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Sunny Hills Water Polo, Swimming & Diving 

"Sunny Hills Water Polo-It's not some game I play, it's what I am"

 

Celebrating Five Decades of Water Polo at SHHS

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Something To Shoot For
Career
Player yr goals
Amanda Solis '09 '10 '11 '12 364
Alex Hoetker '08 '09 '10 '11 333
Josh Klein '04 '05 '06 '07 208

Season
Christina McEwen  2005 132
Brittany Cornwell 2008 129
Alex Hoetker 2011 122
Amanda Solis 2010 109
Josh Klein  2006 108
Alex Hoetker 2010 107
Amanda Solis 2011 104
Amanda Solis 2012 103
Collin Layana 2011 102
Josh Klein 2007 100
Blake Cornwell 2005 100

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Guardian Lancers

2012
Lexie Benoit '12
Tatiana Tuccio '12
Connie Garcia '13
Alex Paxton '12
Collin Layana '12
Tanner Hart '13
Nick Loomis '14

2011

Kevin Benoit '11
Mike Asendorf '13

2010

Alex Su '04
Kat Cerasuolo '11
Jordan Klein '11
Alex Hoetker '11
Amanda Solis '12
Steve Huang '10
Scott Ninokawa '11

2009
Andrew Lim  '09
Carlie Lyng '09
Devan Lyng '09
Sarah Shin '10
Rachel Lee '10
AmandaRinaTuccio '10

2008
Alyssa Pecora '08
Gretchen Williams '08
Katelyn Forester '08
Jesse Klein '09
Philip Hodge '08
Ryan Sheikh '09
Andy Matsuyama '08

2007
Ariel Gentalen '08
Rachel Vinus-Glazer '07
Cynthia DeWees '07
Jazzmyn Benitez '07
Brittany Cornwell '09
Jordan Bonifacio '07
ScottSmithMatungol'08
Aaron Ninokawa '08

2006
Karina Toriz '07

2005
Jennifer Crampton '05
Sarah Shawesh '05
Shauna Sinclair '05
Cindy Cheng '06
Shannon McEwen '07
Bobby Verry '05
Joe Choi '05
Peter Ahn '07

2004
Amber Tice '05
Christina McEwen '05 
Jesse Meyer '04

2003
Linda Kim '04
Sam Chang '05
Jon Kim '04

2002
Margaret Lim '03
Jessica Ajoux '03
Nicole Layana '03


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Snny Hills Water Polo 

The Only Thing Missing Is "U"

Welcome to SHwaterpolo.com, the official site of Sunny Hills Water Polo. On this site, you can find out about training schedules, game times and other important information regarding Sunny Hills Water Polo

The Guardian Lancer Award
The highest award that a player can receive in our program is the Guardian Lancer Award.  Are you ALWAYS there for us?  We hope that at some point in a Lancer Water Polo player's career, he or she grows to sense the meaning of being a Water Polo player at Sunny Hills High School.  At that point he or she crosses over the line from being a player to someone who seeks a legacy.  A point where that player understands the traditions, standards and principles that we are about.  At this point that player puts aside personal goals, personal agendas and the "what's in it for me" attitude that all humans possess, and becomes one who seeks to protect the integrity of what we do.  This person understands that our team goals are in place to make everybody a better person, and this player seeks to protect those goals. This person makes sure the overall program progresses.  This person is concerned about the overall picture, this person cares about the legacy that he or she will leave.  This person is the role model for other players in the program who are searching for an identity. Is Sunny Hills Water Polo Your Number One thing?  This person has become a Guardian of our program.

Sunny Hills Water Polo is about tradition.  Boys have played Water Polo at Sunny Hills for 50 years, (1960-2010,) Girls have played Water Polo at Sunny Hills for ten years. It is about doing things right in all facets of one's life.  When enough people do enough things the right way, the winning becomes a natural manifestation. 

Things we are proud of:

  • All Of The Good People This Program Has Produced

  • 4 CIF Championships (Boys)

  • 14 Times CIF Runner Up (Boys)

  • 30 Freeway League Championships (Boys)

  • 24 Straight Freeway League Championships (Boys) 1969-1993

  • Freeway League Champions 2001, 2005, 2007 and Oh Baby 2010! (Girls)

  • Freeway League Championship Boys 2007!

  • (3) CIF Final Four (Semi Finals) '08, '09 and '10

  • (2) CIF Quarter Finals '05 & '07 (Girls)

  • CIF Playoff Qualifiers 10 times (Girls)

  • Jessica Ajoux Freeway League Female Athlete Of The Year-2003

  • Amada Solis (109 goals,) and Alex Hoetker (107 goals) during 2009-2010 season!

