Six months and counting 1/29/12
January 27, 2012 was significant in that it is exactly six months until the Opening Ceremonies for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, England. Wow!!! This is going to go by so fast and I have this incredible sense of urgency.
We just completed our first 10 days of full time training. As always the first few weeks seem to be an adjustment for everyone. We are now training six days per week. We train twice on Monday, Weds and Friday and once per day on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Below is our schedule for those of you that might want to come out and see a practice.
Monday 8 – 10 am – Weights at CLU 10:15 – 11:45 am Pool at CLU
7 – 9:30 pm – Pool at Oaks
Tuesday 8:45 – 11:45 am – Pool at CLU
Wednesday 8 – 10 am – Weights at CLU 10:15 – 11:45 am Pool at CLU
7 – 9:30 pm – Pool at Oaks
Thursday 8:45 – 11:45 am – Pool at CLU
Friday 8 – 10 am – Weights at CLU 10:15 – 11:45 am Pool at CLU
7 – 9:30 pm – Pool at Oaks
Saturday 9:30 – 12 noon Pool at Oaks
• there may be some changes week to week
It seems that I have been hustling around in meetings just trying to get everything settled. There are more and more demands on all the pools in the area and we are having some challenges to secure all the times that we want. I must say that CLU and Oaks have both been awesome in working with us to get us the times and space we need. We are very fortunate to have these two beautiful facilities to utilize.
The players have been readjusting to the schedule also. In this first phase, we are working on building a base of conditioning. This means hard work for everyone. We are lifting very hard with our program at P3 and we are putting in some pretty good mileage in the water. Water polo is a game that requires the greatest conditioning and we are working to make sure that our team is in the best possible shape.
As we go through our training we are faced now with some new challenges. Our team is older and many of our players are older and now married. A few even have children. We are dong our best to make sure that all members of the family feel like they are important part of this journey.
I am excited about our schedule this year. We are having some big games in the USA. In March we will have World Champion, Italy, powerhouse Montenegro and a very good German team here for a 4 Nation tournament in Thousand Oaks.
We will also have a few exhibition games with Italy after this tournament. Then in May we will host the World League Super Finals (May 10 – 13) and Croatia and Hungary later in the month. Looking at our schedule we have succeeded on scheduling 25 – 30 competitive games this year. As we firm up our game locations, I will send that out with one of my next few blogs.
We are fortunate to have so many great supporters out in this area. I would like to acknowledge a few of these people. Jerry Halweg has worked many hours to help us secure “host families” for most of our athletes. We all appreciate what he has done for the team. All of our host families deserve a big thank you too. These families have agreed to host a team member for the next six months. We could not do it without each of these local families. Finally, I am happy to say that we have received a substantial donation that has allowed us to secure housing for the team members that did not have a host family. Thank you to Ospraie and Dwight and Julie Anderson for this donation. All of you are a giant part of our Olympic journey. We appreciate you all.
That is it for now. We have so much to be thankful for and a great deal to be excited about. It is going to be an amazing year. I am looking forward to it. London here we come.
See you at the pool.
Terry
We just completed our first 10 days of full time training. As always the first few weeks seem to be an adjustment for everyone. We are now training six days per week. We train twice on Monday, Weds and Friday and once per day on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Below is our schedule for those of you that might want to come out and see a practice.
Monday 8 – 10 am – Weights at CLU 10:15 – 11:45 am Pool at CLU
7 – 9:30 pm – Pool at Oaks
Tuesday 8:45 – 11:45 am – Pool at CLU
Wednesday 8 – 10 am – Weights at CLU 10:15 – 11:45 am Pool at CLU
7 – 9:30 pm – Pool at Oaks
Thursday 8:45 – 11:45 am – Pool at CLU
Friday 8 – 10 am – Weights at CLU 10:15 – 11:45 am Pool at CLU
7 – 9:30 pm – Pool at Oaks
Saturday 9:30 – 12 noon Pool at Oaks
• there may be some changes week to week
It seems that I have been hustling around in meetings just trying to get everything settled. There are more and more demands on all the pools in the area and we are having some challenges to secure all the times that we want. I must say that CLU and Oaks have both been awesome in working with us to get us the times and space we need. We are very fortunate to have these two beautiful facilities to utilize.
The players have been readjusting to the schedule also. In this first phase, we are working on building a base of conditioning. This means hard work for everyone. We are lifting very hard with our program at P3 and we are putting in some pretty good mileage in the water. Water polo is a game that requires the greatest conditioning and we are working to make sure that our team is in the best possible shape.
As we go through our training we are faced now with some new challenges. Our team is older and many of our players are older and now married. A few even have children. We are dong our best to make sure that all members of the family feel like they are important part of this journey.
I am excited about our schedule this year. We are having some big games in the USA. In March we will have World Champion, Italy, powerhouse Montenegro and a very good German team here for a 4 Nation tournament in Thousand Oaks.
We will also have a few exhibition games with Italy after this tournament. Then in May we will host the World League Super Finals (May 10 – 13) and Croatia and Hungary later in the month. Looking at our schedule we have succeeded on scheduling 25 – 30 competitive games this year. As we firm up our game locations, I will send that out with one of my next few blogs.
We are fortunate to have so many great supporters out in this area. I would like to acknowledge a few of these people. Jerry Halweg has worked many hours to help us secure “host families” for most of our athletes. We all appreciate what he has done for the team. All of our host families deserve a big thank you too. These families have agreed to host a team member for the next six months. We could not do it without each of these local families. Finally, I am happy to say that we have received a substantial donation that has allowed us to secure housing for the team members that did not have a host family. Thank you to Ospraie and Dwight and Julie Anderson for this donation. All of you are a giant part of our Olympic journey. We appreciate you all.
That is it for now. We have so much to be thankful for and a great deal to be excited about. It is going to be an amazing year. I am looking forward to it. London here we come.
See you at the pool.
Terry
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