Broken Trust: Hartwick College Eliminates Women’s Water Polo

Nationally, NCAA women’s varsity water polo is dominated by California schools with enrollment ten to thirty times as large as Hartwick’s 1,178 students. Outside the West, large public universities like Indiana and Michigan monopolize regional success, along with Ivy Leaguers Brown, Harvard and Princeton. But, thanks to student-athletes like Wilson, Hartwick College (NY) is consistently ranked among the East’s finest, despite being the smallest program in all of NCAA varsity polo.  Which is why February 28, 2018—when President Margaret Drugovich unexpectedly announced the elimination of polo, effective at the end of this season—marked, for all intents and purposes, the end of Wilson’s promising career at Hartwick.