USA vs AUS

We just finished a four game series with Australia...We won the series 4-1..Ending the series at my alma mater Stanford University..
In the third olympic send off, put on by the Stanford Club team..We played in a sold out crowd which set a record for the biggest crowd for a women's water polo event...
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Stanford Water polo club team for putting on this event on and making us feel like superstars..This event was a great way to end this 4 game series. The crowd and atmosphere was a good tune up and warm up for what is to come in Beijing. The game played at Stanford will be televised on MSNBC tomorrow, sunday july 13 @ 9am.....watch the last game played on american soil for the USA olympic water polo team...
game 1 @ Los Alamitos 13-12 W
game 2 @ La Jolla 12-11 L
game 3 @ Coronado 12-6 W
game 4 @ Stanford 7-5 W

OLYMPIC TEAM ANNOUCED TODAY!!!

USA Olympic Team announced today at the LAAC....
Brenda Villa, Heather Petri, Natalie Golda..
Betsey Armstrong, Jaime Hipp, Lauren Wenger, Moriah VanNorman, Alison Gregorka, Elsie Windes, Patty Cardenas, Jessica Steffens, Brittany Hayes, Kami Craig...
Today at the press conference there were a few questions asked after the team was announced about how young are team is...The average age of our team is 24.6..according to Guy this team's age average is older than the past two olympic teams..On paper our team may seem young because we will have 10 first time olympian but let's not forget that this team knows what it feels like to be in the "big moment" we played australia in australia for the gold medal at world championships and won.. ..
Above are the name of the 13 girls that will represent the USA on their quest to the podium...
Go team USA!!!!

Thetis Cup- Crete, Greece

Game 1 Italy vs USA L 10-9
Game 2 Germany vs USA W 13-5
Game 3 Greece vs USA w 11-10

Details to follow...

Commerce makes it into the New York Times!!!

Please Read this great article on the city of commerce and water polo...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/18/sports/olympics/18polo.html?ref=sports

Game 6 Final USA vs Rus

USA 7 Russia 8...... more details to come later...Russia scores with about :20 seconds left in game to win first world league title...

Scoring:

USA: 7 (2,0,3,2) H. Petri 2, B. Villa 2, N. Golda 1, E. Windes 1, A. Gregorka 1
RUS: 8 (3,2,1,2)

6x5 -- USA - 4-8 - RUS 3-7

Saves: USA - B. Armstrong 10

Game 5 USA vs Spain

USA 11 Spain 9

Although our 5on6 defense was not very good today, our offense came to play tonight and we were able to hold off the spanish for a win. The game before us saw Russia and Australia go into a shootout.. Russia lost the shootout but still advance to the final game with the point they received from the shootout. Tomorrow should be a very fun,physical and competitive game..Just they way we like it...



USA 11 (1,4,4,2) N. Golda 4, B. Villa 2, K. Craig 2, L. Wenger 1, B. Hayes 1. M. van Norman 1
ESP 9 (2,2,3,2)

6x5 -- USA - 3-6 -- ESP - 6-8

Saves: USA - J. Hipp 8

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