Less than two months before the Olympic Games, water polo fans will have a chance to get a closer look at the US men’s and women’s teams on Bally Sports.
The team is loaded with experience, as 10 of the 13 players selected for Paris also competed at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Nine matches will run from venues throughout California, with the men battling Spain and Montenegro and the women taking on Italy and Hungary.
Papanikolau became just the second male to win the award three times, while Williams became the first woman in Cal program history to win it.
The USA Men’s National Team will begin their final push to the Paris Olympic Games with a two-game series against Montenegro in Southern California this June.
Augustana College leads the conference with five All-America nods, while Austin College (two) and Macalester College (two) also record multiple honorees.
The roster for the three-time defending Olympic champions features six returners from the Tokyo Games, five of which also earned gold at Rio 2016.
Bledsoe co-authored the book “Water Polo For Coach and Player” in 1976, a definitive how-to manual for coaches in the sport for decades.