BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — Former Hartwick College standout Bronwen Knox is among 13 athletes selected to the Australian Women’s National Team roster for the 2018 FINA Women’s World Cup in Surgut, Russia on September 4-9.
The World Cup will form an important part of Australia’s campaign building towards Tokyo 2020. The FINA World Cup tournament takes place every non-Olympic year between World Championships and serves a qualification event for the upcoming 2019 FINA World Championship..
Australia falls into Group A to start the tournament as the Stingers will face Spain, China and Russia. Group B will feature the Republic of South Africa, New Zealand, the United States of America and Canada.
The captain of the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Australia Olympic Women’s Water Polo teams and two-time Olympic Bronze Medalist (2008, 2012), Knox is the only player in the history of the Hartwick women’s water polo program to earn second team All-America honors from the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC). She helped guide the Hawks to a record of 56-20, two Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Northern Division titles, a CWPA Eastern crown and a sixth-place finish at the 2006 NCAA Division I Championship during her two seasons in Oneonta, N.Y.
Following her freshman campaign in 2005, she was the CWPA Northern and Eastern Championship Rookie of the Year, a first team CWPA Northern and Eastern selection, and was an ACWPC Honorable Mention All-America selection. In 2006, Knox led the country in scoring with 127 tallies and was later named Most Valuable Player of both the Northern Division and Eastern Championships. She also earned ACWPC All-Academic team honors and received second team All-America accolades.
A 2012 inductee to the Hartwick Hall of Fame, she totaled 229 goals, 57 assists, 286 points, 209 steals at Hartwick, including program single-season record 127 goals and 117 steals in 2006.
She is one of two former CWPA student-athletes on the Aussies’ roster for the event as Amy Ridge, who competed for one year at the University of Michigan recording 20 goals, 10 assists, 11 drawn exclusions and 26 steals in 38 games during the 2016 season, also earned a nod.
