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	College Water Polo Scholarships. NCAA Water Polo Recruiting.
		You might be one of the best players in the country but it doesn't matter how good you are, to be recruited and be in the running for college water polo scholarships you need to tell the college coaches who you are and why you deserve to be recruited.
		athletes who are serious about playing water polo at college level.
		As a high school water polo player you should be aware that the standard of play at college level is very high.
	www.athleticscholarships.net /waterpoloscholarships.htm (453 words)

	Water Polo Planet
		Water polo stroke which allows a player to have the best vision of his or her surroundings by holding the head above the water while swimming.
		The arm with the ball and the head are accelerating toward the goal with the arm parallel to the surface of the water.
		Ball is firmly gripped in the hand as the player moves through water and the ball remains in hand throughout the player’s abbreviated swim stroke with the ball.
	waterpoloplanet.com /HTML_link_pages/Water_Polo_Glossary.html (10139 words)

	Water polo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Treading water: The most common form of water treading is referred to in the United States as the "egg-beater," named because the movement of the legs resembles the motion of an egg beater.
		Dimensions of the water polo pool are not fixed and can vary between 20 x 10 and 30 x 20 meters, and are filled with water to a minimum depth of at least 1.8 meters (at least 6 feet).
		Water polo players tend to need remarkable stamina due to the considerable amount of holding and pushing that occurs during the game, both that which is unseen/ignored by the referees (usually underwater) and that which is allowed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Water_polo (3017 words)

	Polo - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This verse is inscribed on a stone tablet next to a polo ground in Gilgit, north of Kashmir, near the fabled silk route from China to the West.
		The polo stick appears on Chinese royal coats of arms and the game was part of the court life in the golden age of Chinese classical culture under Ming-Hung, the Radiant Emperor, who as an enthusiastic patron of equestrian activities.
		Polo for non-Iranians was the nearest equivalent to a national sport in those times, from Japan to Egypt, from India to the Byzantine Empire.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /polo.htm (1009 words)

	Water polo
		Treading water: The most common form of water treading is referred to in the United States as the "egg-beater," named because the movement of the legs resembles the motion of an egg beater or mixer.
		Dimensions of the water polo pool are not fixed and can vary between 20 x 10 and 30 x 20 metres, and are filled with water to a minimum depth of at least 1.8 metres.
		Water polo players tend to need remarkable stamina due to the considerable amount of holding and pushing that occurs during the game, both that which is unseen/ignored by the referees and that which is allowed.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/w/wa/water_polo_1.html (1281 words)

	Water polo - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Water polo is a team water sport, which can be best described as a combination of swimming, football (soccer), basketball, and wrestling.
		Swimming: As water polo is a team water sport, swimming is most commonly a skill which is aquired before playing this sport.
		Women's water polo was only introduced in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games after political protests from the Australian women's team.
	www.free-definition.com /Water-polo.html (1378 words)

	AllRefer.com - water polo, Sport (Sports) - Encyclopedia
		Water polo was devised in England in the 1870s and became popular in the United States in the early 20th cent.
		Water polo has been an men's Olympic event since 1900; women's water polo was first played at the games in 2000.
		A far rougher version of the game, played with a soft rubber ball in a larger pool and known as American or softball water polo, was formerly popular in the United States.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/watrpolo.html (325 words)

	HickokSports.com - History - Water Polo
		Women played water polo early in the century, but during the 1920s most physical educators decided that the sport was too rough for women and it was dropped by swimming clubs and colleges.
		Women's water polo, which is not essentially different from the male form of the sport, quickly spread to California and Florida, which have produced most of the top teams since the early 1970s.
		Water polo is played in a pool at least 1.8 meters (5 feet, 11 inches) deep, with a goal 3 meters (9 feet, 10 inches) high and at least 0.9 meters (2 feet, 11 inches) above the water.
	www.hickoksports.com /history/watrpolo.shtml (1177 words)

	Diablo Water Polo - Origins of Water Polo
		Just as the ball game played on horseback became known as "polo," the ball game played in water became known as "water polo," although there is no connection between the two sports.
		A favorite trick of the players was to place the five- to nine-inch ball inside their swimming suit and dive under the murky water, then appear again as near the goal as possible.
		From the 1912 Olympics, the water polo ball was a leather soccer ball that absorbed water and became extremely heavy, slippery and lopsided when wet.
	www.diablowaterpolo.com /coaches/origins.html (663 words)

	HickokSports.com - Water Polo Glossary
		The ball used in water polo is a pressurized sphere weighing 400 to 450 grams.
		When not touching it, a player is considered in control of the ball if it is on the water in front of the horizontal plane of his or her shoulders.
		The water polo field is 20 to 30 meters between the goal lines and 10 to 20 meters wide.
	www.hickoksports.com /glossary/gwaterpolo.shtml (1886 words)

