Titans General Manager to Take On New Challenges!

At last month Board Meeting, Ms. Deanna Barry, our Club General Manager, announced her intentions to step down as GM, at a date to be determined in order to ensure a smooth transition, so that she can pursue new and challenging endeavours.  Ms. Barry has agreed however to keep "the door open" to consider maintaining some of the responsibilities she handled prior to her nomination as the Club GM two years ago.  This would allow the Board to minimize the impact on Club operations, and assign, on an interim basis, a manager for its competitive program.

Deanna's contribution to the Club's successes has been tremendous and vital to our growth, and words alone cannot express our gratitude towards her ongoing commitment and professionalism.  While her decision to leave her position comes as a shock to many, we also recognize that a person of her calibre needs to undertake new challenges.  It is therefore with much regret that we wish her the best in her new undertakings, and that we, as a Club, need to address the new way forward.

Over the course of the next week, the Board will therefore seek applications for the position of a Competitive Program Manager for the remaining part of the 2008-2009 competitive season (23 Feb – 28 August 2009).  A job opportunity will be advertized on our website, and in the water polo community at large.

Please join me in wishing Ms. Barry the best in her new endeavours!

JP Caron

Club President

Employment Opportunity: Titans Seeks Competitive Program Manager

Titans Water Polo seeks applications for the position of Competitive Program Manager for the remainder of the 2008-2009 competitive season (Feb 23- Aug 28/ 09). Further details can be found here: http://titanswp.hypermart.net/Titans200809/TitansWaterPoloCompetitiveProgramManagerEmploymentOpportunity.pdf.



Another Successful Titans tournament!
Submitted by Bev Davis, Tournament Director

The Titans Invitational Tournament held this past weekend ran smoothly and largely on schedule.  I want to thank all the minor officials who helped out during the weekend as well as those who helped out in the hospitality suite and those who brought food, it was much appreciated. The referees did a great job too.  Special thanks to Paul Hebert for organizing the minor officials and putting in long hours to train volunteers and ensure the games ran smoothly; to Brian Millar for helping out on deck and in the hospitality suite throughout the weekend; to Linda Shaw for organizing and running the hospitality suite; to Rhonda Ricketts for supporting Linda in the hospitality suite; to Wendy Branson for helping out on deck; to Nancy Frazer and her daughter Laura for producing the tournament program; to Sue Sidebottom for helping with the Polo software and to Deanna Barry for her ongoing support with tournament organization. And of course a big thank you to my husband and other spouses whose support allowed us workers to be at the pool most of the weekend!

Results and photos from the Titans Invitational can be found on the tournaments page on the club website.  Be sure to check out the Photo Gallery for some great action from the weekend!  If anyone has additional photos they would like to contribute to the photo gallery, you can send them to webmaster Greg Sidebottom at gsidebottom@gmail.com.

Titans 2009 SUMMER CAMP Announcement

The Titans Water Polo summer camp is targeted to competitive athletes born 1994-1997 who are not already participating in provincial or national summer programs. Older/ younger athletes may be accepted with special permission. All athletes will attend a Sunday evening pool session at which time they will be streamed into working groups by our coaching staff based on gender, developmental age and skill. Note that we have reduced capacity to 80 athletes (which means the Camp will fill to capacity much sooner). 

Registration is available only to Titans families until April 30, at which time it will be open to players from other clubs as well. Note early bird deadline of May 1 if you would like to save $$ on registration fees. 

The link for the brochure and program information can be found here: http://titanswp.hypermart.net/Titans200809/Camps/2009TitansSummerCampBrochure.pdf  For further information, please contact Titans General Manager Deanna Barry at INFO@titanswaterpolo.ca or 613-741-1224.


New - OWPL Photo Gallery

Our webmaster has posted a photo gallery from the Ottawa Water Polo League on the club website.  You can find it by clicking on the "Leagues" button, or go directly there by clicking on Pictures.  Thanks again to Yew Lee for sharing his photos.


Titans Rachel Stein to Play for University of Maryland in Fall 2009

Congratulations to Rachel Stein, who has accepted an athletic scholarship and signed a National Letter of Intent to play NCAA Division 1 water polo at the University of Maryland beginning the fall of 2009.  She will be studying Materials Science and Engineering and has been invited into their University Honors program.  Rachel is excited to become a "Terp" and is grateful to David Hart and all of her Titans coaches for their support and guidance over the last seven years. The University of Maryland news release can be found at:  http://umterps.cstv.com/sports/w-wpolo/spec-rel/121508aab.html


Former Ottawa Titans Water Polo Athlete named 2008 All American Athlete
Submitted by Rennie Marcoux
 
The Ottawa Titans Water Polo Association is proud to note that a former Titans, Alex Moggridge, was named All American Athlete by the US Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) for the 2008 season. 

Alex graduated from the Titans in 2006/07 and is now a business major at Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania.  An attacker with the Mercyhurst Lakers men's water polo team, Alex was recognized for his outstanding contribution to the team with a season highlight of 23 games played, 51 steals, 63 goals (a school record) and 93 points (another school record), finishing the season with an average of 2.74 goals per game.  Alex ranks 6th overall in the CWPA in goals per game and 18th overall in total goals scored.   Alex, along with two other teammates from the Mercyhurst Lakers, was one the 18 athletes selected to the 2008 All-America Teams.  Their coach was also named Coach of the Year.
 
This recognition represents the highest award presented to a US collegiate player for his or her performance.  Nominees for the club All-America team are nominated by their coaches near the end of the season and voted upon by all the collegiate club coaches in the US.  

Alex will be returning to Ottawa to play with some of his former Titans teammates in the March 19-22 national championships for U22, to be held at Carleton University (more details will be announced at titanswaterpolo.ca in the near future). 

On behalf of the Titans family, we would like to extend our sincere congratulations to Alex for his achievements.