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SUN DEVIL WATER POLO SID Contact: Alex Ryan | [email protected] | (480) 965-4987 | thesundevils.com #8 Arizona State (8-9, 0-4 MPSF) #8 Water Polo Hosts #9 SJSU on Senior Day Game #18 (home #4) vs. #9 San Jose State (14-9, 0-3 MPSF) Four seniors will play their nal home game on Saturday at noon Saturday, March 26 12:00 p.m. PT Mona Plummer Aquatic Center Tempe, Ariz. TEMPE - The No. 8 Arizona State University water polo team (8-9, 0-4 MPSF) Senior Day will play host to No. 9 San Jose State (14-9, 0-3 MPSF) at Noon on Saturday in the nal home game of the 2011 season and the home nale for four seniors. The program will honor seniors Sarah Harris, Candice Phillippe, Lynlee Smith and Nikki Unbehaun before the last home game of their careers. OPENING SPRINT 2011 will be the 10th year ASU has competed as a varsity program Senior Send Off: Sunday will be the nal home game for four seniors On the Web: FS Arizona will web stream this weeks game live at noon PT Looking Back: 6-5 defeat of #15 UCI in 2003 gives ASU biggest upset... so far ASU is #8 in this weeks Collegiate Water Polo Association Top 20 (March 23) Its You Again: Sun Devils and Spartans meeting for third time this year Break on Through: ASU & SJSU both looking for rst conference wins Happy to Help: Smith accumulating assists at a fast pace Schedule/Results Smith closing out career among the best in program history Date Opponent Time/Score Haas takes over the scoring lead for the Sun Devils 1 F 5 at #1 StanFord L 10-1 Sign Here: Sun Devils signed 6 to NLIs in early signing period 5 vs #9 San Jose State 1 W 12-9 6 vs #3 CaliFornia 1 L 12-8 Four seniors are entering their nal season with the Sun Devils 6 vs #5 Hawaii 1 L 9-8 Team adds six newcomers, including four athletes, two staff members 12 at #4 CaliFornia L 11-7 13 at CS Monterey Bay W 17-7 SENIOR DAY 26 vs #11 San Jose State 2 W 9-8Saturday will mark the nal time that four seniors will compete in a home game for 26 vs #1 StanFord 2 L 15-7the Sun Devils and the program will recognize those four women before the start 2 27 vs #4 CaliFornia L 15-7of the San Jose State game. The senior class includes Sarah Harris, Candice 27 vs #7 San Diego State 2 W 10-9 M 5 #3 UCLA L 8-1 Phillippe, Lynlee Smith and Nikki Unbehaun. 5 Cal Baptist W 16-7 11 at #3 USC L 12-3 TUNE IN 12 vs #11 Long Beach State 3 W 15-10FS Arizona will once again steam Saturdays game live on the web for free start- 12 vs (#2) Redlands 3 W 18-4ing at noon. To view the stream, visit FoxSportsArizona.com and click on the ban- 12 vs Colorado State 3 W 10-8ner at the top of the page (the link will become live on that page on Saturday). 19 #1 Stanford L 14-3 26 #9 San Jose State 12:00 pm TURNING TEN A 2 at San Diego State 4 12:00 pm 2 vs Brown 4 3:00 pmOn February 4, the Sun Devil water polo team celebrated the start of their 10th 3 vs UC San Diego 4 5:00 pmyear as a varsity program. Back on February 4, 2002, the Sun Devils played host 3 vs TBD 4 TBDto Santa Clara in a doubleheader, dropping the rst game, 8-6 in overtime, before 16 at Hawaii 6:00 pm winning the second contest, 9-2, for the programs rst win at the varsity level. 29 vs TBD 5 TBDThroughout the season, we will look back at the previous nine seasons of varsity 30 vs TBD 5 TBDaction at ASU as we commemorate this anniversary. M 1 vs TBD 5 TBD 1: Stanford Invite // 2: UC Irvine Invite // 3: Claremont Convergnce (Claremont, 10 YEAR REWIND: MARCH 26, 2003 CA) // 4: San Diego State Mini // 5: MPSF Champs. (San Jose, CA) On Saturday, March 26, 2003, the 20th-ranked Sun Devils played host to the 15th-ranked UC Irvine Anteaters at Mona Plummer Aquatic Center, looking to All times local to site and subject to change; MPSF game; home in maroon # before team is Collegiate Water Polo Association ranking; (#) Division III knock of their highest ranked foe at the time and did so with a 6-5 victory. ASU took a 2-0 lead through the rst and turned that into a 4-1 lead at the break. But, ASU WATER POLOS SOCIAL MEDIA AREA UCI outscored ASU, 3-1, to give ASU a slight 5-4 lead heading into the nal pe- riod. In the fourth, UCI tied the game with 1:45 remaining, but Katie Davis scored TWITTER FACEBOOK with 0:12 showing on the clock to give ASU the win. @ASUWaterPolo Arizona State Water Polo IN THE RANKINGS For the second week in a row, the Sun Devils enter their weekend slate as the No. 8 team in the nation following the release of the March 23 poll. The Sun Devils will face another fellow Top 10 team in No. 9 San Jose State this weekend. 