NSWIS athletes in action for National Water Polo League

The 2023 Australian Water Polo League season is about to heat up, with the fixtures for the home and away season released.

The 2023 season introduced a new format, with teams battling it out in the KAP7 Cup, before moving into the Championship or Challenge rounds in phase two.

NSW Institute of Sport (NSWIS) scholarship holders are represented in five teams.

Balmain: Gen Longman, Georgia Chapman, Layla Smith, Lily Dunn, Olivia Mitchell, Sienna Hearn, Zoe Thomas

Sydney Uni: Alexie Lambert, Ani Pamp, Izzy Pamp, Madi Powells, Sammi Hardingham, Sammy Henderson, Luci Marsh*

Drummoyne: Brooke McClean, Lilli Harris

Cronulla: Claire Durston, Dani Jackovich*

Fremantle: Zoe Arancini

UNSW Wests Magpies (men) and Griffith University Queensland Thunder (women) have made an early mark on the 2023 AWL competition taking out the KAP7 Cup.

Both teams will now move into the Championship division, which will be contested by six women’s and six men’s teams, with the remaining five teams in each gender battling it out for the Southern Cross Cup.

The home and away season will get underway this weekend, with 10 rounds in both the Championship division and Southern Cross Cup to follow, before the competition comes to a head with the AWL Finals Series set to be held at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre on the last weekend in April.

Each weekend of the AWL home and away season, one men’s and one women’s game will be broadcast live on Kommunity TV as the feature matches of the week.