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Scotland Junior Boys Training

Message from Brian Campbell, Junior Boys coach:
The next Junior squad sessions are being held at the Carnegie Centre from 5.30pm to 8pm on Saturday 19 May 2012 at the usual cost of £5.

Attendance was poor at the last session and all members of the squad are asked to make every effort to attend.

The 1995+ inter regional championships have now been confirmed and will take place on 14-15 July 2012 at Walsall, the team will likely travel by mini-bus on the Friday returning on the Sunday evening.

Any member of the squad who is not available for selection that weekend should advise me by return as I will have to make a decision on our entry which will be based on the availability of Players.

The tri-nations competition (1995+) against Wales and Ireland remains scheduled for 27-28 October 20120 at Cardiff.

Brian C

18 May 2012 - 08:05 by Club Secretary

Scotland Secondary Schools Water Polo Championships 2012

Message from Neal Rayner:
Hello,

The Scotland Secondary Schools Water Polo Championships will be held on Friday June 22nd at Grove Academy in Dundee. While a competitive event, it has proven suitable in the past for new players as well as experienced ones.

The change to a school day has been requested by numerous participants in the past and we will see how it works. Approximate time is 10AM -3PM, but this depends on entries.

Two Divisions, both are for boys and girls mixed together. It is a 7-a-side and you can bring up to 13 participants.
1. open (S1-S6)
2. S1-S3

The cost of entry will be £15/division entered
Schools should send your entries to Keith Falconer by June 1st: k.falconer@sky.com
Include: School name, Which division(s) you are entering, teacher/coach's contact email and phone number.

If you need help with organizing equipment for training contact or you have any questions, contact me at this email.

Best,

Neal

Neal Rayner
British Water Polo Development Coordinator & Scotland Water Polo Development Officer

16 May 2012 - 17:45 by Club Secretary

DWPC Men win second game of Phase 2 SNL

DWPC Men completed a successful afternoon with a 14-6 win over Menzieshill at Stirling on 13 May.

Highlights of the game were an improved defence and a penalty save from Joe Thomson.

Period Scores: 4-2, 3-1, 3-1, 4-2.

Team (goals in brackets): Simon Metcalfe, Joe Thomson, Calum Ironside, Chris Campbell (1), Davie Stewart (1), Zach Thomson, Andrew Woodall (5), Stewart Carlile, Mark Speed (1), Ali Campbell (1), Calum Fraser (5).

Click here for Match Report

DWPC men now face Portobello at Stirling on 20 May in the culmination of the 2012 Men's SNL when 1st and 2nd placed teams play each other.

14 May 2012 - 19:47 by Club Secretary

Junior European Water Polo Camp Italy 2012

A 'Friends of Water Polo' water polo camp will be held from 02/09/2012 to 08/09/2012 at the Federal sports center of Frosinone and is open to boys / girls aged between 10 to 16 years (additional categories may be taken into account). The campus is under the FIN (Italian Swimming Federation rules and conditions).
Our goal that was set when organizing this training camp was to increase the appreciation, technical skills and tactics for young athletes, both from a sporting point of view and cultural point of view.
The boys & girls will find themselves fully involved in all aspects of water polo. The areas that will be covered include:
- theory
- practice of passing, handling
- swim training, stroke analysis,
- tactics and team work.
- accident and injury prevention
- a proper understanding of nutrition

Being set in Rome it will give an international touch to this event, and will ensure a fruitful cultural exchange between not only the students but the coaches and experts, as well as the opportunity to improve English, Italian French and German.

For more details including costs Click Here

14 May 2012 - 14:39 by Club Secretary

Congratulations to Lancaster Junior Boys and Youth Boys-ASA Champions 2012

Congratutions to Lancaster City Amateur Swimming and Water Polo Club who are the current 2012 Junior National Champions for the third consecutive year after beating City of Sheffield 12 - 7.

The youth team also won the 2012 Youth National Championship title for their second consecutive year after beating local rivals City of Manchester 5 - 4.

Click here for all Finals Results

12 May 2012 - 21:17 by Club Secretary

Waterpolo Officials Course and Exams

Water Polo Referee Course and exams for Grade D and Grade C to be held at Glasgow University on Saturday 9th June and Sunday 10 June,

This course will includes classroom instruction, question and answer and practical work officiating training matches. You are expected to read the FINA water polo rules ahead of the class. All candidates will also take an exam,

Cost: £20 per candidate

A Grade C exam will also take place for experienced referees during this course.

Click on this link for details on Scottish Waterpolo Website.

