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Water polo
Do you like to play in a team, score goals and are you able to take a small beating? Then you have to try out water polo!
At Piranha we offer you the possibility to get to know the sport or play at your own level. We currently have one competition team, our gents 1, but we hope to have enough people to fill a ladies team and an additional gents team again soon. Gents 1 plays at the highest regional level (1e klasse district). This is a nice level for slightly more experienced players. For the ladies and the less experienced gents, we have a mixed tournament team. This team doesn’t play in a competition, but we do attend a lot of tournaments with this team and play practice matches every once in a while. The level of this team is very accessible, also for people who are just starting to play water polo. If you only want to join practices, that’s off course also possible.
Besides the practices and matches we also organize many activities. For example, we go to tournaments, organize drinks and other activities both in and outside of the pool! This offers a water polo player at Piranha not only the possibility to play at your own level but also the fun atmosphere you would expect from a student association.
Would you like to join a practice or do you have any other questions? Please do not hesitate to contact the water polo committee using the e-mail polocie@zpv-piranha.nl. We hope to see you playing with us soon!
Matches
Our competition team plays both home as well as away matches during the match season, which takes starts in early September and lasts until about the end of April or beginning of May. Most matches take place on a Saturday evening with the occasional game on Sunday afternoon. Whenever we play at home, usually people will come watch and we make nice evening out of it together. We’ll usually have dinner together and go for a well-earned drink afterwards.
The matches are usually played with around 10 people: 6 players, 1 goalie and 3 substitutes. A game always consists of 4 periods that, depending on the level, take 5 to 6 minutes of actual play time. During these matches we are supported by our professional coach who will give the necessary directions and tips during the game. All our home matches take place in the swimming pool in Enschede called Het Slagman.
If you would like to know more about the rules in Dutch water polo, have a look at the following presentation that was made by one of our lovely members:
Practices
Our competition team as well as our tournament team both have 2 practices a week. During the indoor season, which lasts from about the end of September until the beginning of May, we train both in Het Slagman (25-meter pool in Enschede) as well as the Spiegelbad (16-meter pool in the sports centre of the university). During the outdoor season, which takes place the rest of the year, we play at BuBa (25-meter outdoor pool on the campus of the university). The competition team practices are given by our professional trainer. This trainer educates our student trainers who lead the practices for the tournament team. This ensures that our practices remain at a high level and are challenging for players of all levels.