Oh no! It's Over..

Today's victory against Fremont marked the end of our 2009-2010 Saratoga High School waterpolo season. I'd honestly been looking forward to it since almost the beginning of the season. But I found that when it finally came, it was bittersweet. At the very beginning of the season I found myself frustrated, bored, and tired of waterpolo. I even went as far as to question why I even did the sport. It just seemed like a waste of time to me.

How much has changed since then. Now I find myself loving the sport again, our whole team are bros, and I'm honestly sad to find that it's all over. I'm going to miss the seniors when they graduate, not gonna lie.

Now that I'm done sentimental-izing, I've got a shoutout for my sport. For all of you out there who think waterpolo is an easy wo-man sports, think again. I doubt that any of you can make it through our warmup, an easy 400 yard swim with some eggbeater (treading) and passing. That's the easy part. I'm sure any of our team could do another sport's warmup. Take football. We can run a lap, do some stretching, maybe some jumping jacks. No big deal. Let's see.. Golf. Uh. Do golfers warm up? Then there's.. track. Track's pretty tough actually. One of those underrated sports where you actually need to be conditioned. You can't get by in track on athletic ability and fitness. Anyways, besides the warmup, there are the actual waterpolo games. You're trying to shoot a big yellow ball into a medium sized cage with a big bear man inside it while other bear men maul you and drown you while you're trying to score. Daunting.