{"id":291235,"date":"2018-01-08T10:30:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T17:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=291235"},"modified":"2018-01-08T18:02:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T01:02:04","slug":"on-the-record-with-siena-water-polos-tamara-perea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/on-the-record-with-siena-water-polos-tamara-perea\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Record with Siena Water Polo\u2019s Tamara Perea"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Editor’s Note: Swimming World kicks off its coverage of the 2018 NCAA Women’s Varsity water polo. Look for interviews, conference predictions and the best coverage of the sport in America and beyond.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tamara Perea<\/strong> has taken on a big challenge: changing the culture around women\u2019s water polo at Siena College<\/a>. In their 14 seasons of play in the\u00a0Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, the Saints have never posted a winning season\u2014they went 15-15 in 2007\u2014and have qualified for the MAAC<\/a> playoffs twice: in 2008 and 2010.<\/p>\n

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Hired last August to replace Ellen Howe<\/strong>, who in 10 years went 87-212, Perea has both the experience and temperament to engineer a turnaround at Siena, a small Catholic college 13 miles outside of Albany, NY. Growing up on the periphery of the water polo-crazy culture of Southern California, she had the good fortune in high school and college to play for Alex Rodriguez<\/strong>,<\/a> one of the brightest coaches in the country.<\/p>\n

A scholarship to Pomona-Pitzer not only solidified her connection w\/ Rodriguez, who coaches both men\u2019s and women\u2019s polo at Pomona, but led to great success for both Perea and the Sagehens. In 2010, she was named the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC<\/a>) Athlete of the Year, and in both 2010 and 2011 was selected as the NCAA Division III Player of the Year. Perea was also named Pomona-Pitzer\u2019s Most Valuable Athlete both of those seasons. She graduated as the program\u2019s all-time leading scorer, while also helping the squad to two SCIAC titles, two NCAA tournaments and a Division III national championship.<\/p>\n

After a year playing professionally for La Latina in Spain, Perea joined Rodriguez\u2019s staff, first in 2012 as an assistant to the men\u2019s program, and then from 2013-16 as assistant coach to the women\u2019s team. A stint last season at Marist as assistant coach on Chris Vidale\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> staff prepared Perea for the particular circumstances of the MAAC, where the majority of schools play in shallow-deep pools.<\/p>\n

Over the New Year\u2019s holiday Swimming World<\/em> spoke with Perea about her new position, her experience playing polo in California and abroad, the challenge of recruiting for Northeastern programs, and her plans to transform Siena water polo.<\/p>\n

– How did you get started playing water polo?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was seven years old and all my cousins were playing for La Serna and Coach [John] Murphy. He brought out a peanut ball one day and asked if we wanted to play with it. I was hooked. He called my sister and me the \u201cA Team.\u201d<\/p>\n

When you experience first-hand a coach that just wants people to love the sport at whatever age and play however they want to\u2014that\u2019s a way to bring people in. I\u2019ve now been playing for 20 years.<\/p>\n

– Is it fair to say that water polo in California is unlike anywhere else in the world?<\/strong><\/p>\n

You\u2019re probably thinking Orange County, which is the center of [SoCal] water polo. Not so much inland where I was from. We had to fight for recognition out there.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like any other obscure sport in California, and we have so many. It\u2019s not like we were big time anywhere we went. We could get games whenever we needed games\u2014I always felt that was important\u2014as well as having access to so many different pools.<\/p>\n

– Was it a natural fit that you would attend at Pomona-Pitzer? <\/strong><\/p>\n

I was a fairly under recruited athlete. I was only the second person in my family to go to college; my sister Suzanne who went before me wasn\u2019t an athlete. As far as the recruiting process I didn\u2019t have a leg up on anybody. Luckily, I did know Alex\u2014he coached me at club<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n

Long story short, I didn\u2019t apply to many schools; I\u2019m not sad that I didn\u2019t. I only applied to San Diego State and [Carin Crawford<\/strong>] only offered me a walk-on [spot]. I\u2019m glad I never looked back.<\/p>\n

– What\u2019s it like to play for Alex Rodriguez?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was completely by chance that I joined his club at 15. One of the first things he ever said about me is he called me \u201ccoach.\u201d I was yelling on the sideline beside Terry Kimberling<\/strong>, the age-group coach I was playing for. I was barking out orders the same way.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s something that you don\u2019t forget, and when it becomes time to choose who you play for, you pick that person who\u2019s going to bring out the best in you. He always really has.<\/p>\n

