RICHESON PLAYER OF YEAR : ROYAL, AGOURA PLAYERS GAIN CIF WATER POLO HONORS.Byline: Vincent Bonsignore Daily News Staff Writer If Royal High School's Chris Richeson had his way, he'd be celebrating his selection as the Southern Section Division IV 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. Player of the Year while also enjoying the Highlanders' second straight Division IV championship. Unfortunately Cabrillo High School There are multiple Cabrillo High Schools:
adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a particular district. 2. Composed of or divided into component sections. n. final - had other ideas. So Richeson will have to be content knowing that in his three years with the Highlanders, he helped them win one division championship, three league titles and topped it all off with Player of the Year honors. ``It would have been even better if we could have won that second championship,'' Richeson said. ``But this is still a great way to end my high school career. I don't have any complaints'' Richeson is joined on the All-Southern Section club by teammates David Radka and Nate Ball (first team), Garrett Herzer and Petr Lavrikov (second team), and Joe Andelin (third team). ``I could never have done any of this without my teammates and coaches,'' Richeson said. ``They helped me a great deal.'' Agoura High School Agoura High School is a four-year high school, freshman-senior, in Agoura Hills, California, United States. It is the largest high school in the Las Virgenes Unified School District, with an enrollment of approximately 2,400 students. placed Noah Bookman (first team), Noah Cirincione (second team), and Dave Steele
n. Dominion or rule, especially the British rule over India (1757-1947). [Hindi r Chudasama (third team) on the Southern Section team. Richeson, who averaged five goals per game this year, is a hard worker and dedicated to absorbing as much of the sport as possible. Couple those traits with his natural ability, and it's no surprise that he reached the heights that he did in his career. ``He's very much a student of the game,'' said Royal coach Steve Snyder. ``Like a master chess player he knows what moves to make two moves ahead of his opponent.'' Although Royal didn't start compiling individual stats until the sixth game of the year, Richeson scored 136 goals, dished dished adj. 1. Concave. 2. Slanting toward one another at the bottom. Used of a pair of wheels. Adj. 1. dished - shaped like a dish or pan dish-shaped, patelliform concave - curving inward out 89 assists and had 89 steals. In addition, his role as team leader was critical in the Highlanders' trek to a second-straight trip to the Division IV final. ``He really embodied em·bod·y tr.v. em·bod·ied, em·bod·y·ing, em·bod·ies 1. To give a bodily form to; incarnate. 2. To represent in bodily or material form: the role of total leadership by the end of the year,'' Snyder said. Richeson said that winning the championship last year was his favorite memory of his time at Royal. ``It was unbelievable,'' he said. ``To know that we put so much hard work into it and then to wrap it all up with the championship was incredible.'' Richeson, a senior, hopes to play college water polo next year. Radka, on the other hand, will return next season. After a slow start because of a hectic hec·tic adj. 1. Characterized by intense activity, confusion, or haste: "There was nothing feverish or hectic about his vigor" Erik Erikson. 2. school schedule, Radka settled down this year and developed into one of the Highlanders' best players. Snyder believes his best water polo is ahead of him. Two of Radka's brothers played at Royal and later on the college level. Snyder thinks the younger Radka has more potential than both of them. ``By the later part of the season he came on and fulfilled the potential we knew he had,'' Snyder said. Ball became a defensive stopper for the Highlanders and allowed the team to dictate what it wanted to do defensively. He consistently shut down the opposing team's 2-meter man, which made it easier for Royal to defend. ``I don't think we'll be able to replace somebody like Nate,'' Snyder said. ``In 17 years of coaching, he's the best 2-meter defender I've ever had.'' Herzer is a junior goalie who Snyder thinks will develop into an outstanding senior. Lavrikov switched from goalie to a field position so Snyder could bring Herzer along. In the process, Lavrikov became one of Royal's most dependable players - as was Andelin. Bookman, a senior, scored 104 goals and had 58 assists this year for the Chargers, who advanced to the Southern Section Division IV semifinals before falling to Cabrillo. ``He put in a lot of hard work and became the big gun of the team,'' said Agoura coach Jason Rosenthal. Cirincione, a senior driver, had 51 goals, 36 assists and a team-high 48 steals. ``He was the fastest guy in the Marmonte League The Marmonte League is a high school sports league primarily made up of schools from Ventura County. The Marmonte Leauge is part of the CIF Southern Section. Click here to view the league schedule. and probably the fastest in all of CIF (1) (Common Intermediate Format) A standard video format used in videoconferencing. CIF formats are defined by their resolution, and standards both above and below the original resolution have been established. The original CIF is also known as Full CIF (FCIF). ,'' Rosenthal said. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Division IV Player of the Year Chris Richeson is looking ahead to college play. Myung J. Chun/Daily News |
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