NO WORKOUT

SORRY - JUST FOUND OUT TONIGHT THERE IS A SWIM MEET SAT AUGUST 30TH!!!

NEXT WEEK WE WILL BE BACK TO OUR NORMAL WORKOUT SCHEDULE:

MASTERS: WED 7-9 PM - SAT 2:30-4 PM - MON 7-9 PM. (Mon & Wed back at UNLV)

OLDER CLUB: TUESDAY - THURS - FRIDAY ALL WORKOUTS WILL GO BACK TO 6 PM FOR EITHER CHALK TALK OR DRYLAND...MGP POOL. SAT 1-2:30 PM

YOUNGER CLUB: TUE - THURS - 6:45 PM TO 8:15/8:30 PM AT WHITNEY. FRIDAY AT MGP 6-8 PM. SAT 1-2:30 PM

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!!!

More Congrats

Hey United States Water Polo came out with the complete list of Junior Olympic All Americans - not only did Team Vegas/Henderson have Al but also added was McCarthy and Derek!!

Congrats!!! - Hey guess everyone loves a players who play defense.

Master's

Just got word the U of A tournament will be held Oct 17 - 19th (Friday to Sunday). We have gone to this tournament for the past two years - it is fun and Sat after our game we go to Thor's for a BBQ.

We will take an "A" team to this tournament... Cost approx $75... depends on how many attend.

Dec 5th - 7th I would like to enter in the ASU Coed tournament: Master "A", Master "B" and Boys Junior Zone Team.

Dues for August

I am really disappointed in the number of players who have paid for August! The following have not paid - please do so by Tuesday August 26th.

Jake - Al - Eleanor - Santana - Ryan - Steven - Josh - Jared - Derek - Joey - Sarah - Hanna - Molly.

San Diego Info

We have asked Angie to be the Head Team Leader for the San Diego trip, Angie will be in charge of all aspects of the trip (except coaching). Angie will be asking for 3 Assistant Team Leader (one for each team: 14's, 12's and 10's).

Duties for Angie:
1. Reserve Hotel - collect for rooms
2. Arrange Transportation - make sure everyone has a ride to SD and Back
-Also making sure all players get to their pools for their games.
-Collect Gas money and give to drivers
3. Appoint Assistant Team Leader for each team
4. Each team has water during games
5. Direction to and from Hotel and pools

I would like to see our players eating healthy and trying to stay away from fast food.. (when possible - sometimes we only have time to grab something quickly between games).

If you would like to assist Angie please let her know.

Directions to Sandy's

215 East to 95 South - off at Horizon, make right and then a quick left onto Horizon Ridge. Go up the hill and make a right on Mission (Shell Gas Station) - make 2nd left on Spanish Needle - go up the hill till it ends - turn left, my house is 1st on the right. 59 Desert Sunflower Circle.

You guys can swim after if you want or you may have to go home and get ready for the 1st day of school.... lol I also have Rock Band!!

See you at 11 am

Time Set!! Gold Medal Game Party

The Men's Olympic Gold Medal Game will be shown at 11:45 am - So be here by 11:00 am, we will eat lunch, watch the game, play for a few prizes....

Time: 11 am
Location: Sandy's 59 Desert Sunflower Circle - Henderson 89002
Bring: Ladies: Sweets Guys: Side Dishes: Salad - Rice - Veggies
Main Course and drinks will be provided.

Please let me know if you are coming... reply on this blog - email or let me know at workout today.

Sandy

Olympic Gold Game Party

The USA Men beat Serbia to play Hungary in the Gold Medal Game. When NBC announces when the game will be view . . . We will have a gathering at my place!!! Club and Masters!!! We will even let Jacint and Adam come!!

Gold Medal Game Party
Location: Sandy's
Time: To be announced

We will served some kind of main dish - and drinks. Ladies bring the Sweets and Guys bring side dishes - salads, Rice, Veggies....

Special Prizes - Raffle

Masters Sat Workouts

We will continue Sat workouts - 2:30-4 pm. These workouts will be shooting drills, no scrimmages.

