By The ODP season is pretty much done except for National Team Selection Camp and our Southwest Zone athletes and coaches have returned from National Championships with some good results. Plus, Austin College remains the top-ranked team in the Collegiate Water Polo Association Division III poll and head to Ohio
ODP Texans Live Streamed at West Region Champs
Dozens of Texans are participating at USA Water Polo’s West Region Championships for its Olympic Development Program. All the action will be streamed live from Utah by Game On Live Studio via YouTube. Follow athletes from throughout the state here. Live updates of the schedule and results are also
By POD: ODP Explained, ‘Roos to Stanford, UT at CWPA Nats
We took a week off while Joe was partying with McCoy in Iowa so we take time to recap the recently-completed Texas Challenge Cup and Pegasus masters tournaments. Plus, a listener asks us to explain the ODP evaluation, training, and selection process (we try). We also talk about UT’s
POD: ODP Head Coach Cullen, Texas Challenge Cup, & the Future
Chris Cullen is nearly half way through (!) his first season as the director of YOUR Southwest Zone ODP team. He talks about where we stand with the most recent changes in the program as this season’s rosters are announced soon (maybe already). Plus, James and Joe are both
POD: Pegasus, Thunder Make Waves Outside Texas
North Texas was well represented and fared even better at the recently completed Cousineau Cup in SoCal and Rocktober in Arizona. Plus, Austin College returned from Colorado with three losses to some serious competitors, the UIL makes things official, and more about Joe’s and James’s former coaches jumping in
POD: Joe’s a Dad! And some Water Polo Stuff
The title says is all. McCoy Patrick Linehan (insert Pogues here) has joined us for our first post-partum podcast (listen for faint sounds of dissatisfaction from the lad as Joe pontificates). Joe and Steph welcomed the boy a few weeks early but everyone is home now, only slightly sleep-deprived
POD: Cal Lu’s Cody Pletcher and the ‘Roos Big Weekend
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: Texans on Team USA, JOs Needs Shieldy, Olympics are Near
Sixteen athletes were selected to participate at USA Water Polo’s National Team Selection Camp and five of them were selected to national team rosters, huge news for Texas water polo. Speaking of which, did you know Junior Olympics session 3 will take place in North Texas in a couple
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: 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.