{"id":439604,"date":"2026-08-21T17:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439604\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T17:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:54:48","slug":"spartans-picked-first-in-the-wcc-biros-and-keightley-named-wcc-preseason-all-conference-sjsu-athletics-official-athletics-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439604\/","title":{"rendered":"Spartans Picked First in the WCC, Biros and Keightley Named WCC Preseason All-Conference &#8211; SJSU Athletics &#8211; Official Athletics Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Q4LEtIF3b2X2Srpa2ekOCz2rfX12ab7UCx503UOo.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled-7.jpeg\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211;\u00a0The San Jos\u00e9 State men\u2019s water polo team was picked as league favorites in the WCC preseason coaches\u2019 poll and <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/samu-biros\" title=\"Samu Biros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samu Biros<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/sam-keightley\" title=\"Sam Keightley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Keightley<\/a> were both named WCC Preseason All-Conference, the conference announced on Friday morning. The Spartans were the only team in the conference to have multiple players on the preseason all-conference team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Below are the full results of the preseason coaches poll:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Team (first-place votes) points<\/p>\n<p>San Jos\u00e9 State, (4) 44 points\u00a0<br \/>\nUC Davis, (2) 42 points\u00a0<br \/>\nPepperdine, (1) 38 points\u00a0<br \/>\nPacific, (1) 35 points\u00a0<br \/>\nLMU, 24 points<br \/>\nSanta Clara, 17 points<br \/>\nSaint Mary\u2019s, 16 points<br \/>\nAir Force, 8 points<\/p>\n<p>The Spartans are the reigning WCC Champions, winning the conference for the second time in the last three seasons. Last season, the Spartans finished with a record of 14-8, earning a berth to the NCAA Tournament and finishing as the No. 6 team in the nation, the highest ranking to end a season in school history.<\/p>\n<p>The Spartans will begin this season as the No. 9 ranked team in the country. They will open the 2026 season in Davis, Calif. With matches against Cal, Harvard and American River College on September 5.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/n8YHa8nAjaa6AcK7Y9BrH1KI8PC8w62eZzg54Ctq.jpg\" alt=\"2.jpeg\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/samu-biros\" title=\"Samu Biros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samu Biros<\/a>, Utility, Junior, Eger, Hungary, G\u00e9za G\u00e1rdonyi Cistercian HS<\/p>\n<p>Enters his third season with the Spartans<br \/>\nAs a sophomore last season, was named a Second Team All-American and to the Second Team All-WCC and WCC All-Tournament Team<br \/>\nWCC Champion in 2025<br \/>\nLeading scorer for the Spartans with 57 goals and 73 points last season<br \/>\nAlso led the Spartans in steals with 30 and field blocks with 19<br \/>\nTallied 93 goals and 39 assists across two seasons with SJSU<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-water-polo\/roster\/player\/sam-keightley\" title=\"Sam Keightley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Keightley<\/a>, Utility, Sophomore, Sydney, Australia, Hamilton Boys HS<\/p>\n<p>Enters his second season with the Spartans<br \/>\nAs a freshman last season, was named an All-American Honorable Mention, to the WCC All-Second Team and WCC All-Freshman Team<br \/>\nWCC Champion in 2025<br \/>\nWas the second leading scorer for the Spartans coming in with 56 goals last season and led the team in drawn exclusions with 54<\/p>\n<p>#AllSpartans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211;\u00a0The San Jos\u00e9 State men\u2019s water polo team was picked as league favorites in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-439604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439604","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=439604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}