INPERSON
Making A Splash
Peters Township
mom Jocelyn
Vincent rekindles
her love of
water polo.
BY JENNIFER BROZAK
P
eters Township resident Jocelyn
Vincent spent her high school
and college years playing and
then coaching a sport she was
increasingly passionate about—water
polo.
Born and raised in Texas, she excelled
at the sport in high school, which led
to her being recruited to play for Iona
College, an NCAA Division I school in
New York. Following college, Vincent
began coaching the girls’ water polo
team at her former high school, St.
Agnes Academy in Houston, which she
graduated from in 1999.
Then, a series of life events, including
her desire to start a family, derailed her
playing and coaching efforts. She left
her job as a science teacher to stay at
home to raise her three children, ages 4,
5 and 7, effectively putting the sport on
hold—that is, until her family moved
to Pittsburgh in 2017 for her husband’s
career.
“I never would have imagined that
water polo would ever be in my future
again,” Vincent, 37, says.
The summer she moved to Pittsburgh,
a friend mentioned that water polo was
alive and well in western Pennsylvania. A
quick Google search elicited a response
from a member of the Pittsburgh
Renegades water polo club, who invited
her to come to a practice.
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