STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Wagner College head coach Josh Hower announced the full 2025 schedule for the Seahawks’ upcoming campaign.
Playing 27 games against 16 teams this upcoming season, the Seahawks are coming off a 16-18 2024 season where they ended with a 7-6 record in the Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference (MAWPC), finishing in fourth place at the MAWPC Tournament.
The season will begin Saturday, August 30 at the 2025 Bruno Classic, where Wagner will take on Long Island University and host Brown University in a pair of games to start the weekend in Providence, R.I. On Sunday, the Seahawks will face the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and host Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., to close things out. At the 2024 Bruno Classic, the Seahawks took an opening loss in a 17-8 game against then-No. 15 Harvard before closing out the weekend with three wins over Iona University, the United States Air Force Academy and Long Island.
On Friday, September 5, the Seahawks square-off with the United States Naval Academy to kick off the Princeton Invitational at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J. On Sunday, September 7, Wagner plays a pair of games against Long Island and Princeton. In 2024, Wagner played the University of California-San Diego, University of the Pacific and Santa Clara University at the Princeton Invitational, taking three losses that weekend.
After the Princeton Invitational, Wagner travels to Iona in New Rochelle, N.Y., for a Friday, September 12 game against the Gaels. The Seahawks were 1-0 against Iona last season, taking a close 13-12 win on September 12 at the Bruno Classic.
Wagner heads to the Bucknell Invitational hosted by Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa., on Saturday, September 20, opening with a game against Mercyhurst University before returning on Sunday, September 21 to take on the Bison. Last season, Wagner was 2-1 at the Bucknell Invite, with wins over Gannon University and Mount St. Mary’s University before ending the trip with a 13-12 loss to Bucknell.
Wagner will then play Fordham University on Saturday, September 27 — a team the Seahawks finished 0-3 against in 2024.
The largest distance the Seahawks will travel in 2025 will be out to Claremont, Calif., for the Gary Troyer Tournament, where they will take on the University of California-Irvine and Concordia University on Friday, October 3, before returning Saturday, October 4, to play Pomona-Pitzer Colleges and Chapman University.
Wagner returns home on Saturday, October 11, to host George Washington University. Last season, the Seahawks took a 13-12 loss to the Revolutionaries on September 28, then took another single-goal loss in an 8-7 defeat on November 2 before the season ended with a 15-5 loss to the Revs at the MAWPC Tournament.
A trip to Harvard on Saturday, August 18, for the Harvard Invite has the Seahawks taking on both the host Crimson and MIT. The squad returns to the pool on Sunday, August 19, to take on Brown and Long Island.
Wagner will host three schools — Mount St. Mary’s University, Navy and George Washington — across three days on Friday, October 31, Saturday November 1 and Sunday, November 2, respectively. Wagner went a combined 3-4 against those three teams in 2024.
The MAWPC Championship will occur on Friday-Sunday, November 21-23, at Fordahm in the Bronx, N.Y., with a berth to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Championship on the line. In 2024, the Seahawks notched a 12-9 win over Bucknell in the opener before taking a pair of losses to Fordham and George Washington to finish in Fourth Place.
Release courtesy Wagner College Athletics Communications
