Player of the Year while Colorado State freshman Ariel Arcidiacono has been named Newcomer of the Year in the WWPA’s annual end of the season awards voted on by the coaches. All told 27 student-athletes were honored for their performance in the pool this 2013 season, including five freshmen earning a spot on one of the three All-WWPA teams. Youth was the theme within the WWPA this season as six of the seven first-team All-WWPA selections are a junior or younger. In addition to the Player of the Year honor for Lizotte, she earned first-team All-WWPA for the second consecutive season. Joining her for the second straight year on the first-team is LMU junior Alexandra Honny. The remaining first-team members are all newcomers, paving the way for their teams’ success this season with standout performances. Also earning All-WWPA first-team honors is UC San Diego junior Melissa Bartow, CSU East Bay junior Sara Hudyn, UC San Diego freshman goalie Courtney Miller, Santa Clara redshirt freshman Julia Peters and Colorado State senior Shelby Schaefer. See full list at left for all the 2013 honors...
UCSD earns automatic bid to 2013 NCAA Women’s Water Polo Championship.
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2013 WWPA ALL-CONFERENCE
Player of the Year: Sarah Lizotte (UTL, Jr.) - UC San Diego Newcomer of the Year: Ariel Arcidiacono (UTL, Fr.) - Colorado St. Coach of the Year: Brad Kreutzcamp - UC San Diego First-Team WWPA All-Conference Melissa Bartow (C, Jr.) - UC San Diego Alexandra Honny (DR, Jr.) - LMU Sarah Lizotte (UTL, Jr.) - UC San Diego Sara Hudyn (UTL, Jr.) - CSU East Bay Courtney Miller (GK, Fr.) - UC San Diego Julia Peters (2M, RS-Fr.) - Santa Clara Shelby Schaefer (ATT, Sr.) - Colorado St. Second-Team WWPA All-Conference Mackenzie Beck (UTL, So.) - LMU Jessica Morelos (2M, Sr.) - LMU Claire Pierce (UTL, Sr.) - CSU East Bay Colette Reid (ATT, Sr.) - Sonoma St. Misty Vu (UTL, Sr.) - CSU San Bernardino Jackie Walters (C, Sr.) - CSU Monterey Bay Claire Wright (GK, Fr.) - LMU Honorable Mention All-Conference Kelcy Barott (CTR, So.) - Colorado St. Stephanie Clements (GK, Sr.) - Santa Clara Claire Eadington (DR, Jr.) - Santa Clara Danielle Johnson (UTL, Fr.) - LMU Alison Norris (UTL, Sr.) - Santa Clara Lindsey Rangel (ATT, Sr.) - Sonoma St. Alexis Wieseler (D, Fr.) - UC San Diego WWPA All-Freshman Team Ariel Arcidiacono (UTL) - Colorado St. Elizabeth Anderson (UTL) - Santa Clara Ivana Castro (DR) - LMU Noelle Herrera (C) - Sonoma St. Jenn Lightbody (2MD) - CSU East Bay Danielle Johnson (UTL) - LMU Courtney Miller (GK) - UC San Diego Alexis Wieseler (D) - UC San Diego