  • Christina McEwen Leading Scorer In Orange County (132 goals)-2005

  • Josh Klein Freeway League Player Of the Year 2007

  • Shannon McEwen Freeway League Player Of the Year 2007

  • Shannon McEwen 8th Team All American 2007

  • Christina McEwen Freeway League Player Of the Year-2005

  • Alex Hoetker Freeway League Player Of the Year-2010

  • Omar Amr '92, 2004 United States Olympian (Water Polo)

 

Congratulations!

  • Jill Lomheim '97-2008 Hacienda-La Puente School District Teacher of The Year

  • Jill Lomheim '97-2008 Los Angeles County Teacher of The Year

  • Adriel Huesereau '02 (Seaworld-Shamu's Trainer!)

  • Andrew Tinseth '90 (Dad)

  • Edwin Barrera '98 (Coach-Florida District 5  Champions Boys and Girls)

  • Dr. Omar Amr '92  

  • Dr. Sarah Sinclair '00

  • Carlo Franzia '93 (Dad x 2)

Congratulations Classes Of 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2003

Julia Vanderpool '12-Notre Dame College of Ohio

Kevin Benoit '11-Lehigh University 

Matt Luka '11-Western Washington U

Kevin Ly '11-UC Riverside

Kody Lyng '11-Colgate University

Scot Ninokawa '11-UCLA

Mayra Davilla '11-San Diego State U

Alex Hoetker '11-Cal State Northridge

Rachel Lee '10 Long Beach State 

Amy Oba '10 UCSD (Pre Med)

Grace Kim '10 UCLA (Pre Dental)

Sarah Oh '10 Biola University

Amanda Rina Tuccio '10 Fullerton CC

Elaine Chiang '10 UCLA

Justin Yoo'10-UCLA

Steven Huang '10-UC Santa Barbara

Sarah Shin '10-Brown University

Devan Lyng '09-University of Colorado

Ryan Sheikh '09-Air Force Academy

Carlie Lyng '09-Cal State Long Beach

Taylor Atnip '09-Colorado School of Mines

Phillip Hodge'08-Stanford

Alyssa Pecora '08-Cal State Monterey Bay

Shannon McEwen '07-UC Santa Barbara

Cindy Cheng'06-Long Beach State

Kevin Hong '06-UC Berkely

Blake Cornwell '06-Fullerton CC/?

Christina McEwen '05-Loyola Marymount

Sam Chang '05-Harvard

Jennifer Crampton '05-Cal Poly Pomona

Amber Tice '05-Cal. State Fullerton

Joe Choi '05-Annapolis (Naval Academy)

Shawn Jun '04-US Naval Academy

Jon Kim '04-Pomona Pitzer

Alex Su '04-Pomona Pitzer

Jesse Meyer '04-Mt. San Antonio

Mike Peltzer '04-UC Irvine

Sarah Kim '04-University of Hawaii

Linda Kim '04-Fullerton UCLA 

Jessica Ajoux '03-Princeton

Margaret Lim '03-UC Irvine

Nicole Layana '03-UC Irvine

We Are Saddened

 

Sunny Hills Boy's Water Polo. 2005 Freeway League Season

Sunny Hills Girl's Water Polo.  2005 Freeway League Champions, & CIF Quarterfinalists 

 

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SH Water Polo News
5/24/12-Aquatics Shines At Lancer Night. Sunny Hills Aquatics was once again well represented at the annual "Lancer Night" award ceremony at Fullerton's Plummer Auditorium on Wednesday night.  Numerous Swimmers, Water Polo Players and Divers received various academic awards.

Amanda Solis was honored as the Sunny Hills Overall Athlete of The Year and Collin Layana was named the Male Athlete of The Year.  Lexi Benoit showed why she is a superstar on campus as she was named the Sunny Hills Scholar Athlete of the Year!

What a tremendous showing for our entire aquatics program!
3/08/12-Four New Guardians Announced At Girls Water Polo Banquet. Sunny Hills Water Polo announced the names of its three newest Guardian Lancers at the Girl's Water Polo Banquet on Wednesday night.  Lexie Benoiot, ('12) Tatiana Tuccio,  ('12) Connie Garcia ('13) and Alex Paxton ('13) were recognized for their outstanding leadership and their "guardian like" regard for the Sunny Hills Water Polo Program.

The Guardian Lancer Award is the top leadership award given in the water polo program. Candidates are selected by other Guardians. 

Sunny Hills Water Polo does not select captains, it requires players to first demonstrate leadership.  To find out more about this honor, please read the bottom of this page.

