Schedule week of 9/28 and Varsity Group

Varsity
Mon 6am-7:30am and 2pm-4:30pm
Tues 6am-7:30am and 2pm-4:30pm
Wed 2pm-4:30pm
Thurs 6am-7:30am and game vs University at home
Fri 6am-7:30am and 2pm-4:30pm
Varsity Workout Group for this week
Hartshorne
Konstanzer
Laufer
P.Simmons
D. Hayashi
Kim-E
Skelly
Mayers
Wong
Abravanel
Campbell
RJ Simmons
Chico
Noshirvan
McFadden
F/S JV
M-F 2pm-4:30
Thurs game vs University @ home

Games tomorrow Saturday 9/26/09

Varsity game at 11:45 @ Sant Margarita HS and then 3 or 4 depending if we win or lose.

Frosh/Soph play at 9am and 11:15am @ Mission Viejo HS.

JV will play at 8am and 2pm @ Irvine High School (Woollett).

F/S and JV arrive 30 minutes before game time.

Varsity arrive 45 minutes before game time.

GO NORTHWOOD!!!

Bus schedule for Friday

Varsity bus will leave at 1:45pm to Santa Margarita HS. Game time 3pm

F/S bus will leave at 3:30 to Mission Viejo HS. Game time 4:45

JV will meet at Woollett at 3:15pm no bus will be provided. Game time 4pm

Bus will behind the school (by the portables), if you have homework bring it with you and do it on the bus.

Varsity Updates for SC Tournament

Our game tomorrow is at 3pm @ Santa Margarita HS. We will leave school at 1:45 so we will get an early out. This is for the Varsity players that are competing at the South Coast Tournament.

Buzz about this weekends SC Tournament

New rankings as of last night #11-25

#11-25 OC Varsity Rankings

Practice tomorrow 9/23

Varsity will practice at 6am and 2pm Wed 9/23/09

FS/JV will practice at 2pm.

Charger Cup F/S Tournament 9/24-9/26

This group will compete in the Charger Cup being held at El Toro and Mission Viejo High School. Our 1st game will be at Mission Viejo on Thursday at 5:30pm.

The bus will leave Northwood at 4pm. Please arrive 15 minutes before departure on Thursday.

If we lose we will play that same night, Thursday at Mission Viejo HS 7:45pm.

If we win the 5:30pm game on Thursday, we will play Friday at 3:15pm at El Toro HS.

Saturday there will be no transportation provided. Parents will need to drive the kids.

I will have hard copies of the tournament schedule tomorrow.

AUTIN ARCA
TUCKER VEJSICKY
DENNIS KIM
BRANDON GARRISON
ANDREW ARAKAKI
UDAY SOOD
BRANDON THOMAS
CHRIS PARK
HENRY LEE
CONNOR MCCOMBS
NEEMA BAUDRY
AHMED ABDELGANY
PHILLIP CHEN
JEREMY VERED
JIMMY PARKER
TORY HAYASHI
PARKER ERIKSON
ZEEREK AHMAD
ZACH BRADLEY
FREDDY LUI
RYAN DUONG
BRANDON LAMTONGE
AND ALL OTHER FRESHMEN SOPHMORES I MAY HAVE MISSED.

Irvine Tournament Varsity B 9/24-9/26

These players will be at Woollett Aquatic Center for the Irvine Varsity Tournament, click here for the tournament schedule and game times

1st game is Thursday at 3pm, bus will leave from NHS @ 2:15pm, then Friday 1 game (see schedule)

ADAM DRABCZYNSKI
DANIEL CHANG
JAMES DING
CHARLES YUN
ARRAM NOSHIRVAN
WARREN LAUFER
BRIAN CHUNG
NICK CIUFFETELI
GAVIN KONSTANZER
NICK MC FADDEN

South Coast Tournament Varsity 9/24-9/26

The Varsity Boys are in the South Coast tournament this weekend. Please click here for the tournament schedule.

JAMES HARTSHORNE
DUSTIN HAYASHI
KYLE KIM-E
JACK MAYERS
BRYCE WONG
RJ SIMMONS
PARKER SIMMONS
BRENT CHICO
CODY SKELLY
TYLER ABRAVANEL
JAKE CAMPBELL


GENERAL INFORMATION:

Thursday and Friday quarters will be 6 minute stop time
with one full time out and one 20 second time out per game.
Any overtime, because of ties will be sudden victory.
Saturday will be regulation time, 2 full time outs/game and
one 20 second time out and sudden victory. Championship
game will be a regulation game. All teams will provide their
own balls and hats. The top team listed on the bracket will
be the home team and wear dark hats. Dark team sits to the
right of the scoring table to start the game. Since you might
be playing 2 games the same day, bring both sets of hats. We
cannot provide individual lockers, so please be responsible
for your own valuables. All teams will play 5 games. It is the
responsibility of each team to provide their own scorekeeper.

