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The 31st Annual Victoria UWH Potluck Tournament will be held:

Date:  Saturday, January 16, 2010
Registration time:  9-9:30am that morning; then teams will be created
Pool time:  10:30-5pm
Pool:  Saanich Commonwealth Pool:  http://www.gov.saanich.bc.ca/resident/recreation/scp.html

Hope to see you there!

Underwater hockey is cancelled this Friday, June 11.  July 18 and 25th are still on.  Hope to see good turnouts (I could use a good game or two).  There are no practice on Wednesdays.

Wednesday June 18 is hockey as usual.  Friday June 20 is cancelled.

Mark

Let’s practice some of the plays in Nick’s book tonight, so…have a glance at your training manuals over coffee break, (set plays, offensive free pucks, etc.), or if you’re like me, you can read up on it as you drive to practice. Perhaps a safer idea is to just bring your manual along tonight. Learning and enacting these plays will be fun!

Saanich Commonwealth Place will close at 4:00 PM on Good Friday - Friday, March 21. Underwater Hockey will be canceled that evening.

This is the only response so far from SCP about possible March cancellations. All the other times look good at this point.

Today the first underwater rugby game in BC playing with official CMAS rules and an official red ball from Germany was played in Oak Bay Recreation Centre in Victoria BC.

Highlights of the game include:

The Blue team led by Nick the Brit faking a handoff and scoring an open net goal on Big Jim. Nick was his usual self showing strategy and unsurpassed conditioning that led his blue team to ultimate victory.

The ladies: Sarah, Melissa and Pattie proved that coeds belong in this spot. Sarah disregarded the fourth commandment and pushed off her father’s chest with both her feet while holding the ball with a vice grip. Patti gripped the ball like a barnacle causing minute long underwater scrums that exhausted everyone. Melissa was in the mix and did not back down from any tussle what-so- ever,  even after a midnight nursing shift..

Andrew amazingly managed to push a ball into the goal with Big Jim giving him a Heimlich maneuver and blocking the goal with his big old old bod.

Stuart got a break away goal on Nick and was in on every play. Stuart’s arms encircled his opponents like a hungry giant squid looking at supper.

So much  fun was had by all,  that folks want to continue with this game. A big thanks to Big Jim for his ferocity and for his generosity in covering pool costs. Way to go guys!

For those of you that are interested. We’ve now posted all our training resources to our website. Be sure to check them out. They will live permanently on the left hand sidebar under “training downloads”.