Women's Water Polo Team Upsets UCLA
Ran across a pretty cool post on Twitter just now. The M Women's Water Polo team upset UCLA today. UCLA was ranked #4 in the country coming into today's game.
What's even cooler is, the M women have played UCLA in Water Polo 23 previous times in regular & postseason and had never beaten them.
Great win ladies! Go Blue!
https://twitter.com/UMichWaterPolo/status/1190804158481346560
November 2nd, 2019 at 10:08 PM ^
Huge win for Dr. Leonardi and the ladies!
November 2nd, 2019 at 10:15 PM ^
GREAT job ladies, way to go!
Go Blue!
November 2nd, 2019 at 10:24 PM ^
Don't know much about WWP but far as I know all the power teams in mens and womens are west coast. Isn't Harbs daughter on the team? Think she's Freshwoman.
November 2nd, 2019 at 10:27 PM ^
Affirmative
November 2nd, 2019 at 11:29 PM ^
Yes, it's a bit like baseball where good teams geographically have been centralized in one psrt of the country. There's probably even less parity.
And yeah, Harbaugh's daughter is a Fr on the team.
The coach was on Harbaugh's Attack Each Day Podcast last week if you want to know more. They have a brutal road schedule to maximize the travel for this trip, and then have a lay off with their conference schedule starting a month of so later.
November 2nd, 2019 at 11:58 PM ^
And I think Jim Abbott’s daughter too.
November 3rd, 2019 at 12:16 AM ^
I'm not current on the AED podcasts but do listen and thought I remembered them discussing that. Wasn't sure if it was swim team or water polo.
Think his oldest (or middle kids?) went to Coronado H.S. - San Diego - and I know that is a big water polo school.
Cracks me up when I hear all the crap about him looking for other jobs. Believe he has a son graduating UM this year. Daughter freshman. Young kids and their grandparents walking distance from campus. He's not getting fired and he's not leaving anytime soon.
November 4th, 2019 at 12:30 PM ^
Yeah, unless he's the world's greatest actor, he seems 100% content in AA (and more importantly, so is his wife). They're putting down some pretty serious roots here and if nothing else he and his dad being able to be so close again isn't something he's going to walk away from easily.
November 3rd, 2019 at 12:04 AM ^
Is freshwoman a new word? Serious question.
November 3rd, 2019 at 12:20 AM ^
Yes. But made up by me. 3 syllables means it wont catch on.
November 3rd, 2019 at 9:19 AM ^
I've heard freshwoman and freshperson before, although I'm sure it never caught on. The more politically correct seem to just use "first year" etc.
November 3rd, 2019 at 1:24 PM ^
November 3rd, 2019 at 7:26 AM ^
Sports!
November 3rd, 2019 at 9:29 AM ^
Hail to the Victors!
November 3rd, 2019 at 7:00 PM ^
Except this was an exhibition win over UCLA, we play them for real on Jam 25.