2011 SUN DEVIL WATER POLO 1 Coach Clapper / Notes HEAD COACH TODD CLAPPER MORE RANKINGS Todd Clapper is in his sixth year as the head coach The coaches of the MPSF cast their votes for how they think the conference will of the Arizona State University program and his sev- shake out this year and Arizona State was voted seventh out of the eight teams, enth season overall with the Sun Devils after serving one point below San Jose State and one point ahead of San Diego State. Stan- as the assistant coach in 2005. Clapper, who guided ford, USC and Hawaii enter as the Top 3 projected teams in the league. the U.S. Womens Youth National Team to gold at the Pan-Am Games (junior division) and was named the 2006 USOC Water Polo National Coach of the Year, HAVE WE MET? holds a career record of 192-152 (through UCI Invite), On Saturday, the Sun Devils and Spartans will meet for the third time this season including six seasons at Brown. and, if the Sun Devils win, it will mean ASU has recorded one-third of its nine vic- While at Brown (1999-04), Clapper served as the head coach of both the mens and womens pr tories over San Jose State. On the opening weekend at the Stanford Invitational, grams. Under Clappers guidance, the Bear women the two teams met in the second game of the day with ASU securing a 12-9 vic- won the 2001 Eastern Championships to advance to tory. Then, two weeks later at the UC Irvine Invitational, ASU took a 9-8 decision the NCAA Championships where they would place fourth. Clapper helped the women earn their first to open the tournament. national ranking. A five-time coach of the year selection in the RACE TO ONE CWPA, Clapper was a Four-year letterwinner at While both teams have met twice before this season, neither has counted toward Slippery Rock University from 1993 to 1996 where he played goalie and helped the Rock earn a spot the MPSF standings like this weekends game will. Both teams enter the weekend in the national rankings. He graduated from SRU in with zero wins in the conference and the winner on Saturday will move ahead of 1996 with a degree in exercise science. the other into seventh place in the standings. CLAPPER QUICK FACTS New Zealand WNT Head Coach (2009 FINA World STILL A TOUGH ROAD Championships and 2008 international season) So far this season, the Sun Devils have played four MPSF contests and have U.S. Youth National Coach (2006) fallen in all four. Looking at those teams, all four were ranked in the Top 4 at the U.S. Junior National Assistant (2005) Brown U. Head Coach (men & women), 1999-04 time of the game, including No. 4 California, No. 3 UCLA, No. 3 USC and No. 1 Assistant Coach at ASU, Villanova, Slippery Rock Stanford. Currently, those four teams make up the entire Top 4, including No. 1 CLAPPERS COACHING HONORS Stanford, No. 2 California, No. 3 USC and No. 4 UCLA. 2006 USOC National W.P. Coach of the Year 2004 CWPA Northeastern Division COY RECAP: vs. #1 STANFORD 2003 CWPA Eastern Championships COY Last weekend, the Sun Devils played one game and lost a 14-3 decision to visit- 2002 CWPA Northern Division COY 2001 CWPA Eastern Championships COY ing and top-ranked Stanford. Mariam Salloum led the way on offense with a pair 2000 CWPA New England Division COY of goals while Shannon Haas increased her team-leading goal count to 30. CLAPPER YEAR-BY-YEAR All MPSF MPSF Final SMITH LENDS A HAND at ASU Games Games Finish Rank Over the past several weeks, Lynlee Smith has been helping on the offensive 2006 15-13 5-7 6th 6th end of the pool, but not always by putting the ball in the back of the net. While 2007 14-14 5-7 10th 12th 2008 21-13 7-5 t-5th 9th she is fourth on the team in goals scored with 21 this year, she leads the way in 2009 13-15 0-7 8th 8th assists with 30, nearly double that of the next Sun Devil, who has 16 helpers, and 2010 16-15 0-7 8th 11th ranks as the seventh-most in a single season at ASU.