Water Polo
Lancaster City Amateur Swimming and Water Polo Club are the current 2012 Junior National Champions for the third consecutive year after beat City of Sheffield 12 – 7. The youth team also won the 2012 Youth National Championship title for their second consecutive year after beating local rivals City of Manchester 5 – 4.
The success of 2012 does not stop there! The Lancaster seniors were crowned in January the 2011/2012 British Water Polo League Champions after having better goal score over local rivals City of Manchester. This is the seniors twelfth Title.
Winners of senior Division One National League: 1996,1998,1999,2000,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2008,2009, 2011
Winners of senior British Championship: 1999,2000,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2009, 2010
National Junior Water Polo Championships1978,1987, 1988,1990,1991,2010, 2011, 2012
National Youth Water Polo Championships1985, 1986, 1987, 1989,2002, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012
Latest Water Polo News
- 09/05/12 More Olympic tickets
- 07/05/12 Black Tie Night: Last week
- 06/05/12 GBR v The World
- 06/05/12 GBR hold their heads held high
- 06/05/12 Youths’ retain title
- 03/05/12 Three time champions
- 03/05/12 Water Polo on BBC five sports Extra tonight
- 05/04/12 Development day postponed
- 04/04/12 London 2012 Water Polo Arena
- 03/04/12 Easter closures
Latest Fixtures
Just a supporter or a player, keep up to date with the latest fixtures;
> Website page (Most up-to-date)
> Printable version (PDF)
North Lancashire League
With the seniors, juniors and youth holding the 2012 national titles, Lancaster City are looking at retaining their title in the North Lancashire League. Lancaster have already won their two games against their biggest rivals Kendal and have also put Burnley to sleep at the bottom of the pool with two big wins over them.
10th May Preston @ home
31st May Blackpool @ home
7th June Preston @away
11th June Radcliffe @ away
26th June Blackpool @ away
English Schools Finals
Six Lancaster players; Dean Akister (cpt), Jordon Titley, Owain Llewellyn, Steff Cossutti, Joe Hitchmough and Harry Palin have made it to the under 14′s National English School finals. The Ripley pupils are coached by Lancaster coach Zak Sly and have played two rounds to get to the top six schools to battle it out for gold!
London 2012
Lancaster Coach Zak Sly and Lancaster player Scott Sharpe are heading to London for the 2012 London Olympics as Young Games Makers.Check out the blog for more details olympicbloggers.co.uk
Team manager and committee member Duncan Holmes and vice president Mike Hesketh are also down at London as Water Polo table officials.
Black Tie Night
Date for your diary 19th May 2012 at Heysham Golf Club. Over 18′s Black Tie night. register your interest by e-mail to info@laswpc.com.
