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 Uni 1sts 12-8 Southampton City (Cods) We faced our local rivals the city boys, who have become accustomed to giving us a good pasting over the last two years. And maybe it was lack of organisation or too much confidence, but the city boys went big, only turning up with 6 players. And this tactic seemed to work for them as we finished the … Continue reading The Cods get battered…
___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
Southampton do the triple for the second time running! With our team almost back to full strength confidence was high leaving in the formally named ‘Booze Bus’, however on our way the booze bus became the Venga Bus (for those too young to get this reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUXYRfam_0A ) with ‘DJ Lick-Ur-Rice’ on the decks (bad decision). As we pumped Taylor Swift’s greatest hits down the … Continue reading Southampton Men’s 1st- BUCs Tournament Take 2
Southampton University Water Polo Club 