Monthly Archives: June 2008

Two club athletes named to National Teams

Ruth Milne and Julia Peters were selected to the USA Junior National and USA Youth National Teams last week after competing with players from around the country.

Ruth will compete with the Junior National Team at the Born ’88 Global Championships at Los Alamitos. Julia will travel to Brazil with the Youth National Team for the Junior Pan American Championships. Congratulations!

June 30-July 6 Week Update

No workout July 3-6 (Thur-Sun) for all groups. 

Tue & Wed: HS2 regular time and place,  HS3, 7-9 am at Stanford.

All other groups regular schedule.

20/U & National Qualifying, Fri-Sun

The following athletes are on the roster for qualifying for this weekend’s tournament. 

20/U Quals
Booher, Bowles, E. Carey, Clopp, Coughlan, Dunlevie, Espe, Espinosa, Gunderson, Holshouser, Kennan, Kwoka, Milne, Mordell, White

National Quals
Bowles, Canonica, E. Carey, Clopp, Coughlan, Dunlevie, Espinosa, Gunderson, Holshouser, Kwoka, Milne, Mordell, Silver, White, L Wyckoff

14-under JO qualifying

Stanford’s 14 JO Qualifying roster includes the following athletes:

1. Nicole Larsen
2. Elizabeth Anderson
3. Caroline Anderson
4. Skylar Dorosin
5. Emily Fong
6. Bridgette Harper
7. Jane Larkins
8. Lauren Lesyna
9. Hannah Park
10. Julia Ponce
11. Marie Popp
13. Olivia Santiago
14. Pippa Temple
15. Averi Westerman
16. Camille Zubizarreta

All games are to be played on Saturday June 21 at Las Lomas High School, 1460 So. Main St. Walnut Creek.  Game times are 8:45, 12:00 and 4:45.  Please arrive at 8:00am on Saturday.  Congratulations Athletes!

Three club veterans named college All-Americans

Molly Hayes (Cal), Kelly Eaton (Stanford) and Phoebe Champion (Princeton) were honored by the collegiate water polo coaches as 2008 All-Americans.

Molly, a senior, was named to the Second Team, while Kelly and Phoebe, both sophomores, were named Honorable Mention.

All three started with the club in middle school and played for Stanford in the Speedo Cup, JOs, 20-under nationals and senior nationals.

Link to the complete list of 2008 Collegiate All-Americans

18-under JO Qualifying

The following are the rosters for 18-under JO Qualifying. Your participation is based on being attendance eligible (minimum 3/4 practices this week). You also must be able to attend the entire qualification tournament.

Remember, these are the rosters for this weekend’s tournament only – they are NOT the final players or teams for the Junior Olympics. We are constantly evaluating the players and will name the final teams in July.

If you are not on the roster and want to be considered for JOs, you need to be eligible and attend the 18B games.

18 Red:Booher,Bowles,Carey,Coughlan,Dunlevie,Elward,Espinosa,Kennan,Kwoka,Mordell,Ponce,
Westerman, C. Wong
18White:Abbott,Benedetti,Calderazzo,Dilley,Hiller,Knox,Mansfield,Martinez,Morris,Naruns,
Norris,Plihal,Preston,Tringali,A.Wong,Wyckoff,Zakula

16s JO Qual schedule – Saturday

The 16U JO Qual schedule can be viewed on the Pacific Zone website. Please be aware there will be admission fees of $5 for adults and $3 for children/seniors. Children under 8 are free.

We will also need a parent to work at the scorer’s table during each game. Please arrange amongst the parent group who will volunteer.

Stanford White is 16B. Games on Saturday begin at Las Lomas HS. First game is at 8:00am vs Stoneridge. Be at the pool by 7:00am. If we win we play at 10:15 at Las Lomas. If we lose, we don’t play again until 3:45 at Miramonte HS. If we win at 10:15, we play at 2:15 at Miramonte.

Stanford Red is 16A. All games Saturday at Miramonte HS. First game is at 10:15 against the winner of Nordic A vs Golden State. Be at the pool by 9:15am. If we win, we play at 3:00, if we lose we are done for the day.

Sunday’s schedule depends on our Saturday results.

16-under JO Qualifying

The following are the rosters for 16-under JO Qualifying. Your participation is based on being attendance eligible (minimum 3/4 practices this week). You also must be able to attend the entire qualification tournament.

Remember, these are the rosters for this weekend’s tournament only – they are NOT the final players or teams for the Junior Olympics. We are constantly evaluating the players and will name the final teams in July.

If you are not on the roster and want to be considered for JOs, you need to be eligible and attend the 16B games.

There will be a practice for the 16A & 16B on Friday from 4:30-6:00pm at Paly.

Game times will be posted on the Pacific Zone website by noon Wednesday. We will post them here on our site as soon as we have the chance.

16A: Cranston, Anderson, Benedetti, Bozorghadad, Eulau, Geiduschek, Hansen, Moore, Peters, Schaefer, Smith, Talbott

16B: Afshar, Abbott, Conner, Costello, Cundiff, Drebin, Fero, Harrus, Lacek, Lawson, Lincoln, Murray, Newman, Oreglia, Ornelas, Walecka