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Taylor McInerney is in her eighth season as head coach of Indiana Water Polo in 2027.
Her Hoosier programs have been consistently ranked in the CWPA Top 25 poll during her tenure including a steady presence in the Top 15 for the last three seasons. She has helped guide 11 players to 18 ACWPC All-American honors. In undoubtedly the nation’s best conference, McInerney’s players have earned 12 All-MPSF teams and a total of 75 MPSF All-Academic team honorees. She owns 109 total wins at the helm of the program.
In 2026, the Hoosiers season was highlighted by Top 10 victories over No. 7 Fresno State in the season opener and No. 8 UC Irvine. Four players earned All-MPSF honors with a trio of seniors – Louisa Downes, Jasmine Higgs and Grace Klingler - being named honorable mention while Audrina Kang earned a spot on the All-Newcomer team. The quartet went on to earn ACWPC All-American honors with Klingler leading the pack on the third team.
Senior attacker Skylar Kidd highlighted the Cream and Crimson in 2025, becoming the program’s first nominee for the Cutino Award, which honors the nation’s top player. Kidd capped off her impressive IU career with 67 goals to finish in the top 10 in scoring in the MPSF.
The Hoosiers posted their first 20-plus win season in 2024 for the first time since 2018. The squad picked up nine wins against ranked opponents including a win against No. 13 Michigan for the first time since 2015. Indiana also brought home their first win against a Top 10 opponent since 2020, knocking off No. 8 Princeton on the road.
The program met a record 12--game win streak to start the season off and ended the season with a sixth place finish in the MPSF Tournament. McInerney led her squad to three ACWPC All-American selections and two All-MPSF selections.
The 2024 Hoosiers excelled in the classroom, bringing 20 ACWPC Academic All-Americans and a league high 12 MPSF All-Academic honors. In her fourth year at Indiana, she led the program to its most wins since 2018.
The 2023 squad recorded 17 wins including its first win over Arizona State since 2005 and went 9-3 at action at home inside Counsilman Billingsley Aquatic Center. Indiana recorded nine ranked wins through the course of the season.
Graduate student goalie Mary Askew capped off an impressive five year career as she finished third all-time in career saves with the program which led her to All-MPSF and ACWPC All-American honorable mention nods. Senior utility Zoe Crouch led the team in scoring and earned a spot on the ACWPC All-American honorable mention team. In the classroom, 10 players earned spots on the MPSF All-Academic team.
In her third season, the Hoosiers capped off the year with a 15-15 record, with wins including No. 11 UCSD, No. 13 San Jose State, No. 18 LMU, No. 20 Harvard, No. 22 Marist, and No. 23 Brown. The Hoosiers climbed as high as No. 10 in the nation and ended the season at No. 14 for the 21-22 season.
The Hoosiers earned four ACWPC All-American honorable mentions, a record in program history. Two Hoosiers were also named to All-MPSF selection teams; Izzy Mandema to All-MPSF Second Team, and Skylar Kidd to All-MPSF Newcomer Team. The Hoosiers earned 14 Big Ten All-Academic Awards in the 21-22 season as well.
In her second season as head coach, the Hoosiers posted a 10-17 record, with two impressive wins over No. 16 San Jose State.
In her first year at the helm of the Indiana water polo program, McInerney led the Hoosiers to a record of 13-5 and a final national ranking of No. 15 in the CWPA rankings in the shortened, 2020 season.
McInerney guided the Hoosiers to a bevy of impressive victories, including wins over No. 11 Pacific, No. 24 Marist, No. 9 UC Davis and No. 25 California Baptist.
Individually, both Tina Doherty and Megan Abarta earned All-America honors from the ACWPC. The Hoosiers also excelled out of the pool, as six earned MPSF All-Academic Team accolades, seven earned Big Ten All-Academic honors and three were named Big Ten Distinguished Scholars.
McInerney served as an assistant coach for the Hoosiers from 2017-18, as well as serving as an assistant coach for the USA Water Polo National Team since 2017.
Along with helping guide the Indiana water polo program the past two seasons, McInerney has had tremendous success with the USA Water Polo Senior Women’s National “B” Team and Women’s Youth National Team.
McInerney helped lead the senior team to a first-place finish at the FISU World University Games in 2017 and the youth team to a seventh-place finish at the FINA Youth World Championships in 2018.
From 2015-17, McInerney served as a graduate assistant coach and director of operations at Wagner College. In McInerney first year as Wagner's graduate assistant coach, the Seahawks won their third consecutive MAAC Championship to enter the field for the 2016 NCAA Championship.
In her second year, McInerney helped Wagner become the first program to win four consecutive MAAC water polo titles. Additionally, McInerney cultivated an All-American season from Wagner junior Kimberly Watson (102 goals, 31 assists), who was also named the MAAC Co-Offensive Player of the Year.
McInerney played one professional season for Club Water Polo Dos Hermanas outside of Sevilla, Spain following an outstanding collegiate career at the University of California, Berkeley.
Donning the co-captain's cap her senior year, McInerney guided Cal to a silver medal at the 2011 NCAA Championships, topping a bronze finish in the year prior. At Cal, McInerney was a four-time NCAA Academic All-American and made the UC Berkeley Student Athlete Honors List all four years.
McInerney graduated from Cal Berkley in 2013 with a degree in Media Studies. She went on to earn her M.B.A. in Marketing from Wagner in 2017.
She is married to her husband, Ryan, who is a senior special teams analyst with Indiana Football. The couple has a son, Cal.
