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Dartmouth Women's Water Polo traveled to Middlebury College this past weekend for our first tournament of the season. After an entire term of hard swim sets and scrimmaging against each other, we were excited to face some new competition and some old rivals. All of the hard work definitely payed off, as the team came home with a perfect 4-0 record.

In the first game of the season, the Dartmouth faced the host team, Middlebury. In what ended up being Dartmouth's closest game of the weekend, the team scored 7 points to top Middlebury's 3. For all of the new members of the team - Carolyn Meyer (T'15, #7), Meghan Christie ('17, #8), PJ Bigley ('17, #15), Meredith Sweeney ('14, #17), Hallie Huffaker ('17, #19), and Abby Reynolds ('17, #15) - and our coach, Fanis Tigkas, it was an exciting introduction to Dartmouth Women's Water Polo

testDWWP taking on the Middlebury Panthers in our first game of the season.

After some wonderful snacks (thank you, Mr. and Mrs. McDevitt!), the team took on Coastguard, winning 12-2. The 12 points were spread among many of Dartmouth's players: Kellie MacPhee ('14, #5) scored 3; Grace McDevitt ('14, #4), Amelia Noble (DMS, #10), PJ Bigley ('17, #15) scored 2 each; Katie Lachance ('15, #3), Kristen Flint ('14, #1), Meredith Sweeney ('14, #17) scored 1 each.

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The team lining up before their game against Coastguard.

After a nice dinner with some of our biggest fans (thank you McDevitts, Meyers, and Mr. Flint!) and a restful night at the Middlebury Inn, we headed back to the pool for some more water polo. In the morning, the team took on Williams College, winning 14-2. Our goalies - Shelley Wenzel ('14, #1), Grace Russo ('14, #1A) - were in particularly fine form in this game, as Shelley had a 100% save-rate and Grace made some amazing saves in her debut tournament in the cage.

After a much-anticipated and delicious lunch at Noonie's Deli, Dartmouth played our last game of the tournament against University of Massachusetts at Amherst, winning 16-5. Over the course of the weekend, every single field player had at least 1 steal and at least 1 assist!

Don't forget, for a live play-by-play of the games, don't forget to follow @DartmouthWaterPolo on Twitter!

All in all, the team had a fantastic weekend and an exciting start to the season - everyone is excited to head back to Middlebury for our next tournament (March 15-16)!

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Everyone had a fantastic time at the tournament this weekend!

 

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The Dartmouth Women's Water Polo Team will be coached by Fanis Tigkas, Tuck Class of 2015, for the 2013-2014 season. Fanis hails from Athens, Greece, and currently plays on the Dartmouth men's water polo team (pictured below: in the pool at the 2013 CWPA Club National Championships in San Diego, CA.). This will be his first season as our coach, and we are very excited to have him on board!

 

Coach Fanis Tigkas, Tuck '15, hails from Greece. He plays for the Dartmouth men's water polo team in addition to coaching the women's team.

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The Collegiate Water Polo Association has released the members of the 2013 Women's Club Scholar-Athlete Team, recognizing college student-athletes from across the country for their achievements. 10 members of the Dartmouth Women's Water Polo Team made the list.

Kathryan MacNaughton, Charlotte Kamai, Kellie MacPhee, and Margaret Rollins were recognized for outstanding scholastic performance (GPA 3.71-4.00). Grace Russo, Lisa Rennels, Katie Lachance, Winnie Yoe, and Kristen Flint were recognized for superior scholastic performance (GPA 3.41-3.70), and Grace McDevitt was recognized for excellent scholastic performance (GPA 3.20-3.40).

The Dartmouth team as a whole, with an overall GPA of 3.49, was also recognized for having the fifth highest GPA of any women's club team in the nation.

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For our annual spring break training trip, in 2013 we visited the San Francisco Bay Area. We played in a one-weekend tournament at Foothill College, and for the rest of the time trained at Ohlone College and Sacred Heart Prep. We also made time for a team hike, shopping, and a day at the beach. A big thank you to the families of Shelley Wenzel, Lisa Rennels, and Catherine Donahoe for their kindness in hosting us and for making our time in California so enjoyable.