Bronx, N.Y. – (June 26, 2025) – Coming off the team's most successful season in program history, the four-time defending MAWPC champion Fordham Rams have released their 2025 schedule for the upcoming water polo season. The schedule has the most challenging run to date for the Rams, featuring 13 contests against opponents that received votes in the final poll of 2024, including four that participated in the National Collegiate Championship.
Right out of the gate, Fordham will be in the Bruno Classic, August 30-31, taking on MIT and Harvard on day one in Providence, Rhode Island, while taking on Pacific and LIU on day two in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Week two will be a special one for the Rams at the Princeton Invitational, September 6-7. Fordham will open Saturday's action against the defending national champion, UCLA, followed by an exhibition contest against Ferencvaros (FTC) a Hungarian-based club team that recently won the Champions League. Fordham then completes the weekend of competition on Sunday against Santa Clara.
After an off week, the Rams start MAWPC league play with three road contests, September 20-21. Fordham plays at Mercyhurst on September 20
th, while matching up with Bucknell and Mt. St. Mary's the following day at the Bison Invitational.
Starting on September 27
th, Fordham will have five straight home contests beginning with N.C.C. participant Princeton coming to the Messmore Aquatic Center for the start of a home-and-home series with the match at Princeton slated for November 1
st. The Rams will also face Wagner later that day in a league match. Fordham is also scheduled to host Iona on October 10
th, as well as MAWPC opponents Navy and George Washington on October 11
th.
The Rams then have their longest road trip of the season to the west coast from October 21-26. The trip begins on October 21
st with a road game at Long Beach State, who the Rams defeated in last year's N.C.C. quarterfinals. Two days later, Fordham makes the trek to Berkeley for a highlight match-up against Cal on October 23
rd.
Fordham will then participate in the annual Julian Fraser Memorial Tournament in Santa Clara, California. On October 24
th, the Rams face UC Merced, while the following day will have another highlight match against fellow 2024 N.C.C. semifinalist Stanford on October 25
th. The trip then concludes against San Jose State on October 26
th.
Following the second match with Princeton, the Rams then return to league play with road games at George Washington (Nov. 2), Navy (Nov. 2), and Wagner (Nov. 7). Fordham then has their final four regular season games at home, starting with a tripleheader on November 8
th against Bucknell, Mt. St. Mary's, and Mercyhurst to conclude MAWPC play. The home finale will be on November 15
th against Brown.
The regular season leads to the 2025 MAWPC Championship, which will be held, November 21-23, at Fordham University's Col. Francis B. Messmore Aquatic Center in the Bronx, as the Rams will look for their fifth consecutive championship and another N.C. Championship berth.
The N.C. Championship is set for December 5-7 at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
