{"id":245244,"date":"2017-03-08T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=245244"},"modified":"2017-03-19T05:11:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T12:11:11","slug":"catching-up-with-marist-water-polos-chris-vidale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/catching-up-with-marist-water-polos-chris-vidale\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up with Marist Water Polo\u2019s Chris Vidale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Vidale<\/strong> is a man on the go. When he\u2019s not at home in Rhinebeck, New York, with his wife <strong>Betsey Armstrong<\/strong>\u2014a two-time Olympic medalist (gold in 2012; silver in 2008)\u2014 and son Frankie, he\u2019s commuting to Poughkeepsie where he is the head coach for the Marist College women\u2019s water polo team. Or, he might be in California for the US Open of Water Polo tournament with the New York Athletic Club\u2019s [NYAC] women\u2019s team. You might even find him on the Greenwich YMCA pool deck on a Sunday morning, working with boys from Greenwich High School or Greenwich Aquatics, where he coached before taking the top job at Marist.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, wherever Vidale goes, water polo has something to do with it. A multi-sport athlete in high school, he got a scholarship to Iona College and caught the eye of <strong>Brian Kelly,<\/strong> men\u2019s and women\u2019s coach for the Gaels. Spending time in New Rochelle playing polo was extremely beneficial for the Apopka, Florida native. After playing four years at Iona, Vidale joined NYAC&#8217;s men\u2019s team before switching to coach their women&#8217;s squad. From 2008-2012 he also competed for Trinidad and Tobago, where his parents were born.<\/p>\n<p><em>Swimming World<\/em> caught up with the peripatetic Vidale on his regular Poughkeepsie-to-Greenwich drive, where he spoke about Northeast polo, the differences between high school boys and college women, how hungry his Marist team is and what makes American women\u2019s water polo great.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Michael Randazzo for Swimming World<\/em><\/strong><strong>: <\/strong><strong>Polo is primarily a West Coast sport. What makes Northeast water polo distinctive? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Chris Vidale:<\/em> You have Harvard, you have Princeton, you have MIT. These are coveted schools. Having those in the mix where your kids can get a great education and play water polo is great.<\/p>\n<p>The Northeast is gritty. It\u2019s brutally honest. California is a different world. It\u2019s both being laid back versus \u201cwe\u2019re here to get things done, and this is how it\u2019s going to happen.\u201d From a water polo perspective, the Northeast is a different style, different people, the athletes come from a different educational standpoint.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s cool that West Coast kids get to share their experiences with East Coast kids and that\u2019s important, but the East just brings a different variety. Out west you have Stanford being in that bubble of Harvard and Princeton, but there\u2019s also very good schools out there, like Pomona-Pitzer, all those really good DIII schools that are strong academically.<\/p>\n<p>But the Northeast just brings that in an entirely different way\u2014you have to be part of that culture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is it like to coach in Greenwich, an Eastern hotbed of polo?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greenwich is special because it has all the leaders of industry in one town and it\u2019s crazy competitive, but nice, humble and welcoming at the same time. They want the best for their kid and only their kid\u2014sometimes they\u2019ll hide it and sometimes they won\u2019t\u2014but it\u2019s clear that Greenwich is your perfect survival of the fittest place.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that <strong>Ulmis [<\/strong><strong>Iordache<\/strong>, Greenwich Aquatics coach], myself, <strong>Jamie [Wolff]<\/strong> and the other [Greenwich] coaches get to think about is water polo. We might not have all the bodies that California has because you\u2019re fighting other Northeast sports\u2014baseball, football, lacrosse.<\/p>\n<p>We have the blessing of only worrying about one sport all the time. We don\u2019t need to be doing seven jobs just to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You went from coaching boys at Greenwich High School to women at Marist. How has that transition been?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your high school boy might be a touch stronger than your college female, but as far as maturity goes they haven\u2019t hit that final growth spurt. High school boys just want to throw the ball as hard as they can at the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>When you speak with female athletes they\u2019ll take it, absorb it, try it and even after they get it, they\u2019ll ask you a million other questions. Dialogue might be broken down and over thought but they at least acknowledge your presence instead of: \u201cyellow ball, throw, net!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marist has lost to Wagner in the last three MAAC finals. How will the Red Foxes have a different outcome this season?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My team? They\u2019re hungry, they want it. We talk about it, but casually. I don\u2019t want them to think that Wagner is the only team we have to worry about. There\u2019s seven other teams out there and if you go back two years Wagner was upset by Villanova out of nowhere, and last year my team was upset by Villanova in conference play.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody at this level is pretty much the same. It comes down to who can think on their feet better and who can work under distress.<\/p>\n<p>When your heart rate\u2019s pumping, your coach is yelling or your teammates are upset, who will have the composure to do the right thing at the right time. Those are the things we talk about.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_245247\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-245247\" data-attachment-id=\"245247\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/catching-up-with-marist-water-polos-chris-vidale\/vidale\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/vidale.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"vidale\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;03\/08\/17&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: Iona Athletics&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/vidale.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/vidale.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-245247 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/vidale.jpg\" alt=\"vidale\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/vidale.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/vidale-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/vidale-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-245247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: Iona Athletics<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>This season you face Iona\u2019s Brian Kelly\u2014your former coach and mentor\u2014from the pool&#8217;s opposite side as Marist coach.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I love Iona. You always hear from the Fordham and the Brooklyn [St. Francis College] guys that you know who the Iona knuckleheads are\u2014and I love being an Iona guy. But now I\u2019m super proud to be a Red Fox.<\/p>\n<p>Brian was a huge advocate of me getting this position. Our relationship went from coach to working buddies to best friends. Brian has my back and I have his. We\u2019re both super competitive and will both walk away from whatever happens in this game with a hug and a shake.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I want to win. There\u2019s no doubt about that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How is it to bring an Olympian to Marist practices?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Betsey] is my volunteer coach. She\u2019s super busy with the baby but takes time on Wednesdays to come and work out with the goalies. That\u2019s huge from a recruiting aspect. There\u2019s not too many people who can say they had a one-on-one situation with a two-time Olympian.<\/p>\n<p>You can see when my wife comes to the pool with the baby the team is: \u201cOh my God, it\u2019s Betsey, look at her!\u201d There\u2019s a respect that they give her which she rightfully has earned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ashleigh Johnson<\/strong> is an amazing goalie but my wife still statistically has some of the best records as well as accolades that she doesn\u2019t have. I\u2019m still willing to say that my wife might be the best in the world.<\/p>\n<p>I hope none of the Greenwich kids ever took it for granted that they had the [world\u2019s] premier goalie living a mile away from their home. She\u2019d show up on a Saturday morning ready to work with them. That\u2019s like getting to learn from <strong>Michael Jordan<\/strong>. It\u2019s like a hockey player getting tips from <strong>[Henrik] Lundqvist<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>America women dominate water polo like the Serbian men\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What the European men are doing for the sport is what the American women are doing [for polo].<\/p>\n<p>In Europe, the opportunity for women to play isn\u2019t as prominent as it is for the men. To be able to come to the States is a plus, as is [getting an American] education. And you have these women who have been competing against fantastic men and you can see\u2026 [I\u2019ve watched] the Hungarian women and the way the move their shoulders when they throw the ball and they fake. They\u2019ve been training with boys, you can tell.<\/p>\n<p>The women are so successful here and the NCAA [creates] a big competition pool for women all over the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What sport will your son play?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If he plays a sport, I\u2019d want it to be water polo. If he has both of our competitive natures\u2014including my wife\u2019s determination\u2014I\u2019d want him to play basketball because Daddy wants a new car!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor. Chris Vidale is a man on the go. 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