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2016 WOMEN’S WATER POLO
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Release #7 — March 16, 2016
No. 1 USC Hunkers Down In Hawai’i For Spring Break Clash In Honolulu Undefeated Trojans will face the No. 4 Rainbow Wahine at 6 p.m. HT on Thursday.
2016 SCHEDULE/RESULTS
Date Opponent Feb. 5 #19 UC San Diego Feb. 6 at Whittier
Time/Result W 17-4 W 28-2
Triton Invitational Feb. 13 @Santa Clara Feb. 13 @#19 UC San Diego Feb. 14 @#5 Arizona State Feb. 14 @#1 UCLA Feb. 20
W 20-2 W 15-8 W 6-3 W 8-6
#25 Cal State Northridge W 15-3
UCI Invitational Feb. 27 %#25 Cal State Northridge Feb. 27 %#9 UC Irvine Feb. 28 %#4 Stanford Feb. 28 %#2 UCLA
W 13-3 W 11-10 W 7-6 W 10-7
March 5 March 11 March 17 March 26
at #9 Arizona State * #6 UC IRVINE at #4 Hawai’i at San Jose State *
W 8-3 5 p.m. 6 p.m. HT 1 p.m.
April 2 April 3 April 9 April 16 April 22
at San Diego State CSU Bakersfield * UCLA * Redlands at Stanford * California * (P12)
10 a.m. 1 p.m. 1 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 1 p.m. 2 p.m.
MPSF Tournament (hosted by Bakersfield) April 29 &TBD April 30 &TBD May 1 &TBD
TBD TBD TBD
NCAA Tournament (hosted by UCLA) May 13 !TBD May 14 !TBD May 15 !TBD
TBD TBD TBD
Home games in BOLD CAPS (at Uytengsu Aquatics Center) * MPSF game ~ game played in Honolulu $UCLA Invitational (hosted by UCLA) @ Triton Invitational (hosted by UC San Diego) % UCI Invitational (hosted by UC Irvine) & MPSF Tourn. (hosted by Bakersfield) ! NCAA Champs (hosted by UCLA) (P12) = televised by Pac-12 Networks
2016 Women’s Collegiate Top-10 (Week 9 • March 16)
Rank School Last Week 1. USC 1 2. UCLA 2 3. Stanford 3 4. Hawaii 4 5. Michigan 5 6. UC Davis 6T 7. UC Irvine 6T 8. California 8 9. Arizona State 9 10. UC San Diego 11
Points 100 96 92 88 83 79 77 71 69 62
THIS WEEK @USCWaterPolo The top-ranked and undefeated Trojans have set up camp in Hawai’i this week for a Spring Break training trip that will include an official nonconference clash against the host Rainbow Wahine. No. 1 USC (13-0) will square off against No. 4 Hawai’i (13-4) at 6 p.m. HT on Thursday (March 17) in Honolulu. USC IN THE RANKINGS USC opened 2016 ranked No. 3 in the national preseason poll and at No. 2 in the MPSF preseason poll. The Trojans moved up to rank No. 2 on Feb. 10, and rose in the ranks to stand as the No. 1 team in the nation as of the Feb. 17 national poll. The last time USC was ranked No. 1 had been in March 2014. USC remains as the nation’s No. 1 team this week. SCOUTING HAWAI’I The No. 4 Rainbow Wahine are 14-4 6 overall after a fourth-place finish at the UCI Invitational in their last action. Hawai’i beat Pacific 7-6 and California 7-6 on the first day of play before falling to UCLA 10-6 in the semifinals and taking a 13-7 loss to Stanford in the third-place game. Chloe Barr is the Rainbow Wahine’s top scorer with 52 goals to date, while goalie Sarah Logan is averaging 5.35 saves and 6.3 goals-against per game in 20 appearances. USC is 39-3 all-time against Hawai’i after three wins last season. The Trojans beat the Rainbow Wahine 10-1 in Honolulu last year and then won 14-7 in the NCAA quarterfinals in Palo Alto. LAST WEEK USC turned the tide on visiting No. 6 UC Irvine last week. After the Anteaters managed a first-period lead, the Trojan defense got downright stubborn and shut down its visitors for the final 24 minutes of play. The offense, meanwhile, opened the floodgates and let loose five straight scores to finish off a 7-3 win. USC rattled the Anteaters’ cage less than 15 seconds into the contest when Stephania Haralabidis nabbed the opening sprint and then Hayley McKelvey found Ioanna Haralabidis for the blast that gave the Trojans the early 1-0 advantage. UC Irvine dug right back in, however, zipping in back-to-back goals around a failed USC power play chance to nudge ahead 2-1. Stephania Haralabidis drilled the equalizer with 1:12 on the clock, only to see the Anteaters striking back just 20 seconds later to give UC Irvine a 3-2 lead at the close of the first.USC misfired on its next two 6-on-5 opportunities but managed to keep the Anteaters at bay at the other end. USC goalie Victória Chamorro made a clutch save off a tipped shot to tally one of her seven saves on the day, while Hayley McKelvey and Melissa Bergesen each snagged steals on the defensive end to keep USC’s second-period shutout intact. With 2:47 to go until halftime, Ioanna Haralabidis delivered her second goal of the game, and it was all even at 3-3 on the way into the second half. Early in the third, Brigitta Games got the Trojans up on another 6-on-5 with some hard work at set. Soon after, Brianna Daboub would send in a ripper to net the Trojans a 4-3 lead. With 5:27 on the clock, UC Irvine went up on a power play and called timeout to set it up. USC freshman goalie checked in for the USC defense at that point, and she’d wind up playing out the final stretch of the third quarter. During that time, the rangy freshman hauled in two saves to shut down the UCI power play and then nabbed another before her time was done in the cage. In the final stretch of the third, Avery Peterson earned a 6-on-5 for the Trojans and quickly hammered home the score off a pass from Bergesen to take the Trojans to a 5-3 lead entering the fourth period. Chamorro checked back into the cage once more, anchoring the Trojans through another solid defensive stretch that was counterbalanced by a couple nice USC goals. Ioanna Haralabidis whipped in a crosscage sore to tally her third of the day and make it a 6-3 USC advantage with 6:32 to go. Exactly a minute later, after another USC defensive stop, Daboub laced in another 6-on-5 finish for USC, and the Trojans were enjoying a 7-3 advantage. In the remaining time, the USC defense stayed the course, getting a takeaway from Annika Jensen in the process and a counterattack pass steal from Chamorro before senior goalie Alegra Hueso capped up for the final minute of play. USC wound it down and wrapped up the impressive comeback win with a final 7-3 decision in the undefeated Trojans’ favor. PETERSON PICKS UP THE PACE Two-meter player Avery Peterson is off to the races in her junior campaign, having already bettered her previous career total with a powerful 23 goals already scored this season alone. She set a new career high for herself with a six-goal game at Whittier on Feb. 6, and has since picked up her first career selection as MPSF Player of the Week. After punching up a hat trick in a key MPSF road win over Arizona State, Peterson earned the weekly award for the first time on March 8. UCI INVITE CHAMPS USC tacked up another tournament title to remain undefeated in 2016 with a push to the UCI Invitational championship Feb. 27-28. The Trojans opened up with a 13-3 win over CSUN on day one and would wind up
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2016 UniversiTy of SouThern California WOMen’s WaTer Polo in a tough battle against tournament host UC Irvine later that afternoon, pulling off an 11-10 victory to move into Sunday’s semifinals. There, USC stoned No. 4 Stanford with a ferocious 7-6 comeback win to secure a place in the title match. In another title match faceoff with rival UCLA, USC held its ground against the No. 2 Bruins and pinned up a 10-7 victory to win the championship crown. Stephania Haralabidis would come through with the clutch game-winning goals against both UC Irvine and Stanford. She’d finish the tournament with 12 goals, including a career-high seven goals in the tight win over UC Irvine. Amanda Longan and Victória Chamorro would share time in the cage, each capping up for two games apiece. Longan got the call-up for the UC Irvine game and the UCLA faceoff in the final, and would come through with 10 saves in both appearances. For their roles in helping to drive the Trojans to the championship, Stephania Haralabidis and Amanda Longan secured another MPSF sweep of weekly awards, as Haralabidis was named MPSF Player of the Week for the second time and Longan grabbed MPSF Newcomer of the Week honors for the third consecutive week. BY THE NUMBERS Through the first 13 games of 2016, undefeated USC has outscored opponents 165-60, leading the MPSF in defense (4.6 gapg) and standing at No. 2 in offense (12.7 gpg). Junior Stephania Haralabidis is the top scorer to date with 34 goals — ranking her No. 9 alltime in career scoring with 156 goals. Just a notch behind her are three fellow juniors. Twin sister Ioanna Haralabidis has cracked the century mark in career goals thanks to her 24 goals scored to date in 2016, followed closely by fellow junior Avery Peterson, who has already bettered her sophomore season total with 23 goals to date. Just a step behind her is Brigitta Games with 20 goals. On the defensive end, freshman goalie Amanda Longan has capped in nine games and is averaging 8.8 saves and 4.9 goals-against per game in her 26 periods of work. Returning All-American goalie Victória Chamorro has appeared in 20 periods and averages 7.2 saves and 5.4 goals-against per game. Senior goalie Alegra Hueso has allowed only one goal in her six appearances in the cage to date. TROJAN SWEEPS WEEKS For their efforts in driving the Trojans to perfect performances at the Triton Invitational and UCI Invitational, USC’s Stephania Haralabidis and Amanda Longan have paired up to sweep the MPSF weekly honors twice so far this season. At the Triton Invitational Haralabidis scored nine goals, topping out with a hat trick in the title match, where the Trojans beat No. 1 UCLA 8-6 in the final. In the semifinals, Haralabidis scored twice to help generate a 6-3 win for USC over Arizona State. At the same event, freshman goalie Longan had a strong showing. In her two appearances, Longan collected a total of eight saves -- including a 5-meter penalty stop -- and allowed only four goals. She made three saves in three periods of work in the opening 20-2 win over Santa Clara and then made five saves in the same stretch of action in USC’s 6-3 semifinal win over ASU. More recently, the duo proved instrumental again in guiding the Trojans to the 2016 UCI Invitational championship. Haralabidis’ 12 goals at the event included a career-high seven goals in a close 11-10 win over host UC Irvine, the game-winner with 5 second left in the 7-6 semifinal win over Stanford, and a hat trick in the 10-7 championship victory over UCLA. Longan, too, came up big in the cage with 10 saves vs. UCI and 10 more against the Bruins. That marked Longan’s third straight week as MPSF Newcomer of the Week, while Haralabidis secured her second MPSF Player of the Week award