11 May 2012 - 19:03 by newsmaster

Water Polo Online

Dear Friends,

We invite you all to be 'present' at the Oradea 2012 - Water Polo Champions League Final Four that begins this afternoon at 17:00 CET (4:00pm) with the first Semi Final between Ferla Pro RECCO (ITA) and TEVA-Vasas Uniqa BUDAPEST by watching the match live online (thanks to host broadcaster DIGI) through the link that will be made available to all on our website. You will also be able to see the second Semi Final, HAVK Mladost ZAGREB (CRO) versus VK Primorje RIJEKA (CRO) at 19:00 CET (6:00pm).

Just go to the Oradea 2012 Final Four section and click where indicated [Webcasting]:
http://www.len.eu/cms?events+championships+oradea2012+schedule

Enjoythe best club water polo action today, and specially tomorrow's FINAL at 19:00 CET - 6:00pm (as well as the game for third-place at 17:00 CET - 4:00pm).

Best regards,
LEN OFFICE

11 May 2012 - 16:44 by newsmaster

Warrender 5's Tournament - 19 May

DWPC Men have entered, the draw has been made for the tournament and the groups are as follows:

Group A
Warrender
Burnley A
Northumbria
Dunfermline
Fleetwood

Group B
Edinburgh University
Carlisle
Burnley B
Leeds
Inverness

Teams should arrive at the pool by about 10:40. This will hopefully allow the first game to get underway at 11am. The tournament will run until 16:30. There will now be 9 players per team allowed rather than 8 originally, and all teams have been informed that no current senior internationalists are allowed to play.

A room has been booked at the Beehive Inn which is in the Grassmarket from 7pm where there will be a buffet for those taking part.

Players should confirm availability to Ali C asap.
Good luck to the players involved.

11 May 2012 - 14:27 by Club Secretary

Scottish Girls Open Training Session 12 May - Reminder

Message from Brenda Tate, Girls Squad Team Manager:
Hi,
Just to remind you about the training session on Dundee Olympia on Sat 12th May 3.30-5.30pm. It's for ALL junior girls and we hope as many of you make it as possible.

I did forget to remind you that it's �5 for each session.

I'll take a register at the beginning and it would be great if you could fill in the attached form and bring it with you. This is mainly so that I have an emergency number so please put a mobile number on it.

I also asked about parking at the Olympia. Unfortunately this was the reply:

"parking is a nightmare as there is major roadworks, either park at the car park across from the railway station near to the shops or Tesco and walk."

Thanks
Brenda
Scot Girls Medical Consent Form

11 May 2012 - 08:17 by Club Secretary

Scottish Water Polo Academy Reminder

Message from Chairman of Scottish Waterpolo:

Hi all,

The Scottish Water Polo Academy starts on this Friday 11th May.

Can you please pass this information onto all your junior players.
Attached is the Flyer and the application form which should be filled out and brought along on Friday with £40 payment.

Can you also confirm names of players who intend to attend, email the SWPA administrator Barbara Zahra: Barbara@SnowyRiverProducts.com

I'm sure this venture will be a great success and be of huge benefit to the players who commit to the programme.

regards
Ken

Click here for SWPA Application form

By Sec:
Contact me if you would like an MS excel version of the application form or visit the SWPA area of this website where both versions are available.
Please also note that those born in 95 and 96 are also invited to the 1st 2 terms.
There are 2 car parks at the RCP, one is behind the pool.
For more information see the SWPA area on this website.

9 May 2012 - 09:23 by Club Secretary

Back a Rising Star: Waterpolo Player Louise Fox

Message from Linda Fox regarding Louise who is a junior waterpolo player with Menzieshill Ladies. Louise was a regular at DWPC training sessions last year and is a key player in the Scottish National squads and Caledonia Ladies.
Dear All,
I thought you might want to have a look at the website for Scottish Swimming (see link below) who have just implemented an initiative throughout Scotland to help up and coming athletes with funding for competitions and training. I would like to bring to your attention my daughter, Louise, who competes and trains at least once a month with the Great British Water Polo Development Squad in Cardiff. If you know of any businesses who are looking to sponsor an athelte or provide some kind of help please point them this way.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Best wishes
Linda

Here is a link for your information.

http://www.scottishswimming.com/index/back-a-rising-star/welcome-to-louise-foxs-profile-page

7 May 2012 - 14:57 by Club Secretary

DWPC Men continue Winning Streak + Match Report

DWPC men overcome Edi Uni this evening in their first game at the recently opened Royal Commonwealth Pool and won 11-10 in game marked by missed chances. Simon Metcalfe saved a penalty in a critical part of the final quarter with the winning goal scored by Calum Fraser with only 8secs remaining on the clock.

Click here for Match report

The men now play Menzieshill at Stirling on Sun 13 May in their 2nd game of phase 2 of the SNL

6 May 2012 - 21:44 by Club Secretary

Olympic Games Group Draws

The draws for the Men's and Women's Tournaments were made at the Olympic Test event in London at the weekend:

MEN : the four highest ranked teams in each group will qualify for the quarter-final round. The fifth and sixth ranked teams in each group will be eliminated and will not play anymore.

