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By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor<\/em><\/p>\n

BROOKLYN, NY. One of the more compelling stories of the 2016 men\u2019s varsity water polo season was Harvard\u2019s Cinderella-like run to the NCAA Men\u2019s Tournament Final Four. The Crimson, who in 35 previous years of varsity play had never qualified for the postseason, won two NCAA play-in matches, including a thrilling 16-15 overtime win over UC Davis at Cal Berkeley\u2019s Spieker Pool, with hundreds of its fans<\/a> in attendance.<\/p>\n

Harvard head men\u2019s and women\u2019s coach Ted Minnis<\/strong> followed up his men\u2019s Eastern championship by steering his women\u2019s team to a program-best #15 ranking in the national polls. He then spent his summer on the staff of U.S. National Men\u2019s Team head coach Dejan Udovicic<\/strong>, traveling with Team USA for the 2017 FINA World Water Polo Championships in Budapest, Hungary.<\/p>\n

Prior to facing St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights, Minnis\u2014now in his 8th year in Cambridge\u2014spoke about a glorious season at Harvard, his perspective on the U.S. men\u2019s team, his current Crimson squad and its prospects in the Northeast Water Polo Conference<\/a> and how a prestigious East Coast school has been the perfect fit <\/a>for a West Coast coach.
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How do you put into context all that you have experienced these past 12 months?<\/strong><\/p>\n

For me it\u2019s professionally been the best year of my life. To achieve something that I\u2019ve been chasing so long and win a championship at any level\u2014my first ever\u2014was an amazing experience with an great group of guys.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Harvard Athletics<\/p><\/div>\n

That senior class meant a lot to us getting to where we were and having success. They paved a path for the future of Harvard water polo.<\/p>\n

Going into the women\u2019s season, they had their best year ever\u2014top four [in the] conference, we beat Indiana at Indiana, a big win for us. [If] the guys don\u2019t have the year they have the women get a much bigger stage for what they did.<\/p>\n

Then to go with the Senior National Team was an experience that was amazing. I have so much respect for Dejan and his plans for the national team and Alex [Rodriguez]\u2014they do an amazing job the way they approach the game and how they prepare the team. It\u2019s something I hope to do again\u2014you never know\u2014but I made the best out of the experience that I had.<\/p>\n

You got to be on the pool deck in Budapest, watching Team USA compete against some of the world\u2019s best teams. How has that experience affected you and your coaching?<\/strong><\/p>\n

To be in a stadium with 8,000 people in a beautiful venue cheering for a sport that I love, with the national anthem playing and I\u2019m wearing USA gear\u2026 I get chills right now speaking about it. It was amazing.<\/p>\n

Coming back, I haven\u2019t change what I do, I\u2019ve changed the way I present it. A big takeaway for me was [that] I do things similarly to Dejan. It assured me that I\u2019m on the right path.<\/p>\n

The way they prepare with video and in practices and with their scouting reports\u2014that\u2019s changed the way I now prepare my teams for games.<\/p>\n

Over thirty days in Europe I got to have lots of conversations with Dejan\u2014the tips and things that he talked about how we train, the philosophy and what we should be doing, what we should focus on in training.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s changed my process in [Harvard\u2019s] training. We attached our preseason way differently then we have before.<\/p>\n

Based upon what you saw at FINA Worlds\u2014including a shocking loss to Japan<\/a>\u2014what does the future look like for the U.S. Senior Men\u2019s National Team?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have so much respect for Dejan and what his vision is for this program and for the senior team. We have the youngest team in the world. The team we had a world championships is way different than the one we had a year earlier in the Olympics. You lose Merrill [Moses]<\/strong>, Tony [Azevedo]<\/strong>, [Josh]<\/strong> Samuel<\/strong>, you lose [Bret] Bonanni<\/strong>\u2014you can go down the list of people who weren\u2019t there for world championships; younger guys got an opportunity on the biggest stage of our sport.<\/p>\n

Japan played their best game and that kid [Seiya Adachi]<\/strong> he went for seven goals. He was shooting lights out.<\/p>\n

But where is the adjustment when one player is torching your team?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When you\u2019re preparing for a team\u2014and the U.S. team prepared for Japan\u2014they can get hot. When you\u2019re on the outside looking in It\u2019s easy to ask: \u201cWhy didn\u2019t you adjust?!\u201d As a coach, I\u2019ve been in moments where we\u2019ve had a kid that\u2019s gone off and we haven\u2019t been able to adjust.<\/p>\n

It happened to us last year; Matt Payne<\/strong> [from Princeton] went off for six goals against us [a 14-13 Harvard win]. I know he can shoot the ball! I told my guys during the game that Payne\u2019s the one who\u2019s killing us. It\u2019s hard sometimes to make those adjustments in game on kids when they get hot.<\/p>\n

People need to be patience and let the process happen. It\u2019s early in the quad and we have to give this staff an opportunity to build and do their job and be successful.<\/p>\n

I believe that\u2019s going to happen in the next three years and that people are going to be really proud of the product that staff puts at the Olympics. I\u2019m excited for the future of our team.<\/p>\n

