Word: polos
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...water polo has, as a goal, the East Coast schools earning the respect and interest of East Coast spectators and becoming more competitive with the West Coast schools,” Harvard men’s co-captain Mike Crosby wrote in an e-mail. “This goal becomes more difficult to achieve when schools like Villanova, Boston College and now UMass drop their varsity programs...
...baffled that they would cut the water polo team because they are consistently one of the top 10 teams in the nation, including the UC schools,” junior women’s team member Jane Humphries said...
...rationale [with water polo] was mostly two things,” Joos said. “A lot of people here don’t even know that we have a program, and that hurts in obvious ways. But also, facilities were a concern...
UMass lacks a true water polo facility and has played its home games at nearby Amherst College...
...instead, the athletic department cut several sports that were among its most competitive. In addition to its nationally ranked water polo teams, its men’s gymnastics team currently ranked No. 9 in the nation...