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
POD: First HS Players of the Week, and Kaitlin Kelley
We’re very late. We know. But better late than… whatever. James is in Wyoming, which Joe makes fun of. So the remote location makes audio sound subpar, or more subpar than usual. This week we recap some of the top high school events and select our first players of
By POD SPECIAL: Lowery, Cullen, Ferguson on CBU’s Trip to NCAA Championships
The Cal Baptist men finished this bizarre season with an upset win over Air Force to earn their first ever Western Water Polo Association Championship and are now headed to Los Angeles for NCAA Championships, the program’s first. There they’ll face perennial top-four UCLA and look to stage a
POD: Austin College’s Mark Lawrence, Texans Unwelcome, Another Linehan
Joe and Steph are having a baby. There, we said it right up front. We gush about the huge news for a good chunk of time before moving on to the end of the Austin College men’s season and the start of Texas’ high school one. Then, why speculate
POD: ‘Roos in LA, Prep Punditry, and Ian Davidson
James lost the last segment that he recorded with Joe. Let’s get that out of the way. #SubParPodcast But oh boy, did they make up for it with a scintillating conversation about the Austin College men, who were forced to cancel two trips and several games due to Snowmageddon-2021.
POD: The Thaw Arrives, Everything was Cancelled, Pudwill on Refs
We’re back after an extraordinary week, one in which multiple water polo events were cancelled, including our show, which succumbed to multiple and unpredictable power outages. We talk about the week that was, chopping wood, wearing winter clothing indoors, boiling water (oh yeah, we didn’t actually talk about that
POD: Texans Excel in NCAA Competition, Can ‘Roos Women go Undefeated, and Joe Gets a Package
Austin College’s first weekend slate of games against Air Force didn’t end the way they’d prefer. They now fly to Colorado Springs to face Cal Baptist and the Falcons again this weekend. Meanwhile, Texans ripped it up across the country from Fresno, to Thousand Oaks, to the East Coast,
POD: ‘Roos are Back, Preps are Near, James is Older
For there not being a lot going in in the water polo world there’s… quite a bit going on. For one, the collegiate season, in its truncated form, has kicked off. Austin College men return to the pool versus Air Force this weekend after a slate of games in
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