The stage for the 2017 NCAA women’s water polo championship is set. Half of the field will be familiar faces for UCLA women’s water polo, as three other teams from the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation were selected. Read more...

Photo: Redshirt senior attacker Rachel Fattal and the No. 1-seeded UCLA women’s water polo team will play No. 17 Wagner in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament, but there are six other teams the Bruins could potentially face as they navigate the field for a national championship. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin)

UCLA women’s water polo had to overcome something on Saturday it hasn’t faced in two months – a deficit heading into the fourth quarter. With a little over five minutes left in the game and after losing a three-goal lead it had built up earlier in the game, freshman attacker Maddie Musselman netted her thid goal of the day to tie the game at eight. Read more...

Photo: Senior utility Mackenzie Barr scored once during No. 1 UCLA’s three-goal second-quarter run against fifth-seed California in the MPSF semifinal. The Bruins would lose their advantage by the fourth quarter, but came back to win 9-8 and secure a meeting with No. 2 Stanford in the finals. (Amy Dixon/Daily Bruin)

The current members on the UCLA women’s water polo team have never been the one seed in the conference championship tournament. They’ve made it to the championships twice, and won once, but both times as the two seed. Read more...

Photo: Senior attacker Kelsey O’Brien and the No. 1 UCLA women’s water polo team hosts the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation championship this weekend, a win in which will almost guarantee the Bruins the top seed for the NCAA Tournament. (Courtesy of Pam Monahan)