Separating Neat Breath: Autoethnography Water-Polo The strongest feeling any water-polo player feels about their love and passion for the game is sportsmanship and the closeness of the team. Through the smell of chlorine. The echoing chants. Cheers and splashing making the player feel and fully realize that they are in a water-polo game. Coaches distantly yelling from both sides of the pool “It’s not over yet, keep pushing.”. The strong humid air surrounding you heating you up until near exhaustion, your eyes fogged up to the point where the only thing you can see is the goal and the ball. The pool is my life, my passion. My team is the core of my day and the true meaning of friendship. Through thick and thin, lost games and the worst games,
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Mostly because the team is small, consisting of 9 players in a game that requires 7 to be in the pool at one time. Our small team results in both positive and negative ramifications, we are kept ready and prepared forced to spend every small amount of practice time conditioning. To be able to have only two subs at one time is stressful for those that cannot swim as well as the top tier of the team who have played full games for three years in a row. Though having the smallest team in the league is sometimes a serious hindrance to our team's overall play and success, it brings us together as a team and makes the team have one of the most important traits in water-polo and that is teamwork as well as trust in one another. In an interview with a referee, I asked if she had played water polo in her high school years and how it has changed in comparison to today’s game. “They are still out there working as a team and out there having fun, that is how it was for me.” (Jen). In the interview, her most stressed point was that the teams know they are a team and treat each other like they would family. That is exactly what the team I am apart of focuses on most and is why I am able to connect so well to the game and team I
Mostly because the team is small, consisting of 9 players in a game that requires 7 to be in the pool at one time. Our small team results in both positive and negative ramifications, we are kept ready and prepared forced to spend every small amount of practice time conditioning. To be able to have only two subs at one time is stressful for those that cannot swim as well as the top tier of the team who have played full games for three years in a row. Though having the smallest team in the league is sometimes a serious hindrance to our team's overall play and success, it brings us together as a team and makes the team have one of the most important traits in water-polo and that is teamwork as well as trust in one another. In an interview with a referee, I asked if she had played water polo in her high school years and how it has changed in comparison to today’s game. “They are still out there working as a team and out there having fun, that is how it was for me.” (Jen). In the interview, her most stressed point was that the teams know they are a team and treat each other like they would family. That is exactly what the team I am apart of focuses on most and is why I am able to connect so well to the game and team I