LA CANADA WATER POLO IS A FAMILY AFFAIR.Byline: Rizza Yap Daily News Staff Writer What makes Brendan Naeve so good? The La Canada High senior, a four-year letterman on the boys' 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. team, leads the squad in goals with 76 this season. In 1996, despite missing nine matches because of broken ribs, he collected a team-high 59 goals and 34 assists. He also earned first-team All-Southern Section Division III
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So what's his secret? (It can't be the shoes.) ``It's because you're the coach's son,'' his friends would tease tease (tez) to pull apart gently with fine needles to permit microscopic examination. tease v. . Naeve usually laughs the comment off. He knows his history in the sport tells a different story. In 1974 Larry Naeve, Brendan's father, began coaching water polo at La Canada. In 1979, he received the Southern Section Coach of the Year award. In 1980, he quit. ``My son was born, and I decided to spend more time with him,'' said Larry, who played water polo for Muir High and later for USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. . He took what seemed like a permanent break from the sport. There was no mention of his involvement with playing or coaching until Brendan befriended a water polo player while in the seventh grade. ``I didn't know what (water polo) was,'' Brendan said. ``It just sounded interesting, so I went over to his practice and I took my dad with me. We were watching them play and he just started talking about all this stuff. So I asked him, `How do you know so much about this?' '' Pretty soon, Larry found himself helping out with the La Canada team when Brendan entered high school. During his son's freshman year, Larry ran the game clock but found that his mind focused more on the match than the time. In 1995, he returned to coaching the Spartans. La Canada's 15-5 victory over Monrovia on Monday earned the team its first perfect league record since Larry Naeve's comeback. For the past two years the Spartans (20-5, 4-0) have taken second place behind South Pasadena South Pasadena (păs'ədē`nə), city (1990 pop. 23,936), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1888. Medical supplies, clothing, and transportation and electronic equipment are manufactured. , which they defeated 12-5 this season. In Naeve's earlier seven-year tenure, La Canada won the league title five times. His chance to earn the sixth begins on Thursday, when the Rio Hondo League tournament begins. La Canada returned six of seven starters from last year's Southern Section quarterfinalist team, including Naeve and fellow All-Southern section picks junior Michael McDay (second team) and senior Russell Bernstein (third team). McDay is third in scoring with 43 goals, and senior driver Brian Ahn is second with 48. Throughout the season, La Canada has limited its opponents to an average of five goals. Larry Naeve attributes this year's success to dedication and teamwork (product, software, tool) Teamwork - A SASD tool from Sterling Software, formerly CADRE Technologies, which supports the Shlaer/Mellor Object-Oriented method and the Yourdon-DeMarco, Hatley-Pirbhai, Constantine and Buhr notations. that extends beyond the pool. One night that meant driving home from a game with the lights on in the bus so the players could tutor TUTOR - A Scripting language on PLATO systems from CDC. ["The TUTOR Language", Bruce Sherwood, Control Data, 1977]. each other for a calculus calculus, branch of mathematics that studies continuously changing quantities. The calculus is characterized by the use of infinite processes, involving passage to a limit—the notion of tending toward, or approaching, an ultimate value. test the next day. ``There's a lot more team chemistry,'' Brendan said. ``This year, a majority of us played throughout the summer, so there's more commitment and dedication. That was one of our goals this year. To work better as a team.'' CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Brendan Naeve, pictured with teammate Russell Bernstein, left, leads the La Canada High School water polo team with 76 goals. Hans Gutknecht / Daily News |
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