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UC Davis women's water polo earned a share of the Big West Conference title in 2009, their first championship in program history at the Division I level. In 2015, the Aggie made history by winning the Big West Conference Tournament to punch their ticket to the NCAA Tournament.
The field of teams was revealed in a selection show on April 29, 2024. Six conferences were granted automatic qualification to the championship: the Big West Conference, Collegiate Water Polo Association, Golden Coast Conference, Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, Mountain Pacific Sports Federation and Western Water Polo Association.
The conference was founded in the early 1970s as the Mid Atlantic Conference by Dick Russell, the swimming and water polo coach at Bucknell University with member schools from New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland. The first conference championship was held in 1972, with Yale defeating Harvard.
Apr. 28—1/1 Swipe or click to see more CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM. UH's Lucia Gomez de la Puente pushes the ball up the pool on April 13. Select an option below to continue ...
Apr. 29—1/2 Swipe or click to see more LEROY YAU VIA THE BIG WEST UH women's water polo coach Maureen Cole hugged a Wahine player as the team celebrated its win over Long Beach State in the Big ...
The Anteaters rode the momentum from the opening sprint all the way to the final buzzer, never trailing in the 11-8 victory to claim the Big West Conference Women's Water Polo Championship. Missed ...
The Big West did not sponsor men's volleyball or men's water polo, but it was the primary conference affiliation of several schools that compete in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation for these sports, respectively. In NCAA men's volleyball, UC Irvine has established itself as one of the nation's most elite programs, winning four national ...
In 2023, the UC Irvine Anteaters men's water polo team won the inaugural Big West Men's Water Polo Tournament. With Cal State Fullerton’s addition of a men’s water polo program, the Big West met the criteria to create a men’s water polo conference with its six participating institutions and will now have the ability to have its own ...