Amanda Solis, Lexie Benoit and CC Lundy earned All Freeway and All CIF honors.  Julia Vanderpool, Tatiana Tuccio and Alex Paxton were named to the All Freeway League 2nd team.
2/18/12-Lady Lancers Run Ends In Quarter Finals-Harvard Westlake defeated Sunny Hills 13 to 5 in the quarterfinal match of the division 4 CIF playoffs ending a strong run by the Lancers.

Sunny Hills, after finishing a close second in the Freeway League, defeated Nipomo High School 18-6 in the first round of the playoffs setting up a much anticipated rematch with Harvard Westlake who earlier defeated Sunny Hills 9-8.  HW proved to be a very worthy opponent and pulled away in the game after a close first quarter.
2/04/12-Two Lancer Wins Set Up Championship Showdown-The Sunny Hills Lady Lancers picked up two key Freeway League wins during the last week of January.  On Tuesday, January 31st, Sunny Hills defeated Buena Park 11-6 in spectacular fashion.  The Lady Lancers played easily their best match of the season, soundly defeating a very strong Buena Park team, (#7 in CIF DIV.)

On Thursday, February 2nd, Sunny Hills defeated Sonora 19-2.

The two wins set up a clash for the Freeway League top spot with cross town rival Troy High School on Tuesday, February 7th.storeclosed.htm
1/30/12-Need Swim Gear?  Check Out The Lancer Online Team Gear Page-Lancers looking to purchase swim equipment like suits and fins can shop online by clicking the link at the top of this page.  The store will be open until midnight on Feb. 5th.  CLICK HERE TO SHOP
1/27/12-Lancers Win Two-Sunny Hills got back on track, winning a pair of league games last week.  Sunny Hills defeated Fullerton High School 16-1 and then defeated La Habra High 22-8.  The wins put the Lancers in second place with a league record of 5 and 1.  The Lancers have a 19 and 5 overall record.
1/18/12-Lancers Lose Heart Breaker-Troy High School got a late lob shot to earn a hard fought 7-6 victory over the Lady Lancers on Tuesday.  The game saw several lead changes and some outstanding play by both teams.

The victory over Sunny Hills puts Troy in the Freeway League driver seat for now, with a much anticipated match up at Troy coming up on Feb. 7.

The victory for Troy over Sunny Hills, is just the 2nd win over the Lancers since 2004.
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Troy 0 1 3 3 7
SunnyHills 1 2 0 3 6
 

Freeway League Standings 1/18/12
  W L
1. Troy 4 0
2. Sunny Hills 3 1
3. Buena Park 2 2
4. La Habra 2 2
5. Sonora 1 3
6. Fullerton 0 4
1/17/12-Vanderpool Announces She Will Attend Notre Dame College of Ohio- Lady Lancer Goalie, Julia Vanderpool has announced that she will attend Nortre Dame College of Ohio starting in the fall of 2012.  Vanderpool, who has been the Lancers starting goalie for the past 2 seasons made her announcement this morning on OCvarsity.com
1/15/12-Solis Closing In On Scoring Record- Lady Lancer, Amanda Solis is quickly closing in on the Lady Lancer record for career goals.  Alex Hoetker '11 scored 333 goals over her 4 year career at Sunny Hills.  After  the victory over Sonora on Thursday Solis now has 325 goals.  Stay Tuned...
1/13/12-Lancers Get Two Big Wins! The Sunny Hills Lady Lancers earned a hard fought 11-10 victory at Buena Park on Tuesday.  Trailing early, the Lancers rallied to take a 9-7 lead going into the fourth quarter.  In the end, Sunny Hills was able to hold off a furious Buena Park come back attempt.

On Thursday, Sunny Hills took on Sonora at Sunny Hills.  The Lancers never trailed pounding out an impressive 22 to 4 victory over the Raiders.

The two wins sets up a big showdown on Tuesday as Troy visits Sunny Hills.  The Lancers defeated Troy earlier in the season 11-10 in the third place game of the Ayala Tournament.

1/06/12-Lancers Open Freeway League Competition With Impressive Win-After a tight first half that saw them holding only a 7-6 lead, Sunny Hills scored 7 unanswered second half goals to defeat La Habra 14-6 in the opening match of the 2012 Freeway League Season on Thursday.
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LaHabra 2 4 0 0 6
SunnyHills 0 7 4 3 14
12/05/11-Lancers Make It Four Straight Valley Tournament Championships-Sunny Hills Lady Lancer Water Polo team defeated Freeway League rival Buena Park 9-4 to win the championship of the Santa Ana Valley Tournament on Saturday.  The win marked the Lancers fourth straight championship in the Valley Tournament.

