CSUF begins forming water polo team

seasonisscheduledforSpring2023.

game since March 2021.

UCLA, who CSUF will visit later in September, will be another tough environment for CSUF to come out victorious as the Bruins won nine of their 12 home games last season. The Bruins wrapped up their 2021 campaign with a 2-1 loss against Duke University in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

The Titans will have their work cut out for them within the Big West with defending conference champion UC Santa Barbara Gauchos and runner-up UC Irvine Anteaters both look to remainatoptheconferenceagain.

UCSB earned the Big West’s automatic qualifier position in the NCAA tournament after defeating UCI in last season’s Big West Tournament, 4-0. The Gauchos went on to fall short in the first round of the NCAA tournament against the aforementioned Bruins,2-1.

CSUF will open conference play against UCI on Sept. 28 and barring any injuries or major changes, the Titanswillhavealottopreparefor.

The Anteaters will be bringing back four members of the team that earned conference accolades last season. Big West Freshman of the Year Case Francesco Montanile returns after starting in 15 games last season while adding two goals. Big West First-Team member Ashish Chattha returns after he started in 17 of the 19 games he played in last season while netting four goals.

2023, Witts said.

While Witts has not found any assistant head coaches yet, Titan Athletics Director Jim Donovan anticipates that the program will have two assistant head coaches, one for the women’s team and another for the men’s, within the next four to six weeks.

Big West play will start on Sept. 28 and the Titans will play two weekly conference games for four weeks before playing once in the final week of October.

The Big West tournament will take place from Nov. 2-12, with a three-round single elimination format. The top six teams in the conference will qualify and the top two teams will earn a bye in the first round of the tournament.

Since Titan Athletics announced the returnoftheschool’swaterpoloprogram, thesearchforcoachesonstaff andplayer recruitmentcontinuesbeforethewomen’s

Kyle Witts, who began operations as head coach on July 18, comes to Cal State Fullerton with 13 years of head coaching experience. Prior to joining CSUF, Witts was the head coach of Loyola Marymount women’s water polowhere herecordeda.619 winning percentage.

The women’s water polo program will begin in spring 2023 with the women’s first home game on Feb. 4,

12 to 13 players are expected to be on the women’s roster at the end of the fallsemester,accordingtoWitts.Three to four players are incoming students, five players are current students, and four are transfer students who will join the roster later in the fall semester. He hopes to have 16 players on the roster next year in the spring when the women’steambeginsitsseason.

The women’s team will become the eighth water polo program within the Big West Conference; Cal Poly San

Luis Obispo, UC Riverside and Cal State Bakersfield are the only schools that are not in the conference’s water polo program.

“Water polo is very well supported within the Big West by the schools that dohaveit.Iwouldloveformoreexpansionnow,”saidWitt.

Currently there are no players on the men’s roster, as Witt has only received interest in joining the roster from received emails and phone calls. He had conversations with coaches from Fullerton College about students joining the program. He plans on attending Discoverfest as a way to reach out and appeal to students to join the water polo program. The men’s water polo season will begin in fall 2023. When the men’s program was not a part of the Big West, conference schools such as Long Beach State and UC Davis with an already established water polo program played in the Golden Coast Conference and the Western Water Polo Association, respectively. .

With CSUF added alongside the five schools that already have a men’s water polo program, the Big West will meet the required number of teams for NCAA postseason automatic qualification. However, the waiting period for this process will be two years. Until then, a Big West team could be selected as a large-bid participant in the NCAA postseason. As both programs are set to begin in 2023, Donovan believes that CSUF will become the premier water polo program in the country within the next three to four years.

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