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POD: Looking Back at and Gladly Turning the Page on 2020

In a year like no other for the entire globe, but also for our resilient Texas water polo community, we

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POD: Happy Holidays. It’s Tony Azevedo!

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to everyone! Since y'all have been good this year, Texas water polo fans, our gift

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POD: TAGS, Cowtown Recap, and UOP’s Cooper Gaderson

Mainly, a recap of the past weekends tournaments in North Texas, including some mild scolding of certain individuals who are

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By James Smith December 31, 2020 Podcast

POD: Looking Back at and Gladly Turning the Page on 2020

In a year like no other for the entire globe, but also for our resilient Texas water polo community, we close the book on the dreadful 2020 reminiscing about two and a half normal months followed by endless efforts to make things as normal as reasonable during a pandemic.

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By James Smith December 29, 2020 Podcast

POD: Happy Holidays. It’s Tony Azevedo!

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to everyone! Since y’all have been good this year, Texas water polo fans, our gift to you is a conversation with the legendary Tony Azevedo (even though it’s now four days after Christmas. We’ve been busy). In a very frank discussion Tony opines on

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By TX Waterpolo December 22, 2020December 22, 2020 Podcast

POD: TAGS, Cowtown Recap, and UOP’s Cooper Gaderson

Mainly, a recap of the past weekends tournaments in North Texas, including some mild scolding of certain individuals who are unaware of the tourney guidelines about wearing masks (!). Then a conversation with Austin native and UOP freshman poloist Cooper Gaderson on becoming part of a highly successful collegiate

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By James Smith December 3, 2020 Podcast

POD: Lessons from Lewisville ODP, St. Mark’s HC Trent Calder, Winding Down 2020

Over one hundred athletes descended on Lewisville for the second ODP clinic of the season on Nov. 29. The turnout was great but the pool was crowded! Perhaps some changes afoot with the next ODP clinic, as James and Joe discuss. Then the first interview with brand new St.

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By James Smith November 25, 2020 Podcast

POD: A Huge ODP Clinic in Lewisville, and Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing all our generous and loyal listeners a wonderful Thanksgiving week, we keep the show short and amateurish with some dodgy audio quality, but some good info on how this Sunday’s ODP clinic will play out, and about Joe’s new house (their offer was taken). Plus, Joe makes fun

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By James Smith November 20, 2020November 20, 2020 Podcast

POD: Is Water Polo a “High Risk” Sport, and Learnings from Texas Challenge Cup

Texas has now hosted two late-year tournaments since the pandemic struck us in March. What have we learned from those events and how might those lessons apply to competition in our state and beyond as the situation remains hopeful but also very uncertain. The Texas Challenge Cup ended on

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By TX Waterpolo November 12, 2020 Podcast

POD: Exeter to TX, Salty Splash, Texas Challenge Cup is Here

If you’ve ever wondered whether a collegiate water polo player has given a pre-game rendition of the national anthem on a trombone while wearing a Speedo, this show is for you. Exeter Water Polo Club’s Jack Amaral is bringing his group of California girls to face off against many

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By James Smith November 5, 2020 Podcast

POD: Covid and Cali at the TCC, Gold Coast HC Adam Donovan, and a Passing Reference to Some Election

It’s election week, which means… not much. This is a water polo podcast. We skate over the complexities of national politics and head straight to the Covid-19 guidelines for the upcoming Texas Challenge Cup and whether they will influence those that are implemented at the Texas Age Group Championships

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POD: Cullen on Covid, New Rules, and (Expired) ODP News
By James Smith October 30, 2020 Podcast

POD: Cullen on Covid, New Rules, and (Expired) ODP News

We’re two weekends out from the Texas Challenge Cup in Lewisville and The Colony at which several teams from the West Coast will compete in addition to many of Texas’ most well-known clubs. So what are the rules that will govern the tournament as we know it? We got

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By James Smith October 23, 2020 Podcast

POD: UIL Water Polo Delayed, and TISCA WP Chair Scott Slay

Dispiriting news from the University Interscholastic League (UIL), which announced on Monday that the inaugural season of sanctioned high school water polo will take place in the fall of 2022 rather than in 2021. That due to a variety of things related to the Covid-19 pandemic which has thrown

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Looking Back at and Gladly Turning the Page on 2020
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TAGS, Cowtown Recap, and UOP's Cooper Gaderson
CDM Coach and Olympic Champion Melissa Seidemann
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2020 Club Winter League Schedule
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