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

San Jose, CA. Given the scale of the 2018 USA Water Polo Junior Olympics<\/a>\u2014with hundreds of teams and literally thousands of games\u2014it\u2019s perhaps comforting to scale down the event to the level of a local club and its coach; in this case Matt Swanson<\/strong> and Sleepy Hollow Aquatics<\/a>\u2014otherwise known as SHAQ.<\/p>\n

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Launched in 2007 by Swanson, head water polo coach at Sir Francis Drake High School<\/a>, and Mark Anderson<\/strong> who coached water polo at Drake as well as swimming at Sleepy Hollow Swim Team, SHAQ is a regular attendee at JOs whose resume includes an epic match of Vanguard Water Polo Club<\/a> in the 2014 14U Platinum title match. This year, the club\u2014based out of San Anselmo, CA\u2014is sending six boys’ and six girls’ teams to JOs.<\/p>\n

Swanson, a San Diego native who helped backstop UCLA to back-to-back NCAA titles in 1995-96, spoke with Swimming World<\/em> after his team\u2019s final meeting with 11 high school graduates who will move on to college competition in the fall, with all of them landing with an NCAA varsity program.<\/p>\n

– How did you end up coaching at SHAQ?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I played at UCLA as a goalie under Guy Baker<\/strong><\/a>. The nice thing about goalie is\u2014 because you\u2019re not always involved in the action\u2014you get to see how the game develops and how it looks from a coach\u2019s perspective. That gave me a good education into the X\u2019s and O\u2019s of the game.<\/p>\n

I knew I wanted to teach; I didn\u2019t necessarily know I wanted to coach. After I graduated I got my teaching credentials, and the first job I got was as a coach at a high school in Marin County. I started coaching and fell in love with it. I realized I wasn\u2019t going to end up as a teacher but would be involved with the sport any way possible.<\/p>\n

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SHAQ’s Emerson Sullivan. Photo Courtesy: Cathryn Hayne<\/p><\/div>\n

I\u2019ve been at the same high school for 20 years and stared the club a little over 10 years ago, once we realized we needed to be going year-round. We had a new pool built at our high school that made it possible.<\/p>\n

Mark and I have been coaching together for 20 years. We\u2019re partners in the endeavor; we see each other every day on the pool deck and we\u2019re best friends. He and I have built the club up together.<\/p>\n

– How important is it for your club to show strongly with JOs in SHAQ\u2019s backyard?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s five or six Bay Area clubs\u2014Stanford Water Polo<\/a> included; they have a huge club down here. There\u2019s a couple of clubs in the East Bay; 680<\/a>, Lamorinda<\/a>, CC United<\/a> who are all major powers. So ours are the top five clubs, and we all share the burden of being NorCal representatives and trying to come out on top for our region.<\/p>\n

We all push for each other\u2014especially when JOs are down south\u2014meanwhile we beat the crap out of each other [back home]. In the 16U we played Stanford in the 2016 JO final at Stanford, so that was a great experience.<\/p>\n

We have a lot of great competition up in the Bay Area. We\u2019re by no means the top club in the Bay Area but we\u2019re able to hand with the other top clubs and we take turns being Number 1.<\/p>\n

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Sir Francis Drake seniors wearing their college colors. Photo Courtesy: Nate Severin<\/p><\/div>\n

– You and Coach Anderson have obviously done a great job recruiting top talent from your region.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We just had our last meeting with our seniors. It was a very emotional. We\u2019ve been coaching these kids since\u2026 Mark\u2019s taught them all how to swim, they’ve been playing water polo with us since they were nine. After [Wednesday\u2019s] this is the last game they\u2019ll ever play together and they\u2019ve accomplished incredible things together, coming from a small community like we do.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s 11 of them and we\u2019ve got three going to Stanford, one gong to UCLA, one<\/a> going to John\u2019s Hopkins, one going to George Washington, one going to USC, one going to Santa Barbara, one going to UoP and one going to Pepperdine. They\u2019re an incredible group of athletes that have grown up together. I\u2019ve seen them every day for the last eight years\u2026 and today we said goodbye to them.<\/p>\n

This is a new chapter in all of our lives\u2026 this group has accomplished more than we could ever thought possible.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s fun to have those groups but it\u2019s sad to see them go.<\/p>\n

– Every year JOs (apparently) gets bigger\u2014yet it remains a great platform for learning and an opportunity to see and be seen.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s part of the fun\u2014playing teams from Oregon, Greenwich and Utah\u2014it\u2019s really cool to see kids from all over the country. We\u2019re from a small neighborhood just up north of San Francisco, so nobody knows where we\u2019re from.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s great to meet all those teams before the tournament. The Viper Pigeons from Houston came and practiced with us before JOs, and a team from St. Louis came out as well. A lot of people playing water polo from all over.<\/p>\n

It’s a huge undertaking and I can\u2019t imagine the planning that goes into it as it bounces back and forth between Northern and Southern California. It’s a testament to USA Water Polo<\/a> and its attention to detail\u2014the referees, all the game sites. Where do you even start something like this with all the pool times and the schedules?<\/p>\n

I give USA Water Polo credit for making it go off without a hitch.<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s Note: Swimming World is on the ground all week with stories and quotes from the 2018 USA Water Polo National Junior Olympics. Look for our coverage of the largest youth water polo tournament in the world. If you want to tune into all the action at Stanford\u2019s Avery Aquatics Center, check out FloSwimming\u2019s\u00a0link<\/a>\u00a0to the tournament; for pictures from various JO sites, visit this\u00a0link<\/a>\u00a0for KLC photos.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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