Masters Nationals

Great weekend of Water Polo!!! Our men's 20 and 30 teams did a great job! Much improved play!! We have been working on three things this past month:

1. Not turning the ball over by making bad passes and taking shot that feed the other teams counter attack..... We even dumped the ball.... Edwin even dumped the ball.

2. Our 6 on 5 last month in San Diego was something like 1/20... and at National we were much improved, even when we missed they were the shots we should have taken!!! In fact the game the 30's won was on a 6 on 5... drew the kickout on the counter attack - time out, we put the right people in the correct spots and scored with less than a minute to play.

3. The Art of War - making the other team think we are going to do one thing but strike in another spot.

Our women: Vaune took home one gold in the 50's and a bronze in the 40's. Lee played great!! She was a real factor in the games, she played with Vaune on the 40's and also won the Bronze... I think she was holding the famous Maureen on their last second play trying to tied the score.

Erin and Carrie played for Canada's Splash and did well, both were stars on their teams. Erin played in the 20's and Carrie played in the 20's and 30's.
Dandy's mom had a BBQ for the entire team Sat night... it was great food and we all had fun just hanging out together. After the BBQ we still had time to spend some time at the Social sponsored by the tournament... at our hotel.

I was very happy with our progress!! But we do need to swim more!!! We just don't have the pool space and time at workouts, so if you can get in and swim on your own it will really help every one's water polo.