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...week, the University of Massachusetts announced that it will reduce its number of intercollegiate sports by seven next year—from 29 to 22—due to recent budget cuts. Among the teams marked for elimination are men’s and women’s water polo, men’s gymnastics and women’s volleyball...
From a Harvard sports standpoint, the axing of the water polo teams will have the greatest impact. Both the Crimson men’s and women’s squads have improved substantially over the past three years, but UMass—its rival in the Collegiate Water Polo Association’s Northern Division—has always presented a stiff challenge to Harvard’s postseason prospects...
...water polo has, as a goal, the East Coast schools earning the respect and interest of East Coast spectators and becoming more competitive with the West Coast schools,” Harvard men’s co-captain Mike Crosby wrote in an e-mail. “This goal becomes more difficult to achieve when schools like Villanova, Boston College and now UMass drop their varsity programs...
...baffled that they would cut the water polo team because they are consistently one of the top 10 teams in the nation, including the UC schools,” junior women’s team member Jane Humphries said...
Genre editors decided to feature Crosby after a teammate of Crosby’s from his West Hollywood water polo team recommended him for Genre’s “H20” issue. He says even though he had never heard of Genre before his star-turn, it didn’t occur to him to reject the offer. “I almost always agree to stories just because I’ve gotten so much feedback from stuff I’ve done in the past,” Crosby says...