of 2016 with the pair’s second sweep of the season. INTERNATIONAL INFLUENCES The overall young Trojans have garnered plenty of international experience on the way into this 2016 campaign for USC. Incoming freshman goalie Amanda Longan won gold with Team USA at the 2015 FINA Junior World Championships, where several other Trojans were competing with their respective countries. The Haralabidis sisters, Ioanna and Stephania were in action with Greece; goalie Victória Chamorro capped up for Brazil; and Hayley McKelvey was a high scorer for Canada. CAGE FIGHTERS USC’s goalkeeping corps this season is ferociously deep. Sophomore Victória Chamorro set a freshman goalie record last season in hauling in 207 saves in her first year as a Trojan. This year, she’s joined by freshman Amanda Longan, who was named Top Goalkeeper at the 2015 FINA Junior World Championships during the summer. Added veteran experience comes from senior captain Alegra Hueso, who has appeared in 27 games during her first three seasons as a Trojan. Even more depth between the pipes comes from junior Melanie Slater and sophomore Nicola Gonzales. OH CAPTAINS, MY CAPTAINS The most experienced player in the pool this season is junior Avery Peterson — one of three Trojan captains for 2016. Sophomore Brianna Daboub and senior Alegra Hueso also have been selected as team captains for the year. Peterson weighs in as the veteran of the group in that she has logged the most playing time of the bunch. With 20 goals to her name as a Trojan, the 2-meter power was in the water for USC’s last two NCAA Tournament runs. Daboub may just be a sophomore, but her savvy helps her stand out as another key leader for the Trojans this season. She scored 27 goals as a freshman and was named to the 2015 MPSF All-Newcomer Team. A senior, Hueso has been at Troy since her freshman season in 2013, when USC won its last NCAA Championship. GUT CHECKS IN IRVINE USC was significantly tested in back-to-back games at the UCI Invitational, facing deficits against both UC Irvine and Stanford and finding a way to fight back to victory. The Anteaters are the only team this year to score in double digits against the Trojans, but USC remained unfazed in a see-saw battle against the tournament host that saw the lead change hands back and forth and lock up even seven times. UC Irvine led 4-3 after the first period of play and later got out to an 8-6 advantage with 3:38 left in the third period, only to see the Trojans rattle off three straight scores to work back into the lead. Hayley McKelvey provided the spark and Stephania Haralabidis followed with back-to-back blasts to take the Trojans ahead 9-8 with 1:22 to go in the third. A Haralabidis buzzer-beater would get USC ahead 10-9 entering the fourth. There, the Anteaters snarled it up for the seventh time with a score at 5:25. Less than a minute later, Haralabidis proved heroic again with her seventh goal of the game to get USC ahead 11-10 at 4:43, and that one would hold through a tense final few minutes get USC the victory. The very next morning, USC was in a crucial semifinal bout with Stanford, which pumped in three goals in the second frame to lead it 4-2 at halftime. The Cardinal would net one more in the third to put USC behind 5-2 entering the final period. That’s where the Trojans showed their mettle. McKelvey broke the silence with a blast to start the fourth frame, and Brianna Daboub rifled one in to get USC within one, down 5-4 with 5:57 on the clock. The Trojans would shut down a Stanford 6-on-5 chance
2016 AWARDS MPSF Player of the Week: Stephania Haralabidis (Feb. 16) Stephania Haralabidis (March 1) Avery Peterson (March 8)
MPSF Newcomer of the Week: Amanda Longan (Feb. 16) Amanda Longan (Feb. 23) Amanda Longan (March 1)
USC Career Scoring Leaders 1. Monica Vavic..................2012-15......................291 2. Aniko Pelle.....................1999-02......................255 3. Sofia Konoukh................2001-03......................224 4. Moriah Van Norman.......2003-06......................215 5. Nina Wengst..................1999-02......................213 6. Brittany Hayes................2004-07......................209 7. Katrin Dierolf..................2000-03......................204 8. Michelle Stein.................2006-09......................170 9. Stephania Haralabidis.2014-present..............156 10. Kami Craig.....................2006-10......................152 11. Christina McCall.............1995-97......................142 Alexandra Kiss................2007-10 Kaleigh Gilchrist.............2011-14 14. Erika Figge.....................2004-07......................137 15. Joelle Bekhazi.................2009-11......................135 16. Lauren Wenger...............2003-06......................127 17. Jennifer Durley...............1998-01......................122 18. Kristen Dronberger.........2008-11......................120 19. Eike Daube.....................2012-15......................119 20. Sandra Milicev................1999-02......................116 21. Eszter Gyori....................2002-05......................115 20. Kally Lucas.....................2007-10..................... 113 21. Ioanna Haralabidis ...2014-present.......... 107 next, and then Brigitta Games shouldered the load and dished out the equalizer to get USC even again at 5-5 with 3:05 to go. The USC scoring run continued as Ioanna Haralabidis notched USC’s first lead since the first frame, hammering home the go-ahead goal at 1:14. In the final minute, Stanford broke through and managed to level it up at 6-6 with 54 ticks to go. USC would wind up on the attack as the clock wound down, setting up Stephania Haralabidis to come through as the hero of the game as she landed a lob in the back of the net with just 5 seconds left to get USC a 7-6 lead. 2016 TROJANS AT A GLANCE The Women of Troy take aim at their 2016 campaign under the direction of head coach Jovan Vavic for the 22nd season. The USC women are looking to extend a streak of 12 straight trips to the NCAA Tournament, and the talent is certainly there to make a strong run at a title. Picked No. 2 in the MPSF Preseason Coaches Poll, the Trojans weigh in just a point behind top-picked Stanford. Both the Trojans and the Cardinal each received three first-place votes, hinting at a heated race for the 2016 title to come. USC returns three of its top five scorers from 2015 — Stephania Haralabidis (64 goals), Ioanna Haralabidis (50 goals) and Melissa Bergesen (37 goals) — along with All-American goalie Victória Chamorro and All-American two-meter power Brigitta Games. The Haralabidis twins earned All-American status last season as well. In all, USC returns 11 members of last season’s 16-player NCAA roster. •
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2016 USC(13-0 SCHEDULE/RESULTS overall • 1-0 MPSF) DATE OPPONENT TIME/RESULT SCORE SCORERS SAVES Feb. 5 #19 UC San Diego W 17-4 Games 4, S. Haralabidis 3, Peterson 3, Stansfield 2, Chamorro 4, McKelvey 2, Jensen, Daboub, I. Haralabidis. Longan 4 Feb. 6 at Whittier W 28-2 Peterson 6, I. Haralabidis 4, S. Haralabidis 3, Bergesen 3, Longan 4, Games 3, Jensen 3, Fahey 2, Flath 2, Stansfield, Daboub. Hueso 5 Triton Invitational Feb. 13 @Santa Clara W 20-2 Bergesen 3, McKelvey 3, Jensen 2, I. Haralabidis 2, Longan 3, S. Haralabidis 2, Fahey 2, Stansfield, Presten, Hueso 1 Flath, Gudmundsson, Games, Peterson. Feb. 13 @#19 UC San Diego W 15-8 Peterson 3, Jensen 2, S. Haralabidis 2, Games 2, Flath, Chamorro 6 I. Haralabidis, Blubaugh, Daboub, Fahey, Gudmundsson. Feb. 14 @#5 Arizona State W 6-3 I. Haralabidis 2, S. Haralabidis 2, McKelvey, Games. Longan 5, Hueso 2 Feb. 14 @#1 UCLA W 8-6 S. Haralabidis 3, Daboub 3, I. Haralabidis, Games. Chamorro 7 Feb. 20 #25 Cal State Northridge W 15-3 S. Haralabidis 4, McKelvey 2, Daboub 2, Games 2, I. Haralabidis 2, Jensen, Peterson, Bergesen.
Longan 13, Hueso 1
UCI Invitational Feb. 27 %#25 Cal State Northridge W 13-3 I. Haralabidis 4, Games 2, Peterson 2, S. Haralabidis, Chamorro 5, Daboub, Bergesen, Stansfield, Gudmundsson. Hueso 1 Feb. 27 %#9 UC Irvine W 11-10 S. Haralabidis 7, Daboub 2, McKelvey, I. Haralabidis. Longan 10 Feb. 28 %#4 Stanford W 7-6 I. Haralabidis 2, Peterson, McKelvey, Daboub, Games, Chamorro 7 S. Haralabidis. Feb. 28 %#2 UCLA W 10-7 S. Haralabidis 3, Stansfield 2, Peterson 2, I. Haralabidis, Longan 10 McKelvey, Games. March 5 at #9 Arizona State * W 8-3 Peterson 3, Games 2, S. Haralabidis 2, Daboub. Longan 5 March 11 #6 UC Irvine W 7-3 I. Haralabidis 3, Daboub 2, S. Haralabidis, Peterson. Chamorro 7, Longan 3, Hueso 0 March 17 at #4 Hawai’i 6 p.m. HT March 19 at Hawai’i (scrimmage) TBA March 26 at San Jose State * 1 p.m. April 2 April 3 April 9 April 16 April 22
at San Diego State CSU Bakersfield * UCLA * Redlands at Stanford * California * (P12)
10 a.m. 1 p.m. 1 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 1 p.m. 2 p.m.
