Leaving on a jet plane.

Look out Ann Arbor. San Diego Shores has finally left the airport and they are looking to show up and take your gold. The Speedo Cup tournament will span 3 days and include the best water polo competition the nation has to offer for 8th graders. The national championships will soon be underway and their is a definite buzz in the air.

Shores will play La Jolla, CA at 12 noon EST on Saturday in their tournament opener in a repeat of recent San Diego County League play in which Shores was victorius 9-6. This time however, the stakes are much higher.

I am currently in the air over Nebraska and will have some photos and more updates of the trip and of the tournament after I land and get settled in Ann Arbor.

Keep checking back, updates will follow every game.

San Diego Shores 14U Girls to play exhibition match.

The Shores girls will be competing Sunday at 3:40 P.M. at the U.S. Olympic Water Polo facility in Los Alamitos, CA. They will be looking for redemption against the same Socal team that defeated them by 17 goals eight days ago in the Cousineau Cup. This game will be a good gauge of the improvements made over the past week and should be much more contested, as the Shores girls are now less than three weeks away from their trip to Ann Arbor, MI for the Speedo Cup.

The tournament is the Speedo Top 40 and will feature some of the premiere adult players in the country. Shores is slated to play their exhibition between the Bronze medal game and the Gold Medal game so this will also be a chance for them to showcase their talent with a large number of spectators watching.


Go Shores.

Shores outmuscled by Extreme, finishes in 6th place.

In a tightly contested match against Extreme Water Polo, the San Diego Shores girls were defeated 6-4 to close out their weekend at the Evan Cousineau Cup tournament in Santa Ana with a 6th place finish.

Trailing 4-2 at the half and struggling to get the ball inside the 5 meter mark, head coach Ian Davidson made a bold decision to bring in back up goalie Madison Kafka-Asper, and move starting goalie Meghan Engh into the field of play adding some physical strength to the lineup. This proved beneficial as Engh scored a goal and helped the team hold offensive space in the pool in the second half. Kafka-Asper only allowed two goals in the second half with a solid defense in front of her, but the Shores girls were unable to find the back of the cage on offense and could not net the needed goals to win the game.

San Diego Shores finished the tournament 1-3 with losses to the teams that eventually finished 2nd,4th and 5th. Their only win in the tournament came against the 3rd place finishers.

Shores falls to Newport 9-4 and will play Sunday for 5th place.

The San Diego Shores girls could not regain any of the momentum lost in their previous game. Shores had 2 goals erased from the board early and this was all the momentum a highly skilled Newport team needed to drive the nail into the proverbial coffin and put Shores into the 5th/6th place game, while securing their own spot in the Bronze medal game on Sunday.