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he water polo team at Phillips Academy differentiates itself from many other water polo programs in the league: It is made up not only of boys on the swim team trying to get extra training in their off-season, but boys who are dedicated to the sport of water polo. Every day, both groups come together with the same intent of pushing themselves mentally and physically. In an almost all-shallow pool with barely enough room to practice fullscale water polo formations used in other schools’ larger pools, the team has to exercise an increased ability to focus in order to stay off the bottom and to squeeze every bit out of the small space. This season, the team gained an invaluable gift of two veteran coaches with an incredibly formidable amount of experience between them. Coach Dan O’Shea, having played very competitive water polo at Connecticut College, came to Andover a year ago and proceeded to lead the girls’ team to a New England title. Coach Cory Olcott, who played water polo at Northwestern Uni-
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versity, helped coach the Stanford University women’s varsity program, one of the most competitive women’s teams in the nation, and also started several high school programs in the Bay area. With the addition of these two coaches, along with one of the most knowledgeable and experienced coaches in the league, David Fox, the team looks forward to improving over the coming years. This season we sought to kick start our status among the other teams in the league by organizing post-practice workouts in the diving well, which has greatly contributed to both the closeness of the team as well as leaving more time during practice to focus on skills under the expert tutelage of our coaches. With depth and a diverse assortment of talents and abilities, the team is hopeful and determined to finish the season well. —Henry Kennelly ’13 and Travis Bouscaren ’14
Boys Varsity Water Polo Roster
1A Rome Arnold ’14 / New York, NY 1B Alexander Sweeting ’14 / Nassau, BHS 2 Andries Feder ’13 / Oyster Bay, NY * 3 Henry Kennelly ’13 / Manchester, MA * 4 Travis Bouscaren ’14 / Cambridge, MA 5 Dong Heon Cho ’14 / Seoul, KOR 6 Joseph Faller ’14 / North Reading, MA 7 Peter Fanikos ’14 / Andover, MA 8 Scott Simpson ’14 / Beaconsfield, QC, CAN 9 Andrew Yang ’14 / Taipei, TWN 10 Alexander Li ’15 / Riverside, CT 11 Christopher Li ’15 / Riverside, CT 12 Alfred Neumann ’15 / Point Clear, AL 13 Marc Sevastopoulo ’15 / New York, NY 14 Nicholas Faulkner ’16 / Homer, AK *Captains Coaches: David Fox, Cory Olcott, Dan O’Shea Managers: Amelia Danovitch ’13, John French ’13, Corinna Torabi ’14, Timothy Wynter ’14