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VOLUME 22, NUMBER 2, OCT/NOV 2007 15th Annual Speedo Cup Preview What’s Inside... WATER POLO VOL. 22, NUM. 2, ® OCT/NOV ‘07 FLIPTURNS ON THE COVER . USA WATER POLO NATIOnaL OFFICE ® 2124 Main Street, Suite 210 A collage from the 2007 Letter from the CEO. 2 The new Water Polo Flipturns . It’s fl ippin’ awesome. Huntington Beach, CA 92648 FINA Men’s Junior World (714) 500-5445 business (714) 500-5449 membership Championships. (714) 960-2431 fax Cover photos by: Jean Gould Calendar of Events. .2 USA WATER POLO NATIONAL TRAINING CENTER 11360 Valley Forge Ave. Water Polo Times . 4 Los Alamitos, CA 90720 UI"OOVBM4QFFEP$VQ1SFWJFX (562) 799-8506 business (562) 799-8508 fax National Team Updates. .6 WEB SITE www.usawaterpolo.org In the Club. 18 CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Christopher Ramsey EXECUTIVE AssISTanT TO THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER In the Zone. 26 Chelsea Johnson DIRECTOR OF FInanCE and ADMINISTRATION Marti Torres DIRECTOR OF EVENT PROduCTION and PROMOTION Also In This Issue... Susan Warner Hopkins DIRECTOR OF MaRKETIng and COMMunICATIOns Speedo Cup Preview . 8 Christine Bird ManagER OF MaRKETIng and COMMunICATIOns Greg Mescall Speedo Top 40 . 14 DIRECTOR OF REGIOnaL SPORT DEVELOPMENt (EasT) Liz Grimes 5 Meters . .20 States include: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, pg Hot Shots . 23 South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. 10 FINA Men’s FLIPTURNS® FEMALE WATER POLO SUIT FABRIC CONTENT // 85% Polyester/15% Xtra Life Lycra ® DIRECTOR OF REGIOnaL SPORT DEVELOPMENt (CENTRAL) Junior World Joe Linehan College Recruiting . 24 States include: Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Championships Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Indiana, Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming. Tunnel to Tower . 28 NATIOnaL TEAMS ManagER Nikki Jost MEMBERSHIP SERVICES COORDInaTOR Look Ahead... Drew Willems Next Issue BOARD OF DIRECTORS Bradford Bowlus, Ed Reynolds, Lynn Kachmarik > Recaps and photos of the Michael Graff, Rachel Scott, William Smith Speedo Top 40, Speedo Cup, and Holiday Cup EDITOR Greg Mescall CONTRIbuTORS Darcy Couch, Paulo Cesar, Todd Clapper, Chris Oeding, FLIPTURNS® MALE WATER POLO SUIT Jason Lynch, Mary Sprague, Jim Cullingham, Mary Pat Robinson, Joan Gould, FABRIC CONTENT // 85% Polyester/15% Xtra Life Lycra ® Ed Haas, Greg Mitre, Lisa Reyes, Carroll Vaughan, James Lathrop, Summit Photography, Sally Olds, Jeff Shewmon, Tracy Birdsell, Kevin Burke, Anderson Family, Pete Snyder, Fotos FPN, Fotos Hugo Rocha, Mirko Seifert, Rise Wendt, Michael Duffy, Holy Kiki, Gwen Golub, Michael Machnik, George Stransky, Mike Miller, Arjan Ligtenberg, Marilyn Sagehorn PRINTING Publication Printers pg16 2001 S. 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Selection to our Olympic teams and accepting the honor of representing our country in international competition, symbolically tied to scaling Mt. Olympus itself, has always represented the pinnacle of achievement in our sport. Yet, with the 2008 Olympics now less than a “The most important thing in the Olympic the USA Water Polo web site and in this maga- year away, USA Water Polo recognizes the need Games is not to win but to take part, just as the zine on page 15. to flow with gravity as well as resist it. Led by the most important thing in life is not the triumph Finally, November brings us two great tourna- conviction of our men’s and women’s Olympic but the struggle. The essential thing is not to ments sponsored by Speedo – the Speedo Top 40 team coaches, we recently affirmed our orga- have conquered but to have fought well.” in Los Alamitos and the Speedo Cup in Colum- nization’s highest priority: development and Everyone at USA Water Polo is committed to bia, Missouri. Speedo Top 40 has become one of expansion of water polo for all ages across our fighting for more pool time, for more training our hottest tourneys, filling up in record time. nation. for our coaches and officials, and for more play- The Speedo Cup marks