MPSF Tournament (hosted by CSU Bakersfield) April 29 &TBD April 30 &TBD May 1 &TBD
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NCAA Tournament (hosted by UCLA) May 13 !TBD May 14 !TBD May 15 !TBD
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Player Goals Stephania Haralabidis 34 * MPSF game Home games in BOLD CAPS — Held at Uytengsu Aquatics Center Ioanna Haralabidis 24 @ Triton Invitational — Hosted by UC San Diego % UCI Invitational — Hosted by UC Irvine ~ game played in Honolulu Avery Peterson 23 & MPSF Tournament — Hosted by CSU Bakersfield ! NCAA Tournament — Hosted by UCLA Brigitta Games 20 Brianna Daboub 15 Games/Pds Saves SPG Goals Agst GAPG Hayley McKelvey 11 Goalie 6 / 20 36 7.2 27 5.4 Annika Jensen 9 Victória Chamorro 9 / 26 57 8.8 32 4.9 Melissa Bergesen 8 Amanda Longan 6 / 6 10 6.7 1 0.7 Nikki Stansfield 7 Alegra Hueso 13 games 103 7.9 60 4.6 Courtney Fahey 5 Totals Mackenzie Flath 4 2 3 4 OT1 OT2 SD1 SD2 Total Ave. Dagmar Gudmundsson 3 Goals by Period 1 51 39 43 32 - - - - 165 12.7 Sydney Blubaugh 1 USC 20 12 17 11 - - - - 60 4.6 Brooke Presten 1 Opponents TOTAL 165
Games Mult-Goal Total Player Scored in Games Goals Stephania Haralabidis 13 10 34 Ioanna Haralabidis 12 7 24 Brigitta Games 11 6 20 Avery Peterson 10 6 23 Brianna Daboub 10 4 15 Hayley McKelvey 7 3 11 Nikki Stansfield 5 2 7 Annika Jensen 4 3 9 Melissa Bergesen 4 2 8 Courtney Fahey 3 2 5 Mackenzie Flath 3 1 4 Dagmar Gudmundsson 3 0 3 Sydney Blubaugh 1 0 1 Brooke Presten 1 0 1
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MPSF WOMEN'S WATER POLO STATISTICS--Mar. 14, 2016
INDIVIDUAL STATS GOALS *Must Appear In 50 % of Team Games
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ATHLETE Rae Lekness Stephania Haralabidis Carla Carrega Jamie Neushul Kat Klass Ioanna Haralabidis Avery Peterson Ashley Paz Mackenzie Barr Emily Loughlin Brigitta Games India Forster Anna Yelizarova Daisy Carter Carla Toha Vilanova Devin Grab Gurpreet Sohi Lizette Rozeboom Katie Sverchek Alexa Tielmann Maud Koopman Dani Jackovich Brianna Daboub Abbey Kerth Pippa Saunders
YEAR SR JR SO JR FR JR JR SO JR JR JR SR SR SR FR SO SR FR SR R-JR FR JR SO SR SR
GOALS 52 34 45 29 28 24 23 35 27 28 20 26 22 20 27 24 21 18 18 21 17 18 15 16 23
GOALS/GAME 2.74 2.62 2.14 1.93 1.87 1.85 1.77 1.59 1.59 1.56 1.54 1.53 1.47 1.43 1.42 1.41 1.40 1.29 1.29 1.24 1.21 1.20 1.15 1.14 1.10
*Must Appear In 30 % of Team Quarters YEAR SCHOOL GAMES SAVES SO Arizona State 12.25 139 SR CSU Bakersfield 14 159 FR UCLA 9 91 JR CSU Bakersfield 8 77 FR USC 6.5 57 SR UCLA 8 69 R-SO Stanford 13.5 111 SO San Jose State 8.5 61 SO USC 5 36 FR San Jose State 7.75 45 JR California 11.09 65 FR California 8.94 43
SAVES/GAME 11.35 11.36 10.11 9.63 8.77 8.63 8.22 7.18 7.20 5.81 5.86 4.81
GOALKEEPER SAVES
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12
ATHLETE Mia Rycraw Courtney Wahlstrom Carlee Kapana Brittany Tyra Amanda Longan Alex Musselman Julia Hermann Tayler Peters Victoria Chamorro Alicia Magliocco Madeline Trabucco Madison Tagg
SCHOOL San Jose State USC California Stanford Stanford USC USC CSU Bakersfield UCLA California USC UCLA Stanford Arizona State San Jose State UCLA Stanford UCLA Arizona State UCLA Arizona State Stanford USC Arizona State California
GAMES 19 13 21 15 15 13 13 22 17 18 13 17 15 14 19 17 15 14 14 17 14 15 13 14 21
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MPSF Champion and NCAA Automatic Qualifier determined at conference tournament, hosted by CSU Bakersfield, April 29-May 1
RECENT RESULTS MPSF WOMEN'S WATER POLO STATISTICS--Mar. 14, 2016
THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE
INDIVIDUAL Thursday, March 17 STATS Sunday, March 13 USCGOALS at HAWAII pm % CSU Bakersfield 16, Redlands 4 GOALS-AGAINST *MustAppear Appear6:00 In50 30% % of of Team Team Games Quarters *Must In % ARIZONA STATE 8,GA Wagner 6 ATHLETE YEAR SCHOOL QUARTERS GAA ATHLETE YEAR SCHOOL GAMES GOALS GOALS/GAME Friday, March 18 Madeline Trabucco JR California 44.375 4.69 1 &1San Rae Lekness SR San Jose State 19 52 2.74 Saturday, March 12 Jose State vs. Whittier 10:15 am 2 Carlee Kapana FR UCLA 36 46 5.11 2 & San Stephania USC 13 34 Bakersfield 4 2.62 Jose State atHaralabidis LOYOLA MARYMOUNTJR 3:15 pm *ARIZONA STATE 13, CSU Amanda Longan FR USC 26 32 4.92 *CALIFORNIA 13, San 45 Jose State 4 3 3 Carla Carrega SO California 21 2.14 March 19 % ARIZONA STATE 24,29 Redlands 1 4 Jamie Madison Tagg FR California 35.75 48 5.37 4 Saturday, Neushul JR Stanford 15 1.93 Jose State vs. CSUN 8:00 am % Wagner 13, CSU Bakersfield 8 5San Julia Hermann R-SO Stanford 54 76 5.63 5 &CSU Kat Klass FR Stanford 15 28 1.87 Bakersfield at FRESNO PACIFIC 11:00 am Victoria Chamorro SO USC 20 27 5.40 6 &6San Ioanna Haralabidis JR USC 13 24 1.85 Friday, March 11 Jose State vs. Azusa Pacific 11:45 am AlexatPeterson Musselman SR UCLA 32 49 6.13 7 # 7Michigan Avery JR USC 13 23 1.77 ARIZONA STATE 12:00 pm USC 7, UC Irvine 3 8 Ashley Mia State Rycraw SO Arizona 49 75 6.12 Diego at CALIFORNIA 1:00 pm State 8 San Paz SO CSU Bakersfield 22 35 1.59 CSU Bakersfield vs. CSU Monterey Bay (at FPU) 2:00 pm Sunday, March 6 9 Courtney Wahlstrom SR CSU Bakersfield 56 122 8.71 8 Mackenzie Barr JR UCLA 17 27 1.59 # Pomona at ARIZONA 3:30 pm UCLA Brittany Tyra STATE JR CSU Bakersfield 32 9, MICHIGAN 5 28 65 8.13 1010Emily Loughlin JR California 18 1.56 UCLA 20, Bucknell 5 (at Michigan) 11Brigitta Tayler Games Peters SO San USC Jose State 34 82 9.65 11Sunday, JR 13 20 1.54 March 20 12 Alicia Magliocco FR San Jose State 31 83 10.71 12# Pacific Indiaat Forster SR UCLA 17 1.53 ARIZONA STATE 10:00 am Saturday, March 526 at UC SAN DIEGO 12:00 pm *USC 13Stanford Anna Yelizarova SR Stanford 15 8, ARIZONA STATE 22 3 1.47 2016 WOMEN’S Preseason Poll at CSU BAKERSFIELD 1:00 pmState *Stanford TEAM STATS 14*UCLA Daisy Carter SR Arizona 14 17, SAN JOSE 20STATE 3 (Preseason 1.43 # Marist at ARIZONA STATE 1:30 pm UCLA 22, George Washington 5 (at Michigan) • Jan. 13) 15 Carla Toha Vilanova FR San Jose State 19 17, Loyola Marymount 27 4 (at Michigan)1.42 2015 TEAM GOALS UCLA Rank School Final Rank Points 16 Devin Grab SO UCLA 1.41 1 1. 24 98 UC17 DAVIS 8, California 6 Stanford TEAM GAMES GOALS SCORED GOALS/GAME 2. 214 (at UCLA 95 17SCHEDULE/RESULTS Sohi Stanford 15 13, Santa Clara California UC Davis) 1.40 2 NOTES SR 1 Gurpreet Stanford 15 196 13.07 3. 8USC 3 92 CSU Bakersfield 10, CSUN (at Citrus College) 18*MPSF Rozeboom FR UCLA 14 Conference Game 2 Lizette USC 13 165 12.69 4. 18 California 1.29 4 86 CSU Bakersfield 10, AZUSA PACIFIC 7 (at Citrus College) Invitational 5. 18 UC Irvine 1.29 5 77 18&3Loyola KatieMarymount Sverchek SR Arizona 14 UCLA 17 201State 11.82 Invitational II…# Arizona State Invitational III UCLA 6. 21 Arizona State 1.24 9 73 20%4Arizona AlexaState Tielmann R-JR 17 California 21 208 9.90 7. Hawaii 6 (T) 67 Home Team in CAPS; All Times Local to Site 215 Maud Koopman FR Arizona 14 1.21 8 8. 17 San Jose State 62 Arizona State 14 133State 9.50 9. 18 UC Davis 1.20 11 46 226 Dani Jackovich JR Stanford 15 CSU Bakersfield 22 200 9.09 10. UC Pacific 16 (T) 45 237 Brianna Daboub SO USC 13 15 Princeton 1.15 6 (T) San Jose State 19 162 8.53 11. 40 12t. 36 24 Abbey Kerth SR Arizona State 14 16 Indiana 1.14 12 12t. Michigan RV 36 25 Pippa Saunders SR California 21 23 1.10 TEAM DEFENSE 14. UC Santa Barbara 13 (T) 34 15. Loyola Marymount 13 (T) 33 TEAM GAMES GOALS AGAINST GOALS/GAME MPSF Water Polo • Page 1 16. 2016San Diego State 16 (T) 31 1 GOALKEEPER USC 60 SAVES 13 *Must Appear In 30 % of 4.62 Team Quarters 17. Long Beach State 15 28 18. Cal State Northridge 10 26 2 ATHLETE California 21 107 5.10 YEAR SCHOOL GAMES SAVES SAVES/GAME 19. Hartwick 18 (T) 24 Stanford 15 80State 5.33 1 3 Mia Rycraw SO Arizona 12.25 139 11.35 20. Wagner 18 (T) 8 UCLA 17 95 5.59 2 4 Courtney Wahlstrom SR CSU Bakersfield 14 159 11.36 Others receiving votes: UC San Diego 7, 14 79 5.64 3 5 Carlee Arizona KapanaState FR UCLA 9 91 7, Marist 2,10.11 Harvard Iona 2, Cal Baptist 1, Bucknell CSU Bakersfield 22 194 8.82 4 6 Brittany Tyra JR CSU Bakersfield 8 77 1. 9.63 SanLongan Jose State 5 7 Amanda 6 Alex Musselman 7 Julia Hermann 8 Tayler Peters 9 Victoria Chamorro 10 Alicia Magliocco 11 Madeline Trabucco 12 Madison Tagg
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185 USC UCLA Stanford San Jose State USC San Jose State California California
9.74 6.5 8 13.5 8.5 5 7.75 11.09 8.94
57 8.77 69 2016 MPSF8.63 COACHES 111 8.22 POLL PRESEASON 61 Team (1st-place7.18 votes) Points 1. 36 Stanford (3) 7.20 32 2. 45 USC (3) 31 5.81 3. UCLA (1) 29 4. 65 California 5.86 22 5. 43 Arizona State 4.81 15 6. 7.
