BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — Indiana University’s Krista (Peterson) Polvi will be inducted into the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Hall of Fame during the 2017 CWPA Championship on Friday-Sunday, April 28-30, at Indiana’s Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center.
The second Hoosier to enter the Hall of Fame following the induction of Kristin Stanford in 2012, Polvi competed for Indiana from 2002-to-2005 and the lead to its first CWPA Championship in 2003. Over the span of her four-year tenure in Bloomington, Indiana, she recorded 224 goals on 524 shots, 118 assists, 129 steals and 71 drawn kickouts in a total of 134 games. At the time of her graduation, she rated second on the Hoosiers in career goals and assists and sixth in steals and now stands fourth in goals, 10th in assists and outside the Top 10 in steals.
A native of Portland, Ore., she was a two-time Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) All-America honoree by garnering recognition on the Honorable Mention squad in both 2003 and 2004. She was one of only nine players outside the state of California to garner All-America recognition in 2003 and was among eight East Coast athletes to make the All-America list in 2004.
The first Hoosier to earn All-Conference First Team honors three-times (2003, 2004, 2005), she was also the first Indiana player to score 50 or more goals and register 30 or more assists in three consecutive seasons as she racked up 50 goals and 30 assists in 2002, 61 goals and 30 assists in 2003, 50 goals and 31 assists in 2004 and 53 goals with 27 assists in 2005.
Following a freshman season in which she accounted for 50 goals, 30 assists, 39 steals and 15 drawn kickouts in helping Indiana notch a 21-14 record, her best season was arguably 2003 when she posted 61 goals, 30 assists, 38 steals and 21 drawn kickouts in helping the Hoosiers claim the CWPA Championship, advance to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Championship Final Four and finish with a 26-11 mark. Polvi, who matched a school-record with six goals on April 11, earned CWPA Eastern Championship First Team and Most Valuable Player honors as she helped Indiana defeat George Washington University (9-6 W, three goals, two assists, one steal), Princeton University (5-1 W, one goal) and Brown University (7-5 W, five goals, one assist, one steal). At the NCAA Championship, she scored twice with a steal in a 13-2 loss to Stanford University prior to racking up a goal and an assist in a 5-2 defeat by Loyola Marymount University.
She wrapped up her intercollegiate career by posting 60 goals, 31 assists, 19 steals and 22 drawn kickouts in 2004 to earn CWPA Eastern Championship All-Tournament First Team honors and aid the Hoosiers in a 20-9 season. As a senior in 2005, she netted 53 goals, 27 assists, 33 steals and 13 kickouts drawn in a 24-10 season as she led Indiana to a runner-up mark at the CWPA Eastern Championship and earned All-Tournament Second Team notice.
Away from the pool, she was a three-time ACWPC All-Academic and CWPA Scholar-Athlete selection by garnering recognition in 2002, 2004 and 2005. Further, she achieved Academic All-Big Ten recognition in 2003, 2004 and 2005.
Outside Bloomington, she was a member of the Gold Medal winning United States National Team at the 2002 Junior Pan America Games.
She becomes the 31st inductee into the CWPA Hall of Fame as the list of honorees includes: Richard Hunkler (Slippery Rock University/Coach, 2002), Dick Russell (Bucknell University/Coach, 2002), Lynn Kachmarik (Slippery Rock University/Athlete, Bucknell University/Coach, 2003), Ed Reed (Brown University/Coach, 2003), John Barrett (University of Maryland/Athlete, 2004), Paul Barren (West Chester University/Referee, 2004), Sue Kolczak (Slippery Rock University/Athlete, 2005), George Gross (Yale University/Athlete, 2005), Robbie Bova (Slippery Rock University/Athlete, 2006), Scott Schulte (Bucknell University/Athlete, 2006), Katie Grogan (University of Massachusetts/Athlete, 2007), Russ Yarworth (University of Massachusetts/Coach, 2007), Betsey Armstrong (University of Michigan/Athlete, 2008), Tom Popp (United States Naval Academy/Athlete, 2008), Diane Stein Swigart (Slippery Rock University/Athlete, 2009), Lars Enstrom (Brown University/Athlete, 2009), Leslie Entwistle (Slippery Rock University/Athlete, 2010), Chris Judge (Fordham University/Athlete, 2010), Carrie Basye-Becker (Slippery Rock University, University of Maryland/Athlete, 2011), John Benedick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Coach, Administrator, 2011), Kristin Stanford (Indiana University/Athlete, 2012), Mark Gensheimer (Bucknell University/Athlete, 2012), Adele McCarthy-Beauvais (Princeton University/Athlete, 2013), Simon Gould (University of Arkansas-Little Rock/Athlete, 2013), Tom Tracey (Villanova University/Director of Officials, 2014), Mike Schofield (United States Naval Academy/Coach, 2014), Goga Vukmirovic (Princeton University/Athlete, 2015), Rich Russey (Brown University/Athlete, 2015), Shana Welch (University of Michigan/Athlete, 2016) and Tony Paxton (Bucknell University/Athlete, 2016).
