St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights has a world-class water polo team. As the New York Times’ points out it sure doesn’t fit the profile of most top college water polo teams: It’s not in California, it’s not a military academy and it’s not in the ivy league. St. Francis is a small liberal arts college with 2,200 students. Check out the article and the sexy pictures in today’s New York Times:

St. Francis’s 15-man squad consists of three Americans, one Israeli, three Hungarians and eight Serbs, all with an eye on keeping St. Francis among the national elite. The Terriers are consistently ranked in the top 20 in Division I and made the Final Four in 2005, yet the college hardly fits the traditional mold of a water polo powerhouse.