#10 Lady Titans overcome shaky start to finish with flourish.

The Lady Titan water polo team was struck by the winds last week loosing there pool for five days, but still had to play Schurr High at ELACC today. It took the Titan squad the first half to start playing with any rhythm, going into the half down by 2. In the 2nd half the lady titans shook off the rust and began to assert themselves. Lead by Kristin Charlton ( 6 goals 5 steals), the lady titans closed the gap with critical stops on defense and power plays. After a Schurr run put SM down by 2, Umi Nakamura took the game over and scored 3 goals in 45sec. to put San Marino up by one. With a minute left Schurr would score the equalizer to tie the game at 10 all. San Marino would not be able to capitalize on there last power play to win in regulation and the game would go into overtime.
In the overtime session, San Marino's momentum would prove to be too much for Schurr. The lady titans out scored Schurr 4-1 in OT to win 14-11. Nakamura had 5 goals and 4 steals. Diana Chang had 6 assist. Carla Bezjian had 9 saves and 2 steals.

Game Update

Our Game today against Schurr has been moved to East Lost Angeles College in Monterey Park. Game time will be the same. Tomorrows game is still being worked out.

San Marino High School 2701 Huntington Drive San Marino, California 91108

	1. Head southwest on Huntington Dr towardWinston Ave
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Pool Update

As of right now the pool is clean, but the hot water pump is broken. Some one will be looking at it tomorrow morning. Once the heating issue has been assed we will know about the games for this week. There will be morning weights tomorrow and if the game is canceled there will be dryland practice for both levels

San Marino gets season off on the right start.

The 10th ranked Lady Titan Water Polo squad got their first win of the season last night at Arcadia HS. After a sluggish start, going down by as much as 3 goals to Arcadia, San Marino settled down and started to show some of their form from last season. The Titans rallied back in the 2nd qtr. to tie the game at the half 3-3. The 3rd qtr was back and forth between the 2 teams, but the 4th was all Titans. The Lady Titans closed the game on a 3-0 run in the last 6 min including 2 big saves by goalie Carla Bezjian. The Titans were led in scoring Jessica Chang (3 Goals) and Diana Chang and Kate Scanelle had 2 apiece. Diana Chang had 7 steals, while Bezjian had 8 saves in goal. Up next, San Marino's home opener against Burbank on Thursday.

The JV squad had brillant game winning easily against the Lady Apaches 22-5. Alex Friedlich led all scores with 9.

2011 STAR-NEWS ALL-AREA TEAM

Congratulations to all the swimmers on the all area team.

2011 STAR-NEWS ALL-AREA TEAM
BOYS SWIMMING

Swimmer of the Year: Brendon Chiu, Keppel, Senior
Coach of the Year: Art Lopez, La Cañada

FIRST TEAM


Andrew Barmann, La Salle, Senior


David Jakl, Keppel,Senior


Brandon Nguyen, La Cañada, Sophomore


Christian Renfro, La Cañada Senior

Stephen To, San Marino, Senior

SECOND TEAM

Garrett Chin, La Canada, Freshman


Justin Chiu, Keppel, Freshman


Joe Costa, San Marino, Senior


Filip Dagkovich, Temple City, Senior


Bo Mattix, La Cañada Junior

GIRLS SWIMMING


Swimmer of the Year: Katy Campbell, La Cañada, Junior


Coach of the Year: Ish Perez, Keppel


FIRST TEAM


Nicole Hau, Temple City, Senior


Annika Lenz, Pasadena Poly, Sophomore


Victoria Lepesant, Pasadena, Sophomore


Sarah Olson, La Cañada, Junior


Bella Schamber, Maranatha, Junior


SECOND TEAM


Mackenzie Heaton, La Cañada, Senior


Gwen Mathias Southwestern Academy, Senior


Elysse Pedote, Westridge, Senior


Stephanie Samudro, San Marino, Freshman


Samantha Torres, La Salle, Sophomore

San Marino will be Swimming for the RHL Crown...

