The Pasadena City College women's water polo team began the 2025 season on Saturday at the LA Valley Tournament. Despite two losses, the team is encouraged by the play of returning letterman goalie Rae Jiao.

An international student-athlete from China, Jiao made 11 saves, several spectacular point-blank stops, in the Lancers 13-3 loss to East Los Angeles. PCC later dropped a 21-5 decision against LA Valley.

Head coach Terry Stoddard, in his 26th season in charge as the only coach in this women's sport history at PCC, is carrying an 11-player roster that includes two other sophomore returners in attacker Genesis Rojas and utility player Alondra Vazquez. 

PCC's freshmen are led by center Yahaira Martinez (Stella High Charter Academy) and a trio of attackers in Selah Gonzalez (Monrovia High), Genesis Rojas (Baldwin Park HS) and Makena Guy (Arcadia).

Also participating this season are first-year utility players Jeniffer Carmona-Solis (Azusa), Robyn Arredondo (Crescenta Valley), and Eden Brown (Eastside High, Lancaster), and Anni Chen (Pasadena HS).

Guy had an impressive first game with a goal, two assists and three steals but was lost to an injury in the third quarter of the opener. Gonzalez and Martinez also tallied scores.

Against LAVC, Martinez and Gonzalez scored a pair of goals each while Vazquez tallied the other. Jiao made seven saves. (edited to correct statistic)

The Lancers begin South Coast Conference play on Wednesday, Sept. 17 at Cerritos College. Game time is 3 p.m. On Wednesday, Sept. 24, PCC hosts El Camino at its off-campus home pool at Pasadena Polytechnic School, also at 3 p.m.