Hawkes Bay Water Polo

Boys in action at the 2026 U16 Sunny Bay Tournament! ☀️🤽🏼‍♂️

Plenty of great water polo, tough competition, and awesome development across the weekend. 💙

Bring on next year! 💪🏼

Girls in action at the 2026 U16 Sunny Bay Tournament! ☀️🤽‍♀️

Plenty of great water polo, tough competition, and awesome development across the weekend. 💙

A few action shots of the girls doing what they love! 🔥

☀️🤽 2026 U16 SUNNY BAY TOURNAMENT 🤽☀️

What a weekend! A huge THANK YOU to everyone who helped make our 2026 U16 Sunny Bay Tournament such a success! 💙

Most importantly, thank you to all of the teams who travelled to Hawke’s Bay and supported our tournament. We loved having you here and seeing so many young athletes getting valuable game time, developing their water polo, and enjoying a great weekend of competition.

Most importantly, thank you to all of the teams who travelled to Hawke’s Bay and supported our tournament. We loved having you here and seeing so many young athletes getting valuable game time, developing their water polo and enjoying a great weekend of competition.

A massive congratulations to our 2026 medal winners! 🏅

GIRLS
🥇 Hutt
🥈 TGA U16 Girls
🥉 Harbour City Girls
4th – HB Girls
5th – HB U14s
6th – TGA U14s

BOYS
🥇 Harbour City Boys
🥈 HB Black
🥉 TGA U16 Boys
4th – Hutt Boys
5th – HB White
6th – Manawatu Mako
7th – TGA U14 Boys

Congratulations to every team that took part. While the medals are always exciting, Sunny Bay is also about creating more opportunities for our young players to compete, learn, and develop — and there was plenty of that on display across the weekend! 👏

Thank you to Hutt, Tauranga, Harbour City, and Manawatu for making the trip and continuing to support our Sunny Bay tournaments. We really appreciate having your clubs involved and hope you enjoyed your time here in the Bay!

See you at the next Sunny Bay! 💙🤽

GOOD LUCK to Havelock North Intermediate who are currently competing at the AIMS games in Tauranga!

Go hard team! HBWP backs you!! 🤽🏼‍♂️🤽🏼‍♀️

🤽🏼‍♂️🌞 U16 Sunny Bay Tournament STARTS TODAY!! 🌞🤽🏼‍♀️

If you are free this weekend, come on down to HBRAC to support our teams competing in this tournament!

Thank you to the following clubs for supporting our annual competition here in the Bay!

Bring on an awesome weekend!

Throwback Thursday! 🤽🏼‍♂️🤽🏼‍♀️🦘

A year ago today, we were in Queensland at the beautiful pool of St Andrew's Anglican College on our WP tour!

Bring on the next one!

💦 PRIMARY SCHOOL PLAYERS — COME AND SUPPORT MAX THIS SUNDAY! 🇳🇿🤽‍♂️

We’d love to see as many of our Year 3–6 Flippa Ball players as possible at Splash Labs this Sunday!

This week’s session is extra special. 💙 Every $5 entry will go directly towards helping Max get across the ditch to represent New Zealand at the Australian State Championships! 🇳🇿🇦🇺

Max has made HBWP HISTORY as the first Hawke’s Bay Water Polo athlete to be selected for a New Zealand team — and now our younger players have the chance to jump in the pool with him, learn some new skills and help support his journey!

📅 This Sunday
⏰ 2:00–2:45pm
📍 HB Regional Aquatic Centre
💵 $5 CASH per player
👦👧 Open to ALL Year 3–6 Flippa Ball players

Come along, have some fun, learn from Max and help us get behind one of our own!

🇳🇿 LET’S GET BEHIND MAX! 🇳🇿

THE LOCAL THROW DOWN TOURNAMENT IS BACK! 🤽🏼‍♂️🤽🏼‍♀️

Get your school involved! This tournament is open to Year 9–13 Boys and Girls teams and is a great opportunity to get students back in the pool ahead of Term 4.

Tournament Details
Dates: Friday 18th – Sunday 20th September
Venue: Hawke’s Bay Regional Aquatic Centre
Tournament Format – can be found on the registration form.

IMPORTANT – REGISTRATIONS CLOSE WEDNESDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER

🤽🏼‍♂️ BATTLE OF THE BAYS! 🤽🏼‍♀️

Our internal league, Battle of the Bays, is in full swing! And to top it off, our athletes all have their new shirts!👕

This league has been awesome to create great bonds within our club - mixing athletes from U16s through to Seniors/Masters!! They have now completed one round robin and will do one more before finals!!

Who will come out on top?? 🏆