Masters Workout

THERE WILL BE WORKOUT WEDNESDAY - APRIL 30TH!!! SAME TIME SAME PLACE.

Masters

Wed - April 30th - No workout - Diving Meet

The past few Sat workouts have been low in attendance - if this continues we will drop Sat workouts. (Last Sat we had 8 players).

Club - Assignaments

Don't forget your group assignments are due April 29th - Tuesday. I have added email address to help you email to that person or someone that you can ask about the person you are reporting on. Once I look them over I will return to you/your group, make corrections or additions and you/your group will read at the Going A Way Party for the Brooks on May 31st.

No Workout

Masters: May 14th - UNLV has a special event going on so no workout.
May 24th - Sat and Monday - no workout - Memorial Weekend.

Club: May 24th - Sat Good Luck to all our players going to Zone Championships!

Dues for April

Following players have not paid for April:
Club: Dr Phil, Steven, Jake, Derek, Joey, Josh, Jared, Hanna, Serigo

Masters: Wow a 1st - only Bill and he is new.

Zone Team - Youth Girls

CLEAN SWEEP!!!! WE WERE FIVE FOR FIVE!! ALL OF OUR GIRLS MADE THE ZONE TEAM!!! Congrats to: Mary, Gabby, Emilie, Santana and Eleanor!!!

Representing Team Vegas at the National Zone Championship's are the following:
Jake - Ryan - Hunter - Zach - Adam - Max - Josh - Mary - Eleanor - Gabby - Santana
and Emilie.

Players/parents you need make plans on how you are getting to the Championships - if you have any problems let Mark - Tony or I know.

Al - what is it?

So Al what is it going to be? Al is going to be a big sister - she wants a little brother - Mia told her to have a sister!!!

Master World Championships - Australia

Just got a call from some of the players I coached when I lived in Queensland. Vaune is doing good - her team (50+) is going to win the Gold Medal. The Aussies are having Vaune's (yanks)team over for dinner. I told the Aussies to make sure they have Veggiemite for them (Veggiemite is this awful beef extract they put on crackers).

Some of the Aussies are going to join Team Vegas Masters in Maui - which will be so much fun!!!

Great Lesson!!

Check this out - pay special attention to the part where the coach rides Randy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLLlcoYtLGw&feature=related

Rotator Cuff

Check this out - will be very helpful when we are doing our dryland.

http://www.asmi.org/SportsMed/throwing/thrower10.html

Summer Tournaments - Events

SUMMER TOURNAMENTS
AND EVENTS


May 31st Going Away Party for the Brooks
Tony’s Place 4:30 pm after Masters Workout
Pot Luck – See Blog for dishes to bring.

June 26-29 Kearns – Utah Invitational
18 & Under Boys – Jake and Ryan playing with Reno
15 & Under Boys – Hunter – Adam – Josh – Max – Zach –
Gabby – Mary – Eleanor – Emilie – Nelson – Connor –
Santana.

July 15-23 Maui – Masters: Rob – Marcus – Robert – Jake – Joe – Edwin
Jacint – Wasik – Tony – Vaune and a few from our 18’s
18 & Unders: Jake – Ryan – Adam – Zach – Reno: Kyle
Brendon – Justin Goalie – Utah: Josh – Partrick (Scottie
Teddy).

July 25-30 Junior Olympics 18 Boys: Same team as Maui
Junior Olympics 12 Boys: Skyler – Connor – Steven – Tyler –
Danny – Jared – Derek – Max

July 31-Aug 3 Junior Olympics 10 & Under Coed: McCarthy – Al –
Joey – Mia – Omar – Sarah – Macie – Hanna – Jessica
Serigo - Reno: 2 players.

Aug 16-17 Our Summer Tournament: Masters only we will have an A and B team – club players to work Table. All players mark this down on your calendar. After this Tournament we will take a 2 week break.

Junior Olympic

Team Vegas/Henderson will be entering in the Junior Olympics this summer. We plan on entering the following divisions: 10 & Under Coed - 12 & Under Boys and 18 & Under Boys.

Dates: 12 & 18 Boys July 25-30th
10 & Under Coed July 31st - Aug 3rd

Location: Irivine, California

Cost: Est: 10's - $150 per player
12's - $175 per player
18's - $200 per player
Plus cost for hotel, meals, transporation, t-shirt

We will be passing out flyer next week, please let us know if your child is able to attend so we can make the arrangements.

18: Jake, Ryan, Adam, Zach, Utah players: Patrick, Josh, Scottie, Teddy, Reno: Kyle, Brendon, Justin goalie.

12: Max, Sklyer, Connor, Steven, Derek, Connor, Danny, Tyler, Jared

10: McCarthy, Treavor, Joey, Maci, Sarah, Mia, Al, Hanna, Jessica, Serigo, Omar, Steven.

Zone Team: Youth Boys

Congrats to our Youth Boys for making the Mountain Zone Team:
Adam - Josh - Max - Hunter and Zach!!!

This weekend our Youth Girls will be trying out - go get em: Mary - Emilie - Gabby - Santana and Eleanor.

Junior Zone Team

Congrats to Jake and Ryan - they both make the Mountain Zone team and will be competing at the Naval Academy this May.

We will find out about our Youth boys by this Wed.

Our Youth girls are going to ASU next weekend. Good luck to: Mary, Gabby, Santana, Emilie and Eleanor.

