
Northampton Waterpolo Club


Northampton Waterpolo Club
Northampton Waterpolo Club
- NWPC join London League - New League for 2018, for players born 2004 & 2006.
- Northampton claim second place in Youth league 2017 - The last game of the season. The match for first place...we needed to win by 5...
- East Region GRAND PRIX - hosted at NSB we will enter 2 teams in this event
- Grants for University Waterpolo players - Look at the link to see if your University is providing grants to players
- Manchester Festival 2017 - Manchester Festival Results and Write Up
- Player selected for Inter-regional competition - 5 successful players from Northampton gain places in the inter-regional team (2002 born)
- Manchester Tournament Fixtures - Fixtures released for 24th June Tournament. - Interesting draw....
- U16 tournament results - Club achieve 1,3,6positions
- NEW PLAYERS - NEW PLAYERS ALWAYS WELCOME
Birth of NWPC
Born in 2012 after 3 years work by George Huckle and Jon Lane there were just enough players to hire a pool. The initial concept was to break the bond of genetic polo - father plays, introduces son, son plays, introduces son, etc.
Jon hunted for schools with pools and George delivered club polo to those schools. For those individuals who showed an interest to further develop their love for the sport, 2 hours club polo was made available at the Duston School pool on a Sunday lunch time.
Initially we joined with Northampton Swimming Club to keep all aquatics under the same roof but, with no promotion and a different fee structure, quite quickly the decision was taken to set up our own entity. Since then we haven't looked back.
Teaming up with Kevin Spencer and Connor Evans made a trio of coaches with the same vision.
Swimming clubs share the same customers, have the same suppliers, just sell a different product. They are our natural competitor for pool time and players. Realize this and Water Polo will flourish.
Now we take risks to grow the sport and the club. We have purchased a minibus, doubled the available pool time, entered existing leagues and started new leagues.
Our aims are: to increase participation, the polo gene pool, compete ant regional and National level, create a 'club' which promotes success and keeps members. At the same time we don't want to win at all costs, so a club competition...is a club competition and we will not import players just to win a hollow victory.
We aim to have 20 players in every age group from school year 6 to 13 this will mean that we have 140 players under 18. - So 2017 we have 87 (62% of the way) and counting...the management of churn and the process of developing players without peaks and troughs is our aim.
All of our training sessions are held at Northampton School for Boys as follows:
Tuesdays, 19:00-20:30
Land training to improve Agility, Balance, Coordination and strength.
Wednesdays, 20:15 - 21:30 Swimming session for all age groups to help increase speed and endurance, mainly 3:1 sprints, acknowledging specificity of the sport. - why train a sprinter to run a marathon?
Thursdays, 19:30 - 21:30 Over 16's and Ladies. Juniors by invite only
Fridays - Elite player training (extra fee payable) Over 16's - 19:00-20:00 pool, 20:10-21:10 land training Under 16's - 19:00-20:00 land training, 20:00-21:30 pool
Saturdays, 09:00 - 11:00 Juniors only
Sundays, 09:00 - 11:00 Juniors only
We still have space for players to join with the right attitude and skill
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Jon
jon@northamptonwaterpolo.co.uk
07718525607
Kevin
kevin@northamptonwaterpolo.co.uk
07837213742
Calendar
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Apr 12 Northampton Women 7 Solihull Women 14Northampton
08:00 PM
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Apr 19 Kettering 8 Northampton 5Kettering Swimming Pool
09:10 PM
Apr 19 Kettering 8 Northampton 5Kettering Swimming Pool
09:10 PM
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Apr 21 Northampton v H.G.S.O.B. BNorthampton
11:00 AM
Apr 21 Northampton v H.G.S.O.B. BNorthampton
11:00 AM
Apr 21 Northampton Youth B 8 Cheltenham 18Northampton Y
11:00 AM
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Apr 22 Cheltenham 13 Northampton Y 10Cheltenham Leisure Centre
05:30 PM
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Apr 28 Northampton Y v WarwickNorthampton Y
11:00 AM
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