Nicole Cosares
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- Height:
- 5-8
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- Hometown:
- Oakland, CA
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- Position:
- All Around
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- Year:
- Fr
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- High School:
- Bishop O'Dowd
Bio
High School: Attended Bishop O’Dowd High where she swam for Neal Hamilton and Mike Laase. Was MVP her senior year and won coaches award for the season, as well as being voted team captain. Awarded best offensive her junior year. Sophomore year was Nicole’s first year playing water polo and she was immediately moved up to varsity. Played club with Diablo Water Polo for Maureen O’Toole, an Olympic water polo player who led the U.S team to a silver medal in 2000.
Personal: Nicole Frances Cosares was born on May 6, 1997 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She hasn't decided on a major but is strongly leaning toward criminal justice/criminology and minoring in psychology. Her dream would be to play water polo at Cal Berkeley. She enjoys running, playing basketball and soccer in her free time.
News mentions
SBCC received top honors from the Western State Conference as goalie Mackenzie Richards was named Player of the Year in women’s water polo for the 2015 fall season and Chuckie Roth was the Coach of the Year.
Kendra Carr scored three goals and Nicole Cosares tallied two goals and five steals on Saturday as SBCC edged L.A. Valley 10-8 to win its second straight WSC women’s water polo championship.
Kendra Carr poured in five goals and SBCC played superior defense on Friday to beat Cuesta 9-4 in the WSC Women’s Water Polo Tournament semifinals at L.A. Valley College.
SBCC built halftime leads in all three women’s water polo games on Saturday in its Halloween Tournament at Santa Barbara High. The Vaqueros led Hancock 9-3 at the half and went on to capture the WSC morning contest 14-4.
SBCC fell behind Ventura 4-1 in the second quarter and trailed 5-4 entering the fourth on Wednesday at San Marcos High before rallying for a 9-7 women’s water polo triumph. The Vaqueros (14-12, 5-1 WSC) outscored the visitors 5-1 in the final quarter.
SBCC had a season-high 18 steals in Friday’s opener of the Battle at the Beach women’s water polo tournament and downed Grossmont 7-3 at Cerritos College. The Vaqueros (13-10) played defending state champion Fullerton (20-2) in the afternoon and dropped a 14-5 decision.
Kendra Carr continued her offensive onslaught on Friday, scoring a season-high six goals in SBCC’s 7-6 women’s water polo win over Cypress and three more in a 15-3 rout of San Diego Miramar on the first day of the Ventura Tournament.
Kendra Carr poured in five goals for the second straight game and SBCC beat Cuesta 14-5 on Wednesday in a WSC women’s water polo game at San Marcos High.
SBCC built big first-half leads in a pair of women’s water polo games on Saturday at the Cuesta Rabobank Tournament, then held on for two victories.
It took two overtimes and sudden death to decide Wednesday’s WSC women’s water polo showdown between conference leaders SBCC and L.A. Valley. After being tied 10-10 at the end of regulation, the Monarchs scored in the first OT and then in sudden death to edge the defending WSC champions 12-11 at Valley’s pool.
SBCC lost two more games at the Mt. SAC Classic on Saturday but Coach Chuckie Roth says his team is improving. The Vaqueros were edged by Long Beach 8-6 and then lost to American River 10-4.
Addison Seale collected five goals and three steals on Wednesday, leading SBCC to a 14-0 shutout of Santa Monica in the Vaqueros’ women’s water polo home opener at San Marcos High.
Kendra Carr scored six goals on Saturday as SBCC knocked off Fresno City 9-7 and Merced 16-12 to finish 3-1 in the Central Coast Invitational women’s water polo tourney at Cuesta.
Second halves made all the difference on Friday as SBCC opened its women’s water polo season in the Central Coast Invitational at Cuesta in San Luis Obispo.