UWA Water Polo Club

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🐝🐝 Save the date - BUSY BEE - Saturday 19 September 2026 🐝🐝

Calling all club legends. Yes, you, you know who you are!

It's that time of year again, when the Polo Bears are lifted out of winter hibernation by the strong arms of our busy bees! As always, we're going to need all hands on deck this year to get OUR pool and surrounding areas spruced up and ready for the upcoming summer season of water polo.

As we say each year, many hands makes light work. And this year, there's lots of work to be done! So it would be great to see as many people as possible pop down to the pool and do your little bit for the club.

Those with whipper snippers, brooms, rakes, blowers and window wipers - please bring them along to assist.

Pop down and lend a hand. Hope to see you all there💪

Delegates will be in touch with their respective cohorts with further details.

🗓 Saturday 19 September 2025
⏰8am-9:30am
📍Water Polo Pool - Perth HPC
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🚨🚨 Aussie Sharks Debut Alert 🚨🚨

Congrats to our Club Captain, Ed Handley, who is making his debut versus Japan today.

We wish Ed and the boys all the best in the 2 game series.

Go Ed!

The Ord Minnett have landed in Japan! 🇦🇺🇯🇵🦈

The team are ready for a two-match test series against the hosts with National Development Squad members joining the international challenge 👏

⏰ The first match gets underway at 3:30pm AEST - good luck boys!

Australian Olympic Team

💦🤽 FLIPPABALL & DSC REGISTRATIONS ARE OPEN NOW! 🤽💦

It’s time to get your team together and get ready for another fantastic season at UWA Water Polo! 🔵⚪

🎉 Team registrations are OPEN now !!
🙌 Individual player registrations are OPEN now !!

Already have a team? Register using your Team ID.
No team yet? No problem! Register as an individual, tell us who you’d like to play with, and we’ll help find the right team for you.

🏐 FlippaBall – fun, fast and a brilliant introduction to water polo
🤽 DSC – the next step for young players ready for more action!

👉 REGISTER NOW and find all the details on our website:

💦 FlippaBall: uwawaterpolo.com.au/flippaball
🤽 DSC: uwawaterpolo.com.au/dsc

Grab your friends. Get your team together. Get in the pool! 💙

🚨 CLUB ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨

We would like to announce an exciting new chapter in the leadership of our Club!

Peter Hughes will step into the newly created role of Technical Director of Coaching, while continuing to serve as Club President. This appointment recognises Peter's deep coaching expertise and vision for elevating standards across all levels of the Club.

Peter's legacy with our Club runs deep:

🔹 A 100-game A-Grade player.

🔹 The driving force behind our Club's affiliation with the University of WA in 2016 and bringing the UWA Torpedoes AWL program under the Club's umbrella in 2014.

🔹 Led the UWA Torpedoes to a national championship win in 2016 and served as the inaugural Chairman of the Australian Water Polo League Advisory Committee for five years from 2017.

🔹 An accomplished coach at the elite level – before the national league existed coached our A-Grade team to its first premiership in 1989,

🔹 WA State U18 Boys' team coach.

🔹 A driving force behind our Club's high-performance regional expansion into the Mid-West.

🔹 Coach of the City Beach / UWA Men's Team of the Quarter Century (25 Years)

Peter will bring his wealth of coaching knowledge and elite-level experience to shape the technical and coaching direction of UWA Water Polo Club along with the implementation of the 2026/27 coaching plan.

Join us in congratulating Peter on this well-deserved appointment!

2026 World Aquatics Men’s U16 World Championships 💚💛🇦🇺 update

Congrats to Tommy Gamble and the team representing Australia in Zagreb over the last week. The boys had mixed results:

🇦🇺 AUS 11 - SLOVENIA 8 🇸🇮
🇦🇺 AUS 7 - CROATIA 15 🇭🇷
🇦🇺 AUS 10 - ROMANIA 6 🇷🇴
🇦🇺 AUS 4 - TURKEY 5 🇹🇷
🇦🇺 AUS 8 - ROMANIA 5 🇷🇴
🇦🇺 AUS 5 - GERMANY 10 🇩🇪

Final standings:
14th/out of 36 countries — Australia 🇦🇺

Well done Tommy. Polo Bear excellence on the world stage.

🌼 Spring is just around the corner…although someone forgot to tell our pool it’s still winter.

It’s been sitting at a beautiful 28°C all season, making those chilly Perth mornings and evenings just that little bit easier.

Warm water. Crystal-clear conditions. Blue skies. Spotless Pool. It really doesn’t get much better than this.

Whether you’re looking to take your game to the next level in our Winter Performance Programme, develop your skills through our Winter Academy, or you’re counting down to FlippaBall and DSC returning this summer, there’s never been a better time to be part of the UWA Water Polo Club.

💙 Where winter feels a little more like spring.

Congratulations to all athletes for gaining selection in the 2026 WA State teams. Well done to all our junior Polo Bears - we have strong representation across all the teams. Good luck to all of you - we can’t wait to see you in action at the upcoming 2026 National State Championships which will be held in Melbourne from 29 September – 3 October 2026.

🤽‍♀ 17U Girls:
Emily Elphick
Jemima Paterson

🤽‍♂17U Boys (Coached by Andrew Barber):
Essington Bailey
Stewart Bell
Joshua Bradbury
Lucas Bridle
Alejandro Calo
Thomas Gamble
Jack Gibson
Adam Glass
Hayden Jefferys
Ruben Seress
Tommy Steer
Jude Quinlivan (Reserve)

🤽‍♀ 15U Girls:
Halle Elphick
Elsa Engelbrecht
Lila Fraser
Harper Tan
Zoe Latham (Reserve)

🤽‍♂ 15U Boys (Coached by Greg Jones):
Will Burton
Sebastian Calo
Jacob Ferguson
Deion Fernando
Max Haigh
Samuel Lawrance
Zeike Nisbet
Angus Payne
Harry Williams

Our young athletes have worked hard work to earn this opportunity - now it's time to represent Western Australia with pride, determination and passion. We can't wait to see what all our athletes can achieve.

Let's get behind our girls and boys as they prepare for NSC! 👏

Congratulations to Alexia and the U16 Girls who finished 7️⃣th at the World Aquatics Water Polo Championships in Zagreb, Croatia 💪

The team went right down to the wire with New Zealand in the 7th/8th playoff, with Australia edging a thrilling 8–7 victory. 💪

📷 Image courtesy of Water Polo Australia