November 28, 2007

 
New Titans Web Site Ready for Beta Testing!
Submitted by John Chinneck

The new Titans web site is now up and running at http://www.titanswaterpolo.ca/2007/. It is currently in draft mode, before becoming the official site in a few weeks.  Webmasters John Chinneck and Greg Sidebottom invite the Titans community to browse the new site and help debug it before it goes live. Please browse through the site and send the webmasters your comments and suggestions, along with any reports of errors or omissions.  You can reach John using webmaster@titanswaterpolo.ca or Greg using gsidebottom@gmail.com.

Some notes on the new site:

• The photo on the home page is chosen randomly from a selection that John and Greg happen to have. If you have a couple of interesting photos that might be good candidates for the front page gallery, by all means send them along to the webmasters.
• Some of the pages are not yet filled in, but content is expected to be provided soon.
• Both the old and the new site will run in parallel for the next few weeks.  After Dec. 16, maintenance of the old site will be discontinued and the www.titanswaterpolo.ca address will open the new site.  The old site will continue to exist, but will not be updated after that date.

Editor's note: A BIG thank you goes out to John Chinneck, Greg Sidebottom and Nicola Vulpe for all their hard work on the new website!  This was a major task to undertake and I hope you take the time to look through the website and give your feedback and any content you think is relevant.


Titan's Cup Tournament January 25-27th, 2008
Submitted by Sue Sidebottom, Tournament Director

We are making plans for this year's Titan's Cup tournament!  The format for this year's event is slightly different than previous years, with changes based on key LTAD (Long Term Athlete Development) principles that our club and Ontario Water Polo are promoting.  The changes will allow more athletes to participate, with four divisions being offered (including an all-girls division as well as a primarily Atom-aged division).  More information is available at: http://titanswp.hypermart.net/2007/id8.html under the Titan's Cup link. 

Volunteers Needed!  I have volunteered to be tournament director for Titan's Cup.  Let me know if you can help out by emailing me at ssidebottom@gmail.com.  Some of the main tasks we need volunteers to coordinate are:

• hospitality suite coordinator
• tournament booklet
• sponsorship coordination (for advertising in the tournament booklet)
• minor officials coordinator
• media relations person (one each for French and English)

I have lots of templates and information from previous years, which are easily reusable again this year.  Please don't hesitate to contact me if you'd like more information on what is needed for any of the above tasks.  Thanks, and I look forward to hearing from you! 

Go Ravens! Carleton Wins Gold in Both Men's and Women's OUA Championships!

Submitted by Deanna Barry and Carolyn McGill

Big congratulations go out to coaches Steve Baird and Andras Szeri and their respective women's and men's teams, both of which came home with GOLD from the OUA (Ontario University Athletics) championships this past weekend in Toronto. For the Raven's women, this represents an unprecedented six league titles! 

A very warm congratulations to Titans Coach Kasia Hart, on being named Tournament MVP as part of the Raven's women.  She and Rachel Baxter contributed two goals each to the women's 7-5 win over McMaster in the final. Check out the this link for the full media release. http://www2.carleton.ca/goravens/news/?p=514  You'll recognize lots of names as being former Titans.  Another article appeared in the Ottawa Sun at: http://ottsun.canoe.ca/Sports/OtherSports/2007/11/26/4685747-sun.html

OUA Announces Men's and Women's Water Polo Major Award Winners and All-Stars

Submitted by Deanna Barry

On the women's side, Raven's Steve Baird received Coach of the Year, following a terrific season where he guided the Ravens to a first place finish. Titans Coach Kasia Hart  and Titans alumni Rachel Baxter  were named to the first team of OUA all-stars. In addition, Titans alumni Jessica Brundia  was named to the second all-star team. On the men's side, Titans Goalie Coach Marc Tanguay and Titans alumni Stefan Pavicevic were named to the second OUA all-star team. Stefan is the OUA's second leading scorer, with a total of 31 goals. Also of interest, Ross MacDonald, head coach of the York University men's program (and Technical Director of Ontario Water Polo), was named this year's recipient of the Coach of the Year award. We're very proud of all of you! Click here for further information: http://www.oua.ca/news/?id=9329

Ryans Speers from the KW club and who trained and competed with the Titans Youth Team in the 2006/2007 season is attending Mercyhurst College and playing polo. Here is a link to his info http://hurstathletics.cstv.com/sports/m-wpolo/mtt/speers_ryan00.html

For athletes born in 1992 and later, please note that applications for the 2008 Summer Games (being held in August in Ottawa) are due this Friday, NOVEMBER 30, if you wish to apply.  If you do not make the 2008 team Ontario program it is highly recommended you participate in the Ontario Summer Games (OSG).

 

Coaching applications are also due on November 30.