Age Group News 7/18

Post date: Jul 18, 2016 7:13:30 PM

Normal Practice this week. Our final practice is this Thursday, July 21. Team t-shirts are available; see the coaching staff. The new shirts are $10. Last year’s red WCWP shirts are now $12.

Our final games for the 12&Under are this Saturday, July 23 @ Fenwick. They will play two games at 8:50am and 9:40am. These are the last two games of the summer. We really hope that ALL of our 12&Unders will attend these games!

Our final games for the 14&Unders are this Sunday, July 24 @ Stevenson High School (1 Stevenson Dr, Lincolnshire, IL 60069). We will play two games in the morning. Our first game will be at 8:50am, and our second game will be either 9:40am or 10:30am. If we win the 8:50am game, we will play at 10:30am. If we lose the 8:50am game, we will play at 9:40am. We have tied or beaten the three teams (NIPC, Lyons, St. Charles) that we may play on Sunday, so this should be a great end of the season tournament for our 14&Unders.

We are tentatively having our final scrimmage of the summer at the Oak Brook Bath and Tennis Club (800 Oak Brook Rd, Oak Brook, IL 60523) in the evening on Wednesday, July 27. Specific time and confirmation that there will be pizza served after the scrimmage will be coming soon. This event will end our summer season.

The fall season will likely start on Monday, August 22. Typically, in the fall, we practice on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday 6:00-7:30pm August through early October. For the rest of October and the beginning of November, we practice only two days a week, usually Mondays and Wednesdays 6:00-7:30pm. The season will end in early November.

We will participate in our local league again this summer as a 14&Under team and 12&Under team. If we have enough players to have a separate 14&Under boys team and 14&Under girls teams, we will do that.

Our 10&Unders will also participate in the fall, and their practice schedule will mirror the 14U and 12U dates. The typical practice time will be a little shorter though for our 10&Unders. 10&Unders will participate in games with the 12&Unders, though we will try to schedule an 11&Under or 10&Under set of games sometime this fall. We are working on growing our 10&Under team, so if you have a friend, feel free to invite them to give water polo a try.

Lastly, depending on the fall league schedule, Windy City has been invited to participate in the 6th Annual Grier Laughlin Invitational hosted by Colorado Water Polo on November 11-13 in Thornton, Colorado. November 11th is a holiday, so we probably would not need to miss any school. Our age groupers (14U and 12U) have attended this tournament in the past (2013, 2014) and had a great time playing the Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada teams. This is something that if there were interest, we’d try to have the entire thing planned in early September.

I will send out an email as we get closer, but we will have our registration and information night on Monday, August 22 in the Fenwick library fifteen minutes before our first fall practice. I will be available to answer any questions while the kids will get in the pool with the rest of our coaching staff. Feel free to spread the word about our great club and our great sport.

Thanks for a great summer!