Every school that plays, where it actually is.
1,030 high schools across the 11 states that play water polo — California colored by the CIF section it competes in, everywhere else by state, each dot carrying its own division. Real coordinates on a real basemap: 81 sit on the campus itself, 570 at the school’s street address — interpolated along the block, so the front gate rather than the pool. The remaining 379 resolve only to a nearby street or postcode, and are marked approximate on hover.
Hover a dot for the school; click it for the team page. Names appear as you zoom in. Basemap: OpenStreetMap, styled by CARTO.
Factoids → How the data works →
California is two regions — Southern & Northern — each crowning its own champion (there’s no single state title). And the calendar isn’t the same for everyone:
Boys play fall statewide. Girls are the split — winter in the south, fall in the north — so the two girls seasons never overlap.
The full breakdown — seasons, regions & championships →