ALOHA! It’s been a week since the team’s trip to Oahu, Hawaii and we’re not happy about being back in the cold. We had a blast swimming in the clear ocean and tanning (or burning) under the warm sun. But the team also worked hard to prepare for the upcoming tournament and championship game in April. We did a mixture of exercises, mixing both land and water workouts: hiking up Koko head (1048 steps!), scrimmaging at different pools and running relays on the beach. Thank you to Le Jardin Academy, Kamehameha School, Iolani School and Mililani High School for allowing us to scrimmage with them in their amazing outdoor pools. Since both our team and the opposing teams split into the more advanced group and the less advanced group, everyone had a lot of time in the water and learned much more and showed a vast improvement. The girls learned a lot from the trip, not only about water polo, but also about each other. The cheetahs are ready to come out strong for their next games!

Here’s the link to our more detailed itinerary: http://www.bu.edu/fitrec/club/news.shtml#WomenWaterPolo

A big mahalo to the Cowan and Kheradpey families for providing the cheetahs with food, housing and transportation for the whole week!

The women's water polo team just won their first tournament in Maine, hosted by Bates College! GO CHEETAHS!!! This tournament and the next tournament at the beginning of April will count towards the championship game. On Sat. March 2, the girls first went up against Bowdoin College, with 14-8, then went up against Yale University. Yale beat the girls last year in the New England Division and won first place, but the cheetahs fought strong and hard and won a score of 11-7. The last game of that day was against Bates College with 10-3. The next day, the girls went up against MIT and won with a score of 7-3.

The following weekend, the girls are going to travel to Hawaii for spring break! Big thanks in advance to the Cowan and Kheradpey family for their generosity in providing us with food, housing and transportation.

The girls have less than a month until their next tournament in Maine again, held at Bowdoin College. Even though most of the girls haven't learned water polo until the beginning of the school year, they have shown definite improvement: they communicated in the water, had spectacular defense and shots, and thought as a team. The cheetahs are extremely proud of one another. Keep it up!

The cheetahs just came back from their St. Francis Tournament. The first day we competed with Iona College who won 18-2. (Don't worry cheetahs, we'll do better next time!) The next day, we went up against Cornell University (11-10) and NYACK. NYACK didn't have enough teammates so a couple of our teammates played for their team.

Even though this was a "friendly" tournament and our real tournament doesn't start until March 2 held in Bates College, Maine, many of the players learned a lot from these games. We have 5 more practices before we head off to Maine. Get excited girls!

The Cheetahs are heading over to Harvard University tomorrow at 5:15 for a scrimmage against Iona's College. Come support us at Harvard's Blodgett Pool! Hope to see you there!

We have a scrimmage against BC tomorrow at 6pm at the FitRec. Please come and support us!

Phase 1: endure the coaches' grueling swim sets and transform ourselves into olympic-like swimmers

Here are this semester's event dates that we have planned thus far:

Feb 2: Game vs. Iona at 5:15
Feb 16-17: St. Francis Invitational, Brooklyn heights, NY
March 2-3: Bates tournament
March 9-17: Hawaiiii!!
April 6-7:Bowdoin Tournament
April 20-21: Yale Tournament- Champs

Please come to support the cheetahs!

The cheetahs enjoyed their winter break, but now it's time to get back into the pool and get hyped up for the upcoming scrimmages:

Feb. 2-3: vs. NYAC
Feb. 16-17: at St. Francis
Mar. 2-3: Bates Tournament
Mar. 9-17: HAWAII