its 15th anniversary this In practical terms, this means a greater com- ing opportunities for all of our members. We year, and on this auspicious occasion, I would mitment to introductory water polo programs hope to unveil plans to achieve these goals at our like to acknowledge the work of our eleven zone for children, to high school and collegiate annual meeting in Ventura, California. chairs, who arranged the qualifying tourna- ments to choose this year’s Speedo Cup partici- programs, to our Masters program, as well as The character of the annual meeting has pants. I would particularly like to single out Stan new initiatives that will encourage exciting and changed with the transformation of our new Sprague, a champion of this event, Rick Marsh, innovative recreational leagues. This com- governance structure, and last year’s meeting our Midwest Zone chairman and his collegues, mitment means we will migrate the collec- received high marks from attendees. The new who host of this event. Thanks especially to Rick tive knowledge our national teams down the approach to our annual gathering combines and his team for their splendid work putting to- pyramid to our zones and local clubs, infusing practical workshops with open forums on a vari- gether this tournament year after year – they have our sport with the very best in teaching, train- ety of issues. In many ways, the annual meeting made it one of USA Water Polo’s crown jewels. ing and competition. is becoming a laboratory to offer and test fresh In this mission, we dedicate ourselves to the ideas for our sport, as well as an opportunity to Olympic Creed of Baron Pierre de Coubertin: talk about areas that are not working and how to Christopher Ramsey FIERCE improve them. Registration information for the Chief Executive Officer You deserve the best. Accept no imitations. Colorado Time Systems is the leader in aquatic sports timing and scoring Annual Meeting, January 25-27, is available on systems, and has been for over 30 years. We are committed to providing you with innovative training tools, unsur- passed competitive equipment, state of the art displays and excellent customer service. 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Dec. 1-2, 2007 Men’s NCAA Championships The display division of Colorado Time Systems Colorado Time Systems is proud to sponsor United States Water Polo as the official scoring and timing system supplier. 2 © 2005, Colorado Time Systems News Briefs USA WATER POLO WATER POLO TIMES USA WATER POLO ANNOUNCES TECHNICAL COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS USA Water Polo announced appointments Water Polo and he has also served as the sports June. He had previously served as an assistant for its newly formed Technical Committee psychologist for the Women’s National Team. coach since 2006. Dr. Schroeder is considered one of water polo’s all-time stand-out players. which, as its principal mission, will oversee the Jim Cullingham (National Referee Committee He captained the national team from 1983-1992 consistent interpretation and application of Chair) – Cullingham is chairman of the Na- and has coached Pepperdine University’s men’s water polo rules at all USA Water Polo sanc- tional Referees Committee. A past FINA referee, team for 20 years. Schroeder was inducted into tioned events. Cullingham has been involved with water polo the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame in 1998 and The USAWP Technical Committee will work for 30 years as a player, official and administra- was recently inducted into the International closely with the National Referee Committee tor. Swimming Hall of Fame. toward the standardization of a comprehensive Bill Frady (USA Representative, FINA TWPC, Andy Takata – Takata is a retired FINA Referee training, certification and evaluation program Chair ASUA TWPC) – Frady, a former Olympic who was selected to officiate at the 2000 Olympic while developing a plan for the improved re- and World Championship referee and member Games in Sydney, Australia. He has been active cruitment, education and retention of referees. of the U.S.