For our men’s 1st team, Hampshire league continued with a home game against Weymouth/Portland. Usually, games against the Weymouth team are quite physical and majors usually stack up on both sides. At the end of the game our Stags had 12 majors while the opposition had collected 13 majors; with Nick Xenakis managing to get 3 majors (wrapped up) for a second time, although he … Continue reading Men’s 1st vs Weymouth&Portland 17/02/2013
Last Saturday the Men’s 1st team travelled to Bristol, for a full day of water polo as part of the 1st Division BUCS (British Universities and Colleges Sport). As is the same as every year, our team had to play three games; the teams finishing 1st and 2nd pass to the next round (semi-finals) while the team that finishes last is demoted to second division. … Continue reading Men’s 1st – BUCS 09/02/2013
Sunday 3rd of February saw the Southampton Ladies’ 1st team come up against Oxford University, at home for a friendly match to give Oxford’s varsity team practice before next weekend’s match. The game began quickly and startlingly for Southampton, as Oxford won the swim off and scored their first goal within 40 seconds of the starting whistle. Southampton managed to regroup and set up … Continue reading Ladies’ 1st vs Oxford Uni 03/02/2013
On Saturday 26th January, nine girls travelled down to Plymouth to represent SUWPC as the 1st team for our BUCS competition. We went intending to play five matches, but only ended up playing four after UWE failed to turn up, which definitely worked to our favour having only two substitutes! Our first match was against Plymouth, and it was immediately evident that our mix of … Continue reading Ladies’ 1st BUCS Tournament 26/01/2013
The men’s first team had its first game of the New Year on Sunday against the team of Bournemouth, as part of the Hampshire league. Both sides had a very low number of players (B’mouth – 8, Soton – 9) meaning that the game was setting up to be very exhausting. In the first quarter of the game our team was attacking the deep end. … Continue reading Men’s 1st vs Bournemouth 27/01/2013
Southampton University Water Polo Club 