Otago Water Polo

We can’t go with out saying a huge Thank You to Tim Chirnside for running such a great tournament for the Year 7 & 8s last weekend. All that hard work in the background (and poolside) really made the weekend great for all participants involved!

This weekend was the Year 7 & 8 South Island Water Polo Festival. Thank you to everyone who helped out this weekend!

Congratulations to all the teams involved! What a fabulous weekend of waterpolo!

Results:
1st Place: Wairarapa Cobham A 🥇
2nd Place: James Hargest College 🥈
3rd Place: Balmacewen Gold 🥉
Shield Winners (9th Place): Dunedin North Intermediate 🛡️

Tomorrows have a go skill section (for new players to water polo).

we will not be running the 4 pm session but would love to see you all at the 4.45 session

We have South Island intermediate water polo competition this weekend at Moana.

Here is the draw - try and get along and support

Year 7&8 South Islands Draw Draw Pool A,Pool B,Pool C,Pool D Cobham A,Balmacewan Gold,Cobham Mixed,James Hargest Casebrook,St Hilda's,Breens Submarines,Canterbury Combined DNI,Southland Boys,Fairfield,Taieri College Trinity,Breens Battleships,West Melton,Cobham Development Friday,14:00 - 19:30 Game,Time,White,Blue,Pool,Duty 1

Just a few short weeks left to register for the Māori Pasifika Water Polo event!!

Registration closes on Nov 30th, 2023!

The Māori Pasifika Water Polo event will be held on February 9th - 11th 2024 at Baywave Aquatic Centre Tauranga.

Keep an eye on the event page for updates:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61551368435189

Follow the link below to register!:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScN4frqMT0rl7IXADh_xW9Ltdih2-xqOAyauQkU7C8CqeJUlA/viewform?fbclid=IwAR0kfn2bDOiNhCui0BUXVkCxJNbO-GzbqYy3xvKB1BBlzv2c2JTh-i-b6s0

Maori Pasifika Water Polo

Moving from our U12s last week to our Master's this week, we are one busy club! The NZ Open Masters Championship is this weekend in Hawke's Bay, the Barbarians had two games to start off the tournament today - a tough start with a loss to the Patu Pirates but, after a year of not playing with each other, they found their feet and came away with a win against the hosts.

The lads will be getting plenty of sleep tonight with a big day tomorrow, taking on Tauranga and Marist.

Good Luck The Barbarians!!!

Congratulations to our U12 Otago Orcas!!

After winning Div 3 in 2022, we decided to give it a go in Div 2 this year and boy did we - The Orcas achieved an outstanding result of 7th place!! Such a phenomenal achievement! We are super proud of them!!

Also, want to say a special thank you to Brad Gilmour and Steve Wilsdon who went away as coach and manager and Ben van Heerden who coached this fab team throughout the year!

Wishing the best of luck to our U12 Otago Orcas who are currently competing at the U12 Olympic Hopefuls Tournament in Hamilton at the moment!! This year we have moved up to Div 2, let's go the Otago Orcas!!

These guys have a busy eight game weekend, with three games being played today. Two games were losses, and we came away with a win, keeping the opposition scoreless!

Good Luck for the remainder of the tournament Otago Orcas! We can't wait to hear all about your time at tournament once you're back!

Water Polo 'Have-A-Go' Sessions
Main Dive Pool
Sunday 29th October
4:00pm - 4:45pm & 4:45pm - 5:30pm
FREE Water Polo skill sessions for year 5 & 6 Flippaball players wanting to gain some skills and learn to play Water Polo.

Please register your interest below by filling out this form:
https://forms.office.com/r/Wbs4bsWNg3

TRAINING SCHEDULE FOR LABOUR WEEKEND 2023

Sunday 22nd October - Training still going ahead.
Monday 23rd October - No Training (public holiday).

Have a great long weekend everyone!

Back in the pool, training hard

Uniforms will be given out at tonight's training. If you can't make it please let us know and we can make a time to catch up with you

Term 4 Training starts back on Monday 9th October. See you at the pool!!!

