Starting this week is the 2024 Australian Water Polo League competition. The Australian Water Polo League Competition ("AWL") is Australia's premier domestic water polo competition and UNSW Wests fields a Women's team and a Men's team in the AWL. The Men’s team are known as the Magpies’. The Magpies have won 7 AWL Championships and recently won 3 in a row in 2019, (2020 incomplete), (2021 not held), 2022 and 2023! The Women's team, the 2018 AWL champions, are fondly known as the 'Killer Whales'.