– Playing at Pomona-Pitzer was very successful for you individually and for your team.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I went to [NCAAs] my freshman year and my junior year. Everything related to water polo\u2014I was taught this\u2014I treated as something I\u2019d never experienced before. To navigate through life using water polo. Everything I\u2019ve ever traveled for or seen the world with has been through water polo.<\/p>\n

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Perea playing for Pomona. Photo Courtesy: Pomona-Pitzer Athletics<\/p><\/div>\n

NCAAs is not something every athlete gets to experience. Playing for a DIII school, not going to those poor former MPSF teams that would never go because UCLA and USC [qualified ahead of them]. Playing DIII water polo was a conscious choice, and using that as an avenue, winning conference, that was huge. My goal is to get back there some day with my own team.<\/p>\n

– How will your experience playing as a Sagehen translate to coaching Siena?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I know what it means to grind. I know what an uphill battle feels like. And I know what the sweetest part of winning that is. It\u2019s not even the \u201cW\u201d; that\u2019s now why we do what we do. Otherwise a lot of people wouldn\u2019t venture down this road.<\/p>\n

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Siena’s shallow-deep pool<\/p><\/div>\n

If you\u2019re used to the grind you know what it takes to win, you know what it feels like to make that tournament, you know what it means to every other athlete there. Not even because you know you\u2019re not going to win a championship; that\u2019s never the case. There\u2019s always pressure\u2014which might be self-inflicted. That\u2019s something that I want to bring to Siena and the MAAC. I want everyone to know that water polo deserves to be on the East Coast.<\/p>\n

Marist and Wagner are doing a very good job at trying to compete at the highest level. Siena hasn\u2019t always been at the forefront but I believe we can reach that potential one day. I obviously want to be a part of that. And I\u2019d like that experience for any athlete that I coach.<\/p>\n

– For much of the past decade the MAAC has been dominated by two teams: Wagner and Marist. How can Siena cut in on this duet?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recruiting and showing up. I want to get into all the best tournaments. I want to show that I can compete. I want all of the girls to demonstrate skills that everybody is using. And I\u2019m not just looking at California athletes. Developing the sport around the country is the most important thing related to recruiting for the MAAC.<\/p>\n

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Terez Touhey. Photo Courtesy: Siena Athletics<\/p><\/div>\n

I see very little value to picking those name players that UCLA, Stanford and USC are recruiting. There\u2019s so much untapped talent from all over the country. St. Louis is starting clubs, Florida is picking up some speed. Chicago is a really great place. Pennsylvania is doing good things and up in the Northwest as well. There\u2019s some great players coming out of Seattle.<\/p>\n

That is what\u2019s going to get the sport going in the Northeast; given people more options to play and demonstrating the value of an education here as well as an athletic career at any of these schools. That\u2019s definitely going to happen if we keep competing\u2014and I\u2019m really excited to my name in that race [for a MAAC title] among Marist, Wagner and even Iona.<\/p>\n

– You\u2019ve had international playing experience. How do European players benefit American water polo?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I see value in the game that the Europeans play\u2014frankly any country that has its own club\u2014they bring their own experience. Academies run by their own sports federations, they\u2019ve been brought up to be that athlete and then they\u2019re hand-picked out of all the other athletes who are constantly competing against each other. That\u2019s not something that exists here.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re getting somewhat close but it\u2019s nothing like what they do. There\u2019s value in their experience, there\u2019s value in their competitive drive because they\u2019ve been taught that there\u2019s a lot more at stake in their performance. That\u2019s why they bring value to every program they\u2019re a part of and why coaches seek them out.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a win-win for everybody. It\u2019s not that an entire squad should be international but I believe that having international players is good thing for the sport at the college level.<\/p>\n

– What will change the culture for the Saints?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I start with accountability. Accountability to yourself and to each other. That\u2019s really what it boils down to.<\/p>\n

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Diana Fernandez. Photo Courtesy: Siena Athletics<\/p><\/div>\n

We have a solid mix of players from across the country. One of the most exciting things about my squad is that I have an opportunity to develop athletes who haven\u2019t really experienced that side of water polo.<\/p>\n