Great start to the tournament for the under 18’s. They had the priveledge of wearing our new togs. Girls had a close first game losing 8-5 to NHWP black. The Southern boys (Otago/Southland combined) had a loss against Waikato, working strongly on playing as a team for the first time. The boys are wearing the new Otago togs and wearing Southland tops.

U16's, WOW what a tournament!!!!

After topping their pool our U16 boys went on to win their quarter final against Canterbury Black before going down to Sea Wolf White in a hard fought battle in the semis. The lads regrouped and brought everything they had to the play off for third place defeating Marist White in an epic game and walking away with the Bronze Medal.

Our U16 girls finished the tournament with come close games against North Harbour Blue and Atlantis Navy and left nothing in the pool. For many of these young ladies this is their first Nationals and they'll be back in this grade in 2024. We can't wait to see how they go.

Thanks to our coaches Nat and Flynn for all your time and effort in getting us to Nationals, to our managers and parent helpers, we couldn't have done it without you and for all the supporters and cheer squads, we dragged a few in from around NZ. Thanks NZWP we had a blast!!!

Photo credit: Steen Bech (Instagram: )

Māori Pasifika Water Polo event (supported by Tauranga Water Polo) - February 9-11 2024 at Baywave Aquatic Centre in Mount Maunganui.

Age groups:
U12, U14, U16, U18, Open

Cost to players:
$25

Player Registration Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScN4frqMT0rl7IXADh_xW9Ltdih2-xqOAyauQkU7C8CqeJUlA/viewform?fbclid=IwAR2TEOpKjM48tUX80EFhF2RSOfUbKERbmNyudjzMy3ItICcNPmLn1sFNhEQ

Follow Maori Pasifika Water Polo for updates and information!

Please contact Tauranga Water Polo with any questions.

Nga mihi nui

Well what a morning. Both teams faced off against our fellow South Islanders - Canterbury.

Our U16 girls started off the day with a game against Canterbury Black. Although they didn't quite manage the win they excelled, giving it all and almost eqaulling their highest goal count of the tournament.

The boys then hit the quarter finals also up against Canterbury Black. The battle was fierce but they came away from the game with a 3:1 win. They hit the pool at 7pm tonight for the semi final against Sea Wolf White.

GO OTAGO!!!!!

Our U16 Teams having been playing their hearts out on Day 2 of Div 2 Nationals in Auckland!!!
The boys finished day 1 on a roll with a 14:3 win against North Harbour to back it up yesterday with 10:0 win against Mountfort Toki. This takes them through at the top of Pool D to compete in the quarter finals today.
Our girls had a couple of fantastic games since our last post. Despite just going down to Marist Blue at the end of Day 1 and Waitakere yesterday they continue to play like champions and never give up.
Great work U16s, we can't wait to see how you go today!!!

Croissants - the U14 teams are selling bags of frozen croissants. 20 in a bag for $25. They will be ready in mid-October.

This fundraiser is dramatically reducing the cost of the trip for each child to get to Tauranga for Nationals.

Please comment below if you are keen to eat some yummy croissants and we will contact you

What an awesome start for our U16 teams competing in NZWP Div2 Nationals in Auckland.
Our girls started the tournament off with a pearler of a game against North Harbour White coming away with an 8:8 draw. Then the very next game our Boys backed it up with a brilliant win 9:7 over Marist White. We couldn't be more proud of them.

Stay tuned as both teams are back in the pool this evening.

Otago Water Polo welcomes Paris Sinclair to the team as our new club administrator!!! Paris has been around water polo for many years playing at school and later for our senior women's team. Paris is often around the pool so make sure you say "hi" to her when you see her pool side.

We would also like to say a huge thanks to Jenny Wagner for all her tireless work and energy in the role over the last 7 months and wish her all the best in her exciting new role at Moana Pool.

We are taking a break from training for the term 3 school holidays. Keep a look out for the term 4 training timetable over the next couple of weeks. We hope everyone has a fabulous holiday and enjoys the break! Can't wait to see you all back at the pool.

