{"id":322632,"date":"2018-07-30T04:07:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T11:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=322632"},"modified":"2018-07-30T05:27:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T12:27:54","slug":"2018-usa-water-polo-junior-olympics-day-seven-you-gotta-have-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/2018-usa-water-polo-junior-olympics-day-seven-you-gotta-have-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 USA Water Polo Junior Olympics Day Seven: You Gotta Have Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

WALNUT CREEK, CA. Swimming World<\/em> moved its coverage of the 2018 USA Water Polo National Junior Olympics<\/a> to Walnut Creek, an upscale community east of San Francisco. The day saw a winnowing out of squads vying for medals in the girls\u2019 14U Classic bracket, with Alliance, Arroyo Grande, CMAC, Riverside, Shore Aquatics and Trojan among others advancing to today\u2019s semifinals.<\/p>\n

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At the Las Lomas High School, Swimming World <\/em>spoke with Ohana Water Polo Academy<\/a> 14U coach Eduardo Osorio<\/strong> and Bridget Alvarez<\/strong>, the Laguna Beach<\/a> 14 U coach. Previously, A.J. Abril<\/strong>, assistant coach for the Modesto Stanislaus Mustangs, spoke about creating a life in water polo despite being born with only one arm.<\/p>\n

First up, Coach Osorio with Ohana, which means \u201cfamily\u201d in Hawaiian. As you\u2019ll see, this club is not from Hawaii (and the tip off for your correspondent should have been the big RV parked in the parking lot with a sign-board that said: Ohana Water Polo Academy). And, Osorio is from Venezuela\u2014making for an international flavor to the story.<\/p>\n

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Ohana 14U girls. Photo Courtesy: Jennifer Easter<\/p><\/div>\n

– How long have you been coaching the Ohana 14U girls\u2019 team?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since January this year.<\/p>\n

– Are you from Hawaii?<\/strong><\/p>\n

– No, we\u2019re not from Hawaii! We\u2019re from the Los Alamitos area in Long Beach. We practice at a military base in Los Alamitos. Everybody is thinking that we\u2019re from Hawaii. We are from the island of Los Angeles [Laughs].<\/p>\n

– How has the tournament been for your girls?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pretty good. We\u2019ve been practicing together for six months or less. We entered the tournament in the classic division and we\u2019re hoping to place ninth.<\/p>\n

For a lot of our girls this is the first time at JOs; some of the girls have played in [the tournament] before. It\u2019s been a very good experience for them and we plan to come back next year.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s nice because you go to different pools in different parts of the San Francisco area.<\/p>\n

– For you, how many times have you coached in JOs?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is my sixth Junior Olympics. Coaching the 14U girls one will be one of my most rewarding experiences. They\u2019d never qualified before this year so it\u2019s very exciting.<\/p>\n

One of the Ohana players is not from Los Alamitos, or even Hawaii; Amanda Easter<\/strong> is from Austin, Texas; even though there\u2019s a nascent polo scene in the Lone Star State, there simply wasn\u2019t a team available for Amanda to play with in JOs.<\/p>\n

Enter John Ivins<\/strong>, head coach of the Zilla Water Polo Club, who is no stranger to West Coast polo. A graduate of UC Irvine, Ivins played for legendary Head Coach Ted Newland when the Anteaters were regular participants in the national championship game, Ivins had a connection to Ohana and arranged for Amanda to join their 14U JO effort.<\/p>\n

According to Jennifer Easter<\/strong>, Amanda\u2019s mother, when it comes to water polo, \u201cohana\u201d means \u201cfamily\u201d in a whole different way.<\/p>\n

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Kennedy Joseph, Amanda Easter, Eduardo Osorio. Photo Courtesy: Jennifer Easter<\/p><\/div>\n

– How did your daughter end up with Ohana?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My daughter plays for Zilla<\/a>, which is on the Northwest side of Austin.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s been meeting these girls at different events over the year and when she didn\u2019t have a club available in Austin they invited her to play out here.<\/p>\n

– How has your experience been with Ohana?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been fantastic! Taking the name in terms of its full meaning in terms of welcoming and aloha.<\/p>\n

