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Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Vol. 32, No. 24. October 2, 1969

[introduction]

Women's water-polo is a fun game. You are quite liable to get murdered: but it is a fun game.

It is played in Wellington, in a heated pool, on summer evenings after work is finished and lea is eaten. The men for some strange reason reckon we are hilarious: but standards are rising.

Luckily they have not risen far enough, so any female Varsity student with a pair of togs—one piece for safety reasons—can play in Wellington competition.

So it is strange that there are not more women water polo players at Victoria.

At Easter Tournament 69 we had six girls in the North Island team which brat South 4-1, with our captain Carol Quirk us North's captain.

Three of these graduated to the NZU team, with Carol again as captain, which the strong Canterbury provincial side heat 6-1. Unfortunately the Varsities team was only announced shortly before the game so there was no time for a practice.

Victoria only went down 5-1 to Canterbury in an unofficial game. This was good for a club side.

Coming attractions include the annual national water polo championships and tournament next March, and the inter-provincial competition.

There is also talk of sending a New Zealand women's team to Australia.

The Victoria women's team does not train like maniacs. Our primary need is not fitness, but just to get a team together now, before finals, and keep together. Then we might stand a good chance at Auckland's Tournament next year when we hope to become an official sport. Contact: Carol (Phone 27-82528) or Morna (Phone 886-592).

If Ever there was a game off skill, pace and sheer joie de vivre, this is it.

Water polo conceived, born and developed in England during the late 1869's as "water soccer" is now one of the most popular truly international sports played in pools throughout the world.

Within New Zealand it is not a mass sport like Rugby, but it does have some hundreds of devotees, and, of course, a close affinity with the thousands of competitive swimmers in the country.

On its own, water polo would be comparable in popularity with other such connoisseur sports as rowing and yachting, for it demands a high degree of skill and fitness, and is not an easy sport to master.