Marist Auckland Waterpolo

14.03.2010. 6 MARIST Boys Selected in Under 15 Boys Squad.

Congratulations to the follwoing Marist Under 15 Boys who have been selected in the New Zealand Under 15 Boys Squad. The final team will be selescted from this squad to compete in the Trans Tasman Shield series and to play in the Pan Pacs Under 16 Section competition.

Braeden Drennan
Cameron Flavell
Joshua Walden
Peter Burrell
Philip Hargraves
Tristan Sangster

14.03.2010 Coaches Training Course

‘Coaches on Tour’ is a series of coaching courses throughout New Zealand, delivered by internationally renowned coaching expert/facilitator Paul Metz and two times Olympian Eelco Uri. CVs for both Paul and Eelco can be found  in the link below.

Auckland Itinerary:
Tuesday 23 March 2010
Sacred Heart College
Classroom 6-8pm followed by pool session 8-9.30pm
(course coordinator Chris Hayward: men@waterpolo.org.nz )
Cost: $10.00

Wednesday 31 March 2010
The Millennium Institute of Health and Sport
Classroom 6-8pm followed by pool session 8.15-9.30pm
(course coordinator Sharon Geary: women@waterpolo.org.nz )
Cost $10.00

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Marist Magic Premier Men and Women play their first home games of the 2010 National Championship Sunday 14th March 2010 at Sacred Heart Aquatic Centre.

Both the Mens and Womens teams are unbeaten to date with wins to the Men over Waitakere Blue Devils 18 – 9 and the QEII Crushers 13 – 6, while the Marist Magic Women recorded wins over Waitakere Blue Devils 10 – 6 and QEII Crushers 16 – 4.

Marist Magic Women take on Harbour City Hawks in what will be the first ever defence of the Womens National League Trophy at 12.45pm while the Marist Magic Men take on Harbour City Hawks at 2.15pm.

So grab your team mates, family and friends, get your red and blues on, turn up and support your club mates. Help keep both teams undefeated and the Womens National League Trophy at Marist.

23.02.2010. MUSTER DAY
For Players born 1998 or later

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SUNDAY FEBRUARY 28th 11-12.30pm
SACRED HEART AQUATIC CENTRE - 250 West Tamaki Road

This 6-7 WEEK PROGRAMME will culminating in the BOP U12 Tournament in Tauranga April 10-12th. Players need to Registration on Sunday 28th February. If you are unable to attend and want more information then either ring 021 656286 or email men@waterpolo.org.nz

TRAINING PROGRAMME

Sunday 28th February	11-12.30pm	Sacred Heart
Sunday 7th March	11-12.30pm	Sacred Heart
Sunday 14th March	11-12.15pm	Sacred Heart	Followed by the National Womens and Mens League Matchs MARIST MAGIC versus HARBOUR CITY WGTN at 12.45pm and 2.15pm
Sunday 21st March	Time to be advised		but will be later in the day due to North Island SS Champs in the pool
Sunday 28th March	11-12.15pm	Sacred Heart
Sunday 4th April	No training		Easter Sunday
Trainings to be advised during the first week of the School Holidays
Saturday 10th April to Monday 12th April			BOP U12 Tournament in Tauranga

Costs: $110.00 per player
This fee covers registration for the Summer Programme ONLY  (late February / Early April), summer programme training, coaching costs and pool entry, cheques payable to Marist Auckland Water Polo Club

Extra Costs
Please bring registration form along to the Muster on Sunday February 28th.

08.02.2010 Center Back needs Help!

Many of our Marist family will know Grant McAneaney, either because he coached us, coached our daughter, refereed one of our games or just because he is a part of the water polo family. Grant was last year diagnosed with cancer and is currently playing a great game at center back.  But he needs a little help to keep out the opposing center forward. (he's a big sucker). Grant has started a blog koolcoach for himself, others in the same boat and for those who would just like to know how he is doing and maybe be on his team. If you want, please stop by and leave him a message. I know it will help !...... >>> more 

08.02.2010 Following email from Chief Operations Office Eelco Uri.

Date: 5 February 2010
To: Clubs & Centres
Re: National League Trophy
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Dear Clubs, As you are probably aware, NZ Water Polo will be introducing a new trophy for our National League competition – preliminary round only. There is a Shield for both the women’s and men’s competitions. Clubs/Teams will be playing for the ‘National League Shield’, which will be up for grabs in each home game of the holders. There is no limit to the number of times the Shield can change hands during the preliminary round of the League. The Club/Team that holds the Shield after their last home game of the season will be the winners of the Shield for that particular season/year. Inaugural defenders are last year’s preliminary round winners: - Marist for the women (1st home game v Harbour City on March 14th at SHC) - North Harbour for the men (1st home game tomorrow v Waitakere at MISH) When a Club/Team takes (or successfully defends) the Shield they become not only responsible for the Shield itself, they are also responsible (asked to) for ‘putting up a show/market’ the Shield. This can be through publications in media, at the venue etc. etc., but also on pool side where they either celebrate defending the Shield or hand it over in case of a defeat. Let’s make the Shield become a main trophy of which Clubs are proud off and want it!