How much does last season\u2019s success impact this year\u2019s team?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t get much time because I move right into the women\u2019s season and I think that was good for me to move into another season. \u00a0I\u2019ve put a whole season between my championship and now. For me it\u2019s easy to stay in the moment because that championship seems a long time ago. I\u2019ve coached almost forty games since I lost to [USC].<\/p>\n

Bill Belichick<\/strong> said it best; after they won the Super Bowl he said: \u201cThis is great but we\u2019re five weeks behind everybody else.\u201d [Laughs]<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not the Patriots and what they\u2019ve accomplished, but for us it was talking about from day one\u2014this is a different team. Joey Colton<\/strong> isn\u2019t there anymore. Noah Harrison<\/strong> isn\u2019t there anymore. Dan Stevens<\/strong>, Victor Wrobel<\/strong>\u2014they aren\u2019t there anymore. That\u2019s four seniors that played really big for us.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Harvard Athletics<\/p><\/div>\n

I have a bunch of freshmen who have to learn how to play with a new group of guys, for a new coach, in a new system.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t talk a lot about last year. We looked at the banners, we put a thumb up at the beginning of the season and then we\u2019ve moved on.<\/p>\n

This team has not won anything. We\u2019re 8-3 [now 9-4; 1-2 NWPC], which is a good start for this group. Our focus is on the day that we\u2019re in and that moment, then moving on to the next one.<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t think about the future and if we\u2019re going to win a championship\u2014or the past and the championships we\u2019ve won. We\u2019ve got to stay in the moment for Princeton and now for St. Francis. Then we\u2019ll move on to that next moment of Iona, and that\u2019s what we\u2019ll really have to stay focused on because we haven\u2019t won anything yet.<\/p>\n

It was an amazing experience to win two NCAA games and get to the Final Four. Will that ever happen again on the East Coast? It could and I hope it does because I think we play good water polo out here. But that was the first time that a team from the East has come out in the current two-game play-in format and had to win games to get into the Final Four.<\/p>\n

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Noah Harrison, Harvard’s all-time leading goal scorer. Photo Courtesy: Harvard Athletics<\/p><\/div>\n

Your men\u2019s roster contains more underclass men (8) than upper classmen (7). How does this bode for the 2017 Harvard season?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a fun team to coach. They come ready to work every day. At times this year we\u2019ve started three freshmen.<\/p>\n

They all bring a different skill-set to the pool. Dennis [Blyashov] <\/strong>is a big-time player, he\u2019s competed internationally on the 11-man roster that was in Montenegro a year ago for Youth Worlds. At Cathedral Catholic he played for Brett Ormsby<\/strong>, who\u2019s now an assistant coach at Stanford. He\u2019s played some high-level water polo and he\u2019s fun to watch.<\/p>\n

Jackson Enright<\/strong> is just a workhorse, he\u2019s our center and he\u2019s the fastest guy on the team. Bruno Snow<\/strong> is so smart, he has such a high water polo IQ and can play anywhere in the pool.<\/p>\n

What makes me excited about this group is that\u2019s our future. What\u2019s great for them is we have a junior and senior class that\u2019s gone through these battles and made it all the way to the Final Four. They have the leadership that shows them the right way to do things and make them understand what it takes to be Harvard water polo.<\/p>\n

The sophomores and freshmen think it\u2019s easy to win championships but the juniors and seniors\u2014and my staff\u2014know it\u2019s anything but easy.<\/p>\n

To have that leadership in the pool is huge for us.<\/p>\n

Please handicap the Northeast Water Polo Conference<\/strong> this season.
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Princeton\u2019s #1 right now. They\u2019re probably the deepest team I\u2019ve seen them have in my time [East]; knowing the first couple of teams as well as their roster now.<\/p>\n

St. Francis is very young but talented, they do some good things. They cause a lot of match-up difficulties for teams with the way they run their offense.<\/p>\n

Brown is the biggest group of blue collar workers who are going to get after it. They just keep coming, and coming and coming. They are very well-coached and have no quit in them.<\/p>\n

Iona showed this weekend at home they have ability to play, whether it\u2019s shallow\/deep or not. They\u2019re causing problems for teams.<\/p>\n

MIT keeps getting better; they\u2019re enjoying success against some of the top DIII schools in the nation and they\u2019re playing DI\u2019s very tough.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t really say who\u2019s one or two or three or four; it\u2019s a group of six teams that are really good, which makes conference play a lot of fun when you have one, two, three goal games.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m excited for the push of October and to see how it goes.<\/p>\n

What kind of relationship do you look to have with your players?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is why Harvard\u2019s such a great place for me. I care about my kids more out of the pool than in the pool. I want them focused on the big picture and that\u2019s their future. We\u2019re very competitive at Harvard and I don\u2019t do this to lose, but class is always going to come first for my guys and my women.<\/p>\n

I think if you asked my players they would say that I\u2019m a players\u2019 coach because I care so much about them, but I want to hold them accountable and I\u2019m not afraid to change. I don\u2019t believe I know it all; I believe my players can bring things to me and help us as a group be better.<\/p>\n

When it comes to coaching, it\u2019s not: \u201cmy way or the highway.\u201d I would say I have more of a new age approach set than an old-school mindset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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