On Wednesday 6th March, the ladies’ 1st team came up against their toughest rivals in the South West U-polo League – Cardiff University. The girls were tense before the match; everyone was very aware that the Cardiff keeper had only conceded two goals in their matches this year, but the knowledge that we were fielding a very strong team kept spirits fairly high. The match … Continue reading Ladies’ 1st vs Cardiff 06/03/2013
On Saturday 23rd February, the Ladies’ and Men’s first teams travelled to Exeter to play our respective UPolo games versus the university teams. The ladies team played the first match, and it proved to be a lot more challenging than our 15-1 win at home had led us to believe. The team started out strong in the water; a very early first goal by Amy … Continue reading Ladies’ 1st vs Exeter 23/02/2013
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
Sunday 2nd December saw the 2nd match of the season for the Ladies 1st team, as they came up against the Bath 1st Ladies team. Southampton were apprehensive going into the game, very aware that Southampton has not beaten Bath once in the past two years, in addition to the fact that this year saw the loss of over half of the Southampton 1st team. … Continue reading Ladies’ 1st vs Bath 1st 02/12/2012
Southampton University Water Polo Club 