Kind regards, Eelco

08.02.2010 Under 15 Boys born 1995 trialists.
Congratulations to the follow Marist boys who have been selected to trail for the NZ National under 15 Boys born 1995 Team. Those selected will play in the 2010 Pan Pacific Youth Water Polo Festival under 16 division and the Trans Tasman Under 15 Shield Series.

Reuban Puketapu
Braeden Drennan
Phillip Hargreaves
Peter Burrell
Cameron Flavell
Tristan Sangster

17.01.2009 Under 14 Boys - Marist Black.


Match reports for the Under 14 Boys Marist Black Team who won Bronze at the Division 2 Nationals in Hamilton December 2009. Also a link to some great action photo's. Thanks to Wendy Deadman for the report and photo's ... click here     ... photo's









28.12.2009 7 Girls selected in Under 15 Girls Trailists Team 2010

Congratulations to:
 
Tomo Greer
Charolette Bosomworth
Hannah Anderson
Chloe Scott
Jordan Milich-Misikini
Kara Harris
Ricki Ferigo

who have been selected to attend the NZ U15 Trials.


20.12.2009 Double Silver at the Under 14 Nationals Christchurch.
And Double Bronze from Under 14 Div 2 Nationals

Congratulations to both our Marist Red Boys and Marist Red Girls teams who won silver at the Under 14 Div 1 Nationals in Christchurch this past week. Silver may not have been the colour that we were chasing but Silver is still very very GOOD !!!! The club has had a bit of a lean year, but with a Pan Pacs year coming lets all enjoy the Christmas break, regroup and bring it home in the New Year.

Congratulations also to the Marist White Girls and Marist Black Boys teams who both brought home bronze from the under 14 Div 2 Nationals in Hamilton.

Link to the final days reports from our roving reporter who was poolside at the girls Div 1 tournament. RR did post these to me late Saturday night, as you'd expect of a quality journo, unfortunately I let the team down and have only just posted them. Thanks to Julian Harris alias RR, for the time and effort taken to put these together for those of us that stayed behind. The reports helped keep us in the loop and were 100 times better than the normal final score, and “we played ok” reports our darlings give us when we ring them. Best of luck to you and the family as you prepare for you move back to Australia.... click here ...photo B.lloyd

18.12.2009 latest report from our roving reporter in Christchurch. Many thanks to the roving reporter for keeping us in touch and good luck to the girls and boys as they enter finals weekend ... click here

17.12.2009 latest news from our roving reporter ... click here

16.12.2009 It's been a bit of a lean year for the club. Lets all wish our under 14 boys and girls the best to bring home some gold ware !

Following report posted from our roving reporter at the girls pool. .... click here

11.10.2009 Double bronze fell the way of the Marist Red teams at the Under 16 Division 1 Nationals in Wellington. The girls grabbed the bronze medal against Tauranga taking command of the game in the first quarter to lead 4-1 at half time. Despite Tauranga making a comeback the girls held on to win 6-4 - a great effort after losing to Tauranga twice during the season. Rachel Burns won an outstanding player award and coach Rosemary David's butterflies went by the end of full time!! And the boys so devastated by the previous nights loss in the dying seconds of the semi finals didnt allow a repeat of that as they went charging out against Hutt to open up a comfortable lead early in the game and eased away to win 11-4 and take the bronze medal. Matt lewis took an outstanding player award for the boys competition. The Marist Blue girls played against Rotorua in the plate section final losing to Rotorua for the second time in the competition whilst the Marist Blue boys tied for 7th overall with Waikato drawing todays play off game 9 all - which meant that Marist had two boys teams in the top 8 of the Championship. So its up to the Under 14s to get that elusive goal medal in 2009 when their Championships are held in December....C Hayward   ... click on image for a larger view photo S Atoni

04.10.2009 Congratulations to the Marist Sharks who won Bronze medals at the U12 Olympic Hopefuls tournament. Marist Marlins also played well going very close in their quarter final and 3rd / 4th play offs. Marist Dolphins played well in the A grade and improved throughout the tournament. … more

Congratulations to Jimmy Boyce of the Marist Sharks who was named in the tournament team.