Marcus - Rob please let me know if you plan on coming... thanks Sandy

More News from Bernie

Gold Medal Game!

Need I say more? It is official, we will playing for the opportunity to win an Olympic Gold Medal!

Most of you already know, one of several ways…you watched the game live (if so, you are a super star!)… You received an email from my press agent, Suzanne Kuhns or since it is 9am on the east coast, you probably checked the score. For those of you who want to watch, but did not burn the midnight oil, the game will be played at 12n on NBC!



For all of you who stayed up and watched, I hope your blood pressure is back to normal! Mine is still all over the place! Those of you, who read about the game through Suzanne or the media, may be the smart way to go, no need to take extra blood pressure medicine, ha ha.



It was an amazing game! Australia scored first; we came back and took control the rest of the game. Of course our athletes like a challenge, so when we were up by three, they decided to let the Aussies score 3 goals in a row! I do not think I breathed once while that occurred! I told them after the game to let me in on the game plan, so that I don’t pass out from lack of oxygen.



Our ladies were gracious winners (of course) we celebrated the fact we are going to the Gold Medal Game, but also treated the Aussies with respect (even though they were not respectful with the media the day before the game…you can look up some of the quotes AUS had; not too gracious). I actually saw several of our athletes hugging the Australians!



The Gold Medal Match will be held on August 21 at 6:20pm Beijing Time (6:20am Eastern, 3:20am Pacific) We will play the Netherlands. They had an exciting game as well against the Hungarians! If you all remember, we trained with the Dutch in Daxing for a week before we moved into the Village. I believe the Daxing ancestors had a hand in making sure our two teams are meeting again for the Gold.



Thank you, as always, for the prayers and emails of support!

Bernice



PS- Thank you for the prayers for the Volleyball Coaches family. The Mom was stable enough to fly in a med plane back to the States two days ago. Please keep the families in your prayers. The Men's and Women's Volleyball teams have shown remarkable strength, they have both finished 1st in their preliminaries and will be advancing to the quarterfinals!

Workout - Club

Club will return to normal workouts:

Older Club: Tue - Thur - Friday MGP 6:20 - 8 pm Sat 1-2:30 MGP

Younger Club: Tue - Thur at Whitney 6:50 pm to 8:30 pm Sat 1-2:30 MGP

Master will be off till Sept 3rd - Wed. UNLV 7-9 pm.

Club: $85 due Tuesday for the San Diego Tournament.

More News from the Olympics

From Bernie: (hope the next post is: USA playing for Gold)

This should be great! Australia just barely beat China today in the Quarterfinals. On August 19 we will play Australia at 2:20pm (Beijing time, 15 hours ahead Pacific, 12 hours ahead Eastern).

Most of you know the Olympic history of USA vs. AUS, but just in case anyone needs a refresher: 2000 Olympics, Australia beat USA in Gold medal game, with a questionable final goal...2004 Olympics, USA beat Australia in the Bronze medal game. For 2007 World Championships, USA beat Australia for the Gold. There is no love lost between the two teams. Needless to say a Gold medal match is on the line, so everything will be left in the water. I will be up in the stands (wishing I was in the water, so that I could have some control in the outcome) cheering our girls on!



In the other quarterfinal, Italy found themselves in a shootout with Netherlands. This first Italian shooter did not score, and the Dutch were perfect on their 5 shots, so Netherlands will face a strong Hungary (with USC alumni Aniko Pelle). This is the first time for Hungary to be in the Olympic Medal round (2000 they did not qualify, since the USA beat them at Qualification Tournament, 2004 lost in the Quarterfinal). Netherlands saw the Medal round in 2000, but lost to the USA in the Semi, then finished fourth. Only 3 members of the 2000 group remain (out of athletes and coaches), they did not qualify in 2004, so this is a new experience for most of the NED program.



Enough of the water polo history lesson. I could inundate you with facts, such as, this is the USA's 9th consecutive Medal round in a major World event, only the Men's Serbia Team (Once Yugoslavia) is able to claim a similar accomplishment, since 2000 Olympics. But that information can be saved for a separate "fun facts" update.



