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

They had been losing all season\u2014all eight weeks of it\u2014and will lose more times before season\u2019s end. But, on one of those occasions that participants bask in long after it passes, the Austin College<\/a> Kangaroos\u2014or \u2018Roos, as they\u2019re affectionately known in their hometown of Sherman, Texas\u2014found deep satisfaction. The newly launched men\u2019s water polo team, the only such program in the entire state of Texas, had come north to play in the 2018 Division III Eastern Championship<\/a> tourney at the Newton White Aquatic Center at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.<\/p>\n

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They were facing, on this Sunday afternoon in October, fellow DIII program Monmouth College<\/a> of Illinois. As it happened, the Scots were similarly winless, with a woeful 0-7 record at that point in the season, so someone\u2019s losing streak would end. A distinction, of course, was that Austin College had never won an NCAA varsity game, after dropping all nine of its matches by such scores as 18-6 and 16-7\u2014some against tough Division I opponents the likes of Brown and Harvard. Monmouth, on the other hand, is in its sixth season of competition.<\/p>\n

\u2018Roo fans Lorie Henninger<\/strong> and Bill Griffin<\/strong> of Seabrook, Texas were in the stands, anxiously watching their son Robert, a strapping 6-4 defender, as the team\u2019s best opportunity for a first-ever win appeared to be slipping down the Johns Hopkins drains. With his team trailing by two entering the fourth period, Robert took matters into his own hands. The Kangaroo sophomore hit on four straight shots to set the stage for teammate Andrew Pope\u2019s<\/strong> heroics: a successful penalty shot with eight seconds left to give Austin a 16-15 over the Scots.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were down going into the fourth,\u201d Griffin explained after the match. \u201cI wasn\u2019t playing well earlier\u2014my shoulders were tight and my back was hurting a bit. I saw the scoreboard and thought: Someone has to step up. So I did.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mark Lawrence. Photo Courtesy: Austin College Athletics<\/p><\/div>\n

Mark Lawrence<\/strong>, the Kangaroos\u2019 head coach, was complimentary of his star performer\u2014and remarkably composed after the first of what he hopes will be many wins for his new program.<\/p>\n

\u201cKudos to Griffin\u2026,\u201d he said in admiration. \u201c[F]ive goals in the second half and four straight in the fourth quarter\u2026. In this game, the momentum was so extreme; for our guys to stay composed in deep water and wait for the game to come to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pope, whose game-winner was only one of his five goals on the day, was enthusiastic about prospects for Texas water polo: \u201cIt’s awesome seeing the sport spreading down to Texas,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s cool to come out to the East Coast and show that Texas has water polo too.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the exuberance of the moment, Pope, the Kangaroos\u2019 leading scorer (22 goals) who grew up playing lacrosse, could be excused for engaging in what is likely a flight of fancy: \u201cI want to see [Texas] A & M, UT [University of Texas at Austin] add varsity programs and see the sport grow\u2014make it like football, have games on prime-time TV on Saturday nights.\u201d<\/p>\n

Great Expectations?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Baltimore setting for Austin\u2019s first win seemed appropriate; Johns Hopkins is a DIII program<\/a> that regularly punches above its weight class by competing against the top DI programs in the East. It\u2019s now bordering on old news, but in 2015, Ted Bresnahan\u2019s<\/strong> Blue Jays pushed mighty Princeton to the limit before dropping<\/a> a 7-6 decision in the Collegiate Water Polo Association<\/a>\u00a0men’s championship match. A win would have sent Hopkins to its first-ever NCAA Men\u2019s Water Polo Tournament.<\/p>\n

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Andrew Pope lining up a shot. Photo Courtesy: Austin College Athletics<\/p><\/div>\n

A more realistic goal for Lawrence\u2019s program would be to realize the type of success that the Blue Jays currently enjoy\u2014annually one of the top country\u2019s DIII programs and a magnet for talented polo players from all over the country.<\/p>\n

Key to Austin\u2019s future in the sport is backing and encouragement from parents like Henninger and Griffin, who traveled 1,500 miles to cheer on their son and his teammates in Baltimore.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re here to support the \u2018Roos inaugural year of NCAA water polo\u2014the first time they\u2019re playing NCAA in 42 years,\u201d Lorie Henninger boasted. \u201cWe support them and we\u2019re excited for Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Going Henninger a few trips better is Lena Skinner<\/strong>, whose son Brett is a freshman attacker for Austin. A flight attendant, she has made it to all of the Kangaroos\u2019 matches, including visits to Providence, Boston, Houston, Washington D.C., and now Baltimore.<\/p>\n

When reminded there would be bumps and bruises along the way to success, Skinner was not intimidated.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re gonna cheer through all of them!\u201d she replied. \u201cI\u2019m so excited for them. This is their inaugural season and they\u2019re trying so hard, so this win means a lot to the entire team. And the team plays so well together.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Monmouth’s Jesus Aguirre fights off Austin’s Alex Rodriguez (8) and Andrew Pope (2). Photo Courtesy: Greg Bartram<\/p><\/div>\n

Leave it to Coach Lawrence\u2014who has had his own interesting journey through NCAA varsity polo, from a Final Four appearance and third-place finish in the 2002 NCAA Men\u2019s Water Polo Tournament, to stints as an assistant at Brown and Navy, with a brief tenure as MIT\u2019s head coach (dates?)\u2014to put things in perspective.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first half of our season up until [this tournament], we were playing against extremely talented Division III teams and nationally ranked DI teams,\u201d he said. \u201cWe wanted an education through experience\u2014which is great for our young players. But there\u2019s a downside to that when you constantly lose and get your score doubled.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luckily, there\u2019s enough competition around for even a first-year program that desperately needed a win.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis weekend we played against teams that are a little more experienced, but they\u2019re at our level,\u201d Lawrence added. \u201cThey were great, competitive games and our guys finally got to see the fruits of all their hard labor.\u201c<\/p>\n

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