Huntington Beach, CA – February 2 – The second year of the USA Water Polo Men’s National League is set to begin this February 20 at Segerstrom High School in Santa Ana, CA. Eight teams will be competing over four competition weekends with rosters including several members of the USA Men’s Senior National Team as they prepare for the 2016 Olympic Games. Rosters have been announced for each participating club with teams allowed to declare a different line-up of athletes for each weekend. The eight competing teams include USA Blue, USA Red, USA NorCal, USA SoCal, New York Athletic Club, Olympic Club, Alumni, and Repubblica.
Olympians Tony Azevedo, Merrill Moses, Jesse Smith, and John Mann are among the high caliber athletes competing including some of the best in the college game. See below for complete team rosters. For a Week 1 schedule including links to live stats via The FOSH, click here.
Following the opening weekend, action moves to Henderson, Nevada for Week 2 on March 19-20 and then back to Southern California and Corona del Mar HS for Week 3 action on April 2. The 2016 National League concludes with the championship at the University of California-Berkeley on April 30-1 with live webcast coverage available through USA Water Polo TV.
Admission is free to Weeks 1-3 of the National League, for more information on everything National League related including schedules and live stats click here to visit the official webpage. In 2015 USA Blue won the first ever National League title defeating USA White 11-6 in the title match.
2016 National League Schedules
2016 National League Rosters
USA Red – Coach: Alex Rodriguez and Bryan Lynton
1 Patrick Saunders – Vanguard
13 Sam Kruntonog – Premier
1 Duncan Creed – Lamorinda
13 Sam Murphy – Davis
2 Quintin Osborne – Vanguard
3 Felix Brozyna-Villim – Premier
4 Miles Cole – Santa Barbara
5 Matt Maier – Foothill
6 Jake Ehrhardt – Pride Water Polo
7 Dylan Woodhead – SHAQ
8 Ash Molten – Northwood
9 Chase Travisano – Foothill
10 Jacob Cavano – Vangaurd
11 Hannes Daube – Northwood
12 Marko Vavic – Trojan
14 Dennis Blyashov – Del Mar
USA Blue – Coach: Jack Kocur
1 McQuin Baron – USC
13 Drew Holland – Stanford
2 Nick Bisconti – Cal
3 Ben Hallock – Stanford
4 Alex Roelse – UCLA
5 Jackson Kimbell – Stanford
6 Chancellor Ramirez – UCLA
7 Thomas Dunstan – Mater Dei
8 Grant Stein – USC
9 Nick Bell – USC
10 Nicholas Carniglia – CAL
11 Luca Cupido – CAL
12 Bennett Williams – Dana Hills
14 Max Irving – UCLA
USA NorCal – Coach: Dan Leyson
1 Spencer Creed – UC Davis
13 Austin Pyrch – George Washington
2 Marco Stanchi – Stanford
3 Luke Irwin – Brown
4 David Kessler – Cal
5 Blake Parrish – Stanford
6 Robert Sutherland – Navy
7 Zachary Scudder – San Jose St
8 Tim Simenc – Cal
9 Ben Stevenson – UOP
10 Shane Hauschild – UC Santa Barbara
11 Connor Neuman – Cal
12 Mitchell Hamilton – UC Santa Barbara
14 Johny Hooper – Cal
15 Connor Stapleton – Stanford
16 Jovan Jeremic – Princeton
17 Cody Smith – Stanford
USA SoCal – Coach: Gavin Arroyo and Bryan Lynton
1 Alex Wolf – Bruin
2 Duncan Lynde – LBST
3 Chris Dilworth – Pepperdine
4 Austin Stevenson – LBST
5 Kyle Trush – UCI
6 Sean Thomas – Pepperdine
7 Bryce Hoerman – USC
8 Zach D’Sa – USC
9 Nick Alexander – UCSD
10 James Walters – USC
11 Nick Silvers – USC
12 Joey Colton – Harvard
14 Jack Trush – UCI
15 Marko Asic – Pepperdine
New York Athletic Club – Coach: Scott Schulte, Layne Beaubien, and Ross Sinclair
Merrill Moses
Chris Whitelegge
Wolf Wigo
John Mann
Josh Samuels
Tony Azevedo
Brett Bonnani
Alex Bowen
Alex Obert
Anthony Dabaub
Danny McClintick
Griiffin White
Chris Wendt
Jeff Tyrrell
Jesse Smith
Will Klein
Tommy Nelson
Adam Cunliffe
Drew Hoffenberg
Igor Mladenovic
Matt DeTrane
Richie Hyden
Josh Stillings
Lucas Reynolds
Filip Sasic
Olympic Club – Coach: Chris Lathrop and Brian Dudley
John Curley
Cullen Hennessy
Marin Balarin
Sage Wright
Janson Wigo
Drac Wigo
Zachary Monsees
Brian Dudley
Colin Mulcahy
Peter Varellas
Brian Alexander
Paul Reynolds
Jonathan Sibley
Travis Bickham
Paul Rudolph
Stephen Siri
Charlie Steffens
Thomas Agramonte
Jacob Smith
Peter Sefton
Connor Cleary
Alumni – Coach: Eric Sturgeon, Eric Black, Steve Doten, and Troy Barnhart
Brandon Brooks
Brian Kinsel
Nikola Vavic
Nick Fadden
Griffin Lerman
Andrew Reego
Matt Burton
Jake Young
Greg Enloe
Sean Grab
JT Sarmento
Connor Virjee
Chay Lapin
Daniel Lenhart
Kevin Witt
Steve Barrington
Max Mendoza
Krisztian Laszcovic
Tom Koning
Shane Mahoney
Michael Rosenthal
Lance Morrison
Mac Carden
Jeremy Pope
Mace Rapsey
Repubblica – Coach: Terry Schroeder, Jeremy Hare, Peter Hudnut and Wesley Kading
Chase Cockerill
Clayton Snyder
Dan Matulis
Dimitrios Lappas
Wesley Kading
Derek Shoemaker
Nicholas Rascon
Daniel Seymour
Taylor Clute
Tyler Mancuso
Joshua Tice
Wesley Sherburne
Rex Butler
Chase Mccoll
Daniel White
Derek Wiebe-Bailey
Eric Chasse
Peter Hudnut
Pavo Ljepopio
Ivan Kustic
Brandon Loveless
Eric Carnohan
Robert Poynton
Edgarus Asajavicius
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