I hope all of you are well!

Take care,

Bernice

Thank You - Great Job

This was a great tournament both in and out of the water!!! I hope everyone had a fun time playing, eveyone played great!! Our B's made some big strides in their games this weekend... it was fun watching everyone improving and understand a little more of the game. The A's had some great games and exciting game... winning the shoot out getting us to the Gold Medal game.

I want to thank everyon who helped out of the water: Valerie for running the concession stand, Aniko for making the Awards (Bill Gray Award and Team Awards), Jake for heading rhe club players

Tournament T-shirts - Club Helpers

Tournament T-shirts will be on sale Sat am. We are selling them for $12 but for TVH members $10. We are also selling some old Team Vegas T-shirts (kids sizes) for $5 each.

Club Helpers: Jake has assigned players to help run the desk. Be On Time! Don't fool around!!! If you are not working don't hang around the desk area while they are working!! On Saturday there are times 10:40 am to 11:20 am and 1:10 pm to 1:50 pm you will be able to get in the water and shoot around... just make sure you put the balls back.

Players who are working will be feed lunch and we will have water for you from the team cooler. Players who are working only!!!

Olympic News - From Bernie

What a day in the world of water polo!

We had quite the exciting day today! First off was the B bracket, Hungary and Australia, both teams won on the first day of games and they did not disappoint the crowd today. The game ended in a tie, Hungary was able to score at the end of the game to stay within reach of winning their bracket. Next up was Greece and Netherlands, both teams lost in their game openers, so this game was very important. Greece was the Silver medalist in 2004 Athens and today they lost, which knocks them out of contention to advance.



In the A bracket, we started out our game with Italy, down 2 goals. Some of you may have watched and it was quite the nail biter…we were able to battle back and gain the lead. At one point we went up by two goals. Unfortunately, we did not play smart defense at the end of the game and gave up two ejections which lead to the Italians two goals to tie the game. The next game was Russia vs. China. Similar with our game against China, it was high scoring, a lot of back and forth scoring opportunities for both teams. The difference for Russia was China won, which knocks Russia out of contention to advance to the medal rounds. The Russians, just one month ago, was crowned European Champions and two weeks before that, won the World League Super Final. This goes to show, that every game at the Olympics is like a lifetime. It does not matter what you have accomplished in the past, you must put everything you have on the line to have a chance to win.



Tomorrow we will have a chance to train twice, watch some video and clean up some points on defense. Even though Russia is out of contention, we still need to play well on the 15th when we play against them. If we win, we have a chance to advance 1st or 2nd out of our bracket…It will depend on how Italy plays against China to see who will advance first. If Italy wins by more than one point, they will advance first.



I hope everyone is doing well back in the States! I will try to use my camera in the next two days to send more photos, but as you all know, that is not my strong suit :)



Wan An! (Good Night!)

Bernice

BBQ Saturday at Damons

Masters: Please bring your own drinks
Females - Sweets
Males - Salads or side dishes

Directions: Damon & Robin BBQ 5 pm

Main Cross Streets: Charleston & Decatur

Heading west on Charleston - Pass Decatur and go by one one more stop light.
100 Yards pass the stop light you will see Burger King on the right.
Right across Burger King is a street called Wilshire.
Left turn on Wishire.
Go Over 1 speed bump.
Before the next speed bump you will turn right on Holmby Ave.
Damon's house is:
5328 Holmby Ave - Las Vegas - NV - 89146

August 12 - 17th

Another reminder:

Monday & Wed - no workout
Tuesday& Thur - Masters at MGP 6:30-8 pm
- Club at Whitney 6:45 - 8:15 or 9 pm (older players)
Friday - Club at MGP 6:30-7:30 pm (Please come at 6 pm and help set up)
- Master RENO wants to scrimmage from 7:30 - 8 pm if you are free

Sat & Sun - tournament for masters.... club working the tournament

Master will take a break till UNLV is us and ready to go - maybe begin of Sept.

Club will continue till Dec - no break till Xmas vacation!!
Club - don't forget to let us know if you are going to the San Diego tournament in Oct.

