That’s a wrap for this year’s edition of the Saints Water Polo Invitational - an incredible four days of college water polo at our Saints Water Polo Invitational 2023. We were blessed with mostly awesome weather with just one delay on Saturday and weather interrupting our finals on Sunday and casing a delay.
St Stithians College has been privileged to host this tournament for the past 29 years and relishes the opportunity for our Saints Aquatics Precinct to welcome our 40 participating teams (over 500 players) and hundreds of supporters for 144 games of top-class water polo, most importantly, giving our students the opportunity to do what they love to do.
An event like this takes a huge amount of organisation and manpower and we are grateful to #OneAndAll who played a part in the success of this year’s event. Thank you to all the participants who have given it their all in the pools, we applaud them for their sportsmanship and the camaraderie that they have shown both in and outside the pool.
A mid-afternoon thunderstorm created a short delay in getting our senior event finals underway and although we could complete the girls' final, due to continuing bad weather, the Boys' final was moved to Reddam Helderfontein's indoor facility. We had two incredible finals, the Girls’ Final between Gauteng’s Roedean School (SA) and Cape Town’s Herschel Girls School and the Boys’ Final between Gauteng’s St John’s College and Cape Town’s South African College School (SACS) and Our winners for 2023 are Herschel Girls School and SACS for the third consecutive year. Congratulations to our winners and to #OneAndAll.
Our silver medalists in the Boys' Section were St John's College and bronze Medals went to St Andrew’s College Grahamstown.
Our silver medalists in the Girls' Section were Roedean School (Cape Town) and bronze medalists, Reddam House Constantia.
For all the final placings for the Senior Boys’ Section, click here. For all the final placings for the Senior Girls’ section, click here.
Thank you to all our vendors, suppliers, and particularly our headline sponsor, CIB and all of our sponsors for the essential part that they play in making tournaments like this happen. To our Chair of the Saints Water Polo Committee, Russell Haworth, his wife Bronwyn and their incredible Water Polo Committee, made up of a group of passionate and committed parents we extend our heartfelt appreciation. To our Tournament Directors, Bruno Fernandes and Etienne Le Roux and their team, a massive thanks. This wraps up this year’s Invitational. We look forward to welcoming the participants and supporters to our Saints Water Polo Invitational Senior Invitational 2024 which will be our 30th iteration of the tournament - see you there
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23 окт 2024
