Bridgeport, Pa. – (August 22, 2019) — A total of 14 athletes make up the 2019 Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference (MAWPC) East Region Preseason "Players to Watch List" based on their prior achievements in the league.
 
With previous All-Conference selections from the past two seasons, the group is comprised of a representative from all seven MAWPC-East institutions.  Bucknell and Navy led the way with three selections each, while Fordham, George Washington and La Salle each had a pair of selections to accompany solo accolades for Johns Hopkins and Wagner.
 
Fordham is represented by senior Jake Miller-Tolt and sophomore Bailey O'Mara, who both earned MAWPC All-East Region honors in 2018.
 
Miller-Tolt, a two-time First Team MAWPC East selection, enters his final season at Fordham.  He was a finalist for the Vincent T. Lombardi Award at the 2019 Block "F" Awards Dinner after a superb junior campaign, which saw him earn ACWPC All-America Honorable Mention accolades.  He set career-highs for goals (104), assists (68), points (172), and blocks (29), leading the team in all of those categories as well as steals (64).  He also became just the second Ram to net 100 goals in a season, joining Ned Kelly in 1971.  He finished the year with a selection to the MAWPC All-Championship Team.
 
O'Mara, a 2018 Second Team MAWPC East selection, took over the starting goalkeeper duties midway through his freshman season.  He earned MAWPC East Division Defensive Player of the Week honors once during the year and had seven performances of at least 10 saves.  At the end of the season, he was named to the ACWPC All-Academic Team and the MAWPC Scholar-Athlete Team.
 
The Rams will open the 2019 season at the Navy Open on September 7^th against #2 UCLA.

2019 Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference-East Region "Players to Watch List"
Bailey O'Mara (Goalie) – Fordham University
Jake Miller-Tolt – Fordham University
Cooper Dolan – Bucknell University
Rade Joksimovic – Bucknell University
Logan Schofield – Bucknell University
Atakan Destici – George Washington University
Andrew Mavis – George Washington University
Finn Banks – Johns Hopkins University
Jeff Brady – La Salle University
Daniel Domotor – La Salle University
Bobby Lee – United States Naval Academy
Isaac Salinas – United States Naval Academy
Andrew Shashin – United States Naval Academy
Lachlan Trabinger – Wagner College