Four Olympians on U.S. Women’s Water Polo Roster for Pan Am Championship
Four members of the Paris Olympic squad have been included in the U.S. women’s water polo roster for the 2024 Pan Am Aquatics Championship, it was announced Wednesday.
Goalkeeper Amanda Longan will join Emily Ausmus, Jovana Sekulic and Tara Prentice for the tournament, which runs Nov. 20-25 in Ibague, Colombia. The U.S. will play six games in six days, with five round-robin games and finals on Nov. 25.
Longan was part of the team that won gold at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. She served as the backup to Ashleigh Johnson at that Games and the Paris Olympics, where the U.S. finished fourth, falling short of a medal for the first time ever.
Many of the program’s big names are sitting this out. That includes Maddie Musselman, who is dealing with the death of her husband, and Maggie Steffens, who also has had to face personal struggles this year. Also absent from the pool deck will be Adam Krikorian, the long-time U.S. head coach, who selected the team and staff. He’ll hand over head coaching duties to assistant Molly Cahill, with Hall of Famer Brenda Villa as her assistant.
As Longan’s backup, the U.S. adds another non-Californian to the mix in UCLA goalie Lauren Steele, though the native of Old Greenwich, Conn., did attend high school at Orange Lutheran in California.
Team USA Roster, Pan Am Championship
- Allison Cohen (Orange, CA/Orange Lutheran HS/SET)
- Amanda Longan (Moorpark, CA/USC/NYAC)
- Anna Pearson (Irvine, CA/UCLA/SET)
- Ava Stryker (Santa Barbara, CA/USC/Santa Barbara 805)
- Charlotte Raisin (Santa Barbara, CA/San Marcos HS/Santa Barbara 805)
- Emily Ausmus (Riverside, CA/USC/NYAC)
- Emma Lineback (Laguna Beach, CA/UCLA/SET)
- Jovana Sekulic (Haverford, PA & Belgrade, Serbia/Princeton/NYAC)
- Julia Bonaguidi (La Jolla, CA/California/San Diego Shores)
- Lauren Steele (Old Greenwich, CT/UCLA/Lamorinda)
- Lucy Halland-Ford (Santa Barbara, CA/San Marcos HS/Santa Barbara 805)
- Quinn Healy (Capitola, CA/Stanford/Stanford WPF)
- Rachel Gazzaniga (North Tustin, CA/USC/SOCAL)
- Rosalie Hassett (Orinda, CA/Miramonte HS/Diablo Alliance Water Polo)
- Tara Prentice (Temecula, CA/UC Irvine/NYAC)
Pan Am Championship Schedule
- (All times PT)
- Nov. 20: vs Argentina, 8:30 a.m.
- Nov. 21: vs Mexico, 12:30 p.m.
- Nov. 22: vs Colombia, 10 a.m.
- Nov. 23: vs Brazil, 7 a.m.
- Nov. 24: vs. Venezuela, 7 a.m.
- Nov. 25: Final