2022 Harvard University Men’s Water Polo Schedule
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University women’s water polo has released its schedule for the upcoming 2022 season, featuring 12 home games as the Crimson is set to host the Bruno Classic on February 5-6 and the Harvard Invitational on March 5-6. The slate features 30 games in total as the women return to action on January 29 for the first time since March 8, 2020, a total span of 692 days.
The season will open on Saturday, January 29, with matchups against Villanova University and Iona College at the Villanova Swim Complex in Villanova, Pa. This marks the third straight season that the Crimson will open with the Gaels and Wildcats, after Iona hosted the trio in 2019 and Harvard took on hosting duties in 2020.
Harvard comes home on February 5-6 to host part of Brown University’s Bruno Classic as the Crimson will kickoff their home slate with four matchups. California Baptist University and Pomona-Pitzer Colleges come in as the first West Coast programs on the docket, with the Crimson also matching up with Siena College and La Salle University at Blodgett Pool, which will host its first women’s games in 699 days.
The following weekend, February 12-13, sees another quartet of games, this time at Princeton University’s DeNunzio Pool in Princeton, N.J., as the Tigers host the Princeton Invitational. Harvard will match up with Villanova and St. Francis College Brooklyn on day one of the tournament before meetings with Long Island University and the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) on Sunday, February 13. The Crimson open Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) play on February 26-27, with a trio of games hosted by Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa. A pair of neutral site games on Saturday, February 26, with St. Francis University and Mount St. Mary’s University kick-off the CWPA season, before a tilt with the host Bison on Sunday, February 27, marks Harvard’s second true road contest of the season.
Precisely a month after hosting the Bruno Classic, the Harvard Invitational will take place on March 5-6 at Blodgett Pool. The field has yet to be determined, with Harvard set for another pair of doubleheaders at home. The Crimson will head out to the West Cost for its next six contests following the home weekend.
On March 12-13, the Crimson will head to the Grand Canyon State to games at Arizona State University’s ASU Invitational II on March 12-13 in Tempe, Arizona. At ASU, Harvard will take on the host Sun Devils on Saturday, March 12, prior to facing Azusa Pacific University in the afternoon. The Crimson wraps up their time in Tempe by taking on Marist College for Harvard’s lone Sunday contest on March 13.
The women will then head out to the coast for a midweek matchup with San Diego State University on Wednesday, March 16, in San Diego before a doubleheader on Saturday, March 19, versus the University of California-San Diego and Stanford University. The only true road contest of the latter trio will be at UC-San Diego, with Southwestern College in Chula Vista set to host the San Diego State matchup, and Cathedral Catholic High School the site for the Stanford tilt.
The Crimson wraps up their schedule with seven CWPA league games in April. The stretch begins with a doubleheader with the University of Michigan and Princeton back in Princeton, N.J., on Saturday, April 2. The team will return to Cambridge on Saturday-Sunday, April 9-10, as Princeton, Bucknell, Saint Francis and Michigan trek to Blodgett for a weekend that will play a critical role in deciding the CWPA regular season standings.
Harvard closes out its regular season with a road matchup at Brown University on Saturday, April 16 in Providence, R.I., to establish both teams’ final seeds for the CWPA Championship on Friday-Sunday, April 22-24 in Lewisburg, Pa., at Bucknell.
The victor of the CWPA Championship earns the league’s automatic berth to the 2022 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Championship slated for Friday-Sunday, May 6-8, at Michigan’s Canham Natatorium in Ann Arbor, Mich. Originally scheduled for May 13-15, the NCAA Championship date was moved by consent back in August 2021 to accommodate the FINA World Championship.
