Kick off the winter season with our ice cream social for all girl athletes.

Sunday, 1 hour before the Stanford Men play in the MPSF Conference Championships at Stanford.  We won’t know the exact final time until after their game on Saturday.  We will post it Sat night and everyone can follow the tournament themselves by coming or on the website at : http://www.gostanford.com/sports/m-wpolo/spec-rel/2010-mpsf-championships.html

Please RSVP (by Friday).
The social is free but you will need to purchase tickets if you want to watch the men play.

Be sure you renew your USA Water Polo membership as soon as possible.  Everyone should make sure they are a Gold Member and registered with our club before winter polo begins.

www.usawaterpolo.org

Our Winter polo season begins the week of Nov 29th.  

Jr. Polo will go Mon & Wed at Roble Gym pool.  5:30-6:45.
Age Group will go Mon & Wed most likely 5:30-7:30 pm at Sacred Heart Prep.
High School will be Tue & Thur 6:15-8:15 pm at Stanford.

Registration forms will be posted shortly.

The Calendar function on this site has been up to date and has future dates as well.  Please look at June/July and note that we are having a club break around the July 4th holiday.  We encourage families to take this opportunity to travel during this time if you are going to be away. We understand that may not work for all families, just know that for athletes serious about attending JOs they should not miss workouts after the break as we begin our final prep and major tournament phase. 

An interview with Ted on gocrimson.com – good luck in the men’s season Ted!

Congratulations to the 81 athletes on 7 teams and the 9 coaches who represented our club this past week at the Junior Olympics.

We had a lot of succes with the 12s and 14A winning Silver in the Gold Division.  14B team played well ending up 14th. The 18A and B both qualified for the Platinum Division, being just 1 of 3 clubs to achieve such a feat placing 15th & 24th.  Our 16s split divisions with the B team winning their last 2 game, and the A’s placing 10th.

 

Feel free to post pictures on our club Facebook page: Stanford Girls Club Water Polo

Stanford finished second in the 2010 Open Nationals held in Orange County, one goal shy of repeating as National Champs.

Both the 20/u and Open teams finished 5-1.

The 20’s finished 5th, losing to SoCal in the quarter, but beating Diablo, SoCal B, Long Beach, San Diego Shores and Diablo again in the 5th place game.
At Opens we had wins over Great Lakes, SET, LAWP, Socal & Diablo in the semi’s. In the championship game we lost to LAWP 9-10.

Congrats to all the players on a great week of competition.

There is a change in pool location for Sunday, July 25th.  18s will play at Las Lomas.  Check your email for times.

We have 2-30s and  if someone needs a new team suit for the end of summer and JOs.  Cost $55 payable to TWPC.  Contact Susan at susan@stanfordwaterpolo.com

Three-time Olympic medalist Brenda Villa has been announced as the new water polo coach at Castilleja.

Brenda won silver in both Sydney in 2000 and Beijing in 2008. She won a bronze medal with Team USA in Athens in 2004. She was the captain of the 2008 Olympic Team.

Brenda also led Stanford to the NCAA title in 2002.

We will all miss Ted and have become instant fans of Harvard Water Polo as we wish him all the best. It is exciting to welcome Brenda back to Palo Alto!

Story from the Palo Alto Weekly.

JO teams will be traveling together in team vans, staying at the team hotel in their assigned rooms, and supporting all Stanford teams throughout the JO weekend.  Rooms have already been set aside for the athletes and coaches. 

 

In addition, if you are one of the official chaperones we have blocked a room for you at the hotel already.  Be sure you coordinate/reconfirm your chaperone position with your daughter’s coach so we can use all the rooms we have blocked off.

Embassy Suites – Glendale

818-550-0828

 

There are a few rooms still available at our hotel if you wish to stay there.  Please contact the hotel and use the code SWP for access to our rate, $140 which includes breakfast, happy hour and parking.  The unused rooms will be released on Thursday morning so reserve them now.  

All teams will have morning workout Wed, Aug 4^th (probably at Stanford) and then caravan to LA. 

 

More information will follow from your coaches .