National League 2025

General
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Starting a dedicated topic for this - https://usawaterpolo.org/sports/2019/1/22/mens-national-league.aspx Hopefully, we will get teams and locations / format soon.

I have heard rumors of several college teams participating this year which is great. Also, a good way to eval talent for national teams and perhaps a U20 worlds group will participate in addition?

Does anyone know if a newly transferred player could play with his new college (club) under the new rules? It seems like there are few guidelines now, and even underclassmen could play.

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Sorry I was trying to figure out how to copy and paste the previous discussion about national league from a couple weeks ago. Yes lots of college teams competing as clubs should be a banner year for national league. Now is their shot to make it great, but have not seen much from USA WP on this yet. I would hope they start pumping it up soon, I really hope they can get away from OVERNGHT so people can watch for free rather than pay to watch.

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Totally. I saw the other posts, and I just wanted to create a dedicated topic to hopefully get some discussion going. Any coverage would be great!

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Water Polo Wednesday - THIS WEEK - will have exclusive and never before released information about the USA National League 2025. Be sure to tune in!!!

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Thanks Guys! cant wait

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Episode is up! Check out the water polo Wednesday thread!

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Glad games will be streamed (Overngt)

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From Wednesday podcast → There will be two conferences: odd names but sobeit.

SoCalNorth
LAAC, UCLA, USC, LMU, UCSB, LBSU, Channel Cats

SoCalSouth
UCI, UCSD, NYAC, CBU, Sunset, USA Jr team, O Club

Notable absent: Stanford, Cal, UOP, Pepperdine. But guessing many of their players will be on other clubs.

Looks like four-weekend tournaments culminating with a championship at Mt Sac in April 25th weekend.

Mentioned that Overngt will be streaming.

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USC players playing as part of LAAC?

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Apologies, edited, USC has a team in SoCal North

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USC players will playing with usc unless they’ve graduated/used all eligibility. This is the case for all the teams participating in the league.

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You missed O club in the south
7 in each division.
too bad they could not get 7 NorCal teams, could have been
Stanford, UOP (everyone graduated), Cal, Davis, San Jose State, Santa Clara and put O-club with them. Maybe next year

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Will they be using the new international rules for National League? Or NCAA rules?

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There were 2 USAWP junior/academy teams in NL last year. Am I reading correctly that there will only be one team from USAWP this year?

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The Junior NT will have approximately 24 athletes in preparation for 20U Worlds in Croatia in June. The team should be finalized by April.

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What birth years are eligible for the 2025 20U Worlds?

2005 and below? Or 2006 and below?

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2005 and below ------

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Looks like the clubs and USAWP are doing a lot more to market the league this year. Happy to see this. Maybe things change for the better? This idea of “game of the week” seems to be a good idea to me. The LAAC Channel Cats game might actually be worth going to see in person. Let’s see if USAWP can actually build a men’s league…

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I asked this in the Water Polo Wednesday discussion thread and they said all games will be collegiate rules except for the games that the USAWP pipeline team is playing. Those games will be played with the international rules.

Kind of a weird choice in my opinion, but that’s what was communicated.

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We expect 500+ people at the game Saturday night. WPW will be doing on deck interviews during the day too. The marketing is being done by independent clubs as more of a grass roots effort. It’s really amazing to see teams coming together to collaborate and grow the sport together.

Note that the below Instagram is not usawp