Standouts catch on
Former Back Bay rivals and future UCLA women’s water polo teammates,
Jenna Murphy and Brittney Bowlus have been named to the U.S. youth
national team.
Murphy, a Newport Harbor High senior, made the team for the second
straight year after tryouts conducted in Boca Rotan, Fla. during the
Memorial Day weekend. Bowlus, who as a senior guided Corona del Mar
to its second straight CIF division title this past season, was also
selected at the tryout that included roughly 150 girls.
The UCLA duo, along with 25 other athletes, will compete in
various tournaments throughout the summer. The youth team is the
third team fielded by USA Water Polo, behind the senior national team
and the junior national team.
John Mann, a CdM senior bound for UC Berkeley, is on the men’s
junior national team, for which Newport Harbor boys coach Jason Lynch
is an assistant coach. Clinton Jorth and Nathan Castillo of the
Newport Water Polo Foundation are members of the national development
squad for players under age 13.
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