The U.S. women’s water polo team will look very different at the 2016 Olympics, should it qualify, than it did at the London Games, and the most striking change will likely be in goal.
Ashleigh Johnson is in line to succeed Betsey Armstrong as the No. 1 U.S. Olympic goalkeeper. Armstrong started for the U.S. in the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, helping the Americans to their first women’s water polo gold in 2012 after silver at Sydney 2000, bronze at Athens 2004 and silver at Beijing 2008.
Johnson, 20, was the only non-Californian on the roster that won the World Championships in Kazan, Russia, earlier this month.