Tourney with Namaste

Red head, afro, colorful tattoos, yup! That's Namaste for ya! Okay, so Namaste is this annoying referee who likes to bag on our Park City Water Polo team. He always fouls us and makes up all this crap that really doesn't make any sense. He looks sorta like this:

Photo Courtesy of : Tri Radar

Photo Courtesy of : my mum

We traveled to Cedar City last Thursday for the annual Summer Games tournament. It was the first time that our team had ever gone, so it was pretty fun. The car ride down consisted of sour patch kids and Pringles (I'm really healthy). My friend Alexa was eating her usual meal similar to a bird's diet: carrots and trail mix. When we got there, we stayed at the Abbey Inn which was really fun because all of our rooms were close to each other. Here is the girls team getting ready to drive to beautiful Cedar City :



The first day that we got there, we played one game against our rivals Cedar City. Apparently they hate us, along with everyone else. I really don't understand why no one likes us, but I'm pretty sure it's because we are good, and we are a brand new team. Anyway, we beat them (obviously), and watched the boys game later that night who won as well. The next morning we had a game at 7:50 AM and won that against Tooele. Our next two games were mid-day and night against Herriman and Sourthern Utah who we also crushed. So, getting back to the Namaste part, he was really annoying as always, and kept ejecting people from our team. It was a blast.

Let's talk about team spirit! (and not about my face)
Photo Courtesy of : Blair (the Summer Games coordinator)

So in our gold medal game, we were playing Murray. The score was going back and forth, but the problem was that Namaste's friends (the other referees that hate us) kept giving our set offensives. An offensive is when the team on offense gets a foul, so then the possession is given to the defensive team. So basically every time we would get down there, it would be an offensive. We still played really well considering that we had a lot of bad calls against us. It was great, though, because our team is really good about losing. Here is a pic of us being happy afterwards:

Silver Medal baby!
Photo Courtesy of : Blair (the Summer Games coordinator)

When we were in Cedar City there was an amazing pizza place that we went to called Centro. It was literally the best thing ever. And shoutout to our awesome waitress who made jokes with us! Well that's all I got, but stay tuned for more posts coming soon!