With weeks 1 and 2 of the 2019 Loyola girls water polo season in the books, we as coaches have done some major reflecting. Although we are very excited about all of the interest in girls water polo—this season we have a record 57 girls— a team this large creates a variety of challenges. We want ALL of the athletes to have fun, learn and meaningfully participate in both practice and games. With those goals in mind, we have decided to divide ourselves into 3 teams, rather than 2. Effective beginning this Tuesday 3/12/19 we will have a JV1 team, a JV2 team and a Varsity team. The new rosters are as follows:

 

VARSITY
Mary Kate Lopez
Michaela DiVito
Lauren Vallace
Aidan Koconis-O’Malley
Emily Eshoo
Ashley Voss
Sophia Visconti
Grace Kern
Reilly Simonds
Annie Leinenweber
Mary Barr
Virgins Hiteshew
Chloe Brown
Stephanie Udzielak
Julia Herron
Hope Walsh
Maggie Heintz
Lucy Haracz
Olivia Wahlert
Jane McKenna

 

 

JV1

Evelyn Dziekan

Kathryn Isaacson

Kate Hjorth
Maeve Conway
Jess Vignocchi
Lili Montoye
Abby Pinkerton
Elizabeth Cherf
Emily Hjorth
Allie Shust
Catherine Quakenbush
Claire Lindstrom
Carly Roberson
Molly Isaacson
Cata Bryant
Neve Chilla
Fiona Conway

JV2
Bianca DiVito
Maggie Regan
Margaret Rider
Kristen Rode
Nora Detling
Maria Haralampopoulos
Celina Abdi
Christin Holtgreive
Suzanne Gervasio
Ella Sangin
Grace Otte
Julia Swanson
Sophia Anthony
Maggie Entrietto
Joe Schierloh
Isabella Talano
Haley Bargo
Frankie Argento
Birdeen Lopez

If your name is missing from one of these rosters, it is not intentional, please let Coach Kim know ASAP.  These rosters are subject to change based on the needs of each team and an individual athlete's hard work, development and attendance. 

 

In order to accommodate 3 teams we have sought out additional pool time at OLPH and brought in coach Ben Epperly to help. Please take note of the resulting schedule changes:

PRACTICES

(1) JV1 will practice: Mon/Wed/Fri mornings 6-7 AM at OLPH. Tues afternoons 4:30-5:30 at the JCC. Thurs nights 7-8 PM at OLPH. Saturdays 2-4 PM at OLPH.
(2) JV2 will practice: Tues/Thurs mornings 6-7 AM at OLPH. Mon/Wed/Fri nights 7-8 PM at OLPH. Saturdays 2-4 PM at OLPH.
(3) Varsity will practice: Mon/Wed/Fri night 7-9:30 PM at OLPH (7-7:30 dry land w/ Kim, 7:30-9:30 in the water.) Tues afternoons 5:30-6:30 at the JCC. Thurs nights 8-9:30 PM at OLPH. Dry land after school with Tyler on Tues and Thurs.  Saturdays 2-4 PM at OLPH.

 GAMES: attached is the updated game schedule. So far, 3 additional JV games (3/13, 3/20 and 4/3) and a JV Tournament (4/13) have been added to the schedule to provide for more playing time for more girls. The schedule specifies which JV team will travel to what games. When we play 3 levels at NT and ETHS, both JV1 and JV2 will travel. The roster for the JV MCAC tournament is TBD.

**This means JV2 practices tomorrow morning at OLPH, while JV1 and Varsity travel to Stevenson for games tomorrow evening. JV1 will then practice this Wednesday morning at OLPH, while JV2 will travel to Amundsen for a 5:30 PM game and Varsity will have evening practice at OLPH.**

The updated master schedule can be found in the "downloads" section. 

We apologize for the late notice, but a lot of thought and deliberation went into creating these rosters, tinkering with the practice schedule in the face of limited pool time, adding JV games and hiring another coach.

Thanks,
Coaches Kim, Austin, John and Ben