2024 USA Water Poo Division III Collegiate National Championship Set for December 7-8; Streaming & Live Statistics Available on Overnght.com & The FOSH
2024 USA Water Polo Division III Collegiate National Championship Website
BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — The 2024 USA Water Polo Division III Collegiate National Championship will occur on Saturday-Sunday, December 7-8, at Division III No. 1-ranked/Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) Champion the University of Redland’s Thompson Aquatic Center in Redlands, Calif.
The four-team championship featuring Redlands, SCIAC runner-up/Division III No. 2 Chapman University, Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF)-East Region Champion/Division III No. 10 Augustana College and Division III Eastern Champion/Division III No. 8 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will be streamed on a pay-per-view basis on Overnght.com with live statistics provided on The FOSH at no charge.
Competition begins on Saturday, December 7, as No. 1 seed Redlands takes on No. 4 seed Augustana at 11:30 a.m. Pacific/2:30 p.m. Eastern prior to No. 2 seed Chapman facing No. 3 seed MIT at 1:30 p.m. Pacific/4:30 p.m. Eastern.
On Sunday, December 8, the losers of Games 1 and 2 clash at 10:30 a.m. Pacific/1:30 p.m. Eastern for Third Place prior to the title game at 12:30 p.m. Pacific/3:30 p.m. Eastern matching the victors of Games 1 and 2.
Created during the Winter of 2019 in cooperation between USA Water Polo, the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) and SCIAC, the championship provides Division III student-athletes the opportunity for a meaningful postseason competition in addition to offering an incentive for other Division III institutions to add the sport on a varsity level.
In 2019 at Whittier College, the host Poets defeated Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges by a 5-3 score for the inaugural Division III Championship with MIT knocking off Johns Hopkins University via a 20-13 score for Third Place.
Following the cancellation of the 2020 event due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the championship returned in 2021 at Pomona-Pitzer Colleges with the host Sagehens managing Claremont-Mudd-Scripps by a 13-12 score for the title. Johns Hopkins avenged its 2019 Third Place game loss by topping MIT courtesy an 11-10 final score.
At California Lutheran University in 2022, Redlands claimed the programs’ first National Championship in the sport of water polo by defeating the host Kingsmen, 11-6, with MIT claiming the program’s second Third Place finish with a 9-6 victory over Johns Hopkins.
Last year at Augustana College, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps dispatched Redlands, 6-5, to become the fourth team in four championships to claim first place. MIT added another Third Place finish by upending the host Vikings courtesy an 11-9 final tally.
