TheQuestFor  100

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SH Water Polo News

Playing for various clubs in the SOPAC Zone, 11 Lancers were honored for their academic excellence while participating in water polo at the national level.

To see a full list of Lancers named to the USWP AAA click here. 

Kim and Oba were instrumental in the Sunny Hills undefeated Freeway League Championship as well as its run to the Division V final four.  As valedictorians they have raised the bar on our standards of excellence to all new heights!  Way to go guys!

Be sure to check out the amazing Class of 2010 on our college acceptance list at the middle center of this page to see where our Lancers are going to school!

Congratulations Justin!

Huang, who played goalie for the Lancers this past year was elected to the prestigious position of "Guardian Lancer"  this past season. 

Huang is a mathematical statistics enthusiast, and will be among UCSB's first ever year class to major in Actuarial Science. 

Actuarial Science is the discipline that applies math and statistics to assess risk usually within industries like insurance and finance. 

Congratulations Steve, we are very proud!

Members have to maintain a GPA over 3.5, be a leader, and be involved with their community.  NHS members also serve globally as the organization encourages involvement in world issues such as Haitian Earthquake Relief.

Sunny Hills Water Polo is very proud of these Lancers.  Congratulations guys!

There are 6 All Southern California teams, as voted on by coaches from Santa Barbara to San Clemente, Hoetker was voted to the 5th team.  One other Freeway League Player, (Kate Kammer from Troy 6th team) was named to the All SoCal Team.

In addition, assistant coach, Alex Su (class of  '04) was also named to the list for his outstanding commitment to the Sunny Hills Water Polo Program.

It is now post season awards time and in the next few weeks we expect several Lady Lancers to be named to various league and CIF honors.

In defeating the Terriers, the Lancers showed a tremendous defensive effort holding Redlands to just one first quarter goal.

The win gives the Lancers their 3rd straight trip to Final Four, (D-VI in 2008, D-V 2009 and D-V in 2010.)

Sunny Hills will play Los Osos on Wednesday, February 24th at 3:30.  The game will be played at the Woollett Center in Irvine.

Trailing 5-4 entering the fourth quarter, the Lancers converted on two 6 on 5's, a natural from 2 meters, a penalty shot, and then clamped down the defense.

Friday the Lancers take it on the road to Beaumont High School, (California, not Texas) where they will play Redlands High School.

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Posting a 10-0 league record, the third in school history (2005, 2007 and 2010) the Lancers also set the record for team victories with 23 for the season, (23-4.)

CIF starts next Wednesday at Fullerton College as Sunny Hills will have the first round home game.

Final League Standings

Additionally Shin was 1st team All Freeway League in 2009 and 2nd team All Freeway League in 2008. Shin has led the Lancers to two straight final four appearances and the Freeway League Championship this season.

 Recently, Shin  had 20 saves in the championship clinching game against Troy on February 3rd.

Shin joins former Lancer, Jessica Ajoux ('03-Princeton) as Sunny Hills players to go to the Ivy League!  Congratulations Sarah!

With two games remaining, only Troy could match the Lady Lancers record and by virtue of the two league wins over Troy, Sunny Hills owns the tie breaker.

Entering the final week of Freeway League competition the standings show the Lancers with a two game lead and control of the tie breaker.

Tied 4-4 after four quarters, the Lancers went on to out score Troy 4-1 in the overtime period.

With three Freeway League games remaining, here are the standings:

Both teams came out swinging scoring a combined 10 goals in the first period, with the Lancers holding a 6-4 lead.

Sunny Hills had balanced scoring and strong defense over the final  three quarters.

Standings after the first round of Freeway League play

"At this stage of the year, experience is what the team is looking for, we are pretty much willing to play anyone, anywhere, if we can learn the game a little bit more," noted Coach N.

Trailing 9-8, the Lancers score with :43 remaining to tie the game and then scored the only goal of overtime with :51 remaining in the OT period.

At a time when college admission is not a guarantee, YOUR coaching staff will help you use your water polo experience to get into college.  You still have to study and do your homework, but the hours you spend in the pool mean a tremendous amount when it comes time to explain what you offer a college or university.

Yes, water polo can help you get into college, get you priority class scheduling, and provide other advantages for you when it comes time to do college applications.

Are you an 11th grader this season?  College apps are just around the corner.  Be sure to check with Coach N to see how you can use your water polo experience here at Sunny Hills in your college application process.

For more information e-mail here.  

On December 29th Sunny Hills defeated Palm Desert High School 12-3.  The win was Coach Nighswonger's 200th career girls victory.

Former Lady Lancer Gretchen Williams '07 has accepted a scholarship to play water polo at Wagner College in New York.  Williams who played two years at Fullerton College was a solid defender in her years at Sunny Hills.

Alex Su '04 has been accepted to Duke Law School.  "Coach Su" has been helping in the Lancer Water Polo program this year, he will be attending Law School in the summer.

Arlington, #2 is Division V CIF started strong scoring the games first four goals.  The Lady Lancers drew 12 exclusions but could only convert on two of them.

The Quest For 100 is the attempt to play 100 games before next Fall's high school season.  100 games is the equivalent of over three high school seasons and the Lancers are accepting the challenge in order to increase the team's experience level.

15 Lancers attended the scrimmages on Saturday morning.

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