Cathy Neushul, who has served as the assistant women's water polo coach for the past three seasons at UCSB, has been promoted to head coach as the Gauchos enter their 16th season as a Division I program.Wolf Wigo, who coached the team for the past three seasons, will continue in a top level leadership role for the women's program as Director of Water Polo with a focus on fundraising efforts, particularly for the new intercollegiate aquatics center.During her three seasons as an assistant … [Read more...]
UCSB’s Wigo bringing in his ’best recruiting class‘
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Nine high school standouts have been signed to National Letters of Intent it was announced by UCSB men’s water polo coach Wolf Wigo. The signees will join the Gauchos for the 2011 fall season.“This is far and away the best recruiting class that we have had at UCSB since I have been coaching here and likely the best since the 1970’s,” said Wigo. “This class is full of blue chip recruits who we hope, in the next few years, can help bring UCSB back to the NCAA Championships. This is … [Read more...]
Coaches rank UCSB 7th in water polo poll
Friday, August 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
UCSB is ranked seventh in the country in the Collegiate Water Polo Association Coaches Preseason Poll.The Gauchos, who return All-Americans Milos Golic and Zsombor Vincze, were picked to finish sixth in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.MPSF powers Cal, UCLA, Stanford, USC and Irvine were ranked first through fifth in the national and MPSF polls. Loyola Marymount is sixth.UCSB earned 71 points in the national poll, trailing LMU by three points and coming in three points ahead … [Read more...]
UCSB hangs tough with Montenegro but falls 19-6
Monday, June 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The bleachers were full at UCSB's Campus Pool on Monday night as UCSB's men's water polo team faced off against defending European champion Montenegro, the ninth-ranked team in the world. For about a third of the match things were even before Montenegro overpowered the Gauchos to post a 19-6 victory."They wore us down, but I felt happy that we gave them a good game in the first half. We knew we weren't gonna win this game, but we just wanted to stay with them," said UCSB coach Wolf Wigo, who … [Read more...]
Gauchos predicted to finish fifth in MPSF by coaches
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 By 1 Comment
The UCSB men's water polo team was picked to finish fifth in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation standings according to a preseason coaches' poll released by the conference on Wednesday.The Gauchos received 32 points in the poll, 10 behind fourth-ranked UCLA and six points ahead of Pepperdine and UC Irvine, which were tied sixth.USC, the 2008 NCAA Champion and MPSF Champion, was ranked first with six first-place votes and 61 total points. No. 2 Stanford received the remaining three … [Read more...]
Wigo calls recruiting class deep in talent
Thursday, February 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The UCSB men's water polo team has signed seven student-athletes to National Letters of Intent it was announced by head coach Wolf Wigo on Thursday.Jay Lovero (Santa Ana, Calif./Foothill HS), Evan Dellinger (Los Altos Hills, Calif./St. Francis HS), Scott Bishop (Los Altos Hills, Calif./Mountain View HS), Dylan Baliani (Murrietta, Calif./Murrietta Valley HS), Matt Puig (Wildomar, Calif./Murrietta Valley HS), John Mikuzis (Naperville, Ill./Nequa Valley HS) and Chris Dyer (Moraga, … [Read more...]
