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I am both interested and amazed by it. I can't imagine treading water for so long, and amazed by seeing how high the players can jump with nothing to stand on.

That's so cool you play keep! I play one on a Comp. Soccer team, but I can imagine that that probably seems childish compared to how much more talent/skill/work it must take for a Polo keeer.

Kudos to you for trying for a more professional basis!

I love water polo! I played for 7 years

thanks snow. I played a little soccer as well as keeper (was terrible at it by comparison to some other kids) but my height and reach & of course far better reflexes than back when I was 6 give me somewhat of an advantage in water-polo. & I'm a pretty natural swimmer so I took to the sport quickly.

Ali where'd you play it?

I played on high school and college club teams

only been playing for two years on a school team in a college comp (since yr11) so we got owned regularly

Yeah. My first season in high school we didnt win a single game, but it was also the first season for the team too

My first season of water-polo was the teams second season, we won our first game then. I missed the first season because I had a detention when sign ups were on.

(the team we actually beat was the third school team of the amalgamated private boy&girls boarding schools)

Yeah. We almost beat a guys team and my team was all girls our first season.

the uni facilities are pretty dodgy and their numbers are pretty low so
A)we play in a regular pool so I can touch at both ends
B)mixed teams
C)there has to be 3 boys & 3 girls on both teams at once
D)girl goals are worth 2

That is weird with the girls goals being worth more. My high school pool was shallow at one end. At my unversity we would alternate between a dive tank that wasnt long enough and a lap pool that was deep enough

the local uni where we play isn't deep enough and we lack a diving tank. The girl goals rule's generally the only reason we were competitive, our girl shooters were awesome & I'd stop anything most any other girl in the comp could throw

How do you like being the goalie?

I'm not quite fit enough for out in the pool for any more than a couple of minutes and after finding that I'm actually rather good at it (because of me our team will lose by about five rather than 15) so I enjoy it quite alot.

I'm guessing you play regularly out in the pool?

I was the defensive hole set when I used to play

aha a competition with positional play

We didn't have that. Not having any subs most games didn't help us either. By the end most of us are dead in the water (pun intended)

lol I know how that goes. We had a tournament where one game we had no subs and the other games we had one sub. I had to play 3 games with a broken right middle finger and didnt even have any proper tape. I would usually play most of the game still since I had the endurance to from being a distance swimmer

in conclusion than
water-polo+no subs=COMPLETELY wasted

I basically have to play the full game because no one else on the team can keep worth a damn, thankfully I could reach the bottom on both sides so I only got wasted when we got flogged, me having to dive eighteen different direction per quarter to stop the scoreboard from getting VERY VERY ugly

Yeah I am sure that would be tiring. We usually didnt have any decent back up goalies when I played