00:00The future water polo stars had contrasting journeys to their gold medals with the under-16 girls going unbeaten in
00:06the Krifter division.
00:08And despite two defeats, the under-14 co-eds managed a narrow 10-8 victory over Curacao to secure the
00:14second gold medal.
00:15And team manager Sheehan Utley-Reed spoke about how this experience can have an impact on upcoming tournaments.
00:22I definitely think in terms of Pan Ams coming up next year, both under-15 and under-17,
00:28I think that this experience in Krifter with these athletes was a really good prep.
00:33I think that there's obviously a lot of work to be done, but they have learned lessons that they're going
00:37to apply.
00:38And we continue to train, so I think we're going to be in a real good place for those two
00:42competitions.
00:43Our under-14 team had the opportunity to play matches against countries and clubs,
00:47finishing with a superior gold difference of 29 after scoring 40 gold and conceding 11.
00:52This helped me prepare for next year with 15 Pan Am by, you know, playing other people that I never
00:59really played against
01:00and showing the true level of them.
01:03The areas my team could improve on is, you know, more chemistry and more probably swimming on the pool
01:09because it's not really an easy sport, so you have to be moving all times.
01:13And under-16 guilds captain Alexi Avey spoke on playing against older opponents and where there's room for improvement.
01:21The experience of the tournament was really good.
01:23Like, we played Cayman again. We played them multiple times.
01:26And it was a really good way to get to see older people play because we played under-19 exhibition
01:33games
01:34and trying to see what that competition level is like.
01:37So that was a great experience for us.
01:38I think that we can definitely improve on just our communication and setting up,
01:43but overall I think we did really well in the stuff that we did and we played a good game.
01:48Terrence Clark, TV6 Sport.