Practice Friday Morning for all levels

All levels will practice Friday 9/18/09 from 6am to 7:30am, there will be NO AFTERNOON PRACTICE. As some of you may know Coach Drew and myself are coaches at Concordia University Irvine and Coach Donny is a player, we are traveling tomorrow afternoon.

Girls Northwood Fall Classic Oct 10, 11

Girls will be in the Northwood Fall Classic, Oct 10 and 11. SAT's are on that Saturday so the tournament is starting later. We will have schedules and times as we get closer to the tournament date.

Good Luck this weekend CONCORDIA

Concordia University Irvine is in the prestiges Norcal Tournament this weekend, there 1st round games are against UCLA and UCSD on Saturday. Many Northwood Alumni will be playing in this tournament including:

Travis Noll (Stanford University), Derek Wiebe-Bailey (Long Beach State), Caleb Hamilton (Concordia University Irvine) Jon Colton (Loyola Maramount University).

Girls Off Season Training

The off season training for the girls is not a high school related program. It is club water polo. The fee is not going to the high school it is going directly to the club.

You can find more info at

www.northirvinewaterpolo.com

Practice will continue to be from 6pm-7:30pm TWTh

Again, this is not mandatory but highly recommended. All top high school programs are doing off season training. Please make your checks out to North Irvine Water Polo and give it to Coach Duje

Order Forms due WED 9/16 this week

If anyone else wants apparel Wed is the last day to order. Please print and fill out the form. Click under the important forms link.

Varsity Morning Workouts

Varsity morning practice will be held MTTh from 6am-7:30am.

A few new rule changes in HS Water Polo

Water polo rule changes can be found at:

http://www.scafwp.org/

Look for the following links to the PDF files:

NFHS Rules Changes
NFHS Points of Emphasis
NFHS-NCAA Rules Differences
NFHS Case Studies

Varsity Practice 6am Monday

9/14/09 Monday morning workout for Varsity @ 6am.

Girls Practice time change and shifts

High School Girls will practice from 6pm-7:30pm TWTh, The cost is $200, made out to Northwood Water Polo. Coach Duje is the off season coach, he is a current Concordia University Irvine water polo player with a great understanding of the game.

Please disregard the old schedule that was previously posted.

The new schedule again:

Tues, Wed, Thurs. 6pm-7:30pm @ Northwood

P.S. ALL GIRLS will be asked to run the clocks, tables, stats sheets, etc for all boys home games on a rotation. So please check to see when your shift is ( I will post a schedule up this weekend)

Please come out to support the boys and show some NHS spirtit!!!

-Ed

Girls Water Polo

All girls water polo players will meet at the pool at 2pm. This will begin on the first day of school.

Northwood vs Los Alamitos 7pm 9/15/09

Our Varsity game against Los Alamitos, 9/15/09 @ 7pm, will be held at:

Joint Forces Base Los Al
11200 Lexington Drive
Los Alamitos CA 90720

We will not have a bus for that game, parents will drive their players to the game. Please arrive 45 minutes before game time. Please excpect delays so give yourself plenty of time to arrive.

Apparel Order Forms

Apparel Form

The last day for orders will be September 16, 2009. If you would like a backpack please email me @ ed3carrera@gmail.com

Backpacks are $40.00

All checks must be made out to NHS Boys Water Polo

Concordia University Irvine #14

Concordia is ranked #14 in the nation!!!

Top 10

Top Ten and players to watch according to OC Varsity

Concordia Water Polo @ Navy Tournament

Wednesday Varsity Scrimmage

On Wed 9/9/09 NHS VARSITY will have an official scrimmage against FOUNTAIN VALLEY at NHS. F/S JV will attend, and learn to run shot clocks, keep statistics, and overall setup for home games. Everyone will arrive at 2pm. Scrimmage will begin at appox. 2:45pm

We will still have morning workout at 6am on Wed.

Tuesday Night Parent Meeting

We will have a parent meeting on Tuesday September 8, 2009 at 7:15pm. We will have an overview of the season, expectations, etc...

We will meet at the Northwood Pool.

Back Packs Available

Team Back Packs are available for those that want one. They are the big SPEEDO brand back pack, they are not mandatory. Please email me at ed3carrera@gmail.com, or in the comment section of this blog. Make checks payable to NHS Water Polo in the amount of $40.00.