9/29/2009 –

Website designed! Hooray!

9/15/2009 –

This is just to inform everyone about the results of Monday's elections for the Women's Board positions. All positions were put up for election. The new board members are:

President: Fiona
Captains: Clare and Nikki
Treasurer: Myrka
Fundraising: Corinne and Adrienne

To contact the Women's Team Board, direct your email to cmuwwp-board@lists.andrew.cmu.edu.
Also, if you are a girl and are not on the general women's team mailing list (only the co-ed team), let us know and we'll add you to the other one.

This is one of the first steps toward the women's team "leaving the nest" (as Clare would say). So, everyone who is a girl: get excited for fundraising! Everyone else: get excited too!

Cheers,
Fiona

9/10/2009 –

GOING COMPETITIVE!

First and foremost, is the exciting news that we, CMU Women's Water Polo, will become competitive for the Spring 2010 season, ie., THIS SPRING! What does this mean? For those who are new, it may be helpful to know that until March of last year, the women's team did not even exist. We were recognized by CMU last Spring, and began having our Wednesday night practices. By going competitive this Spring, we will be eligible to play in CWPA (Collegiate Water Polo Association, the umbrella organization for club water polo) women's tournaments. We have never done this before. We will get to go to three tournaments, exact dates unknown but most like the weekends of February 20th, March 20th, and sometime in April (NOT CARNIVAL). Practices will most likely be twice a week for women only during the spring; a Sunday night and Wednesday night. These changes are going to seriously help our level of recognition as a team.

One of the important things that we want you to understand is that, for all these fun and amazing things to happen, we will need a lot of help from everyone. Whether you are a more senior and experienced player or a new freshman, any/everything you can commit to us will be unreasonably appreciated. The biggest challenge we will face this term is funding. To become a competitive team, we must pay league dues. League dues sing the tune of $1900, payable by January. Given our current worth of roughly $700, this is a lofty, yet not unreachable goal. Two big changes will be happening:

a) We will have women's dues. Last term we did not have any dues, as the team only practiced a few times. This term, and next term, we will have dues. While we won't be traveling or playing tournaments this fall, we will still be asking you all to pay; obviously we understand that extenuating circumstances do exist, but we really urge you all to pitch in. We will finalize amounts once we have elected a treasurer, but they will probably be in the neighborhood of $35 this term and $50-60 in the spring. This is more than the coed team has ever had, and it is the highest we hope it will ever be. As the years progress we will run into more funding, and dues will not need to be nearly as high.

b) There will be a lot of fundraising. In fact, the more fundraising we conquer, the lower dues may get. We are applying for more Student Senate funding, however, we don't know how much we will get and what it will cover. Fundraising helps us be able to buy things like girls' balls, hotel rooms, and rental cars. These things are important, and begin to add up. Thus, sell cupcakes!

The coed team had a board meeting last night, and they have agreed to essentially help us financially in anyway possible. They will be doing everything they can to help us "leave the nest", so we should be doing everything we can as well. All our funding goals are within reach, but they will take some effort (and remember, some club sports teams have to pay for EVERYTHING out of pocket...its vastly more expensive, and we don't want people to go through that).

Gracias,

Clare McKendry

8/26/2009 –

We're going to try to pick up team lunches again this semester, so I need you to fill out the poll to tell me when you are free. Just mark the times you're available so I can figure out how to get the most people together at once. Just ignore the dates and fill in the times for monday, tuesday, etc.

Even if you don't show up to practice all the time, we'd love if you'd come eat lunch with us (no one likes to be a loner!) so fill out the doodle below:

http://www.doodle.com/6pw43wycg2ukmqsx

Thanks,

Francesca

The Women's Water Polo Club has been officially recognized by the University. We are recruiting!

Officers for the team are Mana Heshmati (President), Francesca Halleman (Co-Captain), and Clare McKendry (Co-Captain).