Women's Water Polo

2007 NATIONAL COLLEGIATE WOMEN'S WATER POLO CHAMPIONSHIP
SELECTIONS ANNOUNCED

INDIANAPOLIS---The NCAA Women's Water Polo Committee has announced the teams that will participate in the 2007 National Collegiate Women's Water Polo Championship.

The championship will be held May 11-13 at Joint Forces Training Base, in Los Alamitos, California.  Long Beach State University will serve as the host institution.

The 2007 National Collegiate Women's Water Polo Championship will be an eight-team, single-elimination tournament (12 games), with a losers' bracket to determine places three through eight.

The No. 1 seed was awarded to Stanford (25-2) and the No. 2 seed was awarded to the University of California, Los Angeles (25-2). UCLA will face No. 7 seed Pomona-Pitzer College (20-9) on May 11 in the first game of the championship at 1:30 p.m. The next game will feature No. 3 seed, the University of Southern California (20-5) and No. 6 seed Hartwick College (29-9) at 3:15 p.m. Stanford will face No. 8 seed Wagner College (17-13) in the third game of the day at 5 p.m. The final contest of the night will pit No. 5 seed Loyola Marymount University (26-5) against No. 4 seed San Diego State University (27-8) at 6:45 p.m.

The following conferences and institutions received automatic qualification:  Collegiate Water Polo Association, Hartwick; Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, Wagner; Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, UCLA; Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, Pomona-Pitzer; and Western Water Polo Association, Loyola Marymount.  The following institutions received at-large bids to the championship field: Stanford, Southern California, and San Diego State.

This is the seventh National Collegiate Women's Water Polo Championship.  In the 2006 championship game, UCLA won its eighth women's water polo national championship, defeating USC 9-8. It was the Bruins' fourth NCAA women's water polo title.

For more information about the National Collegiate Women's Water Polo Championship and the complete 2007 championship bracket, log on to www.ncaasports.com.