San Jose State CSU Bakersfield
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2010 University ofof Southern California Men’s Water PoloPolo 2016 UniversiTy SouThern California WOMen’s WaTer
2016 USC Women’s Water Polo Roster #
NAME
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Victória Chamorro 5-10 Goalie Amanda Longan 6-2 Goalie Alegra Hueso 5-9 Goalie Melanie Slater 5-7 Goalie Nicola Gonzales 5-8 Goalie Annika Jensen 6-0 Utility Ioanna Haralabidis 5-11 Driver Sydney Blubaugh 5-8 2-Meter Nikki Stansfield 5-11 2-Meter Brooke Presten 5-8 Driver Melissa Bergesen 5-10 Driver Mackenzie Flath 5-9 Driver Hayley McKelvey 5-11 Utility Stephania Haralabidis 5-11 Driver Brianna Daboub 5-9 Driver Dagmar Gudmundsson 6-0 Utility Brigitta Games 6-1 2-Meter Courtney Fahey 5-8 Driver Avery Peterson 5-11 2-Meter Cassidy Feltenberger 5-4 Driver Emma Cornwell 5-10 Goalie Ellie D’Ambra 5-5 Driver Lauren Esrig 5-7 Driver Kelly Giery 5-8 Driver Natalie Lavinsky 5-8 Driver Kaitlin Leimbach 5-9 Driver Caitlin Stuewe 5-7 Utility Nicola Welch 5-8 Driver Head coach: Jovan Vavic Associate head coach: Casey Moon Volunteer Assistant Coach: Alexandra Kiss
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HOMETOWN (HIGH SCHOOL/COLLEGE) Rio de Janiero, Brazil (Centro Educacional de Lagoa HS) Moorpark, Calif. (Oaks Christian HS) Pasadena, Calif. (Pasadena HS) Long Beach, Calif. (Wilson HS) Orinda, Calif. (Miramonte HS) Orinda, Calif. (Campolindo HS) Athens, Greece (Corona del Mar HS) Los Alamitos, Calif. (Mater Dei HS) Fullerton, Calif. (Foothill HS) Orinda, Calif. (Camplindo HS) South Jordan, Utah (Kearns HS/Golden West) Alamo, Calif. (Monte Vista HS) Vancouver, B.C., Canada (Seaquam Secondary) Athens, Greece (Corona del Mar HS) Newport Beach, Calif. (Mater Dei HS) Hanford, Calif. (Hanford West HS) Littleton, Colo. (Chatfield HS/Golden West) Alamo, Calif. (Monte Vista HS) Newport Beach, Calif. (Newport Harbor HS) San Pedro, Calif. (San Pedro HS) San Diego, Calif. (Otay Ranch HS) Rolling Hills, Calif. (Palos Verdes HS) Eugene, Ore. (South Eugene HS) Manhattan Beach, Calif. (Mira Costa HS) Manhattan Beach, Calif. (Mira Costa HS) Palos Verdes, Calif. (Palos Verdes HS) Monterey, Calif. (Sacred Heart Prep) Westmoorings, Trinidad (St. Joseph’s Convent Port-of-Spain)
Scouting Director: Marko Pintaric Director of Operations: TBD
PRONUNCIATIONS
#3 Ioanna Haralabidis #5 Sydney Blubaugh #10 Stephania Haralabidis #11 Brianna Daboub #12 Dagmar Gudmundsson #13 Brigitta Games #14 Courtney Fahey Jovan Vavic Marko Pintaric Alexandra Kiss
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2016 UniversiTy of SouThern California WOMen’s WaTer Polo HEAD COACH 22nd season • 490-142 (.775) 13 national titles • 10 cutino award winners 12-time national coach of the year 10-time mpsf coach of the year
JOVAN VAVIC VAVIC AT USC
1996 MPSF Men’s Co-Coach of the Year 1998 National Men’s Co-Coach of the Year 1999 MPSF Women’s Coach of the Year National Women’s Coach of the Year 2003 MPSF Men’s Coach of the Year National Men’s Coach of the Year 2004 MPSF Women’s Coach of the Year National Women’s Coach of the Year 2005 MPSF Men’s Coach of the Year National Men’s Coach of the Year 2006 MPSF Men’s Coach of the Year 2008 MPSF Men’s Coach of the Year National Men’s Coach of the Year 2009 National Men’s Coach of the Year 2010 MPSF Women’s Coach of the Year National Women’s Coach of the Year MPSF Men’s Coach of the Year National Men’s Coach of the Year 2011 National Men’s Coach of the Year 2012 National Men’s Coach of the Year 2013 MPSF Women’s Coach of the Year National Women’s Coach of the Year Men’s career coaching record: 494-82 (.858) • 21 seasons Women’s career coaching record: 490-142 (.775) • 21 seasons
Jovan Vavic, one of the most decorated water polo coaches in the country, serves a dual role as the head coach of both the USC men’s and women’s teams. He has been with the USC women’s program since its inception in 1995, and has led both teams to national championships three times in the same school year (1998-99, 2003-04 and 2009-10). A 12-time National Coach of the Year and 10-time MPSF Coach of the Year, Vavic boasts a grand total of 13 combined national titles — including a six-year run with the USC men — and has coached 10 Cutino Award winners. With 13 national championships (nine men’s and four women’s) won during his tenure at USC, Vavic has the most team titles of any USC head coach in history. Vavic’s 2015 women’s team reached the NCAA Tournament for the 12th straight season, taking third place for the second straight season and ending with a 24-6 overall record on the year. That mark improved Vavic’s overall career record on the women’s side to 490-142 (.775) as he now enters his 22nd season as the USC’s women’s head coach. In the calendar years of 2013 and 2010, Vavic swept both sides of the game, winning national championships with the women in the spring and following that with men’s titles in the fall of those years. In 2013, the Women of Troy won the longest NCAA women’s championship game in history, beating Stanford 10-9 in triple sudden death to claim USC’s fourth national championship on the women’s side, while finishing with a 27-1 overall record. The USC men would follow with a historic feat of their own, winning an unprecedented sixth straight national championship in claiming the 2013 crown. In 2010, the USC women and men went back-to-back as Vavic followed 2010 National and MPSF Coach of the Year awards on the women’s side with 2010 National and MPSF Coach of the Year with the men in leading the Trojan men to their third consecutive national championship. Following the USC men’s 2009 NCAA title and the USC women’s run to the 2010 national championship, Vavic saw two Trojans sweep the Cutino Awards for the third time in his career, as J.W. Krumpholz and Kami Craig went back-to-back as the 2009 and 2010 Cutino Award winners following the USC women’s run to the 2010 NCAA Championship. The first Trojan pair to sweep the awards was Juraj Zatovic and Lauren Wenger in 2006. Since 1999 when the program was fully funded, Vavic’s record is 401-69 (.853), including 11 consecutive NCAA tournament appearances. Between 2003 and 2010, Vavic was named either MPSF or National Coach of the Year (or both) every year but one. His 2004 women’s team won the national championship and became the first team in NCAA Championship history to go undefeated (29-0). In 1999, 2004 and 2010, Vavic was named the women’s National and MPSF Coach of the Year. Vavic oversaw the team’s move from Division II in 1995 to Division I in 1996. He guided USC to its first-ever Division I National Collegiate Championships appearance in 1997 and a seventh-place national finish while the 1998 team took fifth nationally. In 1999, USC won the national championship, and Vavic was named the National Coach of the Year and the MPSF Coach of the Year. The 2000 squad added another strong showing, finishing second nationally. Vavic came to USC in 1992 as an assistant men’s water polo coach, joined John Williams as co-head coach in 1995 and took over the men’s program in 1999 after Williams retired. He and Williams were named National Coaches of the Year in 1998 after leading USC to its first-ever national championship. They were also named MPSF Co-Coaches of the Year in 1996 after leading USC to the conference title. In fact, in the 1998-99 season, Vavic did something no other coach has accomplished as his teams won three national championships. Besides capturing the 1998 men’s and 1999 women’s titles, his 1999 men’s club team won the Men’s Senior National Club Championship. In 21 seasons at the helm of the USC men’s program, Vavic has improved his career coaching record on the men’s side to 494-82 (.858) with national championships won in 1998, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. Vavic, a native of Yugoslavia, spent the 1990 season as an assistant men’s coach at UCLA. Previously, he coached three seasons (1987-1990) at Palos Verdes (Calif.) High, where he led Palos Verdes to two undefeated league seasons (1987-89). Vavic also served as assistant coach to the U.S. team at the 1995 World University Games, and was the head coach of the team in 2003. In November 2012, Vavic was named interim head coach of the U.S. Men’s National Team, and led Team USA to World Championship qualification with success at the 2013 UANA World Aquatic Championship Qualification Tournament in Canada. Vavic graduated from UCLA in 1992 with a bachelor’s degree in history. He and his wife, Lisa, have four children: Nikola, Monica, Marko and Stefan. Nikola and Monica both played water polo for their father at USC and both won national championships with their respective USC water polo teams.
