{"id":132394,"date":"2026-01-14T00:26:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/132394\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T00:26:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:26:32","slug":"fresno-state-bulldogs-aim-for-redemption-at-polopalooza-amid-high-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/132394\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno State Bulldogs aim for redemption at Polopalooza amid high expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fresno State Bulldogs are back in the pool, getting ready for another season of water polo.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs are the preseason favorite to win the Golden Coast Conference championship.<\/p>\n<p>They have won it four of the last five years, but lost last year, so they feel they have something to prove.<\/p>\n<p><p>Natalie Benson has been the head coach of Fresno State water polo for 9 years. (Photo: FOX26)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The competition starts this coming weekend at the Aquatics Center with the Polopalooza.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s seven teams and wall-to-wall water polo.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs are looking forward to the start of a new season with high expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Six other schools will be at Fresno State to compete in the Polopalooza: The Cal Bears, Hawaii, Indiana Hoosiers, Michigan Wolverines, San Jose State Spartans, and UC Irvine Anteaters.<\/p>\n<p>The competition starts Friday evening and continues until Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gobulldogs.com\/sports\/2025\/11\/6\/fresno-state-polo-palooza-tournament-central-26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> for more on the Polopalooza.<\/p>\n<p>TICKETS &#8211; DAY PASSSingle Day Pass$15Single Day Pass (children\/senior\/military)$10Fresno State StudentsFREETICKETS &#8211; TOURNAMENT PASSAdult$30Children\/Senior\/Military$20Fresno State StudentsFREEComment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Tickets available for sale at the gate ONLY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fresno State Bulldogs are back in the pool, getting ready for another season of water polo. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-132394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}