Does anybody know what teams are in the Ocean View tournament next week?
Anyone have the schedule for the Steve Pal tournament?
Hi,
In another forum, I posted this very issue and @clark is working on developing a category or stand alone model for coaches, admins and AD’s to post tournaments for the HS and Club Season. In the HS Season, you have to search each section and hope the coaches or AD’s post on the Section website, which through research is not always accurate or even there. This will allow across the nation view of tournaments (such as the Beast in the East (I think that is what it is called) of 60 HS teams on the East Coast tournament.
I am hoping he gets it done soon, but he mentioned the engine to power it is running the Fantasy Water Polo League.
J
With the caveats that I received this second hand and that there may yet be changes to brackets/locations/times, etc., here you go:
Thanks for passing along!
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Any word on the number of teams in Open Division this year for boys?
This document (see page 10) makes it clear that the Open Divison will be 8 teams with 2 groups of pool play.
Where will CIFSS semifinals & finals be held?
Bring back Woollett!!
Does anyone have the Ocean View Tournament Schedule?
So great to see CIF-SS going back to eight teams for open!
Yes but keep in mind that it is going back to 8 teams, but not to the old single elimination format. There will still be some pool play involved like last year
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Troy Water Polo (hosts of the OC Classic and OC JV tournaments) has dates for next fall:
OC Classic 10/2 and 10/3
OC JV 10/16 and 10/17
I’ve been in discussion with CIF, and they are not moving the Semis back to Woolette. It’s a shame. Higher seeds will host their Semis, which I don’t like either. I wish they could pick one pool for all the Semis, but their reasoning has to do with travel expenses for teams. I also mentioned the Mt.SAC venue and its issues in regards to attracting audiences. Yes, it is a great venue, but it’s in an area that draws no fans. Back in the 70s, 80s, and 90s the San Gabriel Valley was quite good in regards to talent, now it’s dead.
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You’re aware they play water polo outside of Orange County, right? The super site semis were a racket for the OC schools for years. I’m glad more schools and kids get to have that experience now.
Mt SAC is a better venue. You can argue location, but it’s definitely a better spectator experience.
I think the angles and site lines are better at woollett. CIF has weird hosting/home pool rules that I don’t understand. One site for semis is a much cooler experience for the water polo community.
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Depending on who ends up playing each other in finals, I would hope that CIF would still allow location modifications like the San Marcos vs Dos Pueblos CIF Final a few years ago that was held in Santa Barbara…the environment was electric and the deck was standing room only…both schools turned out huge…a 2 hours south venue would have been parents and few friends only…
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How is it a racket for OC Schools? I helped host it a bunch and ticket sales went straight to CIF…
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Metaphorically speaking.
It was extremely unfair to the kids and parents of schools who ”won” the pre-flip, to have to be the home team out of town, and on a weekday when working families and friends would be unable to attend. You can’t tell me with a straight face that it was right, not matter how you feel as a spectator.
The way semis are done now is better, and in the spirit of high school sports.
Mt. SAC is a great venue but it is unconscionable that CIF doesn’t commit (contractually with Mt. SAC) to open the full spectator seating. Ive been to every finals held there and each year it has been the same. Entire sections roped off to all. Entire sections on the east side reserved for “VIP’s” and press, but only a few using the seats. The primary seating on the west side is standing room only with gridlocked aisles. Ask the MT. SAC facilities people and they’ll tell you, the full venue isn’t open
because CIF decided to not have it fully accessible.
This is the sport’s biggest stage, and CIF falls on its face once again. CIF is a non-profit that is supposed to serve it’s member schools, not it’s corporate partners.
CIF SS’s 2025-26 Playoff Bulletin is 19 pages long. 14 of the 19 pages are either sponsor adds or contain sponsor/partner logos, information or requirements.
The best thing people can do is to ask their principals and athletic directors to contact CIF and demand that the full venue be open and accessible to spectators, or email Kristine Palle, CIF-SS Assistant Commissioner, Water Polo Administrator - kristinep@cifss.org
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I thought the same thing about that ‘VIP’ section. There is barely anybody that sits there. What kind of ‘VIPs’ are you expecting to sit there anyways, and there is only so much media that goes. It’s easy to block off a small section in prime location for the 5 media guys that show up.
The VIPs should be all the parents that go through everything they do for their kids, to get them to that point, and now drive all the way to Mt SAC to support the team.
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