Game Schedule

Here is the game schedule for next weekend... please be at the pool at least 30 mins before your game.

A Bracket: Bruno - Mid Valley - ASU
B Bracket: Kaos - Canada - Los Al
C Bracket: TVH A - San Diego - Reno
D Bracket: Denver - East Bay - TVH B

A's - Sat 9 am and 2 pm
B's - Sat 9 am and 11:30 pm

DONT FORGET DAMON'S BBQ AFTER THE LAST GAME - 4:30 PM DAMON WILL HAVE DIRECTIONS.

Sunday's schedule depends on finish in brackets: could be 1st game 9 am last game begins at 1:50 pm.

The following players have paid and are on the A team:
Marcus - Rob - Mark St - Tony - Robert - Jake - Ryan - Zach - Edwin - Rich: not paid Magee, Peter, Dandy, Joe, Whitney.

The following players have paid and are on the B team:
Shannon, Will, Vaune, Wasik, Damon, Paul, Greg, Dustin..(not paid yet: David, Louie, Alex, Larry (from Utah) Poole (from Utah), Andrea

Goalies: you will be responsible for caps - check out from Valerie and return to Valerie after each game - Thank You.

Workout Thur August 7th

Remember all the club players are at Whitney 6:45 pm to 8 (younger) 9 pm (older)

Masters at MGP 6:30 to 8 pm

Olympic Water Polo - Viewing

This is from Bernie:

Hello everyone,



Just received this from a friend at NBCOlympics.com... the games will be streaming live online, for those of you with out cable, it may work to watch over the internet (if you don't mind 1am water polo)

NBC Olympics Water Polo page:
http://www.nbcolympics.com/waterpolo/index.html

China is 15 hours ahead of the west coast and 12 hours ahead of the east coast, so in some cases the west coast will be watching the game on the "day prior".

First game, Aug 11 vs. China at 5pm

Aug. 13 vs. Italy at 3:40pm

Aug. 15 vs. Russia at 2:20pm



If we win our bracket, the next time we will play will be Aug. 19 in the Semi Final. If we are second or third in our bracket we will play on Aug. 17 in the quarterfinal.



Happy viewing!

Bernice

Olympic Post

Here is another post by Bernie the Olympic Goalie Coach:

Ni Hao!



Well, we are all moved in, into the BEST Olympic Village ever! I know I should stay true to my village experience in Sydney, but this set up is amazing! The details the Chinese have put into everything is spectacular. Especially since I was here in March of this year, thinking, there is no way this will be ready! Never underestimate the power of unlimited workforce.



Our adventure in Daxing was a very positive one. We were fortunate to have a guest speaker on August 1st, April Heinrich’s, 1996, 2000, 2004 Olympic Women’s Soccer Coach. She was able to welcome our athletes to the Olympic Family. April explained to the team the glory of once an Olympian, always an Olympian, never a former. She continued for the next 10 minutes to inspire our athletes. I felt bad for the Netherlands, since we played a scrimmage with them after this meeting and crushed them by 10 goals! I would say the team was inspired!



In Daxing, we were not able to leave the hotel/pool area, due to security, so August 4th we were ready to leave and move into the Village. We had a day and a half off to enjoy the wonders of the village. I am not sure I am able to describe what this Village is like… there are 42 apartment buildings, composed of 6 story and 9 story buildings. The dining hall is wonderful, the food has been delicious! I ate steak and potatoes and fresh salad for dinner. The International Zone has everything to offer from a General Store, Olympic Store to Dry Cleaning and Florist shops. And, when the commercials say VISA is the only card excepted at the Olympics, they mean it!



For my day off, I had a little adventure to Ikea; went to gather some odds and ends for the apartments. The Ikea here is the same as Ikea’s at home and apparently around the world. The taxi from Ikea to the village was another adventure all by itself. The taxi driver did not speak a word of English, so I show him my little English to Chinese direction card to the Village and ended up getting a complete tour of the Olympic Green. Everywhere the taxi went to turn, he was turned around by security. We could see the village, but had no way of getting close. So, here are three Americans carrying 5 BIG bags of Ikea gear, through secure zones, medal detectors and about 200 volunteers. Oh I forgot to mention the weather is about 90 degrees and 90% humidity!