04.10.2009 Congratulations to the Marist Under 16 Girls White team who have added the National Division 2 silver medal to the NRL gold medal they won last month. Marist White lost in the final 1 – 9 to Otago. Congratulations also to Ashley Flavell, who picked up a Most Promising Player award. ... more

Marist White Boys finished 5th equal also at the Under 16 National Division 2 tournament after a 3 – 3 draw, against Palmerston North Boys’ High School.

01.10.2009 Marist Red Under 18 Women clung on for the bronze medal against a resilient Waitakere team winning the match 3-2. The U18 womens team had been beaten by North Harbour the previous night in the semi final - their first loss to North Harbour all year. What a pity it happened at Nationals. QE11 went on to retain the title and #1 ranking. The Marist Blue team got pipped in the elimination match for 9-11th play off 4-3 by the Northern Districts team The Under 18 Mens Red team - many of whom will be returning next year and the following year finished on a high note beating Harbour City to take 5th placing for the second year in a row after being knocked out of the medal round by Tauranga - who have had two close one goal games with Marist this season. The Under 18 Blue team showed grit to win the battle of the B teams beating Hutt B for 7th placing in the tournament having earlier beaten Waitakere B and Maranui.

21.09.2009 Marist this weekend took out 4 of the 6 Northern Regional Water Polo titles on offer winning the Under 16 boys and girls Division 2 finals and also capturing the Under 18 Womens title and the Under 16 Boys Division 1 title. The Under 16 Division 2 girls took gold and silver in an all Marist final that saw Marist White beat Marist Black. And the Under 16 Girls Red team took out the bronze medal in the Under 16 Girls Division 1 play offs. The Under 18 Womens final was a nerve-racking affair against North Harbour with the scores locked at 3all before Marist Red took the winning goal in extra time to take the title 4-3 . Marist Blue came in 4th losing to Waitakere in the bronze medal match. The Under 16 Boys Red team took the Division 1 title beating North Harbour A 8-4 in the final after getting off to a flying start at 4-0 up. And Marist Blue pushed Waitakere Gold hard for the bronze medal before going down 4-6 to the West Aucklanders. The depth with the Under 16 section of the club was evident with both Under 16 Division 2 titles going Marist's way. The U16 Boys White team beat North Harbour C in overtime whilst the U16 Girls White team came from behind to beat the Marist Black team in the U16 Girls Division 2 final. A great day for these girls!!. ...C.Hayward

Insert photo Girls Div 2 Winners Marist White ... photo G. Janssen

01.10.2009 Please Note that this High performance programme is for current (2009) National Players or any Marist Senior Mens or Womens players. That is those "NZ Men and Women who played at the 2009 World League, Junior Men or Womens team that played at the 2009 World Champs or NZ schoolboys and schoolgirls players selected for the Test Series in December 2009. Some National U16 age grade players maybe considered-but space for these athletes is not guaranteed."

21.09.2009 With the U16 National Championships from 7th – 10th October the season for most competitive club teams will be over. Only the U14 club programme will still be actively preparing for their Nationals in December.

However, numerous players will represent New Zealand at various occasions towards the end of the year. To keep (or get) them in shape the Water Polo Institute are looking at introducing a 9 week training program that commences from October 12th until December 18th providing 6.5 hours per week of quality training under the supervision of Head Coach Kurt Goldsworthy and various Senior players to the participants. The programme is also open to Marist players that wish to prepare for the 2010 and National League. .... more info

19.09.2009. Best of luck to our under 18, under 16 men and women who will be competing this Saturday and Sunday in the Northern Regional Finals.

Saturday sees Marist Red compete with North Harbour A, Tauranga and Waitakere Gold, in the under 16 Girls Div 1 finals at Sacred Heart Aquatic Centre starting at 2.00pm while Marist White will compete with North Harbour C, Tauranga B, and Mountford Park in the Div 2 Boys play offs starting at 11.20am

On Sunday Marist White and Marist Black play off against Mountford Park B and Waitakere Aqua for the under 16 Girls Div 2 finals while Marist Red and Marist Blue will play off against North Harbour A and Waitakere for the Under 16 Boys North Regional League Title. All games at Sacred Heart Aquatic Centre beginning at 10.50am.

Also on Sunday Marist Red and Marist Blue will compete with North Harbour A and Waitakere for the under 18 Girls Northern Regional Title at the Millenium, games starting at 11.40am. Please get out and support our teams. Follow the links below for full draws.

U18 Women     U16 Boys Div1     U16 Girls Div1     U16 Girls Div2     U16 Boys Div2

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