Monday, January 30, 2006

Fallbrook - Did you know?

Did you know the Sultan 16&Under team took 2nd place in the Fallbrook Tournament? This was our first game!!!

A lesson learn!! Turn this lost into a win next time - I will invite the Sultan's out to Vegas for Scrimmages this summer.

Sandy

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Club and Masters Workout Times

Masters begin this Sat Jan 28th - we have extended our time to 4:00 pm.
- 2 pm - Help Club players or Loosen up in side lanes
-2:30 - Passing Shooting
-2:45 - Scrimmage to 4 pm

Club: Tuesday Jan 31st
-Younger Group 6:30 - 8 pm
-Older Group 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Dates - Circle on your Calendars

Master Festival - we are hosting - we will need everyone to help work!! Feb 17th (Friday) to Feb 19th (Sunday).

April 20-23 - A team from Modesto will be coming to Vegas/Henderson for games with our club and our Master's "B" players.

2nd weekend in June the Master National will be held: We plan on entering the following teams:
Men's 20 & Over (Coed)
Men's 40 & Over (Coed)

As soon as school is out - the club players will go on a retreat, during the week day and parents can join in on the weekend - details to follow!!

Club players will have tryouts for zone teams - dates and details will be announced as soon as we know.

Mid July - Master - have scrimmages against teams from our zone and posssibly the San Diego Master team. More details to follow.

Master

USWP is going to raise the cost to register March 1st - to save money players should registered before this date.

The Arizona tournament will be held April 28-30th - they have almost doubled their entry fee and is only inviting 8 teams - we got an invitation. We will enter one "A" team only. I will send emails by mid Feb to players who are selected to attend the Arizona tournament. Then post on the blog. The cost will be about $80-90 per player, plus your own transportation, hotel, meals.

Fallbrook Results

Great weekend - with great games - awesome play. The club did great in the water, they also did a great job out of the water.... this team was on their best behavior, no problems. When they had time with no games they came back to the hotel and rested, when they were at the pool they always wanted to watch the games to learn.

Aniko and Valerie planned our trip - hotel, transportation, meals, snacks and everything ran like clock work!

Our little guys placed second in the tournament only losing to the 1st place team in the 1st round games and in the final game against Laguna Beach (this team took 2nd at the National Junior Olympic). Other teams we beat were: Rose Bowl, Chawp (Chino Hills Area Water Polo), Pacific.

The older group had a bad start - they were too nervous (had a few get sick and throw up before and after the game from nerves). They lost to Sultan and could have and should have beaten this team. We beat LAWPC - lost to El Toro by 1 goal and beat Rose Bowl in a pick up game.

All and all Mark and I were really happy with the way the team is progressing!!!!

Thursday, January 19, 2006

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Dues - again!!

The following have not paid their dues:

Club: Elliot - Jeff - Victor - David - Sarah - Nik - Laura - Gabby - Jill - (Mary and Skyler?)

Masters: (Dues and 1 time Admin for the year of $20): Dave - Edwin - Hernando - Henry 2 months - Roger 2 months - Vicki 2 months - Lee Admin fee only.

Club please pay before you go on the trip!!!

Master please pay on Wed!!!

Thanks Sandy

Saturday, January 14, 2006

Hall Of Famer!!!

Vaune is officially a Member of the Hall of Fame!! Congratulations!!

Mark was presented with the Women's Development Coach of the Year!! Congratulations!!

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Get Ready

Up Coming Events:

1. Master Festival - Feb 17th (Friday 4 pm) to Feb 19th (Sunday 6 pm). We need help to run this event.

-Make the programs
-Find or buy awards
-Equip Runners
-Registration Desk
-Officials Table
-Organize Goodie Bags
-Refreshments for officials
-Announcer

Please approach me if you want to help the team!! I will be asking for help sometime next week.

2. Arizona Master Tournament: The Coed Tournament is here again, they have cut the # of teams in the tournament - we have to get our entries in soon and will only be allowed our "A" team. Dates: April 28th - Friday to April 30th Sunday (Friday 4 pm to Sunday 5 pm)

3. The team (s) club and master will be having a Garage Sale during Easter Vacation - save your stuff. Date and location to be announced!

4. Master National will be held the 1st weekend in June - San Diego area. We plan on entering: 1- 20 & Over Men's (coed)
1- 40 & Over Men's (coed)

More info on this some time after Feb.

5. Retreat for club: Right after school is out we want to take the players to the mountains (Utah cabins or Mt. Charleson camping)... this would be during the mid week with kids and staff only. Parents are welcome to join in the fun on the weekend. More details to follow.

6. American Water Polo will be hosting their tournament again this summer - tenative date is: last weekend in August.

7. We will also have team driving in to scrimmage our teams on the weekends.

8. If anyone is interested college's for your kids let John Melia know. Vaune and I will come before workout and talk to everyone at once. What colleges have water polo programs fit for your child - What steps you should be taking now - What paper work you should be doing or have done - What the different programs are like - coaches - players - leagues. - And any other questions you may.

9. Mark St. John is working on hosting our own yearly tournament.... soon.

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Master Schedule

Master - Workouts are back to the normal times:

Mon and Wed at UNLV 7-9 pm
Sat at Whitney Ranch 2-3:30 pm