Girls varsity water polo · every champion, every final standing · 2025–2026
The 2026 Battle is in the books: 28 of 29 games decided by 15 teams at Encinal and San Leandro. Here’s who won, who climbed, and the stories the brackets don’t tell.
Computed straight from both years’ results: 7 teams new to the Battle in 2026, 8 from 2025 who didn’t return, and everyone in between. No returning team improved on its 2025 place: the ones with a proven place both years held it or slipped.
2026 · Seeded 3rd in Pool C
Slotted for 9th–12th. Finished 5th.
College Park entered as the 3rd seed of Pool C, and a pool’s 3rd seed is slotted for Saturday’s pool for 9th to 12th place. On Friday it beat Terra Linda 14–2 in the Pool C first round, then lost to Encinal 12–11 in the Pool C final. On Saturday it beat Lick-Wilmerding 11–6 in the Pool F semifinal, then beat Bishop O'Dowd 13–4 in the 5th-place game. No 2026 team finished further above its seed’s band: 4 places.
Every placed 2026 team: pool seed and finish
2026: pool seed and finish
Team
Seed
Slotted for
Finish
Alameda
D1
1st–4th
1st
Liberty
B1
1st–4th
2nd
Washington
A1
1st–4th
3rd
Encinal
C1
1st–4th
4th
College Park
C3
9th–12th
5th
Bishop O'Dowd
D3
9th–12th
6th
Seeds are the host’s Friday pool seeds. Lines rising left to right beat their band. 9 2026 teams have no proven overall place and are not drawn.
2025 · Seeded 4th in Pool B
Slotted for 13th–16th. Finished 2nd.
Washington entered as the 4th seed of Pool B, and a pool’s 4th seed is slotted for Saturday’s pool for 13th to 16th place. On Friday it beat Lick-Wilmerding 11–9 in the Pool B first round, then beat Moreau Catholic 15–5 in the Pool B final. On Saturday it beat Encinal 14–10 in the Pool E semifinal, then lost to Alameda 13–7 in the final. No 2025 team finished further above its seed’s band: 11 places.
Every placed 2025 team: pool seed and finish
2025: pool seed and finish
Team
Seed
Slotted for
Finish
Alameda
D1
1st–4th
1st
Washington
B4
13th–16th
2nd
Castro Valley
A2
5th–8th
3rd
Encinal
C1
1st–4th
4th
College Park
A1
1st–4th
5th
Moreau Catholic
B2
5th–8th
6th
Alhambra
D3
9th–12th
7th
Oakdale
C2
5th–8th
8th
Lick-Wilmerding
B1
1st–4th
9th
Dublin
D4
13th–16th
10th
Dougherty Valley
A4
13th–16th
11th
Pinole Valley
C4
13th–16th
12th
Seeds are the host’s Friday pool seeds. Lines rising left to right beat their band. 4 2025 teams have no proven overall place and are not drawn.
2025 to 2026 · Back to back
Alameda did it again.
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Champion 2025 · Champion 2026
Alameda won the 2025 final 13–7 over Washington and the 2026 final 12–3 over Liberty. Encinal (4th) and College Park (5th) also finished exactly where they did the year before.
2025 · Extra time
One game went to overtime.
2025 · Pool K semifinal
Irvington10–9El Cerrito
The Battle plays sudden-death overtime. The 2025 sheet marked overtime; the 2026 results feed doesn’t mark it, so the years can’t be compared.
Saturday’s pools · 2025 to 2026
Two teams moved up.
Friday’s finish decides which Saturday pool a team plays in: Pool E for the pool winners, down to Pool K. Of the 7 returning teams that played on Saturday both years, Lick-Wilmerding and El Cerrito played a higher pool than the year before, and 5 played the same pool (Washington, Encinal, Alameda in Pool E both years).
Lick-WilmerdingUp: 9th in 2025 to Pool F in 2026
El CerritoUp: Pool K in 2025 to Pool J in 2026
Both years · The close ones
Four in 2026, five in 2025 decided by one goal.
2026
Encinal12–11College ParkPool C final
Terra Linda8–7Clayton ValleyPool K round robin
Justin-Siena14–13El CerritoPool J round robin
Washington8–7Encinal3rd-place game
2025
Pinole Valley6–5ConcordPool C third-place game
Dublin7–6Dougherty ValleyPool J semifinal
Irvington10–9El CerritoPool K semifinal
Lick-Wilmerding9–8Dublin9th-place game
Castro Valley11–10Encinal3rd-place game
Final standings
2026
October 2–3, 2026 · standings worked out from the placement games in the host's schedule and the Eggbeater scoring feed as saved after the event. Tags show where each team finished in 2025. Tap a school for its season page.
September 26–27, 2025 · standings worked out from the placement games in the host's 2025 schedule sheet, saved from Google Sheets on 2026-10-04. Tags show where each team finished in 2026. Tap a school for its season page.
2026’s names and scores are the ones on the 2026 event page: the host’s schedule with the results Eggbeater’s scoring feed recorded over the weekend. 2025’s are read from the host’s own schedule sheet. Standings are worked out the same way for both years: a placement game puts its winner at that place and its loser one below, and nothing else places a team. The 2025 sheet has no score for the 13th-place game (Irvington v Albany) or the 15th-place game (El Cerrito v Concord), so those teams are listed in pairs. 2026’s Saturday round robins (Pools J and K) were never given overall places by the host, so they are shown as pools, ranked by wins.
Neither year had an overall seed list. The host seeded each Friday pool 1 to 4, and Saturday’s pools took the pools’ winners, runners-up, thirds and fourths in turn, so a pool seed carries a band of places rather than a rank; the seed chart uses that band and never a made-up 1-to-16 seed. The 2025 sheet marks overtime; the 2026 feed does not. The host’s short names on the 2025 sheet (CV, D. Valley, Lick W, MCath and the like) were matched to schools by hand, and a name that could not be matched with certainty would be kept apart, not merged. One 2025 cell (Gm 21) wrote its score winner-first; the host’s declared winner stands. Gm 31 names its winner but no score, so it places both teams and counts as decided but not scored.
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