BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — The University of Michigan’s Ava Morrant (Jr., Maple Ridge, British Columbia/Maple Ridge Secondary School) is among a group of 40 athletes selected to Water Polo Canada’s Senior National Team Talent Pool (SNTTP) for the 2020-2021 season.
“For the first time in many years, WPC is publishing its Senior National Team Talent Pool marking a key shift to further integrate transparency and integrity to the selection process. Although the pandemic impacted the majority of 2020, we are hopeful that 2021 will bring opportunities to our programs. I’d like to be the first to congratulate the selected athletes to their respective talent pools,” explained Justin Oliveira, Water Polo Canada’s High Performance Director.
The SNTTP consists of the athletes eligible to represent Canada, demonstrating the potential to earn a position on Water Polo Canada’s Senior National Team for activities within the 2020-2021 season. Changes to the athlete pool may be made at the discretion of the head coach of the women’s team.
An attacker, Morrant has 28 goals, 16 assists, 13 drawn exclusions, 31 steals and six field blocks in 46 career games as she helped the Wolverines to the 2019 Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Championship. In her freshman year of 2019, she racked up eight goals, four assists, three drawn exclusions, seven steals and three field blocks in 27 games as Michigan finished 23-9, claimed the CWPA Championship and tied for Fifth Place at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Championship hosted by Stanford University. Last year during a COVID-19 abbreviated 2020 season, she posted 20 goals, 12 assists, 10 drawn exclusions, 24 steals and three field blocks in helping the Maize & Blue to an 11-8 mark.
It marks the second Water Polo Canada spot earned by Morrant in the past three months as she garnered a position in September among a group of 21 NextGen athletes selected by the National Team Program selected to train at the National Training Centre in Montreal.
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