*Otago U18 Nationals teams please keep watch of your messenger groups for any plans over the holidays.*

Schools - have you got your entries in for term four water polo.
All of the entries are due in the next week or so. This includes the local flippaball, intermediate and high school and the intermediate south islands. Check your email for the closing dates.

Do you have just a few players and need to form a team? Let our pool controllers know if you have any questions or support please contact [email protected] or [email protected]

Games start week 1 and all competitions finish on the first week of December (week 8 )

Woohoo the uniform has started to arrive.... well at least the caps have!!!
Not so sure about our OWP models but our new branded swim caps sure are looking awesome!!!

We are a little worried that the ordered gear will not get here prior to u16 Nats. Please message us if you are prepared to lend gear. We are particularly after females togs and tops. Please message us and we will organise to pick up or you can give to your coach. We will have it delivered back to the day after the 16’s are back. Please make sure it is clearly named. Please message us if you have questions and we appreciate your support

Thanks for organising a fantastic day Southland Water Polo we had a blast!!!

Thank you Otago Water Polo for joining us today for an action packed day. Was fantastic to have you all here.
Congratulations to all teams, some great waterpolo was played. Good luck to everyone for their coming tournaments.

To all the supporters Thank you, was great to hear you all cheering. 📣

Massive shout out to all the referees. I can not thank you enough. Without you we would not be able to play.

Finally a huge Congratulations to Hamish McKenzie who pass his C Grade referee certificate today. Well done and much deserved 👏

SUNDAY LEAGUE - WEEK 9 - FINAL WEEK

We have come to the final week of our Sunday League. There has been a very mixed bag of results with all teams winning a few games. For the Juniors, statistically, the Octopi are the team to beat. However, this Sunday the winner takes all. Everybody is playing everybody for the last time after which we will crown a Junior winner for the 2023 season.

For the Seniors, another very mixed bag of results over the season. Quite a few forfeits with teams having to mix up a lot. However, we have had a lot of fun playing the league. Statistically, the best results have come from the Orcas closely followed by the Sharks, but it has been very close.
For the last games this term we will start with a U14 girls vs U16 girls rematch. So Orcas vs Sharks for top spot, and Penguins vs Dolphins for 3rd. Players from Seals are encouraged to come and make up the numbers and join these teams to get some game time as well.

Good luck to all the teams competing at Splash Palace tomorrow. Thanks for organising Southland Water Polo. Have a blast!!!

Otago/Southland Water Polo Tournament happening tomorrow Saturday 16th September @ Splash Palace. Get along and support our Southland teams!

Thank you Canterbury Water Polo and Southland Water Polo for travelling to Dunedin for prenationals games on the weekend. Thanks to all the players and coaches who travelled to play and the families and friends who came to support. A special thanks to Regan Taylor and our refs for running a great weekend of games.

Congratulations to the Winner of the Thermomix TM6. Thanks to everyone who supported the U16 Nationals teams and a special thankyou to Sharon Fulton for organising this fundraiser.

Slight change to the older teams training schedule tonight with the restrictions on pool space. Thanks for your patience. This will now be set for the rest of Term 3!!!

Sunday League - Week 8 draw

Please see the slightly updated schedule for this weekend’s Pre-Nationals tournament

Training as normal today.
3.30-4.30 U12, 4.30-5.30 U14, league games as per game schedule

U16 and U18 Pre Nationals tournament draw for next weekend

Sunday League, 3 September - Week 7: Draw

All of the information is out for schools to sign up for our competitions in Term 4. This requires you to sign up through Friendly Manager and you have been emailed. If you require additional information please reach out

Please contact either: [email protected] regarding intermediate or high school and for Flippa Ball at [email protected].

Our U16 teams are running a thermomix raffle fundraiser to help fund the cost of them attending nationals. They would love your support.

If you would like to buy a ticket please email Sharon Fulton at [email protected]

Due to the unexpected closure of the old dive well at Moana Pool this week our training times for the rest of Term 3 have had to change slightly as all pool users get reshuffled. Wednesday morning trainings have been cancelled and a reduction to only half the pool on Thursday afternoons means we have split the U12 and U14 age groups up and moved the training times for all age groups to suit.
Thanks for your understanding
Otago Water Polo