University of Southern California
2016 WOMEN’S WATER POLO
USC Sports Information
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Release #7 — March 16, 2016
No. 1 USC Hunkers Down In Hawai’i For Spring Break Clash In Honolulu Undefeated Trojans will face the No. 4 Rainbow Wahine at 6 p.m. HT on Thursday.
2016 SCHEDULE/RESULTS
Date Opponent Feb. 5 #19 UC San Diego Feb. 6 at Whittier
Time/Result W 17-4 W 28-2
Triton Invitational Feb. 13 @Santa Clara Feb. 13 @#19 UC San Diego Feb. 14 @#5 Arizona State Feb. 14 @#1 UCLA Feb. 20
W 20-2 W 15-8 W 6-3 W 8-6
#25 Cal State Northridge W 15-3
UCI Invitational Feb. 27 %#25 Cal State Northridge Feb. 27 %#9 UC Irvine Feb. 28 %#4 Stanford Feb. 28 %#2 UCLA
W 13-3 W 11-10 W 7-6 W 10-7
March 5 March 11 March 17 March 26
at #9 Arizona State * #6 UC IRVINE at #4 Hawai’i at San Jose State *
W 8-3 5 p.m. 6 p.m. HT 1 p.m.
April 2 April 3 April 9 April 16 April 22
at San Diego State CSU Bakersfield * UCLA * Redlands at Stanford * California * (P12)
10 a.m. 1 p.m. 1 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 1 p.m. 2 p.m.
MPSF Tournament (hosted by Bakersfield) April 29 &TBD April 30 &TBD May 1 &TBD
TBD TBD TBD
NCAA Tournament (hosted by UCLA) May 13 !TBD May 14 !TBD May 15 !TBD
TBD TBD TBD
Home games in BOLD CAPS (at Uytengsu Aquatics Center) * MPSF game ~ game played in Honolulu $UCLA Invitational (hosted by UCLA) @ Triton Invitational (hosted by UC San Diego) % UCI Invitational (hosted by UC Irvine) & MPSF Tourn. (hosted by Bakersfield) ! NCAA Champs (hosted by UCLA) (P12) = televised by Pac-12 Networks
2016 Women’s Collegiate Top-10 (Week 9 • March 16)
Rank School Last Week 1. USC 1 2. UCLA 2 3. Stanford 3 4. Hawaii 4 5. Michigan 5 6. UC Davis 6T 7. UC Irvine 6T 8. California 8 9. Arizona State 9 10. UC San Diego 11
Points 100 96 92 88 83 79 77 71 69 62
THIS WEEK @USCWaterPolo The top-ranked and undefeated Trojans have set up camp in Hawai’i this week for a Spring Break training trip that will include an official nonconference clash against the host Rainbow Wahine. No. 1 USC (13-0) will square off against No. 4 Hawai’i (13-4) at 6 p.m. HT on Thursday (March 17) in Honolulu. USC IN THE RANKINGS USC opened 2016 ranked No. 3 in the national preseason poll and at No. 2 in the MPSF preseason poll. The Trojans moved up to rank No. 2 on Feb. 10, and rose in the ranks to stand as the No. 1 team in the nation as of the Feb. 17 national poll. The last time USC was ranked No. 1 had been in March 2014. USC remains as the nation’s No. 1 team this week. SCOUTING HAWAI’I The No. 4 Rainbow Wahine are 14-4 6 overall after a fourth-place finish at the UCI Invitational in their last action. Hawai’i beat Pacific 7-6 and California 7-6 on the first day of play before falling to UCLA 10-6 in the semifinals and taking a 13-7 loss to Stanford in the third-place game. Chloe Barr is the Rainbow Wahine’s top scorer with 52 goals to date, while goalie Sarah Logan is averaging 5.35 saves and 6.3 goals-against per game in 20 appearances. USC is 39-3 all-time against Hawai’i after three wins last season. The Trojans beat the Rainbow Wahine 10-1 in Honolulu last year and then won 14-7 in the NCAA quarterfinals in Palo Alto. LAST WEEK USC turned the tide on visiting No. 6 UC Irvine last week. After the Anteaters managed a first-period lead, the Trojan defense got downright stubborn and shut down its visitors for the final 24 minutes of play. The offense, meanwhile, opened the floodgates and let loose five straight scores to finish off a 7-3 win. USC rattled the Anteaters’ cage less than 15 seconds into the contest when Stephania Haralabidis nabbed the opening sprint and then Hayley McKelvey found Ioanna Haralabidis for the blast that gave the Trojans the early 1-0 advantage. UC Irvine dug right back in, however, zipping in back-to-back goals around a failed USC power play chance to nudge ahead 2-1. Stephania Haralabidis drilled the equalizer with 1:12 on the clock, only to see the Anteaters striking back just 20 seconds later to give UC Irvine a 3-2 lead at the close of the first.USC misfired on its next two 6-on-5 opportunities but managed to keep the Anteaters at bay at the other end. USC goalie Victória Chamorro made a clutch save off a tipped shot to tally one of her seven saves on the day, while Hayley McKelvey and Melissa Bergesen each snagged steals on the defensive end to keep USC’s second-period shutout intact. With 2:47 to go until halftime, Ioanna Haralabidis delivered her second goal of the game, and it was all even at 3-3 on the way into the second half. Early in the third, Brigitta Games got the Trojans up on another 6-on-5 with some hard work at set. Soon after, Brianna Daboub would send in a ripper to net the Trojans a 4-3 lead. With 5:27 on the clock, UC Irvine went up on a power play and called timeout to set it up. USC freshman goalie checked in for the USC defense at that point, and she’d wind up playing out the final stretch of the third quarter. During that time, the rangy freshman hauled in two saves to shut down the UCI power play and then nabbed another before her time was done in the cage. In the final stretch of the third, Avery Peterson earned a 6-on-5 for the Trojans and quickly hammered home the score off a pass from Bergesen to take the Trojans to a 5-3 lead entering the fourth period. Chamorro checked back into the cage once more, anchoring the Trojans through another solid defensive stretch that was counterbalanced by a couple nice USC goals. Ioanna Haralabidis whipped in a crosscage sore to tally her third of the day and make it a 6-3 USC advantage with 6:32 to go. Exactly a minute later, after another USC defensive stop, Daboub laced in another 6-on-5 finish for USC, and the Trojans were enjoying a 7-3 advantage. In the remaining time, the USC defense stayed the course, getting a takeaway from Annika Jensen in the process and a counterattack pass steal from Chamorro before senior goalie Alegra Hueso capped up for the final minute of play. USC wound it down and wrapped up the impressive comeback win with a final 7-3 decision in the undefeated Trojans’ favor. PETERSON PICKS UP THE PACE Two-meter player Avery Peterson is off to the races in her junior campaign, having already bettered her previous career total with a powerful 23 goals already scored this season alone. She set a new career high for herself with a six-goal game at Whittier on Feb. 6, and has since picked up her first career selection as MPSF Player of the Week. After punching up a hat trick in a key MPSF road win over Arizona State, Peterson earned the weekly award for the first time on March 8. UCI INVITE CHAMPS USC tacked up another tournament title to remain undefeated in 2016 with a push to the UCI Invitational championship Feb. 27-28. The Trojans opened up with a 13-3 win over CSUN on day one and would wind up
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2016 UniversiTy of SouThern California WOMen’s WaTer Polo in a tough battle against tournament host UC Irvine later that afternoon, pulling off an 11-10 victory to move into Sunday’s semifinals. There, USC stoned No. 4 Stanford with a ferocious 7-6 comeback win to secure a place in the title match. In another title match faceoff with rival UCLA, USC held its ground against the No. 2 Bruins and pinned up a 10-7 victory to win the championship crown. Stephania Haralabidis would come through with the clutch game-winning goals against both UC Irvine and Stanford. She’d finish the tournament with 12 goals, including a career-high seven goals in the tight win over UC Irvine. Amanda Longan and Victória Chamorro would share time in the cage, each capping up for two games apiece. Longan got the call-up for the UC Irvine game and the UCLA faceoff in the final, and would come through with 10 saves in both appearances. For their roles in helping to drive the Trojans to the championship, Stephania Haralabidis and Amanda Longan secured another MPSF sweep of weekly awards, as Haralabidis was named MPSF Player of the Week for the second time and Longan grabbed MPSF Newcomer of the Week honors for the third consecutive week. BY THE NUMBERS Through the first 13 games of 2016, undefeated USC has outscored opponents 165-60, leading the MPSF in defense (4.6 gapg) and standing at No. 2 in offense (12.7 gpg). Junior Stephania Haralabidis is the top scorer to date with 34 goals — ranking her No. 9 alltime in career scoring with 156 goals. Just a notch behind her are three fellow juniors. Twin sister Ioanna Haralabidis has cracked the century mark in career goals thanks to her 24 goals scored to date in 2016, followed closely by fellow junior Avery Peterson, who has already bettered her sophomore season total with 23 goals to date. Just a step behind her is Brigitta Games with 20 goals. On the defensive end, freshman goalie Amanda Longan has capped in nine games and is averaging 8.8 saves and 4.9 goals-against per game in her 26 periods of work. Returning All-American goalie Victória Chamorro has appeared in 20 periods and averages 7.2 saves and 5.4 goals-against per game. Senior goalie Alegra Hueso has allowed only one goal in her six appearances in the cage to date. TROJAN SWEEPS WEEKS For their efforts in driving the Trojans to perfect performances at the Triton Invitational and UCI Invitational, USC’s Stephania Haralabidis and Amanda Longan have paired up to sweep the MPSF weekly honors twice so far this season. At the Triton Invitational Haralabidis scored nine goals, topping out with a hat trick in the title match, where the Trojans beat No. 1 UCLA 8-6 in the final. In the semifinals, Haralabidis scored twice to help generate a 6-3 win for USC over Arizona State. At the same event, freshman goalie Longan had a strong showing. In her two appearances, Longan collected a total of eight saves -- including a 5-meter penalty stop -- and allowed only four goals. She made three saves in three periods of work in the opening 20-2 win over Santa Clara and then made five saves in the same stretch of action in USC’s 6-3 semifinal win over ASU. More recently, the duo proved instrumental again in guiding the Trojans to the 2016 UCI Invitational championship. Haralabidis’ 12 goals at the event included a career-high seven goals in a close 11-10 win over host UC Irvine, the game-winner with 5 second left in the 7-6 semifinal win over Stanford, and a hat trick in the 10-7 championship victory over UCLA. Longan, too, came up big in the cage with 10 saves vs. UCI and 10 more against the Bruins. That marked Longan’s third straight week as MPSF Newcomer of the Week, while Haralabidis secured her second MPSF Player of the Week award
