Princeton University Athletics
2011 Men's Water Polo Schedule Announced
July 15, 2011 | Men's Water Polo
PRINCETON (7/15/11) - The 2011 Princeton men's water polo schedule has been announced. The schedule opens with the annual Princeton Invitational and features six weekend tournaments and its eight CWPA Southern Division games.
The 2010 Tigers won their first Southern Championship since the 2004 season, but fell short in Easterns despite a 19-8 overall record. Princeton will enter the 2011 season with hopes of repeating as Southern champions and regaining the Eastern Championship and the CWPA's spot in the 2011 NCAA Championships.
The Tigers will host the three-day Princeton Invitational at DeNunzio Pool the opening weekend of the season. Princeton will warm up for the event with an exhibition game against the National Team from Trinidad & Tobago on the afternoon of Sept. 9 before meeting Santa Clara in its season opener later that evening on ESPNU. It will mark the second straight season opener between the schools nationally televised on the network and the third straight Princeton men's season opener to appear on live television. The Tigers will also play Fordham, Harvard, Brown and MIT over the remainder of the Invitational.
A week later Princeton will visit Navy for the North-South Tournament and will play games against Iona, Connecticut College and Fordham. The Tigers will also send a B team to the tournament and that squad will face the Northern Virginia Club and a Navy B team. Princeton will return to the greater D.C. area the following weekend for league games at Johns Hopkins, Navy and George Washington.
The Tigers make a trek out to California at the end of September and into early October to compete at the SoCal Tournament, this year hosted by Long Beach State. The Tigers will play at Loyola Marymount on the Thursday preceding SoCal before playing four times over the weekend at the tournament.
Princeton returns East to play six of seven games at home over the next three weekends in October. The Tigers host Bucknell, visit the Bisons, then host Hopkins, Navy and GW, before wrapping the stretch with non-league games against Fordham and Iona. The Tigers final regular season games come on Oct. 30 at the Ivy Championships at Harvard as the tournament will feature the three Ivy League varsity teams and club teams from the remaining five schools.
The postseason gets underway the first weekend of November with the Southern Championships at DeNunzio Pool. The top four Southern finishers will then advance to Easterns two weeks later at Harvard. The Eastern Champion will receive a berth in the NCAA Championships the first weekend of December at California.