How to Use water polo in a Sentence

water polo

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Definition of water polonext
  • Jaron is a player on the water polo team and swim team.
    — The Enquirer, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Wilde was the captain of the South Eugene water polo and swim teams this year.
    — oregonlive, 21 June 2023
  • In the pool, the U.S. women's water polo team routed Japan, 25-4.
    — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 24 July 2021
  • The school district has swim and water polo teams, but no swimming pools of its own.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2024
  • Fall 2022 felt like a long time coming for water polo in Texas.
    — Peter Rauterkus, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Hickman broke the 1990 school record of Gavin Arroyo, an Olympian in water polo.
    — Dan Albano, Orange County Register, 7 May 2024
  • Christmas came a little late for the Mar Vista High girls water polo team.
    — Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Logan Powell has returned to be the boys’ and girls’ water polo coach at San Clemente.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The sport takes place in the fall along with girls golf, tennis, cross country, water polo, and girls’ volleyball.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 8 June 2024
  • As an adjunct to water polo, Black also joined the swim team for training.
    — Glae Thien, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The women's water polo team won its third gold in a row; the women's volleyball team won its first.
    — Alex Connor, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2021
  • But remember, water polo players can’t touch the bottom of the pool with their feet.
    — Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2022
  • There are many more athletes to be seen in water polo, volleyball, golf and lacrosse.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2022
  • Lilly used that as a way to help drive interest in the water polo program.
    — Peter Rauterkus, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The pool is more than just a home to the many swimmers, divers, water polo players and synchronized swimmers who use it.
    — Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Hojreh was accused of abusing nine water polo players, between the ages of 13 and 17 at the time.
    — Summer Linstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2022
  • And our swim team was far more popular than our football team and water polo was as well.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 23 May 2024
  • As fate would have it that foray into water polo also caught the eye of Navy recruiters who had come to his school.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2021
  • In a tournament featuring the top teams in SoCal the Lancers girls water polo team came out on top!
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022
  • In addition to water polo, Johnson swims for Bishop’s, is the goalie on the field hockey team and plays third base for the softball team.
    — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2021
  • In the books he's spoken about as someone who's very physical, who plays water polo and swims.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 Sep. 2021
  • In college, though, water polo lost some of its luster.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The Cincinnati Enquirer is proud to announce the nominees for girls water polo of the year.
    — The Enquirer, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Another one in the books for Team USA women's water polo.
    — Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE.com, 7 Aug. 2021
  • Williams, a first-year wrestler, also competes in swimming and water polo.
    — Steve Millar, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Through her youth swim club, Holman tried water polo through a series of weekly clinics and became hooked on the sport.
    — Glae Thien, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The top performers were selected as the Sun Sentinel Palm Beach water polo players of the year.
    — Alex Kushel, Sun Sentinel, 13 June 2024
  • Maddie Musselman held her phone out, and the U.S. women's water polo team gathered for a picture on the top step of the podium.
    — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 7 Aug. 2021
  • After the Tokyo Games, Johnny Hooper went to work and considered leaving water polo behind.
    — Rick Maese, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • Plus, beach volleyball, water polo, skateboarding and much more.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2024

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