BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — The Northeast Water Polo Conference (NWPC) Championship will come to Providence (Rhode Island), Cambridge (Massachsuetts), the New York City metropolitan area and Princeton (New Jersey) from 2018-to-2021 as Brown University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, either Iona College or St. Francis College Brooklyn and Princeton University will serve as the host sites for the event.
Comprised of Brown, Harvard University, Iona College, MIT, Princeton and St. Francis College Brooklyn, the NWPC has contested two previous championships since the creation of the Northeast Water Polo Conference and Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference (MAWPC) prior to the 2016 season.
Following the inaugural NWPC Championships at Princeton (2016) and Harvard (2017, Cambridge, Mass.) both claimed by Harvard, the 2018 event comes to the third of the Ivy League triumvirate as Brown takes on hosting duties at the Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center.
The event will return to Cambridge, Mass., for the second time in 2019 as MIT’s Alumni Pool at the Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center is the site of the fourth NWPC tournament.
Either St. Francis College Brooklyn or Iona College will host the 2020 championship if one of the teams can acquire a facility that meets the predetermined requirements for hosting the event. If either the Terriers or Gaels are unable to find an adequate facility, the event will forward to 2021 host Princeton. If either St. Francis or Iona do host the event in 2020, then Princeton will take its regular rotation in the schedule and host in 2021.
