Bulldogs back at home for two this weekend

FRESNO, Calif . - The Fresno State water polo team returns home to host Cal Baptist and San Diego State for a pair of games this weekend. The two games will kickstart the Bulldogs' home stretch, finishing the regular season with three-straight before hosting the Golden Coast Conference Championship at the Aquatics Center.

Fresno State is currently fourth in the GCC standings, behind LMU, San Diego State and CBU.

No. 13 Fresno State (11-9, 2-1 GCC) vs No. 23 CBU (12-8, 2-1 GCC)
Friday, March 20 • 1 p.m. PT • Aquatics Center • Fresno, Calif.
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Live Stats: TheFOSH
Twitter: @FresnoStateWP
Series History: Fresno State leads, 10-1

No. 13 Fresno State (11-9, 2-1 GCC) vs No. 13 San Diego State (14-8, 4-1 GCC)
Sunday, March 22 • 1 p.m. PT • Aquatics Center • Fresno, Calif.
Watch: Overnght
Live Stats: TheFOSH
Twitter: @FresnoStateWP
Series History: Fresno State leads, 9-3

GCC CHAMPIONSHIP
The Bulldogs host the 2026 Golden Coast Conference Championship on April 10-12.

Tickets are on sale now at GoBulldogs.com/GCCtix26

The action for this year's GCC Championship begins Friday, April 10, with three quarterfinal matches, while the top seed receives a bye to the semifinals. Play continues Saturday, April 11, with two semifinals and two consolation games. The tournament concludes Sunday, April 12, with the third-place game followed by the championship match.

Bulldog Bones

Fresno State returns home for its three game home stand to close the regular season
The Bulldogs went 1-1 last weekend, defeating Azusa Pacific and falling to No. 2 UCLA on the road
The Bulldogs are 4-1 at home this season
Of its nine losses this season, all have been to Top 20 opponents
Of its nine losses, six have been decided by four or fewer goals
Fresno State is 9-0 when allowing fewer than 10 goals to its opponents this season
Of the Bulldogs' 19 games this season, only four have been against an unranked opponent
The Bulldogs have won the last nine games in the series with CBU
Fresno State has won the last eight games in the series with San Diego State
Fresno State has an all-time record of 42-11 in Golden Coast Conference play
Fresno State is led in scoring by senior Hailey Andress with 55 goals. She also adds 20 assists on the season.
Earlier this year, Andress became the program's all-time leading scorer. She currently has 246 career goals.
Sophomore Marit van der Kolk registered her 100th career sprint win last weekend, becoming only the second player in program history to have that many.
Van der Kolk has a 100-13 career win-loss record in the sprint
Freshman goalkeeper Katelyn Mobley has been a wall in the cage, totaling 163 saves this season. She has the fifth-most in a single season, and is fourth-most all-time.
Three different Bulldogs have scored a season-high six goals in a game this season with Riaan Bryant being the latest to do so at Azusa Pacific last weekend. She joined Hailey Andress and Georgia Daly to do so this season
Twelve different Bulldogs have scored hat tricks on the year, including a team-high 11 from Hailey Andress
Fresno State has 10 international players on its roster
Fresno State is coached by Natalie Benson, in her ninth season at the helm. She has a 125-88 record as the Bulldogs' head coach

The record holder
Senior Hailey Andress became the program's all-time leading scorer earlier this season. She currently has 246 career goals. This season alone, she has added 55 goals behind 16 multi-goal performances. The senior leads the team and is fifth in the conference in scoring. She has had at least one goal in all but two games on the year.

Andress has a team-high 11 hat tricks this season, bringing her career total to 43. She has scored in 13 consecutive games.

The freshman duo
The Bulldogs' second and third leading scorers are both new faces to the program in freshmen Charley Stephens and Riaan Bryant. Bryant has 33 goals and Stephens has 29 as the young duo compliment each other's play. They also combine for 39 assists as Stephens leads the team with 21 this season.

Of the team's top five goal-scorers, Bryant has the highest shooting percentage with a .508 percentage.

The freshman in the cage
Fresno State goalkeeper Katelyn Mobley is second in the GCC with 163 saves. She has started in all 19 games played this season.

Her 163 saves this season are the fifth-most by a goalkeeper in program history, and she continues to climb. She already has the most saves by a Bulldog keeper since Paula Nieto Jasny in 2024 (201). Nieto Jasny is the program's all-time leader in every goalkeeper statistic.

Win the sprint
Another year of Marit van der Kolk dominating the sprint. The sophomore Bulldog has a 59-9 sprint win-loss record this season. In 2025, she had the third-best single-season sprint record with a 41-4 record.

With her 59 wins this season, she has moved up to third all-time in single season sprint win numbers. Her career total of 100 sprint wins is second all-time behind Cynthia Rosa (2020-24), who coincidentally, also wore cap number three for the Bulldogs.

Van der Kolk leads the GCC in sprint wins this season.

International 'Dogs
Of the 24 players on the Bulldogs' roster, 10 are international student-athletes. The Bulldogs have athletes on the roster from New Zealand, the Netherlands, Australia, Russia and Israel (in addition to the United States).

Year 9 for the head coach
Natalie Benson was hired as the program's head coach for its inaugural season in 2017. Benson enters her ninth year leading the 'Dogs in the pool and has compiled a 125-88 overall record, including four GCC Championship titles since the first year of competition in 2018.

Fresno State Athletics

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