Water Polo Set to Compete in USA Water Polo’s Legacy Crown Tournament

COSTA MESA, Calif. — The University of Hawai’i ladies’s water polo staff is about to compete within the newly created Legacy Crown Tournament, going down Saturday, Nov. 15 to Sunday, Nov. 16 at Orange Coast College and Costa Mesa High School in Costa Mesa, Calif.

The occasion was created by USA Water Polo to rejoice the twenty fifth anniversary of ladies’s water polo on the Olympic Games. The two-day occasion options the nation’s high collegiate packages, together with Hawai’i, Stanford, UCLA, USC, California, Long Beach State, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, Fresno State, Loyola Marymount and Arizona State. Domestic golf equipment and USA Water Polo National Team Academy squads will even compete within the occasion.

UH opens the event in opposition to UC San Diego on Saturday, Nov. 15 at 11:45 a.m. PT (9:45 a.m. HT) at Orange Coast College. The Rainbow Wahine will play a second match later that day, with the opponent and time decided by first-round outcomes.

Teams return to motion on Sunday, Nov. 16 at Costa Mesa High School, with every staff scheduled for 2 matches. Sunday’s opening matchups shall be set based mostly on Saturday’s outcomes, whereas the ultimate video games of the day will rely on the outcomes Sunday’s earlier contests.

 

The Rainbow Wahine shall be led by returning 2025 ACWPC All-Americans Daisy Logtens and Ema Vernoux. Logtens, a two-time All-American Third Team honoree, is coming off one other excellent season the place she posted 209 saves, a .482 save share, and a conference-best 9.10 goals-average in opposition to. She additionally earned All-Big West First Team recognition and was named the Most Valuable Player of the Big West Championship.

Vernoux made an instantaneous affect in her first season, and was named to the All-American honorable point out listing. She led the staff with 78 targets—the fourth highest single-season whole in program historical past—together with 16 hat tips and 98 factors. Vernoux was additionally named Big West Freshman of the Year and earned a spot on the All-Big West First Team.

In all, the Rainbow Wahine return 14 gamers from final yr’s staff, which completed the 2025 season ranked fourth in final season’s last CWPA and ACWPC polls, and have added seven newcomers to the roster. 

Reigning Big West Coach of the Year James Robinson appears to be like to construct on a stellar season the place he led the UH to a 22-5 document, capturing each Big West common season and event titles, and a second straight semifinal look on the National Collegiate Women’s Water Polo Championship.

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