Archives for 2013

Thompson named as water polo NPD

March 5, 2013 by SCT

20th February 2013 British Swimming has appointed Graeme Thompson as the National Performance Director for Women’s Water Polo. Thompson brings with him vast experience in elite sport and managing programmes from grass roots to elite sport level as the former Performance Director for the Rugby Football League (RFL) and most recently as Performance Advisor with UK Sport for a variety of Olympic and Paralympic and am looking to drive British Water Polo to be competing with the best in 2016…. [Read More]

Iceni Under-16 Girls compete in first London League tournament

February 28, 2013 by SCT

Back row: Eleana Candler, Kirsty Logan, Lauren Kirby, Florence Dickin, Meg Wall-Peters
Front row: Abigail Lence, Rachael Moore, Dani Brazier, Jess Temple, Phoebe Vale

Last month the Iceni Under-16 Girls team played their first London league tournament and demonstrated the progress they have achieved in the last year. The three-way tournament against Croydon and Ealing was held on 27th January with the teams playing each other twice. Iceni finished with very creditable results, winning one game and drawing two more to finish 2nd overall.… [Read More]

Iceni women’s water polo club celebrate first senior win!

February 26, 2013 by SCT

Iceni women’s senior team are celebrating their first win after two years of competition in British Water Polo League and London League.

Iceni faced their long-standing rivals West London Penguin in a London League tournament last weekend. Penguin narrowly won their last BWPL encounter 12-9, so Iceni hopes were high.

In a tense first half, Iceni won the swim off and pressed the attack before scoring the first goal. Penguin countered and honours were even at half-time with the score 2-2. After the interval, Iceni again won the swim off and started to dominate possession. Penguin conceded several exclusions and Iceni took advantage for a 4-2 lead. With less than two minutes remaining the East Anglian side utilised their strength on the bench and put the game beyond doubt with another goal. Final score 5-2 and Iceni had their first senior victory…. [Read More]

Waterpolo videos explaining how its done from GB Men’s assistant coach

February 25, 2013 by SCT

GB men’s assistant coach Tim Kendall has a Vimeo channel where he posts clips of waterpolo and an explanation of the techniques involved. They are interesting for all players and coaches to see how the best players in the world do it! This post features some of the videos and all Tim’s videos can be seen at http://vimeo.com/user1830449/videos