The 16’s National Waterpolo Club Championships took place this week, with both men and women from around Australia taking to the pool.
These championships have been the biggest on record with 19 boy’s teams and 24 girls team involved.
The standout club has been Sydney’s Cronulla Club, with both the boys and girls team vying for the gold medal.
In the boy’s competition, UNSW West’s Magpies claimed bronze after beating Adelaide Jets 13-7 with the grand final to be played between Sydney’s Cronulla Club and Perth’s Melville Sharks.
On the girls side of the competition, Sydney Northern Beaches survived a late revival from Drummoyne Red with the winner coming from Emily Carr making the end score 9-8.
The Cronulla girls club dominated their semi-final game winning 9-5 against Perth’s Dolphins White. They will now face off against Sydney Northern Beaches in the grand final.

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The Balmain Tigers competing on home soil

This week in Australian Waterpolo saw Australia bow out in the quarter final stages of the FINA junior women’s championship but the young-guns of the team lead from the front.

Australia qualified for the quarter-finals after a seven goal haul from Balmain Tigers player, Kayle Leathem, leading to a 28-4 victory over Kazakhstan, however the USA took the crown from the reigning champions winning 9-4.

Australian head coach Peter Szilagyi was unhappy with the poor start and said “The mentally, better-prepared American team deserved to win.”

Leathem wasn’t the only youngster to when earlier in the week, 16 year-old Ash Southern, dominated Australia’s opening game scoring four goals for an 11-9 win over Spain.
Australia will now face off against Canada for fifth spot.

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