The Aztecs dropped two games on the final day of the Princeton Invitational

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February 18, 2024 (Princeton, N.J.) - The No. 22-ranked San Diego State women’s water polo team got a combined five goals from leading scorer Claudia Valdes in its final two games of the Princeton Invitational, but the Aztecs came away empty handed in a pair of setbacks: 14-8 and 14-7 against No. 19 Wagner and No. 9 Princeton, respectively, on Sunday at DeNunzio Pool on the campus of Princeton University.

The sweep leaves the Aztecs at 7-6 on the season, the most wins for the program through 13 games since the 2013 campaign.

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February 4, 2024 (La Jolla) - The No. 22-ranked San Diego State water polo team bounced back from a tough first two days at the Triton Invitational, with a pair of victories, 13-12 over Cal Baptist and 11-6 over Concordia, on Sunday to finish the event with a 2-2 record.

Claudia Valdes picks up her third consecutive hat trick of the season

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February 2, 2024 (La Jolla) - San Diego State sophomore attacker Claudia Valdes picked up her third consecutive game with a hat-trick, four goals Friday afternoon against No. 4-ranked Hawai’i, but the Rainbow Wahine put up 21 goals and defeated No. 22-ranked Aztec water polo team 21-7 at Coogan Pool at La Jolla High School on the first day of the 2024 Triton Invitational.

San Diego State will host national powers Stanford, Long Beach State and UC San Diego, which all finished the 2023 season ranked in the top-10 in the nation.

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January 11, 2024 (San Diego) - San Diego State water polo head coach Dana Ochsner announced her team’s 2024 schedule on Thursday. 

The slate includes a total of 30 regular season games, of which includes five tournaments and 11 games at the Aztec Aquaplex.

Danni Croteau scored her first hat trick of the season in the game.

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April 30, 2023 (San Diego) - San Diego State water polo, ranked No. 24 in the nation, is just the second team outside the top-10 to score in double digits against No. 8 Fresno State this year, but it wasn’t enough as the Aztecs fell 15-11 to the Bulldogs in the semifinal round of the Golden Coast Conference (GCC) Tournament on Saturday afternoon at Aztec Aquaplex.

San Diego State saw a goal by No. 14 UC San Diego with three seconds to play sink its chance to win the 2023 Harper Cup, falling 10-9.

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April 23, 2023 (La Jolla) - The No. 24 ranked San Diego State water polo team was held off the scoreboard board in the second quarter, while surrendering five goals to No. 14 UC San Diego and ultimately lost 10-9 on a goal with three seconds to play in the 21^st edition of the Harper Cup on Sunday at Canyonview Aquatic Center.

Klara Goldstein scored five times and Rose Kanemy had five assists in the Aztecs 14-4 win at Azusa Pacific.

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April 15, 2023 (Glendora, Calif.) - The No. 24-ranked San Diego State water polo team spotted the Azusa Pacific Cougars an early one-goal lead in its Golden Coast Conference (GCC) game and then roared back with five unanswered goals and never looked back in a 14-4 victory at Citrus College Aquatic Center on Saturday.

Amanda Legaspi had three goals in the loss

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April 1, 2023 (Stockton) - For the second game in a row senior Amanda Legaspi lead the team in scoring, but the No. 25 Aztecs dropped a heartbreaker to No. 12 Pacific on Saturday afternoon, 10-9 at the Spieker Athletics Complex on the campus of the University of the Pacific.

Freshman Claudia Valdes scored a season-best five times including four of the team’s final five goals in an 11-10, overtime win at Concordia

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March 25, 2023 (Irvine) -  With under four minutes to play, the No. 25 San Diego State water polo team trailed the Concordia University, Irvine (CUI) Golden Eagles by two goals, 8-6, but Claudia Valdes scored twice to send the game to overtime and then picked up two more goals in extra time, including the game winner with 1:27 to play and the Aztecs came away with an 11-10 victory. 

Freshman goalie Mandy Lagerlof made 13 saves in the game

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March 18, 2023 (Honolulu) - The No. 24 San Diego State water polo team, coming off a 4-1 record at the Aztec Invitational last week, was unable to keep that momentum going in a 16-8 loss to No. 5 Hawai’i on Saturday evening at Duke Kahanamolu Aquatic Complex.

Senior Amanda Legaspi got a hat trick against the LIU Sharks, but SDSU came up one goal short in a 9-8 loss at the Aquaplex.

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March 7, 2023 (San Diego) - Senior Amanda Legaspi scored three times for the No. 23-ranked San Diego State water polo team, which mounted a second half comeback, but the No. 22 LIU Sharks came away with a 9-8 victory on Tuesday morning at the Aztec Aquaplex. The loss leaves SDSU with a 3-11 record, while LIU is now 9-9.

Freshman Mandy Lagerlof made a season-best 11 saves in San Diego State’s final game at the Barbara Kalbus Invitational

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February 26, 2023 (Newport Beach, Calif.) -  The No. 21-ranked San Diego State water polo team completed the four-game, three-day Barbara Kalbus Invitational with a 13-5 defeat at the hands of the No. 9 Michigan Wolverines on Sunday morning at Bergeson Aquatic Complex. The loss left the Aztecs (3-9) in 12^th place in the weekend tournament.

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February 24, 2023 (Irvine) - The No. 21 San Diego State water polo team played two good quarters, the first and fourth, against the No. 3 UCLA Bruins on Friday, at the first day of the 2023 Barbara Kalbus Invitational, being outscored 7-3, but in the second and third periods, the Bruins put the game out of reach, totaling 12 goals to the Aztecs two, in a 19-5 decision at Anteater Aquatic Center.

Struggling to score in the second half, San Diego State fell to UC Davis on day two at the Triton Invitational.

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February 4, 2023 (La Jolla) - No. 21 San Diego State water polo, after surrendering a combined 20 goals in the first half of its two Friday games in the 2023 Triton Invitational, limited the No. 12 UC Davis Aggies to just four in the first 16 minutes on Saturday. But struggling to score in the second half, SDSU lost to UC Daivs 11-5 at the Canyonview Pool on the campus of UC San Diego.  

4-seed San Diego State falls to 2-seed Pacific in the tournament’s third-place game

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April 24, 2022 (Riverside) - San Diego State water polo, No. 21-ranked and the 4-seed in the Golden Coast Conference (GCC) tournament, couldn’t stop three multi-goal runs, including two in the second half, by the No. 16 and 2-seed Pacific Tigers and lost in the third-place game at Lancer Aquatic Center on the campus of California Baptist University on Sunday afternoon.