Club Assignaments

I have put players into groups to work on History of Water Polo. These reports are due on April 29th - Tuesday. I will go over them and hand back with additions or correction. These report will be read at the Going Away Party for the Brooks on May 31st - Sat 4:30 pm.

History of Water Polo: Zach - Joey & Treavor
History of Women's Water Polo: Eleanor - Mary
Theresa Breckon Bixby USA: Gabby - Emilie
Debbie Handley AUS: Al - Mia - Sarah - Maci - Santana
Tamas Farago HUN: Dr Phil - Josh - Derek
Craig Wilson USA: Hunter - Steven - Danny
Manuel Estiarte Spain: Skyler - Connor - Jared - Max
Barbara Kalbus USA: Adam - Omar
Abe Fuchs BEL: Jake - McCarthy - Serigo

Who were they? What did they do for Water Polo? What are they doing now?

Another Pic from the Warehouse

Pictures 12 & Unders at Commerce

Take a look at some of the pictures Alan from Santa Barb took:

http://www.mywaterpolopics.com

Click on Photo's - click on coed - click on 12&U - click Vegas vs COLA.

Sacrifices

From Debbie Watson - Hall of Famer

Debbie Watson is the 1st female water polo player to be in the International Hall of Fame. Debbie was a great player, worked hard, always working to improve her game and she loved the game!! I asked Debbie to write to you and tell you just some of the opportunities you have ahead of you. Debbie has included her email address if you have any questions.

Hi Sandy,

It is great to hear from you and I'm impressed you have a whole new bunch of juniors ready and willing to play.

Wow, I don't really know where to start except to say that water polo is a brilliant game - which I'm sure the kids have already worked out and there are many reasons why I played for so long. The friendship, the challenge, the travel, the game - and not necessarily in that order!

I remember many a car journey to play games and I think sometimes we had as much fun in the car as we did in the pool. I recall one road trip which was post the 1984 World FINA Cup, we travelled from Orange County to Las Vegas.

We had many laughs along the way and we had a brilliant time in Vegas! Australia and the USA have had an amazing rivalry right throughout the history of Women's Water Polo. I am honoured to have been a part of that journey.

The Beijing Olympics will be another chapter and I am very lucky to be going as an employee of Australia's media team where I will be commentating on the women's polo.

There are so many opportunities that come your way when you put in your best effort and you remain focused and dedicated to your dream.

I am very happy to answer any questions the kids may have.

All I can say is enjoy what you do and aspire to be the best person you can be.

Have a great road trip, enjoy the polo and enjoy the experience.

take care deb xo

Debbie Watson PD/H/PE St Luke's Grammar School 210 Headland Road, Dee Why, NSW, 2099 Ph (02) 9438 6200 e: dwatson@stlukes.nsw.edu.au

Air Force Tournament - Masters

We have an invitation to the Air Force Tournament May 3-4th (Colorado Spring, CO) - cost per person if we have at least 10 players will be $50 along with your travel - hotel - meals. Let me know this Sat: April 12th.

Commerce Results

Our team stayed at Carmen's warehouse again - we had some great team games and some good talks on water polo as you can see from the pictures. McCarthy was voted the KING of the team from his awesome play on Sat. he was playing defense against some kids that were huge!!

Four months ago when we went to Commerce I was very happy how we played, this time I am really really really shocked how well we did. See if you can follow this: In Dec our 10's did well and placed 3rd and this was a smaller tournament. Well this 10 team had to play in the 12 & under division - last Dec our 12 team also did pretty good and they got 3rd place - our 12 team would have killed our 10 team - so I am thinking our group this time would get killed. They did not!!! Our 12's got 1st place in their bracket then played winners of other brackets, our only lost came from SET by 3 goals which in my mind we should have prevented at least 4 of their goals. We tied for 3rd with 1 lost and 3 wins. We will be doing some SET shooting drills!!! Good job!!

Our 14's also did a great job: from the scoreboard side we won 3 games and lost 1. But in my books the game we lost I put as a win because we played the best we have ever played and just came up against a team that was very good. Our inexperience played a part of this lost, they were afraid of this team - The Titans: the team that we tied last Dec and they gained about 3-4 bigger players, but we were still in the game and came back in the second half. The last game we beat Rose Bowl by 2 goals but I consider this game a lost because we did not play a very good game, making all kinds of basic mistakes. This tournament was a great experience for our players!!

Everyone behaved, played hard, learned tons and had a great time!!!

Hard Rock 777 Where was Greg?

While we were at the Hard Rock having a nice dinner - Greg and Liz were at the hospital!!

On April 2nd Cate was born at 5 am - 7lbs 4 oz. and 19" long. Congratulations!!

We had a great time at the Hard Rock - did you know that Edwin got his Rib Prime all you can eat dinner free, plus I gave him half of my Apple Pie... lucky guy!! But Greg was the real lucky guy April 2nd!!!! Welcome to the world Cate - Team Vegas/Henderson

Commerce Game Schedule

For those driving the morning of the your game: you must be at the pool 1 hour before game time.

12's: Sat
10:15 am (at pool 9:15 am)
11:45 am
Two more games - Sat

14's: Sun
10:15 am (at pool 9:15 am)
11:45 am
Two more games - Sun

Master's Tonight - Wed 4/2

Don't forget after workout we are going to the Hard Rock for $7.77 - Steak/Shrimp Dinner.