Nice story on WNYC Saturday morning about the water polo team at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights. I reproduce it here, but urge you to check out WNYC’s website. Better yet, listen to WNYC (AM 820).

REPORTER: The USC water polo team generally practices and competes in an Olympic-size pool in the open California air. But this is not southern California. This is a 25-yard-by-40-foot pool in the basement of St. Francis College. The school has 24-hundred students, most of them commuters and many of them the first in their family to go to college. The pool here in Brooklyn Heights is so small, that during water polo season, it is filled almost to overflowing, so that players are forced to swim in the shallow end, rather than stand. But even with modest facilities and without widespread prestige, St. Francis has become a magnet for water polo players from around the world. Carl Quigley has coached the team since graduating here 30 years ago.

QUIGLEY: Kids go home over the summer, and their friends ask them,