2010

British Chamipionships 2010
Coach:Alberto Bertolotti
Lancaster’s fantastic run of success at the summit of national water polo continued when they retained their British Champions Title for the ninth time. Yet again Lancaster have produced the top mens water polo team in the country and are still known as the top British side over the past 11/12 years.

 

2010 Natioal Junior Water Polo Championships 
Coach: Zak Sly, Gary Ellwood and Ron Winn
Lancaster City Juniors dominated group A of the preliminary round by putting away 50 goals. Lancaster best game of the day had to be against Scottish team and rivals Dunfermline. Lancaster went 3 – 0 down withing the 1st 4 minutes and pulled it back to 3 – 3 by half time finish it off 8 – 4.

 

 

 Past Results – 2009

British Chamipionships 2009
Coach:Alberto Bertolotti
Lancaster City regained the British Water Polo Championship after an enthralling weekend of action at the Manchester Aquatic Centre. The victory represents an excellent comeback for Lancaster. Part of the credit must go the foresight of bringing in professional Coach Alberto Bertolotti from Genoa in Italy.

 

National Water polo League 2009
Coach:Alberto Bertolotti
Lancaster have managed to go through the 2009 unbeaten. Lancaster retained their National League Title by a record margin of 11 points. Lancaster received the National League Trophy at their home pool andthe players insisting that Coach Bertolotti receive the trophy as a mark of the players appreciation for the contribution that Alberto has made to re-establishing Lancaster as the dominant force in water polo in the UK.

National Youth Water Polo Championships 2009
Coaches: Zak Sly,Gary Ellwood & Ron Winn
Allot of hard work has been happening with the youth team in the past year! They have picked up the training, had additional session, more coaches helping them out including Lancaster City new development coach Alberto Bertolotti and new coaches Zak Sly and Gary Ellwood. They played a impressive first round qualifying for the finals against Invicta ere they played, what has to be said, their best game yet to win 17 6.

National Academy Water Polo Championships 2009
Coaches: Ron Winn & Zak Sly
Lancaster, Sedgefield and Carlisle join up for the ASA youth team. Every year it is played under a different club name and this year the Lancaster players played under Lancaster. This year the team was coached by Ron Winn and Zak Sly. The lads struck in hard and came out winning the cup!

 

North Lancashire League 2009
Coaches: Rysz Detko & Zak Sly
This year like the past couple, of years Lancaster have put a fairly young team in this league, which includes most of the 2009 National youth water polo champions. The younger players are gaining a wider knowledge of water polo and playing as a senior team. With the young team Ryzh Detko, Steven Smith, Zak Sly and Anthony Trafford keep the lads going with their experience.

North West ASA Academy 2008
Coaches: Zak Sly,Gary Ellwood & Ron Winn
This competition was started in 2008 and was won by Lancaster City in June 2009. The under 14’s have come along way since they started the competition and have been training hard to take over the under 16’s next year. Allot of talent has come through especially from the older players.

 

Open Water 2009
Coaches: Zak Sly & Gary Ellwood
Lancaster City for the first time ever entered the 2009 Open Water competition at Nottingham. The competition is a senior league and Lancaster took a team with mostly 15 – 17 year olds and 3 older players….. plus Gary.  The team have never played a match in a cold lake before and it was the first time for around 25 years Gary has played .

Brian Walsh Charity Memorial Tournament
Coaches: Rysz Detko & Zak Sly
All the players in this tournament are all involved in the North Lancashire League. From gaining more knowledge playing them games they gelled together well with the senior players. This year the tournament was the first time Luke Franks played for Lancaster.

  

Junior Inter Regians 2009
Coaches: Zak Sly & Gary Ellwood
North West had a strong team and were favourites to win the competition and that’s what they did! The Lancaster, Carlisle and Manchester players dominatedall the other counties and came out top. Ciaran James from Lancaster got MVP of the tournament and Marc Robinson got best goalkeeper.