A trio of East Bay clubs are at the forefront of NorCal’s influence on the U.S. Olympic roster, and some coaches are seeking to uproot the increasingly expensive system.
USA’s Luca Cupido shoots and scores against Spain during a friendly water polo match as they prepare for the Olympics at Spieker Aquatics Complex in UC Berkeley, Calif., on Friday, June 28, 2024. The U.S. men’s and women’s Olympic water polo teams will soon travel to France with 13-player rosters that are almost entirely made up of Californians. And about half of them have Bay Area ties.
When Roemer’s daughter, Jewel, was 7 and swimming for the Sun Valley Swim Team, some of the parents would organize a casual game of water polo when the girls got bored.Jewel, who now plays at Stanford and will also represent the United States in Paris this summer, didn’t like water polo at first. Across the Golden Gate Bridge into San Anselmo, Sleepy Hollow Aquatics has produced several top-tier talents, including Stanford’s Dylan Woodhead, who will compete for the American men in Paris.
Cutino was a big part of promoting the “Big Splash,” an end-of-season clash between Cal and Stanford that became “the biggest game in American water polo,” said Stanford women’s coach John Tanner. From 1973 to 1994, either Cal or Stanford won 19 of 22 NCAA championships on the men’s side. From there, SoCal had a boom thanks to Pepperdine, UCLA and USC, but Cal has been back on top, winning each of the last three titles.“We have some great, great coaches at every level in Northern California,” Tanner said. “And then there’s competition around them, especially in the East Bay swim leagues. They have neighborhood rivalries.
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