They work hard every day\u2014that\u2019s been a factor in every single practice that I\u2019ve coached\u2014I couldn\u2019t ask for anything more from our athletes. That gives me something to work with.<\/p>\n

Am I going to predict that we\u2019re going to win MAACs this year? Not at all. But we\u2019ve set goals where we want to get fourth or fifth this season. Fourth would obviously making the MAAC tournament\u2014which is a personal goal for mine.<\/p>\n

– You were hired in late August, after all recruiting for this season was done, so your coaching is going to be a difference maker this season.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I know what it feels like to hustle; I know what it feels like to grind for what you want.<\/p>\n

When it comes to leading by example I am forever growing as a human being. I want to demonstrate that to my athletes that we\u2019re always growing [and] we\u2019re not perfect. I also want the girls to know that we\u2019re all incomplete and have something new to learn. The biggest thing I want to convey as a coach is that I don\u2019t know everything.<\/p>\n

I talk about my experiences but I don\u2019t know what\u2019s taken hold yet. We\u2019ll see! [Laughs].<\/p>\n

– How do you forecast Siena\u2019s chances in the MAAC this season?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Clare Bryar. Photo Courtesy: Siena Athletcs<\/p><\/div>\n

That first weekend [ March 10-11] we\u2019re hosting all four teams that we want to measure ourselves against. We\u2019re playing Marist and Wagner in the same weekend and we\u2019re also playing Villanova and St. Francis, which are two games where I\u2019m hoping we will take care of business.<\/p>\n

We’re testing ourselves very early on. We can look at that two ways; very negative, as in: \u201cIf only we had more time!\u201d or\u2014and this is my plan\u2014use it as a way to test ourselves early. To actually give ourselves a chance to see where we measure up and build from there.<\/p>\n

– The Saints should have ample offense\u2014Clare Bryar, Diana Fernandez, Terez Touhey, your top three in scoring last year\u2014are all returning. It looks like defense is your team\u2019s greatest challenge this season.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m truly excited about my freshman defender, Sophia Torres<\/strong>. She\u2019s from Texas and, when I mentioned earlier where players come from that people don\u2019t think about, she\u2019s my lefty, she\u2019s long, she\u2019s tenacious and she wants to get better every single day.<\/p>\n

We recently played at St. Francis and played against Iona. Sophia took her lumps but I was really excited about her match-up with Hannah Schultz [2017 MAAC Co-Offensive Player of the Year]. That\u2019s saying quite a bit. I\u2019m excited to develop her over the course of the season.<\/p>\n

I think Sophia will be very important to our defense and what I want to do with it.<\/p>\n

– What about your goalie situation? Will junior Kennedy Joseph handle the majority of netminding duties?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m currently training two goalies. Nikki Feldtz<\/strong> is the other. She played in the field last season but was a goalie in high school. This year she asked to train as a goalie. I\u2019m more than likely to use her as a field player as well.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got a little hybrid going on, and I think Nikki and Kennedy Joseph are going to do a great job.<\/p>\n

Keeping the squad dynamic and utilizing that I have 12 athletes. If I carry two goalies only, I\u2019m rocking with four subs and that\u2019s not enough depth for anybody. Having Nikki translates into more rest for my players, different looks as far as teams.<\/p>\n

It gives me a chance to actually strategize, which is really important.<\/p>\n

– You spent a year as assistant coach with Marist\u2019s Chris Vidale. How will that experience benefit you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

You mean because I\u2019ve seen his play book? [Laughs]. I learned a lot from Chris during the time I was working for him. That was his first college head coaching position. He always brought a lot of energy, a lot of positivity. It reminded me why I like coaching. He and I vibed on so many things related to what was important to us when it came to the sport and playing ball.<\/p>\n

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Perea coaching last season at Marist. Photo Courtesy: Eric Isaacs\/UCSB<\/p><\/div>\n

[That experience] was a really solid reminder of what I really want to do, how I wanted to do it and why I loved playing. I want to bring that back to my coaching.<\/p>\n

In terms of knowing what Marists\u2019 plays are, that will be one thing. Knowing his athletes will also be helpful with match-ups. Keeping it competitive and making Marist and Wagner play their best six against my best six the whole game long instead of getting into their depth\u2014that\u2019s my ultimate goal against those two squads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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