2024 Men’s Collegiate Club Colonial Division Schedule
BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — The Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) releases the 2024 Men’s Collegiate Club Colonial Division schedule.
Comprised of Amherst College, the University of Connecticut, the University of Massachusetts, Wesleyan University, Williams College and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the Colonial Division will contest its ninth season in 2024 following victories by Connecticut (2023), Massachusetts (2022), Williams (2015, 2021), Wesleyan (2016), Amherst (2017) and the United States Coast Guard Academy (2018, 2019). The 2020 season was not contested due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The regular season docket is a single tournament as of Sunday, September 1, as Williams in Williamstown, Mass., will host 12 games on Saturday-Sunday, September 21-22. Another tournament is possible if a team can acquire pool time by the conclusion of the first week in September. If pool time does not become available, the second tournament will be canceled.
The order of finish from the regular season establishes the Colonial Division’s seeding for the combined Colonial/North Atlantic “A” and “B” Championships slated for Saturday-Sunday, October 19-20, at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vt., and Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. The determination of which site hosts the “A” and “B” Championships will be resolved based on the order of finish of Middlebury and Bowdoin.
The “A” Championship will pit the top three finishers from the North Atlantic Division versus the top three teams from the Colonial Division in a nine-game event to determine an overall champion. In addition, the top finishing teams in both divisions claim their respective group’s titles.
The “B” Championship pits the No. 4-to-6 seeds from the Colonial Division along with the No. 4-to-6 regular season North Atlantic Division finishers in another nine-game tournament.
The North Atlantic and Colonial Divisions’ top Division III finishers at the “A Championship both earn automatic berths to the 2024 Division III Collegiate Club Championship if the event is hosted this year.
