Water Polo Banquet

Tyaan's water polo banquet was on December 11th, 2009. Her coach mentioned how hard she works and that she's an important part of the team. He also said he was looking forward to see how well she does in swim season. There was a nice dinner and they gave out awards.

Here is Ty with her head coach, Jackson


And here she is with the assistant coach Jody.

Water Polo Tournament

Sep 25-26th, 2009 Tyaan had a water polo tournament at her school. She hadn't been able to play since December of 2008 because of her injury so she was ready to get in the water. She worked really hard, practicing with her team all summer getting ready for season.


She didn't get a lot of playing time this year because she is a freshman. Here she is sitting with her team, ready to go in.

Waterpolo Picture 2009

Tyaan took waterpolo pictures on Jan 26th. Her friend took this while the photographer was getting Ty's individual so this is about what it will look like.

This is another picture she took that I thought was cute.



Too bad she isn't playing. Since then she's quit going altogether. She decided that if she wants to do as well as she was planning during swim season she needed to concentrate on healing and getting her endurance level back up. She hasn't been in the water since before Christmas break which is, by far, the longest she's ever gone without getting a workout in just about every day. The good thing is she feels that running cross country this year really helped get her endurance level up and thinks that will help her a lot once she's back in the pool for swim.

Waterpolo vs Alta Loma

We played Alta Loma on 12/15. Alta Loma has a really good program and therefore a really good team. They outnumbered our girls at least 2 to 1 and he changed them around regularly. Needless to say it wasn't a fun game to watch. I don't know what the final score was (thankfully the scoreboard wasn't working) but I think we had 4 and they had a lot. Tyaan was playing point again and the girls she was playing against on the other team were really really good. One girl in particular was an excellent player and it was obvious she had a lot of experience in that position. Tyaan played well, but was struggling. She was pushing as hard as she could and trying to turn the girl to get past her but you could see the effort. In both of their previous games nobody even came close to taking the ball from Ty and she could turn them and get around them relatively easily, but in this game the ball got taken from her a few times. She did manage to get around her a couple times but she was exhausted by the end of the game. She scored 1 goal and assisted on at least 2 others. She had 1 ejection because the girl did a good job at swimming underneath her to get the call.

Tyaan was frustrated afterwards, but she did really well considering she was playing a new position against a team that obviously has a lot of strength and experience. I'm glad they got to play them because I think they all needed the pressure and hopefully the team will have learned from it and be better prepared when they play teams from their own league.

One more pre-league game on Friday and then she has a few weeks off for Christmas break (from games anyway - I'm sure there will be practice most days) and then the league games begin and we'll see how they do!

Waterpolo Season is Here!

Waterpolo season has officially begun! Tyaan had 2 games so far and is playing exceptionally well. She's running the pool which is really fun for me to watch. She handles the ball well, is strong enough to pressure the other team without getting pushed around herself. She is one of the captains and her coach has put her in point because she handles the ball and the other players better than anyone else on the team. It's not the funnest position to watch her play, but she plays it well and gets to handle the ball on every play. She is passing the ball really well, which isn't easy to do in this game, and is shooting great. She's also playing really smart and in one game got 2 penalties called on their goalie and got 5 meters, which is a penalty shot. She made the first one and almost made the last one.

Lining up for their game against Webb on 12/2

To begin a game, and each quarter, there is a sprint for the ball. Tyaan is usually the one to sprint because she swims so quickly. This is her getting ready for the sprint. (She's #3 this year)


Unfortunately they don't have a lot of experience on the team this year so they lost both games, but the playing time is helping the new girls so hopefully by the time league starts in January they will be playing well enough to do good in league.