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Water polo is an intensely aggressive sport, so fouls are very common and result in a free throw during which the player cannot shoot at the goal unless outside the 6 meter line. If a foul is called outside the 6 meter line, the player may either shoot (in one movement, ie without faking), pass or continue swimming with the ball.
Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal .
Alexander "Alex" Obert (/ ˈ oʊ b ər t / OH-bərt; born December 18, 1991) [1] was born in Loomis, CA and is an American water polo player. [2] He was a part of Team USA at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where the team finished in tenth place. Obert plays Center and is also currently listed as the captain of Team USA. [3]
[2] [3] She began playing water polo at age eight, joining the local Riverside Water Polo club before later moving to the SoCal Water Polo club. [4] She showed talent in the sport from a young age; when she was 12, she was chosen for the U.S. team at the Pan American Junior Championships, where she was against players as old as 19. [5]
[5] [6] In 2016, she became the first African-American woman to make the US Olympic team in water polo. She was part of the gold-medal winning 2016 and 2020 U.S. women's water polo Olympic teams, and earned a spot on the 2024 U.S. women's water polo Olympic team. [7] [8] She is a 2017 graduate of Princeton University. She is 6'1" tall and her ...
At age 39, she was the oldest women water polo player at the Olympic Games, helping the US women win an Olympic silver medal. She has coached water polo at Rio Hondo College in Whittier, California and at UC Berkeley from 1995 to 1997, and has a master's degree in education. In April 2006, Maureen O'Toole, was selected as a 2006 United States ...
Once upon a time, in a far away land called England, a young Prince decided to play for the university water polo team and donned a Speedo that was abnormally high up on his waist.
Twenty years later, he coached the United States men's national team to a silver in 2008, [6] becoming one of a few sportspeople who won Olympic medals in water polo as players and head coaches. In 1999, Schroeder was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame. [7] [8] In 2002, he was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. [9]