DWPC team apparel will be available for purchase next week (around Feb. 2).  These include:  Sweatshirts, T-Shirts, and Long-Sleeved T-shirts.  Please contact Tara Stapleton for more information.  Team suits can still be ordered, please also contact Tara about team suits.  For more information on sizing charts for team suits, click here.  Also still available are the DWPC decals!!   The decals are $5 each.  Questions about decals, please see Patsy Owens or email at peowens@ucdavis.edu

Boys/Girls 10th grade and under and 6th grade and under teams play on Saturday, January 28.

Boys/Girls 8th grade and under and 12th grade and under teams play on Sunday, January 29.

(The 10U Coed team will be playing on Sunday, January 29 at Alhambra High School in Martinez.  Games times are 1:40 and 3:20.  Please arrive at 12:40 for warmups.)

Davis Water Polo Club’s Winter 2011/2012 session starts on December 6th and goes every Tuesday and Thursday for two weeks until December 15th and from January 3rd through February 9th at UCD Schaal Aquatic Center.  Practices will be from 6 to 7:30 pm for age group and 7:30 to 9 pm for high school. Registration will be held on the first day of practice or contact Nancy Wright for information on registration.  Please see the Winter Session 2011/2012 page for fee coupon, registration form, and tournament information.

Congratulations to Davis Water Polo Club’s 12& Under Girls team.  They won the bronze medal at the Rock-Tober 12&Under Classic held October 21 -23 in Denver, Colorado.  The 12U Girls team include:  Scout Brown, Hailey Cavanaugh, Annie Fullerton, Anastasia Golyakova, Keianna Pineda, Espy Razo, Madelyn Reeves, Sarah Valdes-Chabot, Tori Vancourt, Moira Williams, Avery Warhover, Emily Blackwell, and Coach Tom Brown.  The team defeated Neptunes, a team from Colorado, 12 to 8 in the bronze medal match.  For more information and results of the tournament, click here.

About the tournament:  ROCK-TOBER CLASSIC is a brand new Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) based tournament for athletes 12 & under.  Sportsmanship and positive play will be the focus.  Teams that qualify through their zone will be invited to submit their team “theme song” and come to Colorado ready to rock out and honor the game!

Honor the Game!
Honoring the Game gets to the ROOTS of positive play, where ROOTS stands for respect for:
• Rules: We don’t bend the rules to win.
• Opponents: A worthy opponent is a gift that forces us to play to our highest potential.
• Officials: We treat officials with respect even when we disagree.
• Teammates: We never do anything that would embarrass our team on or off the field.
• Self: We live up to our own standard regardless of what others do.

Congratulations to the 15 Davis Water Polo Club athletes who received Academic All-American Honors for 2010-2011 from USA Water Polo.  USA Water Polo announced the 2010-2011 Academic All-Americans on September 12.   This is the fifth year of the Academic All-American Program that honors students for the excellence not just in the pool but in the classroom as well.  Student-athletes had to have participated in a USA Water Polo National Championship to be eligible. In addition each student-athlete had to have at least a 3.6 grade point average with outstanding achievement going to those with a 4.0 (indicated with a *).  The following DWPC athletes receiving 2010-2011 Academic All-American Honors are:

Ashley Amey*

Jack Blattner

Hayley Cameron

Elsie Fullerton*

Keelia Houston*

Rachel Johnson*

Zoe Malot*

Tre Moynihan*

Anna Nicholson*

Bryan Poole

Matthew Reiser*

Connor Stapleton*

Nicholas Swaminathan

Katie Van Deynze*

Hailey Wright*

For more information on USA Water Polo Academic All-American program, click here.

Congratulations to all of the Davis Water Polo Club teams that competed in the 2011 National Junior Olympics last month.  Each team finished above what they were seeded in the tournament.  Below is the article that was submitted to the Davis Enterprise on August 31, 2011 that summarizes the tournament:

“Eight Davis Water Polo Club squads competed at the 2011 United States Junior Olympics Age Group National Championships earlier this month in Orange County.

The local men’s 21U squad took fourth after giving up a last-minute goal in their game.

The DWPC’s boys 16U team — featuring Connor Stapleton, Conrad McCarthy, Valente Dolcini, Brad Nicholson, Graham Fullerton, Jack Blattner , Garrett Fisk, Alex Borowsky, Dillon Newsome, Brandon Rueda, Tyler Ujifusa, Bryan Poole, Alex Labass, Chad Prizmich and goalie J.J. Stark. — started with five straight victories and ended up taking third in the Silver Division.

