2022 University of Redlands Women's Water Polo Schedule

REDLANDS, Calif. – University of Redlands Women's Water Polo Head Coach Chris Gielen released his 2022 schedule Wednesday, which includes three tournaments and nine games inside the Thompson Aquatic Center. 

In 2021 the Maroon and Grey only played six games due to COVID-19, going 2-4,1-3 SCIAC.  They did upset the No. 2 seed in Chapman University to qualify for the SCIAC Tournament finale.  The offense averaged 7.5 goals/game, won 64% (16-9) of their sprints and finished the year with a .274 shot percentage.  Redlands has not completed a full season since 2019, when they finished 14-16, 7-7 SCIAC.  Since then they have gone 6-13, 3-5 SCIAC in back to back limited seasons.

Both Holly Kvanvig and Katrina Nielsen, who were All-SCIAC performers and ACWPC Honorable Mention All-Americans from 2021 are both returning for the 2022 season.  As the top two scorers for the Bulldogs, Kvanvig and Nielsen accounted for nearly half of the team's goals with 20 of the 45 coming between them.  Kvanvig tallied 13 points on offense and drew six exclusions on defense to rank first among the team in each category.  Nielsen impressed with her .600 shooting percentage by converting nine of her 15 shots into goals.  She also shouldered the sprint responsibilities and won all 15 of her opportunities.       

This year the Bulldogs will host the annual Bulldog Invite on Saturday, February 19, which will include six programs (Cal Baptist, Whittier College, Pomona-Pitzer, UCSD, and Toronto).  The other two tournaments on the schedule will be the CBU Lancer Joust Tournament (January 29) and the Gary Troyer Tournament (March 4-5).

Schedule

Home games in bold

*Conference game

Previous Meetings

(Teams listed in order from schedule)

• Pomona-Pitzer: Last met in 2020 at the TAC when the Bulldogs fell 14-9. Their return trip was cancelled.
• Cal Baptist: Played each other at the Bulldog Mini-Tournament in 2019 and lost 14-6.
• La Verne: Lost 10-6 at home in a conference game in 2020, game two was cancelled.
• Caltech: Won the only conference matchup of 2020, 15-2, as the second game was cancelled.
• Claremont-Mudd-Scripps: 2020 matchup was cancelled. Went 1-2 in 2019 with an 11-6 home loss at the Bulldog Invitational, a 7-6 home conference loss, and a bounce back road conference win 9-2.
• Cal Lutheran: Went 0-3 in 2021, home loss 13-4, and a pair of road losses, 14-6 and 11-6 (SCIAC Postseason Tournament Final).
• Occidental: 8-5 home conference win in 2020, second game got cancelled.
• Pacific: Last meeting was all the way back in 2014 at the Pacific Invitational when the Bulldogs fell 13-7.
• Whittier: Lone 2020 matchup cancelled, Lost 10-5 and 10-7 in 2019.
• Chapman: 2021 season opening home win, 10-9, a road 10-7 loss, and then a 11-7 road SCIAC Tournament Semifinal win.

Returning Stats Leaders

• Goals: Holly Kvanvig, 11
• Assists: Courtney Sawin, 3
• Points: Kvanvig, 13
• Shots: Kvanvig, 40
• Shot percentage: Katrina Nielsen, .600
• Exclusions drawn: Kvanvig, 6
• Steals: Nielson, 10
• Sprints won: Nielsen, 15-0
• Spring percentage: Nielsen, 1.000
• Goal keeping
  • Minutes: Tori Zielinski, 192:00
  • Goal against average: Zielinski, 10.67
  • Saves: Zielinski, 55
  • Save percentage: Zielinski, .462
  • Steals: Zielinski, 6