Titans New BATHING SUIT Survey - Have you voted?

If you haven't already voted for your preference for the style of the new club bathing suit, please assist us by completing the survey, which can be found by clicking here (or by copying and pasting this into your Internet browser) http://titanswp.hypermart.net/2007/docs/2007BathingSuitSurvey.pdf

We need to know if you are a player (and if you are male or female), a parent or a coach, and you need to choose ONE suit (there are 3 women's and 3 men's choices). We would also like to know if you have any other suggestions for merchandise items that could be offered for sale. Please e-mail your responses to Christine, at equipment@titanswaterpolo.ca Deadline for responses is DECEMBER 14.

Once the survey responses are collated, we will make a choice and order the suits. We hope to have them available for provincial championships. Please be thoughtful in your choice. We would like to have a design that we can keep for a number of years.

Titans Merchandise Sale, Saturday December 15

The Titans will be holding a merchandise sale on Saturday, December 15 in the lobby of the U of O pool from 1:30-5:30pm. The sale will include bathing suits (women's black training suits in size 34 and 36 have finally arrived), new club bathing caps (dark and light both, for the girls to wear under competitive hats), balls, back packs, sweat pants, hoodies, toques, mittens. Stock up now for Christmas!!

Also for those Titans who are new to the Club, or for those who missed out last year on ordering the black Club jackets, we will be taking orders (and cheques for the deposit) for jackets and pants at this time. Sizes will be available for trying on. This will be the ONLY opportunity to order Club jackets this year. The final cost for the jackets and pants will depend on the quantity that are ordered, but the maximum price for the jacket will be $60, and the maximum price for the pants will be $30. The minimum deposit required will be 1/2 of the total of what is ordered.

Any questions about merchandise can be sent to Christine at equipment@titanswaterpolo.ca.

Volunteer Needed

The Titans need a volunteer (or two!) who would be willing to prepare the Child Tax Credit receipts for families for the 2007 Calendar year. No experience in accounting or book keeping is necessary. We'll provide you with all the information you require, plus mailing envelopes, postage, etc. The deadline for mailing these out is February 28. Please contact General Manager Deanna Barry at INFO@titanswaterpolo.ca.

Laval Tournament, Dec 7-9, 2007

Submitted by Sharon Lapins

On the weekend of December 7-9th, the Titans sent two boys' and two girls' teams to the Laval Tournament being held at College Laval in the Montreal suburb. With Carmelita Olivotto by my side to plan trip details, as well as Deanna Barry working behind the scenes with us, the trip was quite a success considering all of the logistics involved when sending that many athletes/coaches/chaperones on two buses anywhere!

For some of our athletes, this was the first tournament they had ever been to! I was impressed by many of our more experienced female athletes who took the younger girls under their wings and helped them to remain calm when some nerves were evident. All of our opponents were from Quebec which gives us a sense of the level of competition.....tough.

The focus of this tournament was to give all of the athletes equal play-time, an opportunity to work on skills as well as to gauge their fitness before going into the Team Training phase after the Christmas season. Under the leadership of coaches Kasia Hart, Alison Poirier and Alexis Geroux on the girls side, our Ottawa 1 and 2 teams played with energy and supported each other throughout each game. Results were not the focus of this tournament but we would all like to congratulate Ottawa 1 Girls for their Bronze medal win!

Pierre Fiset, Nick Forster and Tristan Nuyens coached the Ottawa 1 and 2 boys teams. Ottawa 2 included some Junior-aged athletes so this team participated under the "exhibition" status meaning they did not qualify for any medals even though they won every game. Both of our boys teams played with intensity and passion over the weekend and it was a pleasure to watch them compete!

Thanks to our chaperones, Pierre Prescott, Kresimir Kusevic and Joe Luciano, as well as to our coaches for all of their help in making things run smoothly. Always appreciated!

Our best wishes go out to Anita Luciano who was unable to chaperone as planned so that she could travel to be with her very ill father. We were thinking of you, Anita, and sending you and your dad our thoughts and prayers.

GO TITANS!

Newsletter Submissions

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