Speaking of weather, I am sure all of you are wondering about what the air quality is like. We heard on the news China has a rating system in place 1 to 500, 500 being the absolute worse pollution. We were getting ready to hear them say the air quality is at about 300, but turns out it is at 80…if this is an 80, I would hate to see what a 500 would be! The visibility could be better, you can see about 8 blocks away…some evening the air clears up and you can see the blue sky directly above you. The limit of cars on the roads is happening…on Monday, Wednesday, Friday if your license plate ends in an even number you can drive…Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday it is the odd number days.



Well, the next few days we will be training, touching up on the last few details. The team and I will be walking in the Opening Ceremonies, which is promising to be a great performance! So make sure you watch or DVR!



I hope the earthquake didn’t rattle too much back home and everyone is safe and sound!



Miss you all!

Bernice

Olympic Stories

Here is something Heather (Oly Player) wrote:

http://hpeatree.blogspot.com/

Did you know that China hid the game clocks and goals from the USA so when they wanted to workout there was not equip there. The USOC (United States Oly Comm) had to fly goals and clocks out - and China still found a way to hid the shot clocks.

The good ole Olympic Spirit lives on.

Workout Schedule Aug 7-15th

Here is the schedule for the following days:

Aug 6th Wed - Masters - No Workout
Aug 7th Thur - Club - all younger players at Whitney 6:45-8:15
- all older players at Whitney 6:45-9 pm
- Masters at Multi Gen 6:30-8 pm
Aug 8th Fri - All Club MGP 6:20-8 pm
Aug 9th - Sat - Normal
Aug 12th - Tue - Same as last Thurs - for Club and Masters
Aug 14th - Thur - Same as above - for Club and Masters
Aug 15th - Fri - Same as last Friday.

Jake will be giving club players working assignaments for the tournament August 16 and 17th.

Workouts for Club & Master

The UNLV pool may be closed (Master come to UNLV today Monday Aug 4th) till early Sept. Check this blog for updates as to where workouts for Club and Masters.

or call Tony or Mark.... for locations.

Junior Olympics - Finals

On the last day in the semi final game we just did not match up well against Huntington Beach but most of all we did not make adjustments in the water and turned the ball over many times which lead to their counter attack goals. Losing this game meant we were headed to the Bronze Medal Game.

We played Laguna Beach again - last time we got lucky and tied them 2-2. It was a very close game throughout. In the third quarter we found the back of the net several times and took our biggest lead 7-4. In the 4th Laguna cames out and scored on their 1st two possessions which made it 7-6. The rest of the game was a defensive battle... for the next 3 mins the Vegas players were so involved in scoring because we have not scored we did not play defense - but watch what we were doing on offense. If it was not for Derek staying back and playing defense, making steals on a few bad passes from Laguna when they were up on counter attacks 3 on 1's we would have lost that game... Steven also made a few great saves on their counter attacks. We one 7-6 and took home the Bronze Medal and a team trophy. Awsome job!!

ps: I would hate to be the 1st person who puts their hand on top of the ball at workout on Tuesday!!!

Junior Olympics

Sorry for not writing in a few days but we have been pretty busy! For a team that was seeded last and we are now in one of the medal games - not bad for the only team from outside of California.

Recap: Day 1 Game 1 -Beat CB Lancer Game 2 Tied Laguna Beach
Day 2 Game 3 -Beat Set Game 4 Beat Newport
Day 3 Game 5 -Beat Commerce - after this win our team made it to the medal
Games. Game 6: Lost to SD Shores
Tomorrow: 8:45 am Game winner of this game against Huntington Beach goes to
the Gold Medal Game - Loser to the Bronze Medal Game.
Our Medal Game will be against either Laguna Beach or SD Shores.

Right after the game we will be on the road home so I won't be posting till Monday (if I get up from all the missed sleep I have had since July 14th). I will have to post things because I have no voice left at all!!!

Our little ones have been great in and out of the water!!!