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The TXWaterpolo Podcast
by TWp Sports, LLC
Your source for all things related to high school, age group, NCAA, collegiate club, and international water polo in Texas, the sport's fastest growing region.
Episodes
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Now Featuring ONLY Texas Intrigue
New and Improved! A truncated, solo version of Wednesday's podcast with ONLY the stuff that James wants to talk about. Enjoy.
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Summer Recap, UIL Season 2, Ty Halford
The summer is over though it certainly doesn't feel like it. That means, we chat about JOs and how Texans fared both in California and North Texas at the end of July. Then shifting immediately to year two of UIL water polo. The athletes had virtually no break after JOs and headed to their first...
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Texans Invade SoCal - JOs 2023
'Tis the season for the world's biggest water polo tournament. The 2023 National Junior Olympics are here with the most ever clubs in Texas taking part, both in SoCal and NorTex (we just made that up). All the signs are pointing to a big year for teams from the Lone Star State, and toward a…
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A Busy Spring, A Busy Summer, NCAA Season Wanes
Did you miss us? James and Joe return from a self-imposed four-month exile to produce this magical new show where they cover all the water polo events that highlighted this past spring. But really, the spring is over and we've entered the summer frenzy of JOs-related competition. Did you ever…
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Euro Friendlies, ODP Super Regionals, LISD Opts Out
Listeners get some special inside info about how high flying podcasting actually works. That and we intro the new year with a review of the USA Men's National Team friendlies in North Texas, ODP's new and improved Super Regional tournament, and we preview the coming spring highlighting just how...
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Happy Christmas, Holidays, New Year!
Year 2022 is at an end and it was an eventful one. Do you like high school water polo? Well you had two full separate seasons for the first and only time. Want the US Men's National Team playing in North Texas? Done and done. JO's a permanent fixture in the Lone Star State? Maybe. We're gonna...
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The Success of the First UIL Season
The first-ever UIL-sanctioned state high school water polo champions were crowned last Saturday at the end of a truly historic season. The Foster girls finished the season undefeated, and the Brazoswood boys took down first-year program, Boerne Champion, to hoist the top prize. Joe was there and...
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Prep Regionals, Team USA in North TX, Mark Lawrence
Regional championships are already here as the (very exciting) first UIL water polo season comes to a head. We go over some of the brackets and some of the surprises of the earlier rounds. Meanwhile, plenty of club water polo on the calendar in the coming month, and breaking news: The US Men's...
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Alamo Recap, Ty Halford, 38-1?!
Another 8th grade and under tourney in San Antonio is in the books where Coaches James and Joe (kinda) met head to head with one coach leaving far more frustrated than the other. Plus UIL playoffs are well under way. Joe talks with the man of many hats, Ty Halford, about his role in growing the...
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UIL Brackets, Alamo Weekend, Justin Pudwill
We're in district play for UIL water polo and the championship brackets are taking shape. Bi-district games begin on October 11 and feature some teams new to the sport, an exciting sign for future growth. Plus, Pegasus boys edged Thunder in a unique playoff game this week to earn a spot at the...
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UIL Playoffs Deep Dive and Tom Arredondo
Friday morning again. This time Joe get in the weeds with the way UIL playoffs will actually happen. It might surprise you. We also do our coaches rankings and players of the week. Finally, Joe talks with Round Rock HS Head Coach Tom Arredondo about the (positive) switch from full-time swim coach...
