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
POD: Spin Lob Recap, High School is Here
Yeah, this is vary late. Recorded on 2/23 it covers the recently concluded Spin Lob tournament in Austin and precedes the Thunder Spring Invite which took place in Lewisville on February 26-27. And now the high school season is here! Much more to come of that but first, reminisce
POD: 2022 Starts with Dare to Dream, Big Numbers for Prep Polo
The kiddos of Texas descended on the Cy-Fair Natatorium last weekend where Joe and James faced off in an epic and shouty 12-and-under cage match. After some brilliant tactical moves, which included telling his team to “guard that guy!” it was James’s squad who emerged triumphant. (Joe would insist
POD: MIT’s Austin Ringheim, and How to Field a UIL Team
UIL water polo will be here before we know it and both Joe and James are getting questions from athletes and families who want to know the process behind getting their schools to field teams. Joe get in the weeds of it so that parents and athletes can get
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: 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
UIL Water Polo Delayed until 2022
In a teleconference on Monday the University Interscholastic League Legislative Council passed an amendment to “temporarily delay” the first season of sanctioned high school water polo until the fall of 2022. Previously plans were to begin the first ever season of UIL water polo in the fall of 2021.
By 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 –