SPORTS BRIEF: Water polo hands out end-of-season awards; Liao named team MVP

Junior co-captain Vivian Liao was named the Most Valuable Player at the women’s water polo end-of-season banquet.

Liao scored 18 goals while adding 16 steals and four assists in an injury-shortened season. Liao broke her hand against Cal Tech and missed the season’s final twelve games.

Fellow junior and co-captain Lauren Snyder earned a Coach’s Award from head coach Erik Farrar after a season where she scored 22 goals to go with 46 steals and ten blocks.

Freshman Ariel Delgado picked up Rookie of the Year honors with a strong first campaign where she had a .514 save percentage and had 92 total saves. She also scored a goal.

The final major award was the team’s Most Improved Award, which went to freshman Kristina Bergquist after a season where she scored eight goals and two assists while finising second on the team with 41 steals.

The Crimson finished the season 11-15 and qualified for the Eastern Division Championship. The squad had five freshman bu no seniors this season, and so will return all fifteen players on the roster for next year.

Seven of the fifteen scored at least fifteen goals this season, while four different players scored at least twenty.

—THE CRIMSON STAFF