Amanda Solis, Tatiana Tuccio, Lexi Benoit and Julia Vanderpool were named to the All Tournament Team. 

The Lancers have opened the 2011-2012 season with victories over Westminster, Torrance, Trabuco Hills, (Division IV #7) Pacifica and Buena Park.
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SunnyHills 1 2 2 4 9
BuenaPark 1 0 1 2 4
12/01/11-Three New Guardian Lancers Announced!-Sunny Hills Water Polo announced the names of its three newest Guardian Lancers at the Men's Water Polo Banquet on Wednesday night.  Collin Layana ('12) Tanner Hart ('13) and Nick Loomis ('14) were recognized for their outstanding leadership and their "guardian like" regard for the Sunny Hills Water Polo Program.

The Guardian Lancer Award is the top leadership award given in the water polo program. Candidates are selected by other Guardians. 

Sunny Hills Water Polo does not select captains, it requires players to first demonstrate leadership.  To find out more about this honor, please read the bottom of this page.
11/18/11-TEAM GEAR PAGE OPEN FOR WINTER ORDERING!-Need a team suit?  Need some gear? 

When you go to the site, don't freak out when the suits, shirts and hoodies are just black.  Sunny Hills never discloses our suit design before we break them out.  Gear is ultra cool this year!

BE AWARE-In order to get orders started, the store will be open until midnight, Monday, November 21st!

The store is open, click on this link!
11/9/11-Lancer's Layana Makes The Best Of His Opportunity:  Eclipses 100 Goal Mark-Finishing the regular season with 99 goals, Collin Layana needed to tally one goal in the Lancers first round playoff game on Tuesday to break the century mark for the season. 

Layana didn't waste any time, blasting an 8 meter shot early in the second quarter.  Layana would go on to score two more giving him 102 on the season.
11/9/11-Lancers Make LONG Trip To Arroyo Grande, Come Up Just SHORT-After a four hour bus ride to Arroyo Grande on Tuesday, the Lancer Men's Team came up a goal short to AG losing 11-10 in the first round of the CIF Division 4 Playoffs. 

In one of the most exciting games of recent memory, the Lancers drew 1st blood on a lob shot by Will Slope.  AG closed the first quarter with a 3 goal run to take a 3-1 lead at the end of one quarter.

AG led at half time 6-5 and going into the fourth quarter 8-7.  That's when the fireworks started. 

AG scored the first two goals of the fourth quarter to take a 10-7 lead.  The Lancers then on goals by Collin Layana, Justin Schotborgh and Calvin Liang tied the game at 10 with a little over a minute remaining.  AG was awarded a penalty shot and converted to put the game out of reach. 

AG will play Redlands East Valley in round two of the playoffs.
11/4/11-Boys Finish Up Freeway League With Impressive Victory At Fullerton-The Lancer Men's Team earned a likely "At Large" birth in the CIF playoffs with an impressive 12-6 victory over cross town rival Fullerton High School.

The Lancers took the lead in the first quarter and never looked back.  The win was Coach N's 399th career boys win over his 29 year coaching span.

Sunny Hills finishes the regular season with a record of 14-14 and a fourth place finish in the Freeway League (4-6)

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SunnyHills 3 4 2 3 12
Fullerton 1 1 0 4 6
10/29/11-Tuccio, Benoit Shine On Their Big Night-While there can only be one Homecoming Queen, Sunny Hills Lancer Water Polo was well represented in last night's Homecoming festivities.  Senior Tatiana Tuccio and Alexis Benoit were among the five finalists.  When the balloons finally flew, Tuccio was named 2011 Homecoming Queen. 

Sunny Hills Water Polo is extremely proud to have both Tatiana and Alexis as members of our team!  They are both tremendous campus leaders and excellent examples to the rest of us-way to go girls!
10/25/11-Sunny Hills Water Polo-Royalty Within-This coming Friday night one Sunny Hills Lancer will be named 2011 Homecoming Queen and the Lady Lancer Water Polo Team will be represented by not just one but two of the final five! 

Congratulations to seniors Lexi Benoit and Tatiana Tuccio who have endured a rigorous competition amongst Sunny Hills' brightest stars to reach the final court.

The Homecoming Court competition centers around community service, service to our school and general campus leadership.  Considering the elite competition, just making the "fab five" is an accomplishment in itself as 90 students began the process back in September.

Sunny Hills Water Polo wishes the best of luck to our "Polo Queens!"
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RedlandsEastValley 2 1 0 2 5
Sunny Hills 2 2 2 3 9

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