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CWPA Adds 15 Men's Club Teams for 2009 Season
BRIDGEPORT, Pa. -- The Collegiate Water Polo Association is proud to announce the addition of 15 club programs and a new division to the league for the 2009 men's collegiate club season. Joining the CWPA are seven Big 10 programs which will form their own division, in addition to eight programs which enter their first season of competitive play.
In the Big Ten Division, the CWPA welcomes the University of Illinois, Indiana University, University of Iowa, Michigan State University, University of Michigan, Purdue University and University of Wisconsin as the seven transition from the previously independent Big Ten to form a division in the Collegiate Water Polo Association.
The University of Nebraska, University of Kansas and University of Minnesota-Duluth will all field first year programs in the Great Plains Division this year to raise the division membership to seven programs, while Hamilton College joins the now nine-team New York Division.
A pair of programs will join the Pacific Coast Division as University of California-Santa Cruz and University of California-Irvine increase the division membership to 17-programs.
In the Mid-Atlantic Division, two new programs join the league as LaSalle University and Franklin & Marshall College will field teams for the first time in 2009.
The 15 additional programs raise the Collegiate Water Polo Association men's collegiate club membership to 141 teams, an increase of 8.79 percent from the 2008 total of 124 men's club programs. In addition, the league oversees and coordinates a schedule of games for 18 varsity programs on the East Coast as the CWPA's membership accounts for 159 men's programs.
