BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — Brown University’s Marisol Dakan (Sr., Pasadena, Calif./La Salle) totaled 21 saves with a .525 save percentage, 19 goals against and one steal in three games during the Bears’ West Coast trip to claim March 26 Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Division I Defensive Player of the Week honors.
She opened the week with four saves and six goals against in an 8-6 defeat of Azusa Pacific University before racking up five saves with four goals against and a steal versus Division III No. 5-ranked Whittier College (15-9 W) and 12 saves with nine goals against in a 9-8 overtime loss to Division III No. 1 Pomona-Pitzer Colleges. She did not appear in an 11-7 win by Brown over Division III No. 2 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges.
The award marks the second Defensive Player of the Week nod for Dakan this season after previously notching notice on February 5. A six-time Defensive Player of the Week recipient, she received the February 23 and March 9 Defensive Player of the Week awards during her freshman season of 2015, the February 22 Defensive Player of the Week award in 2016 as a sophomore and the April 17 award in 2017 as a junior.
March 26 CWPA Division I Defensive Player of the Week Honor Roll: Cleo Harrington (Harvard University); Marialena Seletopoulou (Saint Francis University)
