2022 Men’s Collegiate Club Mid-Atlantic “A” & “B” Division Schedule
BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — The Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) releases the 2022 Men’s Collegiate Club Mid-Atlantic Division “A” & “B” schedules.
Divided into A and B groups based on the level of play among the programs, the Mid-Atlantic Division will celebrate its 27th season as part of the CWPA and is made up of Carnegie Mellon University, Drexel University, Pennsylvania State University “A”, Pennsylvania State University “B”, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh and Villanova University in the “A” group, while Bloomsburg University, Lehigh University, Rutgers University, Saint Joseph’s University, the University of Delaware and West Chester University comprise the “B” group.
The division championship has previously been captured by Pennsylvania (1995, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2021), Penn State (1998, 2005, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019), the University of Richmond (1999), Villanova (2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2011, 2018) and Slippery Rock University (2006). Further, the “B” Championship has been claimed by Delaware (2015, 2016), Lehigh (2021), Saint Joseph’s (2019) and West Chester (2017, 2018). The 2020 season was not contested due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Mid-Atlantic teams will contest a regular season slate of games leading up to the Atlantic/Mid-Atlantic Division “B” Championship on Saturday-Sunday, October 22-23, at Drexel in Philadelphia, Pa., and the Atlantic/Mid-Atlantic Division “A” Championship the same weekend at Penn in Philadelphia, Pa., and Villanova in Villanova, Pa.
At the Atlantic/Mid-Atlantic “B’ Championship hosted by Drexel, the No. 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 regular season finishers from the Atlantic Division will take on the No. 5, 6 and 7 finishers from the Mid-Atlantic “A” Division in a 12-game event.
Also in the Philadelphia region, the top four teams from the Mid-Atlantic “A” group will take on the top four teams from the Atlantic Division in a 12-game tournament. The top finishing programs at the championship from both the Atlantic and Mid-Atlantic Divisions earn their groups’ automatic berths to the National Collegiate Club Championship slated for Friday-Sunday, November 11-13, at a site to be determined in the Northwest Division.
The Mid-Atlantic “B” teams will battle in their own championship event on the weekend of Saturday-Sunday, October 29-30, as the six teams clash in a nine-game tournament at West Chester in West Chester, Pa..
The team which finishes in the middle of the Atlantic and Mid-Atlantic divisions earn the opportunity to compete in the National Invitational on a date and at a site to be determined against teams that claimed the top spot in the lower half of their divisions. Further, Carnegie Mellon as the lone Division III institution in the Mid-Atlantic Division holds the right to attend the 2022 Men’s Division III Collegiate Club Championship on Saturday-Sunday, October 29-30.
