ESPN to Current 2026 NCAA Girls’s Water Polo Championships
ESPN will collaborate with USA Water Polo to current the 2026 NCAA Girls’s Water Polo Championships, the group introduced this week.
The NCAA champion can be determined on the College of California, San Diego’s Canyonview Aquatic Middle on April 26 at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. It will likely be broadcast dwell on ESPNU, the ESPN App and the ESPN/Disney+ apps outdoors of america in addition to TSN+ in Canada.
The ultimate can be broadcast by Greg Mescall and two-time Olympic gold medalist Kaleigh Gilchrist.
“We’re thrilled to as soon as once more group up with ESPN and the NCAA to current dwell protection of the ladies’s championship match this April from UC San Diego,” USA Water Polo CEO Jamie Davis mentioned in a press launch. “We all know how necessary the school recreation is to the well being of water polo nationwide and are excited to offer an elevated platform for the championship. If the outcomes of the 2026 season up to now are any indication, we’re in for a implausible remaining. I encourage everybody to look at!”
“Having our championship broadcast on ESPN by the partnership with USA Water Polo is nice publicity for our sport,” mentioned Ted Minnis, the Harvard water polo head coach and the Girls’s Water Polo Committee Chair. Giving individuals who often solely have a possibility to look at the game in the course of the Olympics one other probability on broadcast TV is superb. The NCAA championship brings collectively gamers from throughout the nation and the world, to compete on the highest degree, and the championship committee is so glad that our followers will be capable to see the sport on ESPN.”
The NCAA water polo tournaments returned to tv in 2022. A brand new settlement between the NCAA and ESPN will preserve them on its household of networks by 2029.
Quarterfinal and semifinal motion can be found to stream on NCAA.com. The nine-team discipline – which incorporates six convention champions (Large West, CWPA, GCC, MAAC, MPSF and WWPA) and three at-large groups – can be chosen April 13. Stanford is trying to defend its title after defeating USC final yr.
