Bridgeport, Pa. – (September 11, 2024) – The Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference (MAWPC) released its weekly awards on Wednesday with Fordham senior
Thomas Lercari (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.) earning the league's Defensive Player of the Week honor. It is his eighth career Defensive Player of the Week award.
Lercari played very well in net for the Rams at the Bruno Classic, totaling 24 saves, five assists, seven steals, and three penalty blocks. He opened the Classic against #20 Brown, recording 12 saves, which included a career-high three penalty blocks, in just over three quarters of action, while adding an assist and two steals. He registered seven saves, two assists, and four steals in just over three quarters in a win against #17 Cal Baptist, and then wrapped the weekend with five saves, two assists, and a steal in the first quarter versus MIT.
Fordham is ranked #14 in the latest CWPA/NCAA poll after posting a 3-0 record in week one, marking their first 3-0 start since 2001.
Lercari and the rest of the Rams are back in the pool twice this weekend. Fordham begins the weekend with a match against #11 UC San Diego at the Princeton Invitational on Saturday, September 14
th, followed by the team's home opener on Sunday, September 15
th against #15 Harvard.