of 2016 with the pair’s second sweep of the season. INTERNATIONAL INFLUENCES The overall young Trojans have garnered plenty of international experience on the way into this 2016 campaign for USC. Incoming freshman goalie Amanda Longan won gold with Team USA at the 2015 FINA Junior World Championships, where several other Trojans were competing with their respective countries. The Haralabidis sisters, Ioanna and Stephania were in action with Greece; goalie Victória Chamorro capped up for Brazil; and Hayley McKelvey was a high scorer for Canada. CAGE FIGHTERS USC’s goalkeeping corps this season is ferociously deep. Sophomore Victória Chamorro set a freshman goalie record last season in hauling in 207 saves in her first year as a Trojan. This year, she’s joined by freshman Amanda Longan, who was named Top Goalkeeper at the 2015 FINA Junior World Championships during the summer. Added veteran experience comes from senior captain Alegra Hueso, who has appeared in 27 games during her first three seasons as a Trojan. Even more depth between the pipes comes from junior Melanie Slater and sophomore Nicola Gonzales. OH CAPTAINS, MY CAPTAINS The most experienced player in the pool this season is junior Avery Peterson — one of three Trojan captains for 2016. Sophomore Brianna Daboub and senior Alegra Hueso also have been selected as team captains for the year. Peterson weighs in as the veteran of the group in that she has logged the most playing time of the bunch. With 20 goals to her name as a Trojan, the 2-meter power was in the water for USC’s last two NCAA Tournament runs. Daboub may just be a sophomore, but her savvy helps her stand out as another key leader for the Trojans this season. She scored 27 goals as a freshman and was named to the 2015 MPSF All-Newcomer Team. A senior, Hueso has been at Troy since her freshman season in 2013, when USC won its last NCAA Championship. GUT CHECKS IN IRVINE USC was significantly tested in back-to-back games at the UCI Invitational, facing deficits against both UC Irvine and Stanford and finding a way to fight back to victory. The Anteaters are the only team this year to score in double digits against the Trojans, but USC remained unfazed in a see-saw battle against the tournament host that saw the lead change hands back and forth and lock up even seven times. UC Irvine led 4-3 after the first period of play and later got out to an 8-6 advantage with 3:38 left in the third period, only to see the Trojans rattle off three straight scores to work back into the lead. Hayley McKelvey provided the spark and Stephania Haralabidis followed with back-to-back blasts to take the Trojans ahead 9-8 with 1:22 to go in the third. A Haralabidis buzzer-beater would get USC ahead 10-9 entering the fourth. There, the Anteaters snarled it up for the seventh time with a score at 5:25. Less than a minute later, Haralabidis proved heroic again with her seventh goal of the game to get USC ahead 11-10 at 4:43, and that one would hold through a tense final few minutes get USC the victory. The very next morning, USC was in a crucial semifinal bout with Stanford, which pumped in three goals in the second frame to lead it 4-2 at halftime. The Cardinal would net one more in the third to put USC behind 5-2 entering the final period. That’s where the Trojans showed their mettle. McKelvey broke the silence with a blast to start the fourth frame, and Brianna Daboub rifled one in to get USC within one, down 5-4 with 5:57 on the clock. The Trojans would shut down a Stanford 6-on-5 chance
2016 AWARDS MPSF Player of the Week: Stephania Haralabidis (Feb. 16) Stephania Haralabidis (March 1) Avery Peterson (March 8)
MPSF Newcomer of the Week: Amanda Longan (Feb. 16) Amanda Longan (Feb. 23) Amanda Longan (March 1)
USC Career Scoring Leaders 1. Monica Vavic..................2012-15......................291 2. Aniko Pelle.....................1999-02......................255 3. Sofia Konoukh................2001-03......................224 4. Moriah Van Norman.......2003-06......................215 5. Nina Wengst..................1999-02......................213 6. Brittany Hayes................2004-07......................209 7. Katrin Dierolf..................2000-03......................204 8. Michelle Stein.................2006-09......................170 9. Stephania Haralabidis.2014-present..............156 10. Kami Craig.....................2006-10......................152 11. Christina McCall.............1995-97......................142 Alexandra Kiss................2007-10 Kaleigh Gilchrist.............2011-14 14. Erika Figge.....................2004-07......................137 15. Joelle Bekhazi.................2009-11......................135 16. Lauren Wenger...............2003-06......................127 17. Jennifer Durley...............1998-01......................122 18. Kristen Dronberger.........2008-11......................120 19. Eike Daube.....................2012-15......................119 20. Sandra Milicev................1999-02......................116 21. Eszter Gyori....................2002-05......................115 20. Kally Lucas.....................2007-10..................... 113 21. Ioanna Haralabidis ...2014-present.......... 107 next, and then Brigitta Games shouldered the load and dished out the equalizer to get USC even again at 5-5 with 3:05 to go. The USC scoring run continued as Ioanna Haralabidis notched USC’s first lead since the first frame, hammering home the go-ahead goal at 1:14. In the final minute, Stanford broke through and managed to level it up at 6-6 with 54 ticks to go. USC would wind up on the attack as the clock wound down, setting up Stephania Haralabidis to come through as the hero of the game as she landed a lob in the back of the net with just 5 seconds left to get USC a 7-6 lead. 2016 TROJANS AT A GLANCE The Women of Troy take aim at their 2016 campaign under the direction of head coach Jovan Vavic for the 22nd season. The USC women are looking to extend a streak of 12 straight trips to the NCAA Tournament, and the talent is certainly there to make a strong run at a title. Picked No. 2 in the MPSF Preseason Coaches Poll, the Trojans weigh in just a point behind top-picked Stanford. Both the Trojans and the Cardinal each received three first-place votes, hinting at a heated race for the 2016 title to come. USC returns three of its top five scorers from 2015 — Stephania Haralabidis (64 goals), Ioanna Haralabidis (50 goals) and Melissa Bergesen (37 goals) — along with All-American goalie Victória Chamorro and All-American two-meter power Brigitta Games. The Haralabidis twins earned All-American status last season as well. In all, USC returns 11 members of last season’s 16-player NCAA roster. •
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2016 USC(13-0 SCHEDULE/RESULTS overall • 1-0 MPSF) DATE OPPONENT TIME/RESULT SCORE SCORERS SAVES Feb. 5 #19 UC San Diego W 17-4 Games 4, S. Haralabidis 3, Peterson 3, Stansfield 2, Chamorro 4, McKelvey 2, Jensen, Daboub, I. Haralabidis. Longan 4 Feb. 6 at Whittier W 28-2 Peterson 6, I. Haralabidis 4, S. Haralabidis 3, Bergesen 3, Longan 4, Games 3, Jensen 3, Fahey 2, Flath 2, Stansfield, Daboub. Hueso 5 Triton Invitational Feb. 13 @Santa Clara W 20-2 Bergesen 3, McKelvey 3, Jensen 2, I. Haralabidis 2, Longan 3, S. Haralabidis 2, Fahey 2, Stansfield, Presten, Hueso 1 Flath, Gudmundsson, Games, Peterson. Feb. 13 @#19 UC San Diego W 15-8 Peterson 3, Jensen 2, S. Haralabidis 2, Games 2, Flath, Chamorro 6 I. Haralabidis, Blubaugh, Daboub, Fahey, Gudmundsson. Feb. 14 @#5 Arizona State W 6-3 I. Haralabidis 2, S. Haralabidis 2, McKelvey, Games. Longan 5, Hueso 2 Feb. 14 @#1 UCLA W 8-6 S. Haralabidis 3, Daboub 3, I. Haralabidis, Games. Chamorro 7 Feb. 20 #25 Cal State Northridge W 15-3 S. Haralabidis 4, McKelvey 2, Daboub 2, Games 2, I. Haralabidis 2, Jensen, Peterson, Bergesen.
