Siena Water Polo opens its 25th season this weekend with a trip to the Bruno Classic, hosted by Brown and Harvard. Due to incoming weather, the Saints will now open the tournament against No. 10 Indiana at 7:40 p.m. Friday night, before facing No. 23 Marist and Chapman on Saturday.
 
Siena's matches against Indiana and Marist will take place at Brown in Providence, RI, before heading to Cambridge, MA, to face Chapman.
 
The Bruno Classic marks the beginning of Siena's 19-match schedule, which features six opponents that finished the 2025 season ranked in the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Poll.
 
Led by 2025 First Team All-MAAC and 2026 Preseason All-MAAC selection Catherine Williamson, the Saints return 97 percent of their scoring from a promising 2025 campaign that included nine losses decided by four goals or fewer. Williamson paced Siena with 92 goals last season—third-most in the MAAC—and finished one goal shy of the program's single-season record. Entering her junior year, she ranks ninth all-time in program history with 160 career goals, just 89 away from becoming the program's all-time leader.
 
Siena also welcomes back Lucia Fernandez Caballero, who set career highs in points (67) and goals (47) last season, along with Parker Thomas, who enters the year sixth on the program's all-time assists list with 113. Head coach Michael Ashe returns 17 players and adds seven newcomers—six freshmen and Saint Francis (Pa.) transfer Georgia Ellison—as the Saints look to push into MAAC contention.
 
Picked eighth in the MAAC Preseason Coaches' Poll, Siena opens the season against top-tier competition, as both Indiana and Marist began the year ranked in the CWPA Poll. The Saints will face Indiana for the fifth time in program history—and the first of two meetings this season—Marist for the 54th time, and Chapman for just the fourth time, holding a 2–1 edge in the all-time series.
 
Following the Bruno Classic, Siena travels to New Jersey for the Princeton Invitational, where the Saints will face Indiana on Jan. 31 and Princeton and Brown on Feb. 1.