Water Polo Begins

And the chaos has commenced. Our new coach isn't talking a lot with us, so I don't know what kind of guy he will be. But him not talking is a good thing. That means he wants to be impartial on matters of positions and such. I know that he can't ever replace or match Hogue, but no one ever could, so I won't hold it against him.

They have done away with the Division I and II thing we had last year. We're going with the high school 3A, 4A, 5A dealio, based on where the majority of your players came from the year before. Since most came from OHS, we're 4A. Do you know what that means? Of course not. No one knows the skill levels of our state's water polo teams except water polo players. I'll speak simply: our main competition is Murray, and we only lost to them by 3 last year. We lost a few players, but they lost their best two, and if we focus and work our tails off and play as a team, we could take state. The greyhound, the bobcat, and I have made it a goal. We've also decided to really focus on team building by having parties and hanging out on weekends, and avoiding talking about the racoon behind her back. I've made an individual goal to know everyone's name in three weeks' time. This is a toughy, because the new coach is bringing a lot of his swimmers into it.

We're also going to make sure we don't huddle with the people we know, or those that have played before. Today, when we paired up for passing, we made sure to pass with people that we didn't know and that were inexperienced. We even crossed the gender barrier (ooooo). I have learned three names for sure, and one tenatively. Three down, twelve to go! That is, if no more new people show up...