Group A:
Italy
Kazakhstan
Spain
Australia
Croatia
Greece

Group B:
USA
Hungary
Serbia
Montenegro,
Romania
Great Britain

WOMEN : all teams will progress to the quarter-finals playing crossing matches to decide who will advance to the medal stage.

Group A:
Hungary
Spain
China
USA

Group B:
Italy
Great Britain
Russia
Australia

6 May 2012 - 11:35 by newsmaster

Scotland Girls Open Training Sessions

Message from Brenda Tate Scottish Girls Team Manager:

Unfortunately we have been unable to book the session on 13th May however we have just managed to get Dundee Olympia swimming pool on Saturday 12th May 3.30 - 5.30pm. We also have Sunday 10th June at Royal Commonwealth swimming pool (RCP) 6.30 - 8pm.

This training is for all junior girls Born 95 and younger. If any Born 94 girls would like to attend then they are more than welcome. Please let me know if you can make these sessions or have any queries.
Regards
Brenda

5 May 2012 - 09:33 by Club Secretary

BWPL Meeting minutes

Minutes from the BWPL AGM and Committee meeting, both 25 March, are available via links on the Caledonia page.

4 May 2012 - 14:23 by Club Secretary

Dublin Cup Pre-Olympic water polo tournament - 5 to 8 Jul

Message from Bobby Nolan, President of Irish water Polo

Good Afternoon

The Irish Water Polo Association are hosting the Dublin Cup from July 5TH - 8TH this year.
It is the biggest Pre Olympic Water Polo Competition in the world and is being held in our National Aquatic Centre in Dublin.
We hosted Hungary V GB here last June and had a full capacity 2500 people for the games.
This event will be the biggest Water Polo Competition ever staged in Ireland and we have managed to secure Hungary, Serbia,Croatia,Montenegro,Romania and Olympic host nation GB so the standard will be very high.There are a lot of people who have missed out on tickets for the Olympics and we could possibly have the Olympic Champions amongst our participating nations.

We have secured great hotel deals for travelling fans so why not arrange a club trip to Dublin, the home of Guinness and the home of world class Water Polo.

Please click on the link for all the details of www.dublinwaterpolo2012.com

Yours in sport

Bobby Nolan
President Ireland Water Polo

3 May 2012 - 17:21 by Club Secretary

Waterpolo Olympic Test Event - GB Match Live on BBC Radio

Water Polo International
Venue: Water Polo Arena, Olympic Park, London
Date: 3-6 May
Coverage: GB v Australia live on BBC Five Live Sports Extra, Thursday, 2000 BST; all GB group matches live on Sports Extra

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/17855664

Paul Metcalfe will be 1 of the Scottish representatives attending this Olympic test event.

30 Apr 2012 - 16:17 by Club Secretary

DWPC Ladies vs Warrender - 6 May Cancelled

Warrender are unable to get a team to play in the match scheduled for 6 May at Stirling due to players being away or exams and are therefore unable to play.

Efforts are in hand to attempt to arrange alternative opposition to allow a game to go ahead.

Further details to follow........

29 Apr 2012 - 21:15 by Club Secretary

Midland District Junior Tournament - 16 Jun

DWPC has accepted an invitation to attend the Midland District Junior Tournament on Saturday 16 June 2 00pm - 5 00pm at Forfar Swimming Pool. The event will be for 10 - 14yrs old.

The aim is to provide an opportunity for players who may NOT have played polo before or will not have had much experience. Only those who are SASA registered may participate for insurance reasons.

SASA Clubs invited - Jaws ASC, Forfar ASC, Monifieth ASC, Aberdeen ASC, Dunfermline WPC, Menzieshill Whitehall S & WPC, Falkirk Otters.

Forfar is a 25 yard pool.

Each game to be played as two 5 minute halves although this could be amended as the number of games will only be known once all Clubs have responded. Normal rules will be refined to maximise player development and enjoyment.

For information about the Forfar Pool, click on http://www.angus.gov.uk/leisure/facilities/default.cfm?ID=FSP

28 Apr 2012 - 16:43 by Club Secretary

2nd Win of the week for DWPC Men

DWPC men rounded off a successful week with a 2nd win, this time against St Andrews Uni. In a game dominated by good strong defending with a fast efficient attack, DWPC came away 21-3 winners and completed the 1st phase of the Scottish National league in 2nd place.

Click Here for full match report

The men are due to start phase 2 comprising the top 4 teams in the league with a game against Edi Uni

27 Apr 2012 - 12:02 by Club Secretary

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