Longan 13, Hueso 1
UCI Invitational Feb. 27 %#25 Cal State Northridge W 13-3 I. Haralabidis 4, Games 2, Peterson 2, S. Haralabidis, Chamorro 5, Daboub, Bergesen, Stansfield, Gudmundsson. Hueso 1 Feb. 27 %#9 UC Irvine W 11-10 S. Haralabidis 7, Daboub 2, McKelvey, I. Haralabidis. Longan 10 Feb. 28 %#4 Stanford W 7-6 I. Haralabidis 2, Peterson, McKelvey, Daboub, Games, Chamorro 7 S. Haralabidis. Feb. 28 %#2 UCLA W 10-7 S. Haralabidis 3, Stansfield 2, Peterson 2, I. Haralabidis, Longan 10 McKelvey, Games. March 5 at #9 Arizona State * W 8-3 Peterson 3, Games 2, S. Haralabidis 2, Daboub. Longan 5 March 11 #6 UC Irvine W 7-3 I. Haralabidis 3, Daboub 2, S. Haralabidis, Peterson. Chamorro 7, Longan 3, Hueso 0 March 17 at #4 Hawai’i 6 p.m. HT March 19 at Hawai’i (scrimmage) TBA March 26 at San Jose State * 1 p.m. April 2 April 3 April 9 April 16 April 22
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Player Goals Stephania Haralabidis 34 * MPSF game Home games in BOLD CAPS — Held at Uytengsu Aquatics Center Ioanna Haralabidis 24 @ Triton Invitational — Hosted by UC San Diego % UCI Invitational — Hosted by UC Irvine ~ game played in Honolulu Avery Peterson 23 & MPSF Tournament — Hosted by CSU Bakersfield ! NCAA Tournament — Hosted by UCLA Brigitta Games 20 Brianna Daboub 15 Games/Pds Saves SPG Goals Agst GAPG Hayley McKelvey 11 Goalie 6 / 20 36 7.2 27 5.4 Annika Jensen 9 Victória Chamorro 9 / 26 57 8.8 32 4.9 Melissa Bergesen 8 Amanda Longan 6 / 6 10 6.7 1 0.7 Nikki Stansfield 7 Alegra Hueso 13 games 103 7.9 60 4.6 Courtney Fahey 5 Totals Mackenzie Flath 4 2 3 4 OT1 OT2 SD1 SD2 Total Ave. Dagmar Gudmundsson 3 Goals by Period 1 51 39 43 32 - - - - 165 12.7 Sydney Blubaugh 1 USC 20 12 17 11 - - - - 60 4.6 Brooke Presten 1 Opponents TOTAL 165
Games Mult-Goal Total Player Scored in Games Goals Stephania Haralabidis 13 10 34 Ioanna Haralabidis 12 7 24 Brigitta Games 11 6 20 Avery Peterson 10 6 23 Brianna Daboub 10 4 15 Hayley McKelvey 7 3 11 Nikki Stansfield 5 2 7 Annika Jensen 4 3 9 Melissa Bergesen 4 2 8 Courtney Fahey 3 2 5 Mackenzie Flath 3 1 4 Dagmar Gudmundsson 3 0 3 Sydney Blubaugh 1 0 1 Brooke Presten 1 0 1
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MPSF WOMEN'S WATER POLO STATISTICS--Mar. 14, 2016
INDIVIDUAL STATS GOALS *Must Appear In 50 % of Team Games
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ATHLETE Rae Lekness Stephania Haralabidis Carla Carrega Jamie Neushul Kat Klass Ioanna Haralabidis Avery Peterson Ashley Paz Mackenzie Barr Emily Loughlin Brigitta Games India Forster Anna Yelizarova Daisy Carter Carla Toha Vilanova Devin Grab Gurpreet Sohi Lizette Rozeboom Katie Sverchek Alexa Tielmann Maud Koopman Dani Jackovich Brianna Daboub Abbey Kerth Pippa Saunders
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GOALS 52 34 45 29 28 24 23 35 27 28 20 26 22 20 27 24 21 18 18 21 17 18 15 16 23
GOALS/GAME 2.74 2.62 2.14 1.93 1.87 1.85 1.77 1.59 1.59 1.56 1.54 1.53 1.47 1.43 1.42 1.41 1.40 1.29 1.29 1.24 1.21 1.20 1.15 1.14 1.10
*Must Appear In 30 % of Team Quarters YEAR SCHOOL GAMES SAVES SO Arizona State 12.25 139 SR CSU Bakersfield 14 159 FR UCLA 9 91 JR CSU Bakersfield 8 77 FR USC 6.5 57 SR UCLA 8 69 R-SO Stanford 13.5 111 SO San Jose State 8.5 61 SO USC 5 36 FR San Jose State 7.75 45 JR California 11.09 65 FR California 8.94 43
SAVES/GAME 11.35 11.36 10.11 9.63 8.77 8.63 8.22 7.18 7.20 5.81 5.86 4.81
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ATHLETE Mia Rycraw Courtney Wahlstrom Carlee Kapana Brittany Tyra Amanda Longan Alex Musselman Julia Hermann Tayler Peters Victoria Chamorro Alicia Magliocco Madeline Trabucco Madison Tagg
SCHOOL San Jose State USC California Stanford Stanford USC USC CSU Bakersfield UCLA California USC UCLA Stanford Arizona State San Jose State UCLA Stanford UCLA Arizona State UCLA Arizona State Stanford USC Arizona State California
GAMES 19 13 21 15 15 13 13 22 17 18 13 17 15 14 19 17 15 14 14 17 14 15 13 14 21
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MPSF Champion and NCAA Automatic Qualifier determined at conference tournament, hosted by CSU Bakersfield, April 29-May 1
RECENT RESULTS MPSF WOMEN'S WATER POLO STATISTICS--Mar. 14, 2016
THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE
INDIVIDUAL Thursday, March 17 STATS Sunday, March 13 USCGOALS at HAWAII pm % CSU Bakersfield 16, Redlands 4 GOALS-AGAINST *MustAppear Appear6:00 In50 30% % of of Team Team Games Quarters *Must In % ARIZONA STATE 8,GA Wagner 6 ATHLETE YEAR SCHOOL QUARTERS GAA ATHLETE YEAR SCHOOL GAMES GOALS GOALS/GAME Friday, March 18 Madeline Trabucco JR California 44.375 4.69 1 &1San Rae Lekness SR San Jose State 19 52 2.74 Saturday, March 12 Jose State vs. Whittier 10:15 am 2 Carlee Kapana FR UCLA 36 46 5.11 2 & San Stephania USC 13 34 Bakersfield 4 2.62 Jose State atHaralabidis LOYOLA MARYMOUNTJR 3:15 pm *ARIZONA STATE 13, CSU Amanda Longan FR USC 26 32 4.92 *CALIFORNIA 13, San 45 Jose State 4 3 3 Carla Carrega SO California 21 2.14 March 19 % ARIZONA STATE 24,29 Redlands 1 4 Jamie Madison Tagg FR California 35.75 48 5.37 4 Saturday, Neushul JR Stanford 15 1.93 Jose State vs. CSUN 8:00 am % Wagner 13, CSU Bakersfield 8 5San Julia Hermann R-SO Stanford 54 76 5.63 5 &CSU Kat Klass FR Stanford 15 28 1.87 Bakersfield at FRESNO PACIFIC 11:00 am Victoria Chamorro SO USC 20 27 5.40 6 &6San Ioanna Haralabidis JR USC 13 24 1.85 Friday, March 11 Jose State vs. Azusa Pacific 11:45 am AlexatPeterson Musselman SR UCLA 32 49 6.13 7 # 7Michigan Avery JR USC 13 23 1.77 ARIZONA STATE 12:00 pm USC 7, UC Irvine 3 8 Ashley Mia State Rycraw SO Arizona 49 75 6.12 Diego at CALIFORNIA 1:00 pm State 8 San Paz SO CSU Bakersfield 22 35 1.59 CSU Bakersfield vs. CSU Monterey Bay (at FPU) 2:00 pm Sunday, March 6 9 Courtney Wahlstrom SR CSU Bakersfield 56 122 8.71 8 Mackenzie Barr JR UCLA 17 27 1.59 # Pomona at ARIZONA 3:30 pm UCLA Brittany Tyra STATE JR CSU Bakersfield 32 9, MICHIGAN 5 28 65 8.13 1010Emily Loughlin JR California 18 1.56 UCLA 20, Bucknell 5 (at Michigan) 11Brigitta Tayler Games Peters SO San USC Jose State 34 82 9.65 11Sunday, JR 13 20 1.54 March 20 12 Alicia Magliocco FR San Jose State 31 83 10.71 12# Pacific Indiaat Forster SR UCLA 17 1.53 ARIZONA STATE 10:00 am Saturday, March 526 at UC SAN DIEGO 12:00 pm *USC 13Stanford Anna Yelizarova SR Stanford 15 8, ARIZONA STATE 22 3 1.47 2016 WOMEN’S Preseason Poll at CSU BAKERSFIELD 1:00 pmState *Stanford TEAM STATS 14*UCLA Daisy Carter SR Arizona 14 17, SAN JOSE 20STATE 3 (Preseason 1.43 # Marist at ARIZONA STATE 1:30 pm UCLA 22, George Washington 5 (at Michigan) • Jan. 13) 15 Carla Toha Vilanova FR San Jose State 19 17, Loyola Marymount 27 4 (at Michigan)1.42 2015 TEAM GOALS UCLA Rank School Final Rank Points 16 Devin Grab SO UCLA 1.41 1 1. 24 98 UC17 DAVIS 8, California 6 Stanford TEAM GAMES GOALS SCORED GOALS/GAME 2. 214 (at UCLA 95 17SCHEDULE/RESULTS Sohi Stanford 15 13, Santa Clara California UC Davis) 1.40 2 NOTES SR 1 Gurpreet Stanford 15 196 13.07 3. 8USC 3 92 CSU Bakersfield 10, CSUN (at Citrus College) 18*MPSF Rozeboom FR UCLA 14 Conference Game 2 Lizette USC 13 165 12.69 4. 18 California 1.29 4 86 CSU Bakersfield 10, AZUSA PACIFIC 7 (at Citrus College) Invitational 5. 18 UC Irvine 1.29 5 77 18&3Loyola KatieMarymount Sverchek SR Arizona 14 UCLA 17 201State 11.82 Invitational II…# Arizona State Invitational III UCLA 6. 21 Arizona State 1.24 9 73 20%4Arizona AlexaState Tielmann R-JR 17 California 21 208 9.90 7. Hawaii 6 (T) 67 Home Team in CAPS; All Times Local to Site 215 Maud Koopman FR Arizona 14 1.21 8 8. 17 San Jose State 62 Arizona State 14 133State 9.50 9. 18 UC Davis 1.20 11 46 226 Dani Jackovich JR Stanford 15 CSU Bakersfield 22 200 9.09 10. UC Pacific 16 (T) 45 237 Brianna Daboub SO USC 13 15 Princeton 1.15 6 (T) San Jose State 19 162 8.53 11. 40 12t. 36 24 Abbey Kerth SR Arizona State 14 16 Indiana 1.14 12 12t. Michigan RV 36 25 Pippa Saunders SR California 21 23 1.10 TEAM DEFENSE 14. UC Santa Barbara 13 (T) 34 15. Loyola Marymount 13 (T) 33 TEAM GAMES GOALS AGAINST GOALS/GAME MPSF Water Polo • Page 1 16. 2016San Diego State 16 (T) 31 1 GOALKEEPER USC 60 SAVES 13 *Must Appear In 30 % of 4.62 Team Quarters 17. Long Beach State 15 28 18. Cal State Northridge 10 26 2 ATHLETE California 21 107 5.10 YEAR SCHOOL GAMES SAVES SAVES/GAME 19. Hartwick 18 (T) 24 Stanford 15 80State 5.33 1 3 Mia Rycraw SO Arizona 12.25 139 11.35 20. Wagner 18 (T) 8 UCLA 17 95 5.59 2 4 Courtney Wahlstrom SR CSU Bakersfield 14 159 11.36 Others receiving votes: UC San Diego 7, 14 79 5.64 3 5 Carlee Arizona KapanaState FR UCLA 9 91 7, Marist 2,10.11 Harvard Iona 2, Cal Baptist 1, Bucknell CSU Bakersfield 22 194 8.82 4 6 Brittany Tyra JR CSU Bakersfield 8 77 1. 9.63 SanLongan Jose State 5 7 Amanda 6 Alex Musselman 7 Julia Hermann 8 Tayler Peters 9 Victoria Chamorro 10 Alicia Magliocco 11 Madeline Trabucco 12 Madison Tagg
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57 8.77 69 2016 MPSF8.63 COACHES 111 8.22 POLL PRESEASON 61 Team (1st-place7.18 votes) Points 1. 36 Stanford (3) 7.20 32 2. 45 USC (3) 31 5.81 3. UCLA (1) 29 4. 65 California 5.86 22 5. 43 Arizona State 4.81 15 6. 7.
