Also I've been following women's college water polo this season and it's such a great wild sport. I kind of want to start a thread about it because there is not much discussion of it anywhere (somewhat understandable)
I knew you had a daughter playing water polo. I know you live in New York. When you discussed this before, in my mind y'all were still in California. Water Polo in the northeast blows my mind.
It's a pretty popular high school sport in Pennsylvania, and a lot of the New England boarding schools have it as well as Greenwich, CT, but that's about it for schools which makes solid clubs kind of difficult. (Outside of Greenwich which is just an insane place - they have a ton of resources and are always easily the best club outside of California.) Last summer my daughter played on a "super" club team with girls from Connecticut, Maryland, and all states between. She'll be doing the same with a different club this summer as most of that team aged up but she didn't.
On the college side in the northeast, the MAAC has a pretty fun lower-tier water polo conference and the CWPA has Princeton, Brown, Harvard, and Michigan. Indiana used to be in that conference but moved to the MPSF which is all California schools + ASU. Seems dumb by them but maybe it helps recruit California kids? But I think they had to make 7 west coast trips this season. Fun fact is the best D3 team, Pomona-Pitzer (which is two colleges combined) is ranked in the Division 1 top 25 and actually beat Indiana this season.