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ABOUT
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| MEN'S TEAM | WOMEN'S TEAM | |
| COACH | John Owens | Bug Hackleroad |
| PRESIDENT | Johnathan Dobkins | Cissa Carvalho |
| SECRETARY | Marco Baldassari | Ashley Crawford |
| TREASURER | Marco Baldassari | Megan Parrish |
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Owens was born on February 13th, 1942 at Liverman, California. He attended
Newport Harbor High School at Newport Beach, CA, where he earned four letters
from 1954 through 1959 in swimming, joining the water polo team in 1959.
From 1959 until 1961, Owens attended the Orange Coast College, receiving
two letters in swimming and water polo, besides receiving all-American
honors in the 200 fly.
In the period between 1961 and 1963, he attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he received a Bachelor of Sciences in Mechanical Engineering. While at Berkeley he receive four letters: two in swimming and two in water polo, and their team was also co-champion of the AAWU, the Athletic Association of Western Universities, in 1961. He later got a Master of Sciences and Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1968. There he coached the frosh water polo team from 1965 until 1968. In 1996 he started coaching the Auburn University Water Polo Club. |
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the women's and men's Auburn Water Polo teams have an open membership to
all Auburn University students, faculty and staff, although the elegibility
for playing in the conference may be limited to full time students in some
cases.
The teams are in afilliation with the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) and the United States Water Polo (USWP). Membership in the latter one is not required, but strongly encouraged. The teams compete in recreational scrimmages as well as the league championships and other national level competition. Previous experience in either water polo or swimming is not required, although recommended for those seriouslly interested in competing. A participation fee is required each semester for each team and varies according to various factors, although it is not expensive. The main purpose of the clubs is to estimulate an environment conductive to the expansion and development of the organizations, besides kicking Florida's ass.
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| Practices are held four times a week: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., at the Martin Aquatic Center, located on Auburn Universoty main campus. Practices are not held during finals week, dead day, holiday breaks or during summer term. Coed practices are the usual, but some separate practices might occur at the begginning of the season. Practices consist of a swimming warm up, drills, fundamentals, plays and scrimmages, and eventually some hot tubbing. Dry land practice is held in the afternoons for those who can attend and is organized at the begginning of each term, therefore, times vary. | The men's team competes at the CWPA Conference during the Fall term, while the women's team competes in the Spring term. The men's team also hosts the Annual Chris Young Tournamnet, in memmory of a former member who died in a car accident. To know more, click here. The IV Chris Young Tournament was won by Auburn University (War Eagle!!!). The women's team is also planing on hosting an annual tournament every Fall, begginning on 2001. For more information about either one, contact the webmaster and you will be put in contact with the respective club officers. |
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