After a slow start, The Lady Titan Swimming team has been on roll. After dropping their first 2 meets against Mark Kepple and CV, they have beating all comers including rivial South Pasadena and last years Division 2 Champion Walnut. Lead by Captains Myrtle Lin, Diana Chang, and Saskia Reather, the Lady Titans find themselves right where they want to be at the end of the year, contending for a league title. In what is arguably the toughest league in the Pasadena area, San Marino will face off against La Canada for the right to be called Rio Hondo League Champion. San Marino has not forgotten losing the league title last year in their own pool last year and looks to share that feeling with La Canada this year.
The Lady Titans will travel to La Canada HS this Thursday for their biggest meet of the year. The meet will start at 330p, come out and support your Lady Titan Swimming team.

Womens Water Polo wraps up its season.

The San Marino Women's Water Polo Team put a bow on its season last night with its awards banquet. It was a great night to celebrate the accomplishments of the past year. The Varsity squad finished 2nd in the Rio Hondo League (highest ever) and made it back to the CIF playoffs after a 2 year absence. The JV squad finished 3rd in league, their best finish ever.

Receiving awards this year for JV: MVP-Alex Friedlich, Coach's award-Kelly Chang/Marie Luff, Most Improved-Paulina Tulaphorn, Most Inspirational-Kelsey Wentz, Defensive Player of the Year-Brandie Lam/Liana Wong.

Awards for Varsity: MVP- Cindy Hsieh, Coach's Awards-Kristin Charlton, Most Improved-Saskia Reather, Most Inspirational -Diana Chang, Defensive Player of the Year- Heidi Tran. San Marino had 8 girls make the All Rio-Hondo League Team. First Team: Kristin Charlton, Cindy Hsieh, Saskia Reather. 2nd Team: Heidi Tran, Carla Bezjian, Diana Chang. Honorable Mention: Umi Nakamura and Jessica Chang.

Congratulations to all the award winners.

Lady Titans have short run in Playoffs

The Lady Titans were slow to start and let Cal-Hi get out to an early lead from which they would never recover. The SM girls put up a good fight but it was not enough and would go on to lose there first playoff match in 3 seasons. read more about it at Patch.com

The SM Women's Water Polo program came a long way this season in every way possible. The girls worked really hard and earned the respect of a lot of people along the way. Thank you to all of you that supported us, came out to watch, and believed in us when no one else did. Ladies, congratulations on a great year.

Selection Sunday has the Lady Titans back in the playoffs (updated 2/14 2:46p)

The Lady Titans will host a CIF Playoff game this Tuesday. San Marino will welcome California High School, an at-large team from the Del Rio League, to campus for this wild card match up. These two teams have met up already this year with California winning 6-3. The Lady Titans hope to have a reversal of fortune this time around and advance to the next round. Should San Marino win on Tuesday, they will have to play #5 Ayala on the road. Game time on Tuesday will be 330p (as of 2/14 2:46p). Wednesday time is TBD. See the entire bracket here, and come out to support your Lady Titans.

Lady Titans defense gets them back to playoffs.

San Marino, once again put their best defensive foot forward in beating La Canada today 8-4. Starting the 4th qtr up 5-3, San Marino turned back the Lady Spartans at every turn. Lead by Saskia Raether's 3 goals, 2 in fourth, the lady titans all but knocked La Canada out of playoff contention. Read more about it at Patch.com

Lady Titans do it with defense on Senior Day

The Lady Titans avenged a loss to Monrovia today and regained sole possession of 2nd place in the Rio Hondo League. After taking a 4-3 lead at half, San Marino cranked up the defense and shut out Monrovia in the 2nd half. The Lady Titans went on to win on Senior Day 8-3. Read the story from Patch.com

Lady Titans Make It Two In Row..

2 Down, 2 To Go. The Lady Titans came to play against Temple City and earned a tough win. You can read about it at Patch.com

Lady Titans Beat the Lady Spartans in first home game of 2011

Read about San Marino's win over La Canada at Patch.com.

Practice This Week...

Our pool is down again. I have been told by the Maintenance Dept. that it will not be back up until Thursday. We will try to move both Varsity and JV Practices to South Pasadena. I will confirm the practices tomorrow afternoon. We will keep you informed.

We will leave for our first league match at South Pas at 200p on Thursday. Varsity will leave at 200p on Friday for the Western Tournament. We will play 2 games on Friday and 3 games on Saturday. Friday the 1st game is at 500p At Kennedy HS, 2nd game we will post up via Twitter . Times are TBD for Saturday. It will be posted as soon as I find out. Tournament Schedule.