LEADING BY EXAMPLE POLOIST'S LEADERSHIP GIVES AGOURA DEPTH TEACHING TEAM COMES FIRST FOR STANDOUT JUNIOR.Byline: HEATHER GRIPP Staff Writer AGOURA HILLS - Peter Kurzeka has a growing collection of championships and MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. accolades that formally recognize his value to Agoura High's 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. He won his latest MVP honor As a verb, to accept a bill of exchange, or to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, at maturity. To pay or to accept and pay, or, where a credit so engages, to purchase or discount a draft complying with the terms of the draft. at last weekend's Coronado Invitational in·vi·ta·tion·al adj. Restricted to invited participants: an invitational golf tournament. n. An event, especially a sports tournament, restricted to invited participants. Adj. 1. after scoring 23 goals en route to the title. Kurzeka's true value to the Charges can best be seen in the informal practice setting. Realizing he can't win a Southern Section championship on his own, Kurzeka spends as much time as he can lending his vast experience to help in the development of teammates. Agoura has fed off Kurzeka's work ethic work ethic n. A set of values based on the moral virtues of hard work and diligence. work ethic Noun a belief in the moral value of work and expertise to form one of the program's deepest lineups in years, not to mention one of the area's hottest teams. ``The team is all he cares about,'' Chargers coach Dusty Litvak said of Kurzeka, a junior who was ineligible in·el·i·gi·ble adj. 1. Disqualified by law, rule, or provision: ineligible to run for office; ineligible for health benefits. 2. to play on the varsity team In the United States and Canada and UK, varsity sports teams are the principal athletic teams representing a college, university, or high school or other secondary school. Such teams compete against the principal athletic teams at other colleges/universities, or in the case of last season after transferring from Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks. ``If you watched him practice, he's always teaching the other players and helping them become better players. A lot of times, the better players don't take the time to do that. They don't share their tricks. It's like, `The more I know than you, the better,' it keeps them in the spotlight. He wants everyone around him to be good. ``The guys respect him so much. He's never been egotistical. All he cares about is the team. He's so humble Humble may refer to:
Kurzeka's won his most notable MVP awards this past summer at the Junior Olympics and at the National Club Championships as a member of the L.A. Water Polo Club's under-16 team. ``I've never seen anyone with the complete package like him,'' said Litvak, who has known Kurzeka for years at the club level. ``I've yet to find his weakness. When he started playing for me in eighth grade, I could see he had a lot of potential. But I don't think anybody could have seen what he's done. ... He's just taking over games.'' Through 12 games with Agoura, Kurzeka has 49 goals, 21 assists and 25 steals. He scored four of those goals in Saturday's upset of Harvard-Westlake of Studio City, one of the top teams in Div.I. Earlier in the day, he scored six goals, including the tying and winning shots, in a sudden-death overtime victory over Murrieta Valley, which had beaten the Chargers a week earlier in the Riverside Poly (language) Poly - 1. A polymorphic, block-structured language developed by D.C.J. Matthews at Cambridge in the early 1980s. ["An Overview of the Poly Programming Language", D.C.J. Matthews, in Data Types and Persistence, M.P. Atkinson et al eds, Springer 1988]. 2. tournament final. ``Having Peter on the team is an amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. asset,'' Agoura senior Alex Thompson said. ``He really helps the team. To be honest, it would be hard to be where we are without him. ``But at the same time, not taking anything away from him, the rest of the team has been just as important. No one player can do it by himself, and he knows that. We've got so many great role players this year who are stepping up. Our depth is a lot better this year.'' Thompson and goalie Ryan Paris Ryan Paris (born Fabio Roscioli in 1953 in Rome, Italy) is an artist who gained international popularity in 1983 for the worldwide hit, Dolce Vita composed and produced by Pierluigi Giombini. joined Kurzeka on the all-tournament team last weekend. Eight others contributed goals in the tournament's five games. Such depth is what sets this year's Chargers apart from previous versions, which were competitive but never reached a Southern Section final. Agoura (10-2) is ranked No.2 in this week's Div.IV rankings. ``We knew this could be a really good season, and we worked real hard to make sure we were ready,'' Kurzkea said. ``We've been going real hard since two weeks after last season. ``After this weekend, the teams we beat at this tournament, we know if we play our game we can beat anyone in our division.'' Being a part of a team like this is what Kurzeka envisioned when he decided to transfer to Agoura. ``Water polo's a big part of my life,'' said Kurzeka, who played varsity as a freshman at Notre Dame. ``It's a big part of what I do. I've always wanted to play at the next level, play in college. This is the type of team that will help me reach that goal. ``While I'm here, I don't really have any individual goals other than to keep improving every game. I want to keep getting better, and I want the team to keep getting better. I try to make everyone else better and let them learn from my success. We need the whole team to win.'' heather.gripp@dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Agoura High junior water polo player Peter Kurzeka, a Junior Olympics MVP, wants to help his team win a Southern Section championship this season. Tina Burch/Staff Photographer |
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