Davis’ boys 12U group played in the top division and took 13th place against some strong competition. Leading the way were Tucker Fisk, Daniel Alvarez, Scott Soderquist, Alex Preisler, Jack Lui, Peter Blumberg, George Van Vorhis, Steven Csaposs, Nick Masson, Jake Taylor, Matthew Blackwell, Kyle Katzenmeyer and Cameron Wright.

The local coed 10U squad got great goalkeeping from Emily Blackwell and contributions from Trey Doten, Brooke Doten, Quinn Brown, Dane Peterson, Bryce Gregg, Jack Johnson, Reece Oliver, Teddy Oliver, Avery Warhover, Maddison Katzenmeyer and Keianna Pineda to take fourth place in the Gold Division.

Davis’ 12U girls started with two good wins and ended up taking 14th in the Platinum Division. Blackwell, Alena Alverez, Scout Brown, Hailey Cavanaugh, Brooke Doten, Annie Fullerton, Josephine Personius, Esperanza Razon, Rachel Redman, Maddy Reaves, Sara Valdez, Tori Van Court and Moira Williams all played well for the locals.

The DWPC’s 14U girls team powered through with just one substitue and, with a last-game victory over Windy City, secured 19th place in the Gold Division. Maddy Lilliedoll, Kendall Doten, Alyssa Alverez, Megan Femling, Kinsey Van Deynze, Maggie Oys, Julie Zanobini and Jennalyn Barthels played their hearts out for Davis.

Taking fifth in the Gold Division, the local 16U girls squad got strong contributions from goalie Ashley Amey and field players Alicia Demaree, Mara Dominguez, Claire Evans, Karly Hammack, Heather Johnson, Lauren Owens, Colby Stapleton, Emmy Savidge, Katie Van Deynze, Emma Meads, Marisa Zanobini and Brinnley Barthels.

Davis 18U girls played in the Platinum Division and made it into the elite 12 and then played a thriller against perpetually strong Commerce Aquatics. After regulation, the game was tied 11-11 and DWPC fell in a shootout.”

For more information on Junior Olympics 2011 including results, see the website below:

Junior Olympics 2011 Website

Davis Water Polo Club’s 14U Boys, 14U Girls, and 12U Boys and Girls teams all placed at the Santa Cruz Classic Tournament held on July 16 and 17.  The Boys 14U placed second overall with wins over Santa Clara Valley and Santa Cruz Sharks.  In the title game, they lost by one point to Lamorinda Water Polo.  The Girls 14U team went undefeated with wins over Central Valley, Stanford, and Atherton in the title game.  The Boys 12U and Girls 12U team met each other in the title game!  In bracket play, the Girls 12U had wins over Oakdale and Stanford while the Boys 12U had wins over Lamorinda and Santa Clara Valley.  In the title game, the 12U Boys and Girls teams were mixed with the game ending in a tie!!  The 12U teams took home both the first and second place trophies.

DWPC 12U Boys and Girls

DWPC 14U Girls

Davis Water Polo Club held its first annual inter-squad scrimmages on Sunday, July 10 with teams mixed from all age groups.  It was a fun afternoon with great games and pizza!

Congratulations to Davis Water Polo Club’s Connor Stapleton for his selection to USA Water Polo’s Men’s Youth National Traveling Team!  The team will be competing in the Acireale Tournament in Italy, this August.  Connor participated in the USA Water Polo’s Men’s National Youth Team training camp from June 27-July 3 where the selections were made.  Fourteen athletes from the camp were selected to the travel team.  Connor has participated in USA Water Polo’s Olympic Development Program since 2008.  Connor will be a junior this fall at Davis High School.  He has been a varsity starter for the Blue Devils water polo team since his freshman year, and was selected as a high school All-American in 2010.  He has participated with DWPC since he was 6 years old!  Congratulations, Connor!

USA Water Polo’s Announcement on Men’s Youth and Cadet National Traveling Teams

Congratulations to Zoe Malot for being selected to USA Water Polo’s Women’s Youth National Traveling Team!  14 athletes including Zoe, were selected from among 28 athletes on the National Youth Training Team to be on the National Youth Traveling Team.  The team will travel to Hungary for a 3-week training next month and compete in an international tournament this summer.  Zoe has been with DWPC for over 8 years and has been a varsity player on the Davis High School water polo team since she was a freshman.  She has also been in USA Water Polo’s Olympic Development Program for 3 years.  Congratulations, Zoe!!!

USA Water Polo’s Announcement on Women’s Youth National Team Travel Roster