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Ottawa Titans Water Polo Weekly Newsletter
August 20th, 2008


Competitive Registration

Competitive Registration information will be available very soon. Watch for a special edition of E-News (in the next week) with details. NEW this year- registration material will not be mailed out to families this year. We will post information on the website and direct you there as soon as it's ready. If anyone really needs a package mailed to them, we can accommodate, but would prefer for you to access the material and print forms yourselves. This will save postage costs, not to mention the time spent by our Registrar printing and compiling paper for the actual mailout. We hope that families can stop by the Open House on September 6 to drop off their packages.


NEW Titans Calendar is now live

If you have visited the Titans website recently, you will notice that we have a new Calendar in place. At first it appeared as a 'trial' version, and it is now active and we will no longer be updating the old Calendar (although you will see a link to the old version if you want to check out old dates/ archives). We have chosen to go with the Google calendar. The version that is posted on the website is a 'read-only' version for players. All changes are posted by General Manager Deanna Barry, and if you see any errors or omissions, you should e-mail Deanna at INFO@titanswaterpolo.ca.
 
All team practices will be posted on the website under the team names, and cancellations will be noted as we are made aware of them. It will be YOUR responsibility to check frequently for changes to your team schedule. We will do our best to ensure that changes are posted prior to the start of each week (i.e. Monday), but on occasion we learn of cancellations or changes and need to update these last-minute. When this happens, we will do our best to get the word out via Team Managers.

Practice dates and times are being inputted over the next week, so if you don't see your team practices listed yet, don't panic, they are coming soon! Do check out some of the nice features of the Google calendar, such as the ability to choose only your team schedule, as well as option to choose by day, week or month.
 
You can filter the information on the website calendar to show only the groups you are interested in two ways.  You can use the buttons/tabs at the top of the calendar to display only one group (e.g. view only the Swordfish) or you can use the drop down menu (shown when you click on the down arrow to the right of the word "Agenda") to select and view multiple groups (e.g. view Swordfish and NDC only). General Club information (fundraisers, meetings, Board meetings, events of interest) are in a brown font and are shown when you choose any button at the top of the calendar. Another nice option for Google users is you can add specific calendars from the Titans website calendar (e.g. Swordfish) to your own personal Google calendar by clicking on the "+ Google Calendar" button in the lower right.
 
Our webmasters will be 'tweaking' the Calendar to improve it as we start to use it and as we learn more about it. And do be patient. There is a learning curve for the program administrators as well!


Ontario Summer Games
Submitted by Sue Sidebottom

Congratulations to all athletes who participated last week in the Ontario Summer Games!  This year the athletes were divided into teams (zones), mixing athletes from the different Ontario clubs together on one team.  Balanced teams were put together, making games in the tournament very close and exciting to watch!  The athletes were housed at the residence at Carleton University, with most athletes sharing rooms with athletes from other clubs.  It was a great opportunity for the athletes to get to know and work with athletes from other clubs and I'm sure many new friendships were made.  Special congratulations go out to Nathalie Gallant and David Lapins who were named MVPs of the tournament, and to all the athletes who made the all-star team.  Photos of the Gold Medal teams, all-star teams and MVPs can be seen on the OWPA home page at www.ontariowaterpolo.ca


Team Ontario Women's Report

Christi Bardecki, one of the coaches for the Women's Team Ontario, has written up a nice report posted on the OWPA website.  To see her full report, click here:  Read More...


Water Polo Stories in the Media

Thanks to Carolyn McGill for searching out and providing our community with ongoing links to water polo news in the media.  Here's some news pieces that Carolyn has found in the past week:

It's been great to see water polo get sustained media attention in Canada during the Olympics. The Star's online edition has had something daily, even on days when there are no games. Search "water polo" at: http://www.thestar.com/

The Globe and Mail did a real water polo splash out, for them: They gave a full half a page to a photo and some pretty good coverage of the Canada vs Australia game titled: Now That's Water Polo http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080814.wolmppolo14/BNStory/beijing2008/home

Radio-Canada's "On Demand" section has a number of complete water polo games that can be viewed and even downloaded and saved. http://pekin.radio-canada.ca/audio-video/



Upcoming Events

Titans Open House  (Registration Day, Merchandise Sale, Meet the Coaches and Board)
Saturday, September 6, 1-4pm, Nepean Sportsplex Hall F

Newsletter Submissions

If you would like to contribute an item to the newsletter, please send your submission to Sue Sidebottom at news@titanswaterpolo.ca .  I depend on the readers to submit articles to keep club members up to date with water polo news!   Photos from tournaments or other club events are always welcome.  Any submissions received before noon on Wednesday will go out with that week's news.