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Foster Tops National Rankings, 'Roos go 3-1, Jonathan Landero
Austin College hosted four noisy matches on campus last weekend coming away from it with a 3-1 record, including a surprising loss to Augustana that James brings up and Joe evades… Meanwhile, MaxPreps has put Texas water polo on the map with Foster atop its national girls’ prep rankings this…
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Armadillo Recap, NCAA in Sherman, Donzie Lilly
Donzie Lilly has dived knee deep in to the water polo coaching world in the past few years. Now Head Coach at Texas Mavericks, Hebron High School, and with the Olympic Development Program, he speaks with Joe about the first UIL season and the first ODP camps that are just a couple weeks away.…
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Back in Time: Mark Lawrence, ODP Changes, Preps
Look, we could spend all day placing blame on someone for not posting this podcast right after it was recorded but what, really, will that accomplish? Mistakes were made, right? Who's to say? Let's not dwell on the past. Let's move forward. Water under the bridge. Tomorrow's another day, and so…
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'Roos Return from Brown, Kari Brothers, an Empty Nest
The nest is empty at James' house and it shows in this maudlin edition of the TXWaterpolo Podcast. We recap the new-look Kangaroos as Austin College returns from their season-opening tournament in the Northeast where they defeated DIII opponents Connecticut College but fell to the pesky Engineers...
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UIL Week 2, ODP Coming to TX, AC Roos Near Opener
More players of the week and high school rankings as the UIL season plugs along with games all over the state of Texas. Plus, the ODP program is changed for the 2022-23 season with some big news about where regional and national championships are headed. And Austin College is wrapping up its...
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Week 1 of UIL, Players of the Week, Rankings, Jeff Chandler
Here we go. We've been waiting and now it's fully underway. We celebrate the high school season with our Players of the Week, our coaches' rankings, and a conversation with the highly successful head coach at Cy Creek HS, Jeff Chandler. Plus, upcoming events for those not playing the high school...
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JOs Thrive in Texas and UIL Water Polo is Here
The biggest youth tournament in the world wrapped up with another successful foray in to the Lone Star State. Will there be a third Texas JOs in 2023? We talk about that an many other observations from the tournament. Which leads immediately to the first ever UIL water polo season (finally!).…
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Spring and Fall Preps, 'Roos Excel, JOs in Dallas
You might have thought we were gone but no such luck. We recap the Spring high school season, look very much forward to the fall prep season, honor the Austin College women for their 3rd place finish at DIII Championiships, and talk about Junior Olympics, which are soon to swamp North Texas in...
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TISCA's Final, 'Roos at D3 Champs, a TXWP Update
It's the 50th and final TISCA High School Water Polo Championship this weekend. We give a bit of a tribute to just how impressive that run has been especially in comparison to prep water polo elsewhere in the USA. Plus, Austin College will vie for a national championship after just four years in...
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ODP Complete, AC in SD, B'wood Makes Waves
The ODP season is pretty much done except for National Team Selection Camp and our Southwest Zone athletes and coaches have returned from National Championships with some good results. Plus, Austin College remains the top-ranked team in the Collegiate Water Polo Association Division III poll and...
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Spin Lob Recap, High School is Here
Yeah, this is vary late. Recorded on 2/23 it covers the recently concluded Spin Lob tournament in Austin and precedes the Thunder Spring Invite which took place in Lewisville on February 26-27. And now the high school season is here! Much more to come of that but first, reminisce a little about...
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2022 Starts with Dare to Dream, Big Numbers for Prep Polo
The kiddos of Texas descended on the Cy-Fair Natatorium last weekend where Joe and James faced off in an epic and shouty 12-and-under cage match. After some brilliant tactical moves, which included telling his team to "guard that guy!" it was James's squad who emerged triumphant. [Joe would…
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2021 Ends with a New Linehan, More Normalcy, TX Successes
At least it wasn't as bad as 2020. The water polo world returned to some sense of normal in 2021 even though Covid was never too far removed. Nonetheless, Austin College had it's most successful calendar year so far, Texas showed it's capacity to host more national events, the high school season...
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CFWPC's Chris Ellis, and JOs Session 3 Details
Dare to Dream is approaching quickly and will be hosted in January by the CFWPC, led by Head Coach Chris Ellis. Joe speaks to him about that event and much more going on with his club. Plus, James puts Joe on the spot to answer a lot of questions about National Junior Olympics Session 3 in North...
