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Hosted by the University of Florida, Mar. 25th/26th, 2006
Dynamo Water Polo Club launched a “March to the Sea” of its own at the University of
Florida Spring in the Swamp tournament, held last weekend in Gainesville, Florida. The event was
the first of a 6 month campaign to the FINA Masters World Championships,
August 4-12, 2006 at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. DWPC added several key players from
across the southeast to their roster for the effort.
DWPC rolled to easy victories over Auburn and UF “B” on Saturday afternoon before squaring off
against UF “A” team, among the best in collegiate club water polo, on Saturday night. Dynamo jumped to an
early, but narrow, lead. Up four at the half, Dynamo played a horrendous third quarter and entered
the fourth quarter down one. Instead of buckling under the constant pressure from the Gators’
offense, Dynamo rose to the occasion and slammed the door, going up by 2 on a penalty shot with just
over two minutes to go in the game.
Sunday morning saw the same two teams line up again, this time with the championship in the
balance. Unlike the prior match-up, this was a close affair throughout. Uncharacteristically,
Dynamo allowed the clearly unbalanced calls of a rookie referee rattle them in the second half.
Despite over 200 years of collective water polo experience, DWPC made the classic rookie mistake and
melted into nothing as the Gators pushed to a comfortable three goal lead late in the fourth quarter.
DWPC scored a late goal to close within two but it was too little too late.
- Dynamo vs. Auburn - Win
- Dynamo vs. UF “B” - Win
- UF “A” vs. Dynamo - Win
- UF “A” vs. Dynamo- Loss (Championship)
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Latest Headlines:
5/21/08 - Dynamo drops 4, wins 1 at Tampa Thunder Invitational. 
Thundered in Tampa
5/20/08 - Dynamo Water Polo officially embraces the Masters Water Polo concept and the age brackets that come along with it.
4/13/08 - Dynamo runs through their bracket with wins over Washington, Charlotte and FSU, only to lose by one in the tournament final, 6-5, to Illinois at the 2008 Dogwood Invitational.
4/6/08 - The tournament's two best teams ended up in the same bracket and Florida International got the best of Dynamo in what the tournament referees called "...the best game of the weekend."
2/17/08 - The Dynamo Water Polo Club retained PowerBar as its primary sponsor for 2008 & 2009. The club started its relationship with PowerBar in 1992, so 2008 marks the 16th year of the mutually beneficial combination. Over the newly inked two year committment, Dynamo will receive support in the form of PowerBar products, hats, shirts, banners, etc, plus the opportunity to generate extra club revenue when Dynamo helps to get the PowerBar name in front of others through media, online and athlete exposure. Dynamo proudly looks forward to hosting the 10th Annual PowerBar Cup August 23rd and 24th at the Chamblee, Georgia home of the Dynamo Swim Club.
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