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Beginners Guide to Water Polo

Water Polo Planet has posted a few guides on their website. These are free downloads and might be very helpful for some of you new parents and athletes! Among other things, they have a “Spectator Guide for Water Polo Beginners,” as well as a “Beginners Guide to Water Polo.”

 If you sometimes feel lost when sitting in the stands you can check both of these out at: http://www.waterpoloplanet.com/downloads.html.

Bring a Friend Week and Parent Day

Hello All,

 Just a reminder that next week is “Bring a Friend Week” for water polo. Everyone is invited and encouraged to bring a friend to the pool for practice. This is a great way for your friends to understand a little bit about what you are doing. And who knows, maybe they will want to join and then you guys can be on the same team!

 Parents, your day is here too! Sunday April 6th is Parent Day! Come and be a kid for a day and learn what it is like to be a BAC athlete!

I hope to see a lot of new faces in the water next week!

 Amy

secret to swimming distance freestyle — The Flow

This past weekend Selby (Gold group) swam an outstanding 1650 Freestyle at JOs. She dropped her time from 22:32.80 to 21:55.35! Great job Selby!!! But what’s amazing was not only because she dropped 37 seconds, but she swam the race with awesome splits:
(1:12.4)–>(1:20.1)–>(1:20.9)–>(1:20.1)–>(1:20.7)–>(1:20.1)–>(1:20.5)–>(1:20.5)–>(1:20.5)–>(1:20.9)–>(1:20.4)–>(1:20.8)–>(1:20.9)–>(1:20.4)–>(1:19.9)–>(1:18.4)–>(36.3)
When swimming distance freestyle, it’s essential to find a comfortable pace and stick to it throughout the entire race. I call this “the flow”. When you look at Selby’s splits, you would see that 1:20 is her “flow”, and she maintained this pace throughout her race.

hard work = success = higher motivation

Did you know that Emma (Silver group) has been to ALL practices for 5 weeks straight? That’s right! That’s Mon – Sat for 5 whole weeks!!! She also has been hitting LBTs (life best times) at practice. Last week at the end of one of our practices, she beat her 100 Freestyle time by 3 seconds!!! WAY TO GO EMMA!!!!!!

2008 Zone Team Tryouts

The 2008 Men’s and Women’s Junior (born in 1991/1992) and Youth (born in 1993/1994) Zone Team tryouts have been moved back. Try-outs for both the Men’s and the Women’s teams start this weekend. Please go to www.pacificwaterpolo.com, and then click on the schedule link for the exact dates, times, and locations.

To register please go to www.pacificwaterpolo.com/registration.html and click on the link for 2008 Zone Team Tryout and Zone Camp Registration - payment can be made by credit card or Paypal.

This is a great way for athletes to gain experience and meet other people in the water polo world. Athletes will also have a chance to be coached by a variety of coaches.

 I encourage everyone to participate!

 Amy

Collegiate Women’s Water Polo Tournament at Stanford University

This weekend, February 9-10th, Stanford University is hosting its annual collegiate women’s water polo tournament. Games will run Saturday from 8am thru 8pm, then on Sunday from 8:30am thru 5:30pm, with the championship game begin held at 4:30pm Sunday afternoon. The game schedule can be viewed using the link below, and admission is free for everyone. This should be a great weekend of competitive water polo - I hope that many of you can make it!

 http://gostanford.cstv.com/sports/w-wpolo/08-stanford-invitational.html

2008 Development Camp

The Pacific Zone is hosting a development camp for boys and girls born in 1995 or later. There are six sessions and the whole camp only costs $55. This is a great opportunity for our athletes to get more experience, and meet other athletes in the sport. I would encourage anyone who can make it to attend!

 For more information you can visit http://www6.relevanttools.com/8644/2008_dev_camp.pdf

Please let me know if you have any questions.

 Amy

The End of the Winter Season

Hello Everyone,

 I hope that you have enjoyed your winter season with us at BAC. The coaches have seen a ton of improvement, and are very optimistic about the future! Don’t forget to sign up for the spring season which will be starting on February 18th!

All of our groups have games this weekend to help wrap up the season. I just wanted to say good luck and have fun!

 Amy

Parent/Coach Confrences

We had our first parent coach conferences last week, and they all went great! Thank you to those of you who took the time to meet with us. I have personally enjoyed getting to know all of you better. 

For those of you who have not made an appointment yet, we still have some time open. We would love to see you! And for those of you who already have appointments, we look forward to seeing you soon! 

Amy 

Successful First Games

Welcome back from the holidays! We had a few short weeks with only a few practices due to the rain and the holidays, but we are now back in full swing.
The past week has been great!  All of our athletes learned about 6 on 5. For those of you who do not know what this is, it is similar to a power play in hockey - the offensive team has an extra player. Specifically, everyone learned how to set up our offense when we have the extra player, and some groups even learned how to run a specific play (6 in).

We had an even better weekend, with all of our teams playing in their first games this weekend. Our 14 and unders hosted games at Burlingame. We had so many athletes that we split into two groups, and each group played 2 games. The high school boys were in a tournament at Lynbrook High School and came away 2-1. Finally, the high school girls traveled to Mitty High School for a scrimmage where they had their own success.
Congratulations to all of our athletes for their hard work in practice and their achievements in their games!
Amy