___Southampton Ladies 1st’s 21 – 1 Aberwystryth Ladies 1st’s__ Our third match of this close together set was our away leg against Aberwystryth on Saturday 21st February, leaving at 9am to give us plenty of time for the gruelling 5 hour drive. We arrived in plenty of time, and started warming up. Luckily, the sports radio show at Aber was live tweeting the entire match, … Continue reading An Abersolute Aberlition
___Southampton Ladies 1st’s 9 – Cardiff Ladies 1st’s 2__ 19th Feb saw the ladies firsts at home, in their 2nd match of this busy month, against the Cardiff University 1st team. Daunted by memories of 2013 when we last saw the extremely strong and very fast Welsh team, we had a very nervous tactics talk in the foyer (helped hugely by the club’s swanky new … Continue reading Ladies’ 1st Burn the Cardiff Dragons
15th February saw the Ladies 1st team travelling to Surrey to play the second round of the BUCS tournament. Having already played Bath and with UCL dropped out of the tournament, we were only looking forward to a manageable two games. The team started preparations early, honing its competitive spirit on the journey down with a game of hold-your-breath-through-the-tunnel, comfortably won by TJ. This put … Continue reading Ladies 1st Battle Hard at BUC’s
_______Soton Ladies 1sts 1 – 3 Baths ladies 1sts ______________ Sunday 7th December saw Bath and their facepaint return to Soton for a repeat UPolo/BUCS match. The girls were psyched up and ready to go after watching the Boy’s play before us, despite Bath’s new intimidation tactic of synchronised pre-match warm up in the foyer being employed in full force. But we were not intimidated. We … Continue reading A Moral Victory at Bath Time number 2… P.s MERRY XMAS!!!
Our polo-packed day started off with a bright and early start at 10am to get all the way to Millfield Academy for our all-day BUCS tournament. Happily blasting the choonz thanks to Katie L’s speakers, we were high spirits when we arrived at Millfield with a (nearly) full squad of 12. We got changed leisurely and had a look around the site, safe in the … Continue reading Ladies 1st’s Brilliant at BUC’s
Southampton University Water Polo Club 