In her fourth year as a keeper for the Cal water polo program, Lindsay Dorst has faced the best collegiate water polo can offer. This year, Lindsay encountered a new challenge. Whenever Cal plays UCLA or Stanford, Lindsay is pitted against familiar faces in an unfamiliar setting. Across the pool Read More…
Cal keeper Lindsay Dorst slammed her fists into the water in triumph. UCLA’s shot had just flown over the Bears’ net, and cheers rang throughout Spieker Aquatics Center on Saturday. The No. 5 Cal women’s water polo had done it — an 8-6 upset over No. 1 UCLA. “We finally Read More…
The Cal and UCLA women’s water polo teams have met once this year in a game that catapulted them on divergent paths. On Feb. 4, the Bears were 10-0 on the season and ranked second in the country, close to making the jump to the top of the collegiate water Read More…
A minute into the second quarter, the score sat tied at 2-2. The No. 5 Cal women’s water polo team had survived the first quarter of Saturday’s match. Up until that point the team kept pace with No. 3 USC, a squad it had already lost to twice this year. Read More…
San Diego has become a hub of competitive water polo and a wellspring of young water polo talent. Cal junior Dana Ochsner grew up in this water polo community, playing top high school and club teams throughout her upbringing. She will return to San Diego with the No. 5 Cal Read More…
Cal had nothing to lose. The team trailed by two points with only a minute remaining in a contest against No. 5 Arizona State. Coach Richard Corso pulled junior keeper Lindsay Dorst to gain an extra attacker. All the Bears could hope for was a comeback miracle. Cal failed to Read More…
The Cal women’s water polo team lives and dies with patience and ball control. Arizona State water polo relies on its ability to score numerous goals. The two conflicting offensive styles will meet this weekend when the Bears travel to Tempe, Ariz. to take on the No. 6 Sun Devils. Read More…
The Cal women’s water polo team is about to hit rough waters on its journey back to the NCAA championship. The success of the voyage will fall on the shoulders of the team’s four leaders, senior Elizabeth McLaren, juniors Breda Vosters and Dana Ocshner and sophomore Ashley Young. Although it Read More…
Junior Breda Vosters never shies away from the opportunity to shoot. She didn’t this weekend in the Cal women’s water polo team’s 8-6 victory over No. 8 UC Irvine on Saturday. With 1:21 left in the contest at Spieker Aquatics Center, Vosters had the ball roughly nine meters from the Read More…
There is a reason that assistant coach Matt Flesher has been training in the pool with the No. 4 Cal women’s water polo team: the Bears need to fix their inconsistency through high-intensity play. And what better way to start than on Saturday against No. 8 UC Irvine at Spieker Read More…
