BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — University of California-Santa Cruz women’s collegiate club head coach Jennifer Parra-MacDougall and former Mercyhurst University men’s and women’s varsity head coach/former UC-Santa Cruz men’s and women’s collegiate club head coach/current Cabrillo College assistant coach Blair MacDougall will discuss “Goal Setting, Communication & Emergent Team Leaders” in the first “Coaches Corner” webinar presented by the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) during the 2025-26 academic year.
The presentation is available on Microsoft Teams at 8:00 p.m. Eastern/5:00 p.m. Pacific on Wednesday, September 24, by CLICKING HERE with a meeting ID of 219 535 847 760 7 and a passcode of: gk26mG2i
The presentation has a purpose to help club teams have the resources & confidence to run productive practices and manage their programs throughout their season.
All presentations are open for collegiate club, varsity, fans, officials and the general public to view at no cost.
An archive of the prior Coaches Corner discussions is available on the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) website by CLICKING HERE.
About Blair MacDougall: An athlete at the University of California-Santa Cruz on the Banana Slugs varsity team prior to the 
elimination of the men’s and women’s programs in 2008, Blair MacDougall helped found the institution’s collegiate club programs in both genders.
The Banana Slugs finished ninth in the Pacific Coast Division in 2009 during the program’s inaugural season as a collegiate club program prior to taking sixth place at the 2010 Pacific Coast Division Championship.
In 2010, the Banana Slugs captured their inaugural Division III Collegiate Club Championship as the team knocked off Monmouth College by an 18-2 score in the title game at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. MacDougall garnered All-Tournament Second Team honors for anchoring the Banana Slugs to the National Championship. For his efforts, MacDougall was named a Second Team Division III All-America selection.
In 2011, UC-Santa Cruz earned a berth in the National Collegiate Club Championship at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, Georgia, by topping California State University-Chico by a 7-6 score in the inaugural Sierra Pacific Division title game at home in Santa Cruz. At the National Collegiate Club Championship, the Banana Slugs claimed eighth place in the 16-team field.
He capped off his intercollegiate playing tenure by earning All-Sierra Pacific Second Team status while helping UC-Santa Cruz to a Sixth Place finish in the Sierra Pacific Division during the 2012 season. The team elected not to compete in the 2012 Division III Collegiate Club Championship hosted by Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vt.
In addition to his playing tenure at UC-Santa Cruz, MacDougall also served as head coach of both the men’s and women’s collegiate club programs.
In 2013, he assumed co-coaching duties with Dustin Johnson of the men’s program and guided the team to a Sixth Place finish in the Sierra Pacific Division. At the Division III National Collegiate Club Championship hosted by Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., he combined with Johnson to share co-Coach of the Tournament recognition as the Banana Slugs garnered their second National Championship with a 13-9 defeat of Washington University in St. Louis.
In women’s competition, he combined with Brian Fischl to lead UC-Santa Cruz to the 2010 Sierra Pacific Division title and a Third Place mark at the National Collegiate Club Championship hosted by the University of Arizona. Following a Third Place mark in the Sierra Pacific Division during the 2011 season, the Banana Slugs returned to and placed sixth at the National Collegiate Club Championship hosted by Florida State University as the team claimed the 2012 Sierra Pacific Division Championship. MacDougall completed his first tenure at UC-Santa Cruz by guiding the women’s team to a Fifth Place finish at the 2013 Sierra Pacific Division Championship.
His profession moved him to Florida, where he returned to the collegiate club coaching ranks in 2016 to lead the University of Central Florida men’s team to a regular season championship and a runner-up finish at the Florida Division Championship.
Following several years away from collegiate coaching, he returned to his roots and took over as head men’s and women’s club coach at UC-Santa Cruz from 2019 until the commencement of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
He was hired as a graduate assistant at Mercyhurst for the 2022-23 season and was named the interim head coach during the spring. During his tenure as interim head coach, he helped the Lakers’ women’s program to a 7-15 campaign, including a pair of wins over crosstown rival Gannon University.
He assumed the role of head coach for both the Mercyhurst men’s and women’s teams in May 2023 and led the teams through the conclusion of the 2025 women’s season. He departed Erie during the summer to return home to Santa Cruz and his wife, Jennifer.
In addition to his collegiate coaching tenure, MacDougall has also been active in coaching the 5-Meter Water Polo camps in the Santa Cruz area with Olympian Genai Kerr.
About Jennifer Parra-MacDougall: A former varsity goalkeeper for the University of California-Santa Cruz, Jennifer Parra-
MacDougall returned to her alma mater to take over the women’s collegiate club team.
In 2025, she led the Banana Slugs to a 7-0-1 regular season schedule prior to the team going 3-0 at the Bay Area Division Championship – including a 14-7 defeat of San Jose State University in the title game – to advance UC-Santa Cruz to the Women’s National Collegiate Club Championship hosted by Colby College in Waterville, Maine. The Bay Area Division Coach of the Year, she guided the Banana Slugs to an 11th place finish as the team fell to Northeastern University (10-5 L) and the University of California (10-9 L) to go along victories over Colby (16-3 W) and Florida State University (17-11 W).
She currently works as a Geographic Information Systems Analyst for the County of Santa Clara (Calif.) as the 2010 graduate of UC-Santa Cruz also holds a Masters of Education from California State University-Monterey Bay (2015) and a Masters Degree in Geospatial Information Science and Technology from North Carolina State University (2019).
