By Our nominee for America’s most interesting varsity water polo coach, Cody Pletcher of Alvin was named Interim Head Coach at Cal Lutheran in June. The three-time world rodeo champion has one of the most unique backgrounds in all of water polo and will attempt to garner the Kingsmen’s first
POD: Mark Lawrence, ‘Roos Head Coach, Texas’ Biggest Summer Recap
Austin College returned from a two-day, five-game spin in New England where they won one and fell four times in some highly competitive matchups as the 2021 men’s intercollegiate season returns with some normalcy. We talk with Head Coach Mark Lawrence about the trip and how this season is
By 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
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
POD: ODP Kicks Off, Jokic Passes like a Goalie, and Spencer Dornin
Acutally, we’re pretty busy today. So here are some bullets: ODP’s first weekend is here in Round Rock and James is stressed about it. Joe has no sympathy. Joe shows James how to properly manage an event by finalizing the Central Texas Festival beginning on Oct. 4. The New
POD: A Festival in Central TX, More Scrimmaging, TISCA’s Scott Slay
There’s going to be a festival in Central Texas, says Joe, who’s directing the first competitive tournament sanctioned by USA Water Polo since before March of 2020. The Central Texas Festival will take place over the course of two weekends at the start of October in Cedar Park and
Competition in Central TX, ODP in Central TX, and Southside’s Colby Thames
Big news as dates are solidifying for the first age group tournament in Texas since before the lockdown. Zilla and AquaTex will be the local hosts for a USA Water Polo event organized by Joe (who else would it be?) to be held Oct. 3-4 and/or Oct. 10-11 in
AquaSwift Scrimmages, a Tourney in Round Rock(?), and Utah’s Brad Peercy
There’s some movement in Texas water polo. After talking about a league under way in Utah a week ago, we find out that Joe refereed a scrimmage for AquaSwift, a new team in Boerne, last weekend. Yes, it’s only a scrimmage. But it shows there are rules in place
Pod: Andy Burke, One Year to UIL, Kris Jones of Cy-Fair
We’re basically one year away from Texas’ first ever state sanctioned high school water polo season. So, where are we? How did we get here? What’s it going to look like beginning in August of 2021? What needs to be done before then? James has no answers, but –
TXWP Interview: Three-time Olympian Merrill Moses
In this TXWaterpolo Interview we speak with another of the USA’s water polo legends, 3-time Olympian, 2008 Olympic silver medalist, NCAA Champion and MVP, and now assistant under Coach Terry Schroeder at Pepperdine University. He, along with Adam Wright, Matt Farmer, and Maxwell Irving were in Dallas last week