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August
6th, 2008
Titans OPEN HOUSE
(Registration Day, Merchandise Sale, Meet the Coaches and Board)
Saturday, September 6, 1-4pm, Nepean Sportsplex Hall
F
Mark your calendar! Titans Water Polo will
be hosting an Open House and Registration Day on Saturday, September 6, 1-4pm
in Hall F of Nepean Sportplex (Hall F is most easily accessed from the rear of
the facility through Entrance #2, and is located above Arena #2)). Please drop
in and provide us with your completed registration package.
- Programme Registration- A
week or two prior to September 6, competitive athletes will be
receiving registration information by e-mail. You should bring cheques and
completed/ signed forms to this event. ILWP and Rec House League players
should already have received registration information and have a choice of
mailing it in, or of coming to the Open House and handing it in in person
(keep in mind that ILWP spaces are available on a first come, first served
basis as completed forms are received).
- Merchandise Sale- NEW
this year: ALL Titans competitive athletes will be required
to have a Titans suit (the new black/ red version) for competition. Both men's
and women's are now in stock and will be available for sale, at $100 for
women's and $55 for men's. All competitive athletes will be required to have a
Titans jacket (the black one with the logo that has been available for a
couple of years) for tournaments and travel. We will be placing only ONE order
for this, in mid-October. Sample sizes for try-on and ordering will be
available at this sale. There are optional wind pants to go with the jackets
if this is of interest to you. Finally, all ACADEMY athletes will be required
to have their own ball, and to bring it to practice. Balls will be available
for sale at the merchandise sale as well. Cheque or cash only, please.
- Meet the Coaches- Head
Coach David Hart, as well as the head of the women's (Celso Rojas) and men's
(Jerry Tesanovic) programmes will be available to chat informally with
athletes and parents about the upcoming year. Many of the other Club
coaches will also be available.
- Meet your Titans Board of
Directors- Members of the new Titans Board of Directors will be on hand to
chat, and to address and questions, concerns and great ideas you may have!
- Bake Sale and Refreshment
Sale! Alka Steenkamer, with the help of some of the Titans families and
athletes, will be selling treats and refreshments during the Open House. Funds
raised at this sale will be split 50/50 between Titans Water Polo and the
CIBC Run/Walk For the Cure for Breast Cancer. Please bring your loonies and
toonies! If you are able to donate an item to the sale, we would really
appreciate it, and you can contact Alka at
ladyslipper@rogers.com
Minor
Official Volunteers Needed for Ontario Summer
Games
Minor officials (shot clock, game clock, secretary), goal
judges and penalty and statistics volunteers are still needed for the Ontario
Summer Games held in Ottawa August 12-15th, 2008. Please contact
Sue Jones at
jonessue@rogers.com
and she can send you the current volunteer schedule if you are able to
volunteer.
2008 Summer
Olympics Coverage
The 2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies can be seen by Canadians this Friday
morning, from 7am onwards on CBC television (Cable
8). Check out CBC
Canada's Olympics website! Here is a link
to the water polo portion:
http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/water-polo/.
CBC has included some fabulous information, including rules of the game,
glossary of terms, player and coach interviews, profiles, etc. Unfortunately CBC
will only be carrying one of the water polo games, the men's Canada vs Hungary
game. Set your video recorder for 12 midnight-3am (Ottawa time) on August
17, as the game will be televised during that time period.
Titans Athletes
Part of Winning Canadian Junior Pan-Am Teams!
Big congratulations go out to Titans Evie Marshall,
Rebekka Steenkamer and John Conway, as well
as Hull player Edgardo Montes, who were part of winning
Canadian teams at the Junior Pan-Am Games, held recently in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Team Ontario Men Win Olympic Hopes Tournament in Szentes,
Hungary
Submitted by
Carolyn McGill and Connor Lee
After prepping in Toronto, Eger and Budapest, the Team Ontario men competed at
the Olympic Hopes tournament in Szentes, Hungary, August 1-3.
They defeated teams from Russia, Israel, Szentes, and California to win the
tournament.
The Titans on Team
Ontario 2008 were: Coach Nick Forster (assisting Kirby Park) and athletes: Logan
Seaman, Connor Lee, Lyle Brooks, Ben Bouwer and Ogi Gutovic.
Connor writes:
We enjoyed the spa and buffet in
Eger immensely. Besides the occasional loaf of moldy bread, the food was
excellent throughout the entire trip. It was great meeting the British guys.
They were extremely enthusiastic and high spirited. We got to meet the national
youth women's teams of Hungary and Australia in Eger.
It was unfortunate that there was a bug going around the entire team, but
we managed to pull together and win all our 4 games of the tournament. We played
against Russia, Israel, California and the local Szentes team. For every game we
struggled at the beginning but always ended playing as the better team. Russia
played dirty and at times was violent but we managed to play a clean game and
focus on strategy.
Sight-seeing in Budapest we observed the diverse architecture and wandered
through the busy marketplaces. The boat tour gave us the night-time perspective
of both Buda and Pest from the Danube river (with the British team cheering the
entire way). It was a lot of fun to participate in activities such as basketball
and water-sliding with people from all different countries around the pool where
the tournament was held.
Lots of thanks to the chaperones for keeping us fed and hydrated and to the
coaches for continually pushing us to play at our best and to bond and grow as a
team.
Team Ontario Women Win Silver in Olympic Hopefuls Tournament in Prague, Czech
Republic
Submitted by
Annie Chinneck
The 2008 Women's Team Ontario roster
was filled with familiar names, as 8 of the 14 participants were from Ottawa:
Danielle Hirsh, Emily Hodgson, Steph Lessard, Steph Le Saux Farmer, Gillian
Massel, Lisa Sharp, Rachel Stein, and captain Annie Chinneck. Along with
team-mates from KW, Scarborough, and Hamilton and coaches Christi Bardecki and
Megan Whittle, the girls started their training at a cottage just halfway
between Ottawa and Toronto, completing 4km lake swims and obstacle courses. They
then continued their training abroad, working alongside the national teams of
both Slovakia and the Czech Republic. All their hard work paid off when they
swept a co-ed tournament in the Slovakian capital, Bratislava, and their two
even teams placed first and second. After a brief stay in Pilsen, the home of
Pilsner beer, they then moved on to Prague, where they placed second in the
Olympics Hopefuls Tournament. To secure this spot, they beat the Hungarian B
team 9-5, the Slovakian team 7-4, and the Czech team 13-8 but lost to the
Hungarian A team by only two points (5-7). The girls also had a lot of fun
touring castles, hitting up discos and black light shows, and being oogled by
overalled Czeskis.
Team Ontario Women 2008
Water
Polo Stories in the Toronto
Star
The
Star sports reporter has been speaking to Canadian men's water polo
veteran Nathaniel
Miller.
Action
on water surface only tells half the story
http://www.thestar.com/article/471833
Love
story blossoms at Games in Beijing
http://www.thestar.com/article/471831
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.