﻿{"id":11211,"date":"2006-04-14T08:53:54","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T13:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/uncategorized\/2006\/04\/usa-water-polo-premier-league-championships-hits-los-alamitos-april-21\/"},"modified":"2014-07-26T06:30:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T13:30:19","slug":"usa-water-polo-premier-league-championships-hits-los-alamitos-april-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/usa-water-polo-premier-league-championships-hits-los-alamitos-april-21\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Water Polo Premier League Championships Hits Los Alamitos April 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ALAMITOS, California. April 13. THE top male water polo players in<br \/>\nthe country are set to showcase their talent in the final showdown of the<br \/>\n7th Annual Premier League- a high-caliber, three-month water polo tournament<br \/>\nseries at locations throughout California. The Premier League Championship<br \/>\ntournament will be held at the USA Water Polo National Training Center in<br \/>\nLos Alamitos, Calif., on April 21-23.<\/p>\n<p>The Championship tournament consists of the top six teams from the Premier<br \/>\nLeague Division I tournament. Those teams include New York Athletic Club,<br \/>\nLos Angeles Water Polo Club, Pacific Zone National Team, The Olympic Club,<br \/>\nCoastal California National Team and Long Beach Shore Aquatics. Also<br \/>\nincluded will be the top two teams from the Premier League Division II<br \/>\nChampionship, which is to be held on April 14-16 in Stockton, Calif. Each of<br \/>\nthese eight teams has made it through three months of rigorous competition<br \/>\nagainst many of the best athletes in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Over the last several months the level of competition has risen<br \/>\ndramatically,&quot; said Men&#39;s National Team Head Coach Ricardo Azevedo. &quot;I am<br \/>\nlooking forward to a very exciting and competitive Championship.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Numerous USA Water Polo National Team Athletes will participate at the<br \/>\nChampionship including the following Olympians: Brandon Brooks (Honolulu,<br \/>\nHI.\/UCLA 2004\/Los Angeles WPC), Brett Ormsby (El Cajon, Calif.\/UCLA 2006\/Los<br \/>\nAngeles WPC), Sean Nolan (Palo Alto, Calif.\/UC Berkeley 1994\/The Olympic<br \/>\nClub), Genai Kerr (San Diego, Calif.\/UC Irvine\/Shore Aquatics), Juraj<br \/>\nZatovic (Slovakia\/USC\/Shore Aquatics), Wolf Wigo (New York, N.Y.\/Stanford<br \/>\n1995\/New York AC) and Sean Kern (Honolulu, HI.\/UCLA 2002\/New York AC).<br \/>\nAdditional Olympians will be present and several others may be playing.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Premier League Championship tournament,<br \/>\ndiscounted tickets and more, please visit the EVENTS page of the USA Water<br \/>\nPolo website (www.usawaterpolo.org).<\/p>\n<p>USA Water Polo, Inc. is a non-profit corporation organized for the purpose<br \/>\nto serve as the national governing body for the sport of water polo in the<br \/>\nUnited States under the auspices of the United States Olympic Committee<br \/>\n(USOC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ALAMITOS, California. 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