The United States Polo Association® Webcasts Men’s & Women’s National Intercollegiate Championship

LAKE WORTH, Fla. - April 9, 2014 - PRLog -- The United States Polo Association Interscholastic/Intercollegiate (I/I) Program is excited to announce that the final rounds of the 2014 USPA National Intercollegiate Championship (NIC), held April 9 - 12, 2014, at the ERG Polo Complex in Brookshire, Texas, will be webcasted on the United States Polo Association website this week.

For a link to the webcast matches, click here (http://uspolo.org/watch).

The six final matches (three each for the men’s and women’s) will be taped and then webcasted on Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday evening at 5 p.m. EDT. These wonderfully produced and exciting webcasts were done for the 2013 men’s and women’s finals. This year, the NIC is expanding its coverage to include all six matches.

The schedule and match ups for the final rounds are as follows:

Women’s NIC Finals

·      April 9thUniversity of Virginia vs. Southern Methodist

·      April 9thCornell University vs. Cal Poly

·      April 12^thWomen’s National Championship

Men’s NIC Finals

·      April 10^thUniversity of Virginia vs. Southern Methodist

·      April 10^thWestmont College vs. Cornell University

·      April 12^thMen’s National Championship

You can follow the progress of the teams from status updates on the USPA Intercollegiate/Interscholastic and USPA Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/iipolo?fref=ts)s. The NIC has been a national U.S. Polo Association championship since 1922, with the addition of women’s teams in 1976. Last year, the Westmont College men’s team and the UVA women’s team were the tournament champions. The winner of the most National Titles in previous years has been the Yale men’s team (19 times) and Cornell women’s team (13 times).

The United States Polo Association, the governing body of the sport, organizes the USPA National Intercollegiate Championship, which is a centerpiece of the United States Intercollegiate/Interscholastic (I/I) polo program. The I/I polo program mission is to help expand the sport in the U.S. at the college and high school level. See more information on the I/I polo program here (http://uspolo.org/member/programs/schools-colleges/) on the U.S. Polo Association’s website, and follow updates by Liking their Facebook Page (http://www.facebook.com/iipolo).

About the United States Polo Association ®

The U.S. Polo Association was organized and exists for the purposes of promoting the game of polo, coordinating the activities of its Member Clubs and Registered Players, arranging and supervising polo tournaments, competitions, and games, and providing rules, handicaps, and conditions for those tournaments, competitions, and games including the safety and welfare of participants and mounts. For more information, please visit www.uspolo.org.