Water Polo Tournaments

SOLO-Peninsula Bay Youth Water Polo
League Championships May 17-18 @Menlo Atherton Spieker Pool

On May 17-18 weekend our SOLO Water Polo club hosted our Peninsula Bay Youth Water Polo league and had a lot of fun. All of our parents were a great help with each event and ran a great championships for our SOLO Water Polo club. Everyone played 3 to 4 games for the weekend, most of our athletes entered all the competitions. SOLO Water Polo Club hosted a radar gun competition, a Five-A-Live Shooting competition and played their matches thought the weekend.

We would like to thank all of our volunteers for helping make this a great experience for the water polo athletes in SOLO and around the area. Our sponsor FINIS Aquatics Supply was great in sponsoring all the prizes that were won by the athletes. We thank them for sponsoring our PBYWPL Championships and sponsoring all the awards for each competition.

Radar Gun Champions:
14&Under Boys - Max Schell, SoQuel WP was clocked at 42 mph
SOLO Top Speeds 14&Under Boys - Max Wilder 40 mph & Alex Gow 40 mph

14&Under Girls - Danielle Flanagan, SOLO WPC was clocked at 31 mph
Other SOLO WPC girls speeds - 14&Under girls Carrie Beyer 30 mph

12&Under Boy - Max Dragga, SoQuel WP was clocked at 35 mph
SOLO WPC top speed was Conor Neumann at 33 mph

12&Under Girl - Kaya, Morgan Hill WP was clocked at 25 mph

Five-A-Live Competition:
14&Under Boys Champion - Max Wilder, SOLO WPC(1st out of 21 boys competing)
2nd place Alex Gow, SOLO WPC

14&Under Girls Champion - Emma Canny, SOLO Goalie (1st out of 12 competing)
2nd place Emily Gran, SOLO WPC

12&Under Girls Champion - Tina, Morgan Hill (1st out of 5 competing)

12&Under Boys Champion - Conor Neumann, SOLO WPC (1st out of 14 competing)
2nd place Morgan Olson-Fabbro

Water Polo Games Championships for the PBYWPL Results

LEVEL II
1st - SOLO BOYS
2nd - SoQuel WP
3rd - Ohlone WP
4th - Morgan Hill WP
5th - Golden State WP
6th - Burlingame Aquatics
7th - SOLO GIRLS
8th - DeAnza
9th - Los Altos
10th - LARDP

LEVEL I
1st Place - Ohlone WP
2nd Place - Golden State WP
3rd Place - Morgan Hill WP
4th Place - SOLO COED
5th Place - Burlingame Aquatics
6th Place - Stoneridge WP

SOLO Report from Coach Bega
Our SOLO coed team played some great matches and ended up 4th in the PBYWPL. For most of these water polo players it was their first championships. Everyone played in every game and for some they had their first goal in a water polo game. We are growing in our SOLO water polo and having fun every day. Congratulations to the SOLO COED team for competing and keep training with SOLO Water Polo Club.

The SOLO girls were in the upper division Level II in the SOLO-Peninsula Bay Youth Water Polo League. They played against all boys teams and ended up 7th place. They defeated DeAnza and Los Altos WP and only lost they other matches by 1 and 2 goals. Our girls were led by Emma Canny in the goal, Emily Gran and Carrie Beyer who were our top scorers for our SOLO WPC. One of our only 7th graders on the LEVEL II team played really well and was one of our top scorers for the weekend, Teagan Stanbach. Our girls water polo team included: Carol Fornaciari, Ilana Crankshaw, Erica Staben, Anna Luke, Gracie Mellenthin, Kari Newman and Brittany Krappe. They have improved tremendously and have developed into one of the top girls teams in the area. I hope everyone will keep training hard and learning the sport of water polo. We are excited that our club (SOLO WPC) is one of the only clubs in the area to have an all girls team for water polo. We encourage our girls to train throughout the year and compete at the highest level and we hope they have a lot of fun. Congratulations SOLO Girls Water Polo!

Our SOLO Boys in the LEVEL II division were the overall Championsin the LEVEL II at the SOLO-Peninsula Bay Youth Water Polo League Championships!!! This is the second year we have run the Peninsula Bay Youth Water Polo League and placed 3rd in last year's competition. Our boys have won two championships in the past three weeks at major tournaments and competitions. The other major Championships was in San Diego and won the County Cup out of 32 teams. This year in the PBYWPL they defeated Los Altos WP, Burlingame WP, Ohlone water polo and for the championship game they defeated a strong club from Santa Cruz, SoQuel. The championship game was an exciting one with our boys jumping out to a 3-1 lead and taking control of the game at half with a full length goal to goal from Alex Gow (SOLO Goal Keeper/MVP of PBYWPL). Alex Gow was MVP of the PBYWPL and is improving each time he plays. The score at half became 6-3 SOLO and our SOLO boys had a lot of confidence going into the 2nd half. SOLO kept control of the game and won 9-6 over SoQuel. We really respect and know how strong SoQuel was and wanted to beat them really bad. Our boys had a tremendous Championship win and a great league through the spring. Max Wilder was our leading scorer throughout the league and has developed into one of the top defenders from SOLO WPC. All of our boys had a great league championships and we hope everyone will continue to grow and become great a water polo athlete. The rest of the team for the PBYWPL Champions: Emery Welton, Jake Bercow, Tomas Rojas, Gabe Hall, Bret Pinsker, Morgan Olson-Fabbro, Jeff LaPlante, Conor Neumann, Zach Cogan and Michael Hohl. Congratulations SOLO Boys!

Thank You to All the Volunteers!!!

Coach Bega, SOLO WPC