Wellington Water Polo

Another great season completed - congrats to all the 18 senior secondary school teams and thanks to all the organizers at WWP, CSW and the schools.

We're looking forward to the first round of College Sport Wellington's senior secondary water polo competition tomorrow night. We run the games for CSW and we can't wait to see the teams in the pool. Bring it on!

The Wellington junior secondary school competition started last night at WRAC and Huia Pool. Good luck to all the players in the water, and thanks to all the coaches, managers, refs and pool controllers that helped make it happen. We’re looking forward to a competitive 6-week season, run with our partners at College Sport Wellington.

The photo is of the St Pat’s Town team warming up at WRAC.

Friday Night Mini Polo Draw & Information:

As part of being able to run this competition in Level 2 there are a number of things that we have introduced that will be different from Level 2 Mini Polo in the past to make sure that we do the right things to keep everyone safe.

These are outlined below:

1. We are not able to have spectators poolside to limit the amount of people in the facility for adequate spacing Each team will be able to have up to 2 people poolside (Coach and manager) at the games. Parents will need to drop their children off and pick them up from the entrance.

2. There will be no recreational swimming area set up as in the past, children will play their game and then will need to leave the facility to comply with the rules of Level 2.

3. Where possible children need to come changed and ready to play as the changing rooms are shared with other user groups. This will mean we can adequately manage the bubbles. If children are needing to change after their matches they will then proceed to the spray changing rooms to change and meet their parents for pick up at the entrance of the pool. Where possible it would be good if kids can leave the facility without changing.

4. We will have designated meeting areas for the teams playing at each half hour game time. Teams need to meet in the gallery section upstairs 10 minutes before the games commence.

If you are the white caps in the C grade you will sit your team in Gallery 4 at the bottom of the stands.

If you are the blue caps in the C grade you will sit your team in Gallery 4 at the top of the stands

If you are the white caps in the A/B grade you will sit your team in Gallery 5 at the bottom of the stands

If you are the blue caps in the A/B grade you will sit your team in Gallery 5 at the back of the stands.

The pool controller will come to the stairs and call your teams down to get their caps on and get ready for the games to try and have as much space poolside and minimal movement between bubbles.

5. Your team will come down with their gear and put it in your designated areas of which there will be signs up:

White caps for the C grade will put their gear in Area 1
Blue caps for the C Grade will put their gear in Area 2
White Caps for the A/B grade will put their gear in Area 3
Blue caps for the A/B grade will put their gear in Area 4.
6. If you have players that are playing between teams I have worked out the draw so that teams from the same school are playing directly after each other to make sure that children don't have to wait between games as we have no designated areas for this. They will meet their team at the end of the game at the gear station where the next team is dropping their gear too.

We want to make sure that we are able to run this competition so it's really important that teams adhere to the rules in order for this to happen.
We have the safety of the kids in mind & have gone to a lot of work with the pool to make sure we can play.

Draw for This coming Friday:

Please note that there are a couple of teams that have a double round of games - Please do check both pools if you are highlighted blue teams as we do have some double rounds.
We are going to try 25 mins game slots so that we are able to have all of the teams play without missing a game.
The first two weeks are grading games so that we can make sure that teams are playing in the right grade and there could be some movement after this week's games

Registrations are now open for our

Intermediate Wellington Water Polo Competition T4, 2021 - Team Registration Form
LEAGUE LOCATION:
WRAC (Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre)

INFO:
We have three grades of Water Polo in Term 4. We are offering half court competition for the B and C grades with the A grade playing in a full pool game with ejections. Games are 2 x 10 minute halves and a half time break.
Please note A grade is played in full pool.
This is open to players within your school from Years 4-8.

LEAGUE DATES:

Monday afternoons with games between 4-7.30pm
(League Dates Monday 1st November - Monday 13th December 2021)

COST
$265.00

ENTRY CLOSING DATE:
Friday 1st October

PLEASE NOTE:
Once entries have been accepted an invoice will be emailed and payment in full is required prior to the commencement of the Competition.

ANY WITHDRAWALS AFTER CONFIRMATIONS ARE SENT OUT WILL AUTOMATICALLY FORFEIT THEIR ENTRY FEE.

If you have any alterations after submitting through this online form please email these to:
[email protected]

Wellington Water Polo Primary & Intermediate Schools Competition Entry Form Intermediate Wellington Competition T4, 2021 - Team Registration Form LEAGUE LOCATION: WRAC (Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre) INFO: We have three grades of Water Polo in Term 4. We are offering half court competition for the B and C grades with the A grade playing in a full pool game with ejectio...

Registrations are now open for our Term 4 Mini Polo league.

Intermediate Wellington Competition T4, 2021 - Team Registration Form
LEAGUE LOCATION:
WRAC (Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre)

INFO:
We have three grades of Mini Polo in Term 4 - A, B and C grades. Games are 2 x 10 minute halves and a half time break.
The first 1-2 weeks will be grading games to make sure that teams are playing at their appropriate levels.

This is open to players within your school from Years 3-6.

LEAGUE DATES:

Friday afternoons with games between 4-7.00pm
(League Dates Friday 22nd October - Friday 10th December 2021)

COST
$210.00

ENTRY CLOSING DATE:
Friday 1st October

PLEASE NOTE:
Once entries have been accepted an invoice will be emailed and payment in full is required prior to the commencement of the Competition.

ANY WITHDRAWALS AFTER CONFIRMATIONS ARE SENT OUT WILL AUTOMATICALLY FORFEIT THEIR ENTRY FEE.

If you have any alterations after submitting through this online form please email these to:
[email protected]

Wellington Water Polo Mini Polo Competition Registration Form Intermediate Wellington Competition T4, 2021 - Team Registration Form LEAGUE LOCATION: WRAC (Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre) INFO: We have three grades of Mini Polo in Term 4 - A, B and C grades. Games are 2 x 10 minute halves and a half time break. The first 1-2 weeks will be grading games to m...

This chat is with Sami Hill who was one of the two olympic goalkeepers in Rio. Interesting chat about training just to train and how hard it was to break into the team. Flipping the switch of your mindset.

Sami Hill Chat Shared with Dropbox

Hi Guys - You might have seen that there has been some question and answer sessions with some of the best players in the world in the last week with Olly Gibb. He has very kindly sent me the links so that if you missed them you are able to watch them for yourselves.
Today's link is MaKenzie Fischer who has won three world championships with The USA Team and an Olympic Gold Medal. She has won pretty much everything there is to win in the world.
Check it out!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gi1wzexu5nudhdw/Makenzie%20Fischer.mp4?dl=0&fbclid=IwAR1_awz-PeCWIFHV45XmGZD4fwA3G0uAAng4ayWtCU9TUoVESH34SdiT9AA

Episode 2 from the Latest Inside the Game series for NZWP.

YouTube

This is a pretty interesting video segment regarding the impact of COVID-19 on Water polo in NZ including national teams.

NZWP - Inside the Game Episode One Mark Watson talks to CEO, Chris Wilson and High-Performance Manager, Kurt Goldsworthy on the impacts of COVID-19 on Water Polo in New Zealand.