After our defeat at Cardiff, the girls (with a hugely augmented team, thank you for everyone for making the effort to come to the home match!) were understandably nervous for our home match against Marjons not even 6 hours later. Quickly however we realised we had the upper hand, as a won swim off by Katie O was converted straight into a goal within the … Continue reading Killer Katie’s Pummel Plymouth
Wednesday 25th saw 9 of the biggest girls making our second journey into Wales in four days, for our 4th match of our tiring 5-match week. Catherine made her debut for the first team, filling in for the missing Liane. The game started quickly and brutally, with four goals against us in the first three minutes. We were able to answer with two of our … Continue reading Cardiff Dragons Hotter at Home
___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
Southampton University Water Polo Club 