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Victória Chamorro 5-10 Goalie Amanda Longan 6-2 Goalie Alegra Hueso 5-9 Goalie Melanie Slater 5-7 Goalie Nicola Gonzales 5-8 Goalie Annika Jensen 6-0 Utility Ioanna Haralabidis 5-11 Driver Sydney Blubaugh 5-8 2-Meter Nikki Stansfield 5-11 2-Meter Brooke Presten 5-8 Driver Melissa Bergesen 5-10 Driver Mackenzie Flath 5-9 Driver Hayley McKelvey 5-11 Utility Stephania Haralabidis 5-11 Driver Brianna Daboub 5-9 Driver Dagmar Gudmundsson 6-0 Utility Brigitta Games 6-1 2-Meter Courtney Fahey 5-8 Driver Avery Peterson 5-11 2-Meter Cassidy Feltenberger 5-4 Driver Emma Cornwell 5-10 Goalie Ellie D’Ambra 5-5 Driver Lauren Esrig 5-7 Driver Kelly Giery 5-8 Driver Natalie Lavinsky 5-8 Driver Kaitlin Leimbach 5-9 Driver Caitlin Stuewe 5-7 Utility Nicola Welch 5-8 Driver Head coach: Jovan Vavic Associate head coach: Casey Moon Volunteer Assistant Coach: Alexandra Kiss
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HOMETOWN (HIGH SCHOOL/COLLEGE) Rio de Janiero, Brazil (Centro Educacional de Lagoa HS) Moorpark, Calif. (Oaks Christian HS) Pasadena, Calif. (Pasadena HS) Long Beach, Calif. (Wilson HS) Orinda, Calif. (Miramonte HS) Orinda, Calif. (Campolindo HS) Athens, Greece (Corona del Mar HS) Los Alamitos, Calif. (Mater Dei HS) Fullerton, Calif. (Foothill HS) Orinda, Calif. (Camplindo HS) South Jordan, Utah (Kearns HS/Golden West) Alamo, Calif. (Monte Vista HS) Vancouver, B.C., Canada (Seaquam Secondary) Athens, Greece (Corona del Mar HS) Newport Beach, Calif. (Mater Dei HS) Hanford, Calif. (Hanford West HS) Littleton, Colo. (Chatfield HS/Golden West) Alamo, Calif. (Monte Vista HS) Newport Beach, Calif. (Newport Harbor HS) San Pedro, Calif. (San Pedro HS) San Diego, Calif. (Otay Ranch HS) Rolling Hills, Calif. (Palos Verdes HS) Eugene, Ore. (South Eugene HS) Manhattan Beach, Calif. (Mira Costa HS) Manhattan Beach, Calif. (Mira Costa HS) Palos Verdes, Calif. (Palos Verdes HS) Monterey, Calif. (Sacred Heart Prep) Westmoorings, Trinidad (St. Joseph’s Convent Port-of-Spain)
Scouting Director: Marko Pintaric Director of Operations: TBD
PRONUNCIATIONS
#3 Ioanna Haralabidis #5 Sydney Blubaugh #10 Stephania Haralabidis #11 Brianna Daboub #12 Dagmar Gudmundsson #13 Brigitta Games #14 Courtney Fahey Jovan Vavic Marko Pintaric Alexandra Kiss
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2016 UniversiTy of SouThern California WOMen’s WaTer Polo HEAD COACH 22nd season • 490-142 (.775) 13 national titles • 10 cutino award winners 12-time national coach of the year 10-time mpsf coach of the year
JOVAN VAVIC VAVIC AT USC
1996 MPSF Men’s Co-Coach of the Year 1998 National Men’s Co-Coach of the Year 1999 MPSF Women’s Coach of the Year National Women’s Coach of the Year 2003 MPSF Men’s Coach of the Year National Men’s Coach of the Year 2004 MPSF Women’s Coach of the Year National Women’s Coach of the Year 2005 MPSF Men’s Coach of the Year National Men’s Coach of the Year 2006 MPSF Men’s Coach of the Year 2008 MPSF Men’s Coach of the Year National Men’s Coach of the Year 2009 National Men’s Coach of the Year 2010 MPSF Women’s Coach of the Year National Women’s Coach of the Year MPSF Men’s Coach of the Year National Men’s Coach of the Year 2011 National Men’s Coach of the Year 2012 National Men’s Coach of the Year 2013 MPSF Women’s Coach of the Year National Women’s Coach of the Year Men’s career coaching record: 494-82 (.858) • 21 seasons Women’s career coaching record: 490-142 (.775) • 21 seasons
Jovan Vavic, one of the most decorated water polo coaches in the country, serves a dual role as the head coach of both the USC men’s and women’s teams. He has been with the USC women’s program since its inception in 1995, and has led both teams to national championships three times in the same school year (1998-99, 2003-04 and 2009-10). A 12-time National Coach of the Year and 10-time MPSF Coach of the Year, Vavic boasts a grand total of 13 combined national titles — including a six-year run with the USC men — and has coached 10 Cutino Award winners. With 13 national championships (nine men’s and four women’s) won during his tenure at USC, Vavic has the most team titles of any USC head coach in history. Vavic’s 2015 women’s team reached the NCAA Tournament for the 12th straight season, taking third place for the second straight season and ending with a 24-6 overall record on the year. That mark improved Vavic’s overall career record on the women’s side to 490-142 (.775) as he now enters his 22nd season as the USC’s women’s head coach. In the calendar years of 2013 and 2010, Vavic swept both sides of the game, winning national championships with the women in the spring and following that with men’s titles in the fall of those years. In 2013, the Women of Troy won the longest NCAA women’s championship game in history, beating Stanford 10-9 in triple sudden death to claim USC’s fourth national championship on the women’s side, while finishing with a 27-1 overall record. The USC men would follow with a historic feat of their own, winning an unprecedented sixth straight national championship in claiming the 2013 crown. In 2010, the USC women and men went back-to-back as Vavic followed 2010 National and MPSF Coach of the Year awards on the women’s side with 2010 National and MPSF Coach of the Year with the men in leading the Trojan men to their third consecutive national championship. Following the USC men’s 2009 NCAA title and the USC women’s run to the 2010 national championship, Vavic saw two Trojans sweep the Cutino Awards for the third time in his career, as J.W. Krumpholz and Kami Craig went back-to-back as the 2009 and 2010 Cutino Award winners following the USC women’s run to the 2010 NCAA Championship. The first Trojan pair to sweep the awards was Juraj Zatovic and Lauren Wenger in 2006. Since 1999 when the program was fully funded, Vavic’s record is 401-69 (.853), including 11 consecutive NCAA tournament appearances. Between 2003 and 2010, Vavic was named either MPSF or National Coach of the Year (or both) every year but one. His 2004 women’s team won the national championship and became the first team in NCAA Championship history to go undefeated (29-0). In 1999, 2004 and 2010, Vavic was named the women’s National and MPSF Coach of the Year. Vavic oversaw the team’s move from Division II in 1995 to Division I in 1996. He guided USC to its first-ever Division I National Collegiate Championships appearance in 1997 and a seventh-place national finish while the 1998 team took fifth nationally. In 1999, USC won the national championship, and Vavic was named the National Coach of the Year and the MPSF Coach of the Year. The 2000 squad added another strong showing, finishing second nationally. Vavic came to USC in 1992 as an assistant men’s water polo coach, joined John Williams as co-head coach in 1995 and took over the men’s program in 1999 after Williams retired. He and Williams were named National Coaches of the Year in 1998 after leading USC to its first-ever national championship. They were also named MPSF Co-Coaches of the Year in 1996 after leading USC to the conference title. In fact, in the 1998-99 season, Vavic did something no other coach has accomplished as his teams won three national championships. Besides capturing the 1998 men’s and 1999 women’s titles, his 1999 men’s club team won the Men’s Senior National Club Championship. In 21 seasons at the helm of the USC men’s program, Vavic has improved his career coaching record on the men’s side to 494-82 (.858) with national championships won in 1998, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. Vavic, a native of Yugoslavia, spent the 1990 season as an assistant men’s coach at UCLA. Previously, he coached three seasons (1987-1990) at Palos Verdes (Calif.) High, where he led Palos Verdes to two undefeated league seasons (1987-89). Vavic also served as assistant coach to the U.S. team at the 1995 World University Games, and was the head coach of the team in 2003. In November 2012, Vavic was named interim head coach of the U.S. Men’s National Team, and led Team USA to World Championship qualification with success at the 2013 UANA World Aquatic Championship Qualification Tournament in Canada. Vavic graduated from UCLA in 1992 with a bachelor’s degree in history. He and his wife, Lisa, have four children: Nikola, Monica, Marko and Stefan. Nikola and Monica both played water polo for their father at USC and both won national championships with their respective USC water polo teams.
