The USA Women’s Senior National Team will head to Kirishi, Russia to compete in the Kirishi Cup this July 1-5. USA Head Coach Adam Krikorianhas assembled a roster featuring many of the athletes that helped the United States to gold at the recent FINA World League Super Final. Team USA will kick off the competition with a match against Hungary on July 1. The full United States roster and schedule is available below. All matches will be streamed live, to access the stream click here.
Team USA is currently in Hungary taking part in common training with the Hungarian National Team.
2014 USA Women’s SNT Kirishi Cup Roster (Hometown/School/USAWP Club)
G – Sami Hill (Santa Barbara, CA/UCLA/SBWPF)
G – Ashleigh Johnson (Miami, FL/Princeton/Gulliver Riptides)
C – Kami Craig (Santa Barbara, CA/USC/SBWPF)*
C – Annika Dries (Laguna Beach, CA/Stanford/SET)*
D – Melissa Seidemann (Walnut Creek, CA/Stanford/Stanford)*
D – KK Clark (Menlo Park, CA/UCLA/NYAC)
D – Alys Williams (Huntington Beach, CA/UCLA/Huntington Beach WPC)
A – Maggie Steffens (Danville, CA/Stanford/Diablo)*
A – Kiley Neushul (Goleta, CA/Stanford/SBWPF)
A – Rachel Fattal (Seal Beach, CA/UCLA/SOCAL)
A – Jillian Kraus (Santa Ana, CA/UCLA/SOCAL)
A – Kaleigh Gilchrist (Newport Beach, CA/USC/Trojan)
A – Makenzie Fischer (Laguna Beach, CA/Laguna Beach HS/SET)
A – Maddie Musselman (Newport Beach, CA/Corona del Mar HS/CdM Aquatics)
A – Courtney Mathewson (Anaheim Hills, CA/UCLA/NYAC)*
*2012 Olympic Gold Medalist
Head Coach: Adam Krikorian
Assistant Coach: Dan Klatt
Assistant Coach: Chris Oeding
Team Manager: Jen Adams
2014 Kirishi Cup Schedule (all times PST)
July 1 vs Hungary 4:30am
July 2 vs Russia 7:30am
July 3 vs Italy 4:30am
July 4 vs Spain 3:30am
July 5 vs Netherlands 12:30am
Water Polo News / Swimming News courtesy of USA Water Polo.
I AM VERY PROUD OF OUR AMERICAN TEAMTHEY ARE DOING A FANTASTIC JOBKEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
Still looks like it is California where they play real water polo.