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For the third time in the past four summers, the Laguna Beach High School girls water polo team captured the annual California State Championship, held July 14-16 at Corona del Mar and OC area high schools. The girls event featured 44 varsity teams and Laguna’s JV team. The...

By Frank Aronoff | LB Indy   Laguna graduates Makenzie and Aria Fischer were named to the 13-player USA Water Polo Women’s National Team roster for the upcoming FINA World Championships starting this Sunday, July 16, in Budapest. The U.S. team opens against South Africa. T...

  Laguna’s goalie, junior Thea Walsh, and team MVP, senior Aria Fischer, will join the 13-player roster of the USA Women’s National Team for the FINA Intercontinental Tournament May 2-7 at UC Davis, USA water polo announced last week. LBHS head coach Ethan Damato will serve as an...

Laguna’s championship girls water polo squad held their annual post-season banquet on Thursday, March 16, at the Woman’s Club. Breakers varsity finished 31-0 as clearly the nation’s top team while the talented JV squad went 21-5 with losses only to ranked varsity teams. The JV...

  Winter sports wrapped up with drama, heartbreak and finally a historic title victory with the Laguna Beach High School girls’ water polo team crowned by a fourth title Saturday, Feb. 25, while the girls’ soccer squad’s playoff hopes stopped in the quarter-final with a...

The nation’s top girls water polo squad closed out the regular season undefeated with a pair of wins last week starting with a 21-1 win over Estancia on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at the Eagle’s pool to complete their 11th straight undefeated league season. Angelique Begay led the squad...

Girls Water Polo (25-0, 3-0) Last week, Aria Fischer and Thea Walsh led the Breakers to another in-season tournament sweep with a 5-0 run at Irvine’s Woollett Center to take the 22nd annual So Cal Championships. The 32-team tournament featured the top 31 varsity teams a...

Girls Water Polo (19-0, 2-0) Newport Humiliated – Breakers At So Cal Seeking Fourth Straight Title. Last week Laguna won a pair of games defeating Costa Mesa 23-0 at the Mustang’s pool on Wednesday, Jan.25. Ten different Laguna players scored with Claire Sonne leading the squad...

Girls Water Polo (17-0, 1-0) Laguna 11, Mater Dei 6 The top-ranked Laguna girls polo squad had a tough physical match at home last Saturday, Jan. 21, before a large crowd at the Laguna Community Pool as they won their 64th straight match with Aria Fischer in the lineup. Breakers...

Girls Water Polo (14-0) Breakers Capture Santa Barbara The top-ranked Laguna girls polo squad won their 10 major tournament title in the past four seasons with a sweep of the top So Cal competition this past weekend in Santa Barbara. Laguna 12, # 3 San Marcos 5 Breakers started...

Girls Water Polo (9-0) Laguna prepped for their toughest road trip of the season with an 11-2 victory over the Foothill Knights at the loser’s pool Thursday, Jan. 5. Breakers scored on their second possession as Claire Sonne drew the foul exclusion and then got the assist on the...

Girls Win 4th Straight Holiday Cup Laguna became the first team to win four consecutive titles at the same major tournament as the Breakers crushed OC’s No. 2, Orange Lutheran, 14-2 to capture the 21st Newport Holiday Cup on Friday, Dec. 30, at the Newport Harbor pool. The...

Girls Water Polo (3-0) Breakers crushed ML King from Riverside, the top Division 2 squad, 17-3 on Friday, Dec. 23, at the Laguna Community Pool. Claire Sonne started the scoring in the first period followed by five straight scores by Aria Fischer. Bella Baldridge added two scores...

Breakers were back to full strength this week as they took on OC’s # 8 squad Los Alamitos this past Wednesday at Valley High School in Santa Ana and D-2 # 1 ML King on Friday, December 23 at the Laguna Community Pool. Coach Damato, Ari Fischer, and goalie Thea Walsh finished...