﻿{"id":290982,"date":"2018-01-05T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=290982"},"modified":"2018-01-05T07:54:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T14:54:09","slug":"ashleigh-johnson-arrives-in-catania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ashleigh-johnson-arrives-in-catania\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Polo Notes from Italy: Ashleigh Johnson Arrives in Catania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: The following submission is from an Italian journalist eager to inform American audiences about the excitement surrounding Ashleigh Johnson\u2019s arrival in Catania, Italy to join the women\u2019s water polo club at the Orizzonte Catania Sports Association. The club competes in the <span class=\"notranslate\">Serie A1<\/span>, the top professional women&#8217;s league in Italy.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One cultural note: the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Befana\" target=\"_blank\">Befana<\/a> is <\/em><em>an old woman who delivers gifts to children throughout Italy on the eve of the Catholic Feast of the\u00a0Epiphany on January 6th. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The ambition of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AS_Orizzonte_Catania\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>AS<\/strong> <strong>Orizzonte Catania <\/strong><\/a>\u2014 \u201cdell&#8217;Orizzonte\u201d \u2014 is to return to the &#8220;Horizon.&#8221; The hope is that the arrival of <strong>Ashleigh Johnson<\/strong> will defend the goal posts of the most successful club in Italy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"291027\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ashleigh-johnson-arrives-in-catania\/as_orizzonte\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AS_Orizzonte.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"246,205\" 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;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"AS_Orizzonte\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;AS_Orizzonte&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy:&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AS_Orizzonte.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AS_Orizzonte.jpg\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-291027\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AS_Orizzonte.jpg\" alt=\"AS_Orizzonte\" width=\"140\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AS_Orizzonte.jpg 246w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AS_Orizzonte-245x205.jpg 245w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AS_Orizzonte-240x200.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which is a point of great strength, just like when the club in Catania laid down the law in the 1990\u2019s: Italian titles from 1991 to 2005 always and only with <strong>Christiana Conti <\/strong>to defend the door. And no doubt it is a major purchase; necessary to even hope to achieve success in Europe.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_291026\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-291026\" data-attachment-id=\"291026\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ashleigh-johnson-arrives-in-catania\/conti_jan17\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/conti_JAN17.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"530,370\" 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;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"conti_JAN17\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;conti_JAN17&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy:&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/conti_JAN17.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/conti_JAN17.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-291026\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/conti_JAN17.jpg\" alt=\"conti_JAN17\" width=\"400\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/conti_JAN17.jpg 530w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/conti_JAN17-280x195.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-291026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christiana Conti. Photo Courtesy: Orizzonte Catania Sports Association<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ashleigh is expected in Catania with the &#8220;Befana&#8221;, on January 5, but will not play until the first day of the championship of the season, with the Euro League debut on January 19. While the championship regulation provides that foreign athletes can &#8220;change&#8221; only at the beginning of the second round, she will be able to play right away having not played for other clubs.<\/p>\n<p>Her guided training on the bench by [head coach] <strong>Martina Miceli<\/strong> will be until February 17, with only the young <strong>Flavia Schillaci<\/strong> as goalkeeper since Australian <strong>Gabriela Palm<\/strong>, as agreed, has returned to her homeland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Johnson] is a great athlete,\u201d said <strong>Tania Di Mario<\/strong>, team\u00a0manager of the Catania club. \u201cBut we must not give her all this responsibility, although the team will be better with her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope that everything goes in the best possible way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So for a month she will train with her friends before her official debut in the league.<\/p>\n<p>After the break, the star of her national team \u2014 number &#8220;1&#8221; with the Olympic gold around her neck \u2014 Ashleigh will get back in the pool with her new companions.<\/p>\n<p><em>With reporting by Michael Randazzo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s Note: The following submission is from an Italian journalist eager to inform American audiences about the excitement surrounding Ashleigh Johnson\u2019s arrival in Catania, Italy to join the women\u2019s water<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4875,"featured_media":291025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[39795,65392,65394,65391,65393,65395,65404,65396,16852,60192,65390,65389,16849],"class_list":["post-290982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-water-polo","tag-ashleigh-johnson","tag-befana","tag-catania","tag-christiana-conti","tag-dellorizzonte","tag-flavia-schillaci","tag-francesco-grillone","tag-gabriela-palm","tag-martina-miceli","tag-michael-randazzo","tag-orizzonte-catania-sports-association","tag-serie-a1","tag-tania-di-mario"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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