USA Olympians to clash with South African National Water Polo Team!

Some of the biggest names in USA Water Polo are headed to Cape Town, South Africa for a showdown on March 23rd, 2013. The Americans will perform a clinic on March 22nd in Cape Town and then follow that up with an Official Match on the following day.

South Africa is training for the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona, Spain later this summer and this will be an important test match for them to assess where they are in the training. Dr. Terry Schroeder will be at the helm for the Americans fresh off coaching the USA Olympic team in Beijing and London. USA will be anchored in the cage by Double Olympian Merrill Moses, and led on the offensive end by 4X Olympian and leading scorer for the 2012 USA team in London, Ryan Bailey. Bailey recently helped the US team qualify for the 2013 World Championships earlier this year. The USA team is loaded with numerous  Olympians and World University Games players and should be favored in this match. Ryan Bailey noted "I am really excited to get over there and play this friendly against the South Africans, there is no pressure and it will be a tremendous experience". Triple Olympian and World Champion Wolf Wigo is equally excited "This will be a one of a kind life experience and I am really looking forward to this match".  Team Dr. and 2004 Olympian Omar Amar and Dual Swimming/Water polo  Olympian Brad Schumacher will add tremendous speed and experience to the roster. Aside from the Olympians the roster will be filled out by Drac Wigo, Griffen Lerhman and Janson Wigo, all 2011 WUG team members for Team USA!

Keep an eye on the players twitter accounts for updates from the trip!

For Immediate Release

August 29, 2011

Press Contact: Alex Young (949) 737-3535 x.101 a.young@kap7inc.com

INDIANAPOLIS, IN---The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has named KAP7 International, Inc. (KAP7) as the Exclusive and Official Championship Water Polo Game Ball provider.

Designed to meet guidelines for local, national and global specifications, each KAP7 ball is constructed with extreme care and quality. With years of industry experience, specific design elements and top of the line materials, KAP7 has created the long lasting and extremely tacky HydroGrip for all levels of competition. KAP7 offers five sizes of balls. The KAP7 104 and 105 will be specifically used in NCAA competition. 

“KAP7 is extremely excited to partner with the NCAA to be the Official Water Polo Ball Supplier” said Todd Snider, CEO of KAP7. “This is a milestone for our company. With the many years of involvement both on and off the pool deck by Co-Founders Bradley Schumacher, Wolf Wigo and the KAP7 team, we are proud to see our product showcased at the highest level of collegiate competition.” 

Co-Founder Bradley Schumacher commented, “As a former NCAA competitor, I am very excited for the opportunity to support water polo student athletes. At KAP7, we have all been fortunate enough to take the lessons learned as athletes in the collegiