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Two Trojans Win Gold With Team USA
June 05, 2017 | Women's Water Polo
USC women's water polo had two representatives on the U.S. Women's National Team roster for the Kunshan Cup in China. Fresh off her senior season at Troy, two-meter player Brigitta Games was named to the roster for the international trip, where she was joined by a USC newcomer in Paige Hauschild, who has signed on to join the Trojans as a freshman next season.
It was the first roster appearance for Games on the U.S. Senior National Team, while Hauschild gathered her first Senior Team experience less than a month earlier. The Santa Barbara product was a member of Team USA's FINA Intercontinental Tournament team that earned the silver medal at the event in early May.
Out in Kunshan, China, from May 26-June 3, the United States beat the Netherlands, China and Russia in group play out of the gates before topping Japan to earn a place in the semifinals, There, Team USA generated a 17-3 win over Russia to move into the final against Greece. It would go down to a shootout to decide the champion in China, with the USA making a winning move in the shootout to claim the gold medal at the Kunshan Cup.