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MIT's Austin Ringheim, and How to Field a UIL Team
UIL water polo will be here before we know it and both Joe and James are getting questions from athletes and families who want to know the process behind getting their schools to field teams. Joe get in the weeds of it so that parents and athletes can get that process under way for 2022 or 2023....
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Mark Lawrence on MPSF Championships, Plus Game Days
Mark Lawrence took his 'Roos men's team to Stanford and came home with two big wins over their rivals from Pennsylvania, and a respectable outcome versus powerhouse Stanford. Their (most successful?) season is over but the women's season quickly approaches and there's much to be done to maintain...
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ODP Explained, 'Roos to Stanford, UT at CWPA Nats
We took a week off while Joe was partying with McCoy in Iowa so we take time to recap the recently-completed Texas Challenge Cup and Pegasus masters tournaments. Plus, a listener asks us to explain the ODP evaluation, training, and selection process (we try). We also talk about UT's ninth place...
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ODP Head Coach Cullen, Texas Challenge Cup, & the Future
Chris Cullen is nearly half way through (!) his first season as the director of YOUR Southwest Zone ODP team. He talks about where we stand with the most recent changes in the program as this season's rosters are announced soon (maybe already). Plus, James and Joe are both headed to Justin to…
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Lawrence on 'Roos Results at Easterns, McCoy is Grumpy
Two convincing wins and a tough loss to the eventual tourney winner mean a positive outcome for 'Roos head coach Mark Lawrence. Austin College finished third out of seven teams at last weekend's CWPA Division III Eastern Championships beating Washington & Jefferson and Penn State Behrend while...
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Pegasus, Thunder Make Waves Outside Texas
North Texas was well represented and fared even better at the recently completed Cousineau Cup in SoCal and Rocktober in Arizona. Plus, Austin College returned from Colorado with three losses to some serious competitors, the UIL makes things official, and more about Joe's and James's former…
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Joe's a Dad! And some water polo stuff
The title says is all. McCoy Patrick Linehan (insert Pogues here) has joined us for our first post-partum podcast (listen for faint sounds of dissatisfaction from the lad as Joe pontificates). Joe and Steph welcomed the boy a few weeks early but everyone is home now, only slightly sleep-deprived...
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Cal Lu's Cody Pletcher and the 'Roos Big Weekend
UPDATED with the correct audio file. *** Our nominee for America's most interesting varsity water polo coach, Cody Pletcher of Alvin was named Interim Head Coach at Cal Lutheran in June. The three-time world rodeo champion has one of the most unique backgrounds in all of water polo and will…
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Mark Lawrence, 'Roos Head Coach, Texas' Biggest Summer Recap
Austin College returned from a two-day, five-game spin in New England where they won one and fell four times in some highly competitive matchups as the 2021 men's intercollegiate season returns with some normalcy. We talk with Head Coach Mark Lawrence about the trip and how this season is just...
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Junior Olympics, Senior Olympics, and Season 3?
We return to the fray after four weeks of such things as helping to manage more than 1000 youth water polo matches, coaching (extremely loosely defined) a group of 10-year-olds to complete victory, staying up late to watch Americans pursue Olympic water polo glory, traveling to the beach…
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Texans on Team USA, JOs Needs Shieldy, Olympics are Near
Sixteen athletes were selected to participate at USA Water Polo's National Team Selection Camp and five of them were selected to national team rosters, huge news for Texas water polo. Speaking of which, did you know Junior Olympics session 3 will take place in North Texas in a couple weeks? Did…
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Junior Olympics, Senior Olympics, and NCAA Takes a Hit
More teams from Texas than ever competed at the Southwest Zone Junior Olympics Qualifying tournament a couple weekends ago, and all of them having qualified, they will now be playing at National Junior Olympics in North Texas at the end of July. James and Joe talk about this huge bit of success…
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ODP Ends, Joe Rants, James Quits, and John Abdou
In between minor bouts of tornado warnings, power outages, and torrential Texas rain the Olympic Development Program season essentially ended in San Antonio last weekend with over 500 athletes from as far as Florida and Hawai'i playing dozens of matches over three days. We recap those events and...
