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Lake Water Polo – August 6, 2016 – Falmouth, KY

Today,17 players and their families ventured down to Falmouth, KY for the 4th year (I believe) of Lake Polo. This is a relaxed, family fun event that builds a competitive environment of polo under the warm sun in the beautiful outdoors. The teamwork effort to put this together and have it go as awesome as it did today was phenomenal. Paul Miller and Ben Keefe made the Friday night trip down to setup the entire course (even though it took us forever) and we got a chance to watch the opening ceremonies with the Blevins Family. What a treat! Morning came with early risings from my kids but both Ben and Paul were ready to go in putting on a great event. The caravan met at 9am (thanks to Johann Perera for being on point) and were at the farm by 10am. Teams & Rules: We divided the teams up into 3 x 5 player teams. 4 field and 1 goalie. We only had one true goalie there (Ron – from Indy) so we just rotated a field player in. We used inflatable goals so we all know how hard it is to score in that goal (although Stephen Ioas and Patrick Hudak seemed to find the back of the net the most). Our rules consisted of the following: 1. First to 5 points wins – no win by 2 2. If excluded, you swim to any sideline rope and come right back in. This means if the rope is literally next to you when you get caught with an exclusion, you can just touch the rope and come on back in! This required the offense to very quick with passes and it sped up the game. Also, it allowed for more aggressive play knowing that the exclusion wasn’t too…
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Fall Practice Schedule

Here is the information on our Fall Practice Schedule. https://www.dropbox.com/s/283nv404p29pd0m/OSWPC%20Fall%202016%20Practice%20Schedule.pdf?dl=0 If there are any questions, please email ohio.squirrels OSWPC Fall 2016 Practice Schedule.pdf

Ohio Water Polo Camp

Special thanks to the following Ohio Squirrels for their time, effort, energy, enthusiasm at the Ohio Water Polo Camp this past weekend. www.ohiowaterpolocamp.com 1. Alexis Nordrum 2. Paul Miller 3. Steve Coupland 4. Stephen Ioas 5. Adam Ioas 6. Katie Caldwell 7. Mike Jones 8. Clay Kossmeyer 9. Jeff Reese 10. Zoran Tesic Paul Miller, Clay Kossmeyer and Jeff Reese helped with Monday night clean-up with very late notice!

Moose WPC – Home & Away Scrimmages

We take on Moose twice this summer to help them prepare for their USA Junior Olympic Qualifiers. Monday – June 20 – 700pm – 830pm at Princeton HS Sunday – June 26 – 10am – 12pm at Powel Crosley YMCA https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZTxeloNfMJ4v9pkhZOKUoD-ggglb1YxAyeQDUgFTpEw/viewform Paid Members Only.

Support USA Water Polo – Buy an Olympic Shirt!

Sign-up for an Olympic Shirt to support USA as they travel to Rio. Orders are due June 20, 2016. They come in Men’s and Women’s styles and in blue, red and heavy metal. http://www.kap7.com/team-usa-olympic-water-polo-2016-turbo-mens-t-shirt/ https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EUr94VSM_eWFJoG2beSa9LF0kKyAaQYxvpbdXli3Pgc/viewform