POUGHKEEPSIE, New York -- The Marist water polo team is ranked in two national polls for the third straight week, picking up a #25 ranking in the USA Water Polo National Collegiate Rankings and a #24 ranking in the Collegiate Water Polo Coaches Association Week 10 Poll respectively.

The rankings mark the 12th and 13th  times the Red Foxes have been included in a national poll this season, having previously been ranked #23 in the CWPA's Preseason and Week 1 Polls, #12 in the USA Water Polo National Collegiate Rankings, #24 in the CWPA Week 2 Poll, #21 in the USA Water Polo National Collegiate Rankings, #24 in the CWPA Week 3 Poll, #T24 in the CWPA Week 4 Poll, #25 in the CWPA Week 5 Poll, #23 in the USA Water Polo National Collegiate Rankings, #23 in the CWPA Week 8 Poll, #24 in the USA Water Polo National Collegiate Rankings last week and #23 in the CWPA Week 9 Poll. 

Senior co-captain Jessica Hermosillo was also named the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Water Polo Defensive Player of the Week the conference announced on Wednesday.

The award is the second of the season and career for Hermosillo and fourth of the year for the program after junior Grace Doerfler and freshman Lauren Smith were named MAAC Offensive Player of the Week and Rookie of the Week on Jan. 25.

Hermosillo had an outstanding weekend at the LMU Invitational, finishing with 37 saves and three steals in three games. She had 9 saves vs #22 Harvard, had 10 saves and one steal vs #17 Princeton and a career high 18 saves and one steal vs #21 San Jose State to send the game into five overtimes.

The Red Foxes travel to New Rochelle, NY for Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference action vs. the Virginia Military Institute Keydets (10:30 a.m.) and the #18 Wagner College Seahawks (3 p.m.) on Saturday and the Villanova Wildcats (10:30 a.m.) on Sunday.