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Trent Calder and St. Mark's Win, Packed Summer Schedule, 'Roos get Ranked
St. Mark's lived up to its TXWaterpolo top ranking and defeated a very game Dawson High School to win its 9th boys' state title in Cy-Fair last Saturday. We talk with a soaked Trent Calder, first-year head coach of the Lions, about his comeback win. And the summer schedule doesn't resemble…
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Recap of Flower Mound Title, JOs in Texas, plus Goddard, Stohrer, and Cox
A jam packed show where we recap an exciting girls high school championship tournament where Flower Mound came away with the trophy with their win over Southlake Carroll. But perhaps the biggest news of the week: Junior Olympics are coming to Texas. We talk about that in detail and look forward…
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Nuthin' but Preps, and LASA's Allie Hill
That's right, the high school season is just about over. Regional championships have been decided, the state tournaments are seeded and scheduled, and Genai Kerr is coming to Texas! We cover the big beats of last weekend's competition, highlight our players of the week, and give the "final" TXWP...
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TAGS Recap, Prep Playoffs, Pegasus' Spencer Dornin
The second TAGS tournament of the past 12 months went off without much of a hitch in Pearland last weekend with Pegasus taking home the hardware for all four competition groups. We speak with Head Coach Spencer Dornin about the rapid rise of his club, expectations for its future, and his role in...
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'Roos are CWPA DIII Champs with Mark Lawrence
Not bad for a team that began varsity play in 2019. Texas' only NCAA women's varsity team now owns the distinction of being only the 5th ever program to win a CWPA Division III Championship. We talk with Mark Lawrence about the season and what comes next for the 'Roos at the end of this...
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Chris Cullen Has Another Job, High School Rankings, 'Roos Back to PA
If there's a water polo job in Texas that Chris Cullen does not have we'd like to know about it. Today he talks with Joe about becoming the NISCA Regional Chairperson, a position connected with selecting All-American prep water polo players from Texas and beyond each year. We also announce our…
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Lexi Wong, Sophie Oliver, Jeff Chandler, and Two Other Guys
Austin College went to Pennsylvania and returned undefeated after four entertaining matches, including wins over Division II Gannon and Mercyhurst. We talk with two of their award-winning athletes Lexi Wong and Sophie Oliver. Jeff Chandler is a two-time state high school championship winner at...
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First HS Players of the Week, and Kaitlin Kelley
We're very late. We know. But better late than... whatever. This week we recap some of the top high school events and select our first players of the week! Plus, a conversation with Kaitlin Kelley of St. Agnes Academy about the 2021 season and more. Look for a new pod soon, and keep submitting...
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Lowery, Cullen, Ferguson on CBU's Trip to NCAA Championships
The Cal Baptist men finished this bizarre season with an upset win over Air Force to earn their first ever Western Water Polo Association Championship and are now headed to Los Angeles for NCAA Championships, the program's first. There they'll face perennial top-four UCLA and look to stage a huge...
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Austin College's Mark Lawrence, Texans Unwelcome, Another Linehan
Joe and Steph are having a baby. There, we said it right up front. We gush about the huge news for a good chunk of time before moving on to the end of the Austin College men's season and the start of Texas' high school one. Then, why speculate about what has been happening up in Sherman what with...
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'Roos in LA, Prep Punditry, and Ian Davidson
James lost the last segment that he recorded with Joe. Let's get that out of the way. #SubParPodcast But oh boy, did they make up for it with a scintillating conversation about the Austin College men, who were forced to cancel two trips and several games due to Snowmageddon-2021. So they have...
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The Thaw Arrives, Everything was Cancelled, Pudwill on Refs
We're back after an extraordinary week, one in which multiple water polo events were cancelled, including our show, which succumbed to multiple and unpredictable power outages. We talk about the week that was, chopping wood, wearing winter clothing indoors, boiling water (oh yeah, we didn't...
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