Earlier Saturday, your correspondent spoke with Bridget Alvarez, whose Laguna Beach B team enjoyed a lopsided 19-2 win over the Brooklyn Hustle. Alvarez was understandably excited about her team\u2019s prospects for a medal in the Classic Division; unfortunately those hopes were dashed by an 8-5 loss to Alliance later in the day\u2014but it created an instant classic with rival SoCal on Sunday morning for fifth place.<\/p>\n

– How long have you been with Laguna Beach?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is my first year coaching, but I played with them for three years when I was in age group.<\/p>\n

– With wins in the 10U, 12U and 14U Girls Platinum finals in 2017, clearly your club has enjoyed great past success at Junior Olympics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are very strong on the girls\u2019 side. The difference for us is we\u2019re the \u201cB\u201d team in the Classic Division; we may be a \u201cB\u201d team but we fight like and \u201cA\u201d team.<\/p>\n

– Apparently, one of your club\u2019s greatest strength is swimming.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We focus a lot on swimming. Every day, the first 45 minutes in of practice is swimming. Swimming\u2019s a really big part of water polo; the faster you are, the better player you are.<\/p>\n

– As a club from Southern California, I imagine you butt heads with SoCal all the time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

SoCal is definitely our biggest competitor. We are so even with the level of competition between the two teams. The hardest part is the physicality of the game. When the game gets physical, we sometimes break down. We can be physical with other teams but that\u2019s not our main focus.<\/p>\n

I feel that SoCal is more of a physical team. We lost to them once [in the Classic bracket] but we\u2019re hoping to meet them again in the finals, if we make it back there.<\/p>\n

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– JOs is a national tournament. How does playing teams from other parts of the country beneficial to growing polo?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s so exciting to see that the sport\u2019s growing across the U.S. When I started it was just mainly California and a couple of teams in Virginia and Florida. But to see poo expanding so far is so exciting.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s more competition, and the sport can keep growing and growing.<\/p>\n

Friday at the Cabrillo College pool, Swimming World<\/em> spoke with A.J. Abril of the Modesto Mustangs about his experience both playing and coaching water polo.<\/p>\n

– What\u2019s your role with the Mustangs?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m one of the club coaches for 14U. I\u2019ve been involved with water polo for 26 years. I played splashball, high school ball, in college and then rolled right into coaching. I\u2019ve got 16 years coaching under my belt.<\/p>\n

I also coach at Buhach Colony High School in Atwater, California.<\/p>\n

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A. J. Abril (second from right). Photo Courtesy: Catharyn Hayne<\/p><\/div>\n

– Your disability hasn\u2019t done anything to quell your interest and involvement in polo.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I attribute that to hard work. It is a deficit but you have to overcome that, and the only way you\u2019re going to do that is through effort.<\/p>\n

And you do compensate. For example, I probably had the strongest legs on the team\u2014because I understood that legs are important in this game.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not gonna be the fastest so I had to out-smart my opponents. They\u2019re thinking two steps ahead, so with a deficit you have to think three steps ahead. As long as you can do that you\u2019re going to be able to compete with anyone.<\/p>\n

– I\u2019m not sure if you noticed that Sydney Barta<\/a> from the Brooklyn team also is playing with a handicap\u2014and doing quite well despite it!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I had the privilege of talking to her before the game. I know it\u2019s hard, but once you get past that initial hurdle and say: I can do this\u2026 that takes a lot of heart in and of itself.<\/p>\n

My situation is a little different; I was born like this. I didn\u2019t have to adapt to anything; I grew up learning how to do things differently.<\/p>\n

Anyone who has an accident has to completely change how they do everything. And water polo\u2019s a hard sport. The whole time you\u2019ve got people pulling on you, there is not bottom and you\u2019re going back and forth.<\/p>\n

That’s just where the heart kicks in. There\u2019s only so much the body can do; after that it becomes the mind and the spirit\u2014and even the soul.<\/p>\n

That defines a player. You can be the best athlete out here, but if you don\u2019t have the heart, where are you going to go?<\/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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