{"id":1652,"date":"2018-11-22T19:18:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T19:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2018-11-22T19:18:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T19:18:22","slug":"co-ed-water-polo-mid-season-update-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/2018\/11\/22\/co-ed-water-polo-mid-season-update-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-ed Water Polo Mid-Season Update 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>By Justin Li &#8217;21<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a few ways, varsity co-ed water polo has been reborn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Weeks before preseason started, previous Head Coach Misha Klochkov unexpectedly departed to coach water polo at the Lawrenceville School. With a number of strong seniors and underclassmen leaving as well, much of the team\u2019s firepower and leadership seemingly vanished. However, under new Head Coach Aleksander Brezikar and captains Kevin Ma (VI), Grace O\u2019Mara (VI), and Ben Ingrassia (VI), the team is ready is bounce back and rebuild its ranks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They opened the season with convincing wins against St. Peter\u2019s Prep and Choate Rosemary Hall, performances that have allowed Kevin Ma to state with confidence, \u201cDespite the setbacks we have faced, we may be capable of much more than first expected.\u201d When it came time to face their former coach and his more experienced Lawrenceville team, Pingry held down a tied score into the third quarter. Although they ultimately did not emerge from the competitive game with a win, the team will train for their home rematch later this season. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To onlookers, water polo may seem to be only a shell of last year\u2019s team, but the resilience the young team has exhibited so far proves there is more than meets the eye.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Justin Li &#8217;21 In a few ways, varsity co-ed water polo has been reborn. Weeks before preseason started, previous Head Coach Misha Klochkov unexpectedly departed to coach water polo at the Lawrenceville School. With a number of strong seniors and underclassmen leaving as well, much of the team\u2019s firepower and leadership seemingly vanished. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":1641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[51,56],"class_list":["post-1652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-water-polo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1653,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions\/1653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}