I know this is a water polo site but we do like to throw caution to the parents and people involved in water polo.  Just a reminder that the sports are supposed to be fun for kids.  In this case, a bunch of 9 year old kids are throwing hay-makers on the ice and then the parents start fighting too.  TERRIBLE

Youth Hockey Brawl 

This is an amazing story.  While our news wire, has typically football, basketball, and baseball players causing trouble in the community–Hungary where water polo is king has water polo players behaving badly.  It seems Zoltan Kosz , a member of the Hungarian Olympic water polo team that won gold in Sydney,and his boy Zsolt Petovary got drunk, pulled over, and breathalyzed.  That seemed to piss off Petovary who decided to beat the crap out of the officer.  Nice work fellas..thanks

Hungarian water polo players assault police officer 

Toronto Sun reporting Waneek Horn Miller is back to try to make another run on the Olympic water polo team….plus an exclusive article on the monthly pay for Canadian Olympic athletes.

TorontoSun Sports 

Semifinal One (3:00 PM Saturday)
The University of Southern California (18-2) will play Loyola Marymount University (13-15).

Semifinal Two (5:00 PM Saturday)

U.S. Naval Academy (29-5) versus the University of California, Berkeley (26-4).

Sunday:

The third-place game will be played at 3:00 p.m. Eastern time December 2 with the championship game at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time. The national championship match will be televised live on CSTV.

Conferences receiving automatic qualification included the:

• Collegiate Water Polo Association
• Mountain Pacific Sports Federation
• Western Water Polo Association.
• The remaining team was selected at-large without geographical restrictions.

NCAA Championship History:

• 1969 UCLA 5, California 2
• 1970 UC Irvine 7, UCLA 6 (triple-overtime)
• 1971 UCLA 5, San Jose State 3
• 1972 UCLA 10, UC Irvine 5
• 1973 California 8, UC Irvine 4
• 1974 California 7, UC Irvine 6
• 1975 California 9, UC Irvine 8
• 1976 Stanford 13, UCLA 12
• 1977 California 8, UC Irvine 6
• 1978 Stanford 7, California 6 (triple-overtime)
• 1979 UC Santa Barbara 11, UCLA 3
• 1980 Stanford 8, California 6
• 1981 Stanford 17, Long Beach State 6
• 1982 UC Irvine 7, Stanford 4
• 1983 California 10, Southern California 7
• 1984 California 9, Stanford 8
• 1985 Stanford 12, UC Irvine 11 (double-overtime)
• 1986 Stanford 9, California 6
• 1987 California 9, Southern California 8 (overtime)
• 1988 California 14, UCLA 11
• 1989 UC Irvine 9-8 California
• 1990 California 8, Stanford 7
• 1991 California 7, UCLA 6
• 1992 California 12, Stanford 11 (triple-overtime)
• 1993 Stanford 11, Southern California 9
• 1994 Stanford 14, Southern California 10
• 1995 UCLA 10, California 8
• 1996 UCLA 8, Southern California 7
• 1997 Pepperdine 8, Southern California 7 (double-overtime)
• 1998 Southern California 9, Stanford 8 (double-overtime)
• 1999 UCLA 6, Stanford 5
• 2000 UCLA 11, UC San Diego 2
• 2001 Stanford 8, UCLA 5
• 2002 Stanford 7, California 6
• 2003 Southern California 9, Stanford 7 (double-overtime)
• 2004 UCLA 10, Stanford 9 (overtime)
• 2005 Southern California 3, Stanford 2
• 2006 California 7, Southern California 6

San Diego State women’s water polo head coach Carin Crawford added three more National letters of intent on Wednesday:

• Alana Burgess (Coronado, Calif.)
• Leanne Ford (Upland, Calif.)
• Hilary Whelan (Clovis, Calif.)

Crawford:

These three athletes will help to ensure that future Aztec water polo teams are as successful as they have been in the past. This signing class is one of the strongest and deepest that we have had in years, and we look forward to welcoming these student-athletes to San Diego State.

goaztecs.com: Aztec Water Polo Inks Three More for 2009 Season

Read press release here

MPSF has announced it’s men’s water polo honors for 2007

Tim Hutten from UC Irvine was named player of the year

First Team:

Student-Athlete Cap Year Position School Hometown/Last or High School