	WATER POLO - Online Information article about WATER POLO
		Dribbling or striking the ball is held to be not holding, but lifting, carrying, pressing under water or placing the hand under or over the ball when actually touching, is holding; dribbling up the bath and through the posts is permissible.
		They may stand to defend their goal, touch the ball with both hands or jump from the bottom to play the ball, but in all other respects the same rules as to fouls apply to them as to other players.
		Any player throwing the ball over his own goal line concedes a corner throw to the other side, but if an opposing player sends it over it is a free throw for the goalkeeper.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /VIR_WAT/WATER_POLO.html (1727 words)

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		Water polo is Hungary's national sport, and games are played with the same intensity as football and basketball are in America.
		There are two basic methods of lifting the ball from the water: by placing the hand underneath the ball, and by placing it on top.
		As with all throws that begin with the ball on the water, the ball should be picked up using the two hand transfer technique.
	pagesperso.aol.fr /amwaterpolo/Farago1.html (1876 words)

	Water Polo from WWA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Water polo at that time was so brutal, in fact, that universities in the United States banned it from their campuses.
		Water polo spread to Hungary in 1889, Belgium in 1890, Austria and Germany in 1894 and France in 1895.
		Water polo, in fact, began as an aquatic version of rugby in the mid-1800s in England before evolving into a waterborne semblance of football (soccer).
	www.worldwideaquatics.com /aboutwaterpolo.htm (1889 words)

	United States Water Polo, INC., All Rights Reserved. No Unauthorized Links, Portals, Reproductions, or Re-Broadcasts ...
		United States Water Polo, INC., All Rights Reserved.
		From Stanford, California to College Park, Maryland members of the USA Women's Water Polo coaching staff will be on hand to evaluate talent of various age levels for inclusion into the national team pipeline.
		One of the largest Masters water polo events ever concluded in June, along with Premiere League and a number of other terrific tournaments...
	www.usawaterpolo.com (1272 words)

	Water Polo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Water polo was the first team sport to compete in the modern Olympics.
		From the 1912 Olympics, the water polo ball was a leather soccer ball which absorbed water and became extremely heavy, slippery and lob-sided when wet.
		Although the ball had a longer usable life and better handling qualities, allowing a faster, higher-scoring game with increased spectator interest, it did not become an official Olympic ball until 1956.
	www.bbasc.com /polo.htm (151 words)

	How to play inner tube water polo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The ball is dropped into the middle of the pool by the referee, and teams race toward the middle to gain possession of the ball.
		The Innertube: Innertube water polo requires all players to sit in the innertubes, belly up, with their butts through the hole in the center.
		The ball cannot be taken from the goalie once he or she has possession.
	www.innertuber.com /waterpolo.html (304 words)

	Water Polo Guide - History Index
		A favorite trick of the players was to place the five-to-nine inch rubber ball inside their swimming suit and dive under the murky water, then appear again as near the goal as possible.
		Games were often nothing more than gang fights in the water as players ignored the ball, preferring underwater wrestling matches that usually ended with one man floating to the surface unconscious.
		Water polo was introduced to the USA in 1888.
	www.h2opolo.com /pologuide/history(m).html (703 words)

	water polo -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The game was originally called “football-in-the-water,” and indeed it is more like association football and basketball than polo, the name of the sport coming from an earlier form of the game in which players rode barrels painted like horses and struck...
		Widely regarded as one of the greatest water polo players of all time, Gyarmati starred for the Hungarian teams that dominated international water polo competition in the 1950s.
		Events held are such Olympic events as athletics (track and field), swimming, water polo, fencing, boxing, wrestling, football (soccer), basketball, tennis, table tennis, and volleyball and such non-Olympic...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9076230 (878 words)

	Information Headquarters: Water polo
		Water polo is a team ball sport, which, as the name suggests, is played in deep (too deep to stand) water.
		Players are not permitted to push the ball underwater when being tackled, or push or hold the opposition unless they are holding the ball.
		If a player is caught committing a sufficiently bad foul, typically an act of brutality, he or she is sent out for 20 seconds or until the next goal, whichever comes first.
	www.informationheadquarters.com /Sports/Water_polo.shtml (798 words)

	Wet and Wild (washingtonpost.com)
		Water polo is a combination of swimming, soccer and basketball, plus wrestling, boxing and mugging.
		If your eyes follow the ball, you see a fair amount of fighting, but the real action, brutality-wise, occurs as players who don't have the ball fight for position in the prime real estate in front of the goal.
		Through the murk of the water, you see elbows swung into guts, knees slammed into groins, hands yanking bathing suits into painful wedgies, guys simply swimming on top of an opponent and holding him under water until he fights his way, punching and kicking, to the surface.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A13448-2004Aug18.html (2096 words)

	USATODAY.com - Young American having a ball in the pool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		At 8, he was hanging with the U.S. junior national water polo team that his father, Ricardo, a former water polo star in Brazil, was coaching.
		At 14, he was a wide-eyed ball boy at the Olympic water polo tournament in Atlanta, where his dad served as an assistant coach on the U.S. team that finished seventh.
		Azevedo, 22, has seemed destined to become the world's greatest water polo player nearly since the day he was born, and there are those who say he already is.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/athens/pool/2004-08-10-portrait-azevedo-water-polo_x.htm (1264 words)

	An introduction to the rules of Water Polo
		Here is a brief introduction to the rules of Water Polo, put together by Scott (and Geoff, although he is sleeping while I'm busy doing all the work).
		The pictures were taken from the official rules of US Water Polo.
		These are the official US Water Polo Rules in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
	www.jmuwaterpolo.com /rules (471 words)

	GMax - Feature: Sports Complex by Jim Provenzano - Pooling Around: Water Polo Makes a Big Splash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Once considered the roughhousing brats of the GLBT aquatics community, lesbian and gay water polo teams have grown up, and their sport's series of tournaments make for serious competition.
		Water polo's roughest play is often underwater, unseen by fans and, sometimes, referees.
		Water polo's first inclusion at an IGLA Championship in 1987 in San Diego was merely an exhibition match.
	www.gmax.co.za /look04/04/26-sportscomplex.html (858 words)

	Water Polo Planet - free down loads of graphic designs, rule explanations, and other polo stuff
		The HTML file contains a link to the Water Polo Planet web site which is activated when the Water Polo Logo is clicked.
		Copy the link code to a web page and place the WPPLogo.jpg file in the same folder where the web page is found, and, bingo, you have a link to the Water Polo Planet on that web page.
		Water Polo World's Toughest Sport: Download this cartoon by the famous Mad magazine artist Jack Davis by clicking the graphic.
	www.waterpoloplanet.com /downloads.html (812 words)

	Outsports: The Home For Gay Sports Fans and Athletes
		Under the water, there was more contact, pulling, grabbing and pushing than under the basket at an NBA game or a circuit party; these guys really go after each other, which is why they all wear double Speedos.
		The Hungarians are the New York Yankees of the water polo world, winners of seven Olympic golds and the favorite in Athens.
		As one USA water polo rep told me, Hungarians come out of the womb with their arm cocked back, ready to shoot.
	www.outsports.com /photogallery/waterpolo2004/waterpolo2004gallery1.htm (505 words)

	VERB - African American Advertising Gallery - Hip Hop Scotch \| KB Ball \| Marco Water Polo
		Hip Hop Scotch, Marco Water Polo, and KB Ball are in large font.
		Here’s one we call “Marco Water Polo.” All you need is a pool and a ball.
		If the ball goes in and you are not on base, you’re out.
	www.cdc.gov /youthcampaign/african_american/print/hip_kb_marco.htm (468 words)

	Australian Water Polo News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		United States Water Polo 1993 Collation: ix, 78 p.
		Reprinted by Water Polo Canada under the authority of the British Columbia Water Polo Association.
		Title: How to coach water polo when you don't know anything about it : a program of 12 lesson plans presenting the basic skills of water polo / By Don Cameron Author: Cameron, Don (Donald John), 1954- Imprint: [Sydney] : NSW Amateur Water Polo Association, [198?] Collation: 71 p.
	www.waterpoloaus.asn.au /info/Info1999/Info05/Resources.htm (1505 words)

	Roosevelt's Hall reaches goal in girls water polo - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		It was the final year for club water polo, and the year Hall decided that her work on the school's "B Team," or second string, wasn't good enough.
		But when she transferred from Kalani to Roosevelt midway through her freshman year after moving, she was reunited with her friend from church, Leilani Warren, who persuaded her to join the water polo club.
		"(She's grown) quite a lot, of course water polo was all new to her, actually for all the girls it was new, and she picked it up quite well," Nishioka said.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2004/Apr/20/sp/sp11a.html (752 words)

	Foreign coaches scooping the pool - Water Polo -
		With just 1.2 seconds left Yvette Higgins collects the ball, stops, shoots and drills it into the net.
		East German Dr Ekkart Arbeit, the proposed head coach of Australian athletics, never even made the starting line after opponents alleged he was closely heavily in the systematic doping of competitors.
		Water polo: Sisters make the team a family affair
	www.smh.com.au /olympics/articles/2004/07/16/1089694566692.html (579 words)

	How to Pass a Water Polo Ball - WikiHow
		This is mainly for starters in water polo.
		Try to throw the ball at your teammate's strong hand and throw strongly, but don't shoot it at him.
		Higher is better to a certain extent, a high throw forces your teammate to go up for the ball and makes him ready to shoot or pump fake, but don't go too high.
	www.wikihow.com /Pass-a-Water-Polo-Ball (372 words)

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