COLLEGE ADDING SPORT; WOMEN'S WATER POLO TO BEGIN FALL SEMESTER.Byline: Mary Schubert Daily News Staff Writer A year after starting a women's soccer team, College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. will add women's water polo water polo, swimming game encompassing features of soccer, football, basketball, and hockey. The object of the game is to maneuver, by head, feet, or hand, a leather-covered ball 27 to 28 in. to its sports roster, and the campus will hire a full-time teacher to coach one of its women's teams. The five-member board of trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. met Wednesday and voted to expand College of the Canyons' intercollegiate athletics program. The water polo team's inaugural season will be in the fall semester, which begins in August, said Michael Wilding Michael Wilding could refer to one of three well-known people:
In his report to the board, Wilding estimated it would cost $21,000 per season to add the women's sport. That sum covers coaches' salaries, travel expenses and equipment, he said. One local high school coach predicted water polo would be popular among female athletes. ``The first year they run that sport, they'll have to make cuts,'' said Jan Tavares, varsity swim coach at Saugus High School Saugus High School may refer to:
Once swimmers play the game, he said, there are only two things that can get them out of the water: ``Water polo is like surfing - you're hungry and the sun is going down.'' The William S. Hart Union High School District had boys' water polo teams in its high schools two decades ago, he noted. But the sport fell victim to budget shortfalls and was cut. ``We've been trying to get it back for years,'' Tavares said. Many water polo athletes play the sport in the fall and compete in swimming in the spring. Tavares said that sort of conditioning regimen would make College of the Canyons' swim team stronger. Such is the case with Burroughs High School in Burbank, a Saugus High rival that has both swimming and water polo teams, Tavares said. Last fall, College of the Canyons' two newest teams - men's football and women's soccer - were established. Federal gender-equity rules require that college sports teams match the campus ratio of male and female students. Women account for more than half the enrollment at College of the Canyons. Men and women each have seven athletic teams, and water polo will be the eighth for female College of the Canyons students. Last fall, the women's soccer team had 20 players, and the Cougar cougar: see puma. cougar or puma or mountain lion or panther Species (Puma concolor) of large, graceful cat that lives in a wide variety of habitats in the Americas, from southern Alaska to Patagonia. football team had 66 men. The expansion of College of the Canyons' athletic program is part of the administration's overall plan to attract students - as are new academic and vocational programs pertaining to engineering, public safety and multimedia, Wilding said. Further, college officials are proposing the addition of a women's golf team, but no time line has been established for that sport. College President Dianne Van Hook recommended that a full-time instructor who would coach a women's sport - not necessarily water polo - be hired to start in the fall semester. Water polo would then be coached by the new teacher or a part-time instructor. A faculty vacancy emerged when College of the Canyons' baseball coach Len Mohney traded in his teaching schedule for the duties of college athletic director Athletic director (commonly, "athletics director") is a position at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, which oversees the work of the coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic . The college's master plan also calls for the construction of a 50-meter outdoor pool, Wilding's report stated. Wilding provided the board with the names of 28 student-athletes who attended College of the Canyons in the 1997-98 school year and have since transferred to four-year universities. Eight of the athletes were women swimmers. Tavares, who coaches 20 girls on the Saugus varsity swim team, said even though water polo traditionally has been a male sport, girls and women do fine when playing against other females. Girls who play soccer and basketball particularly seem to enjoy water polo because some of the ball-handling skills are similar. And swimmers generally have the endurance for the long stretches of treading water, he said. ``For a swimmer, water polo is not an exhausting sport,'' Tavares said. At any time, each water polo team has seven players in the pool, one of them a goalie. Teams usually have 14 to 21 players. In California, 29 community colleges have women's water polo teams, including Santa Monica, Long Beach, Cerritos, East Los Angeles East Los Angeles, uninc. city (1990 pop. 126,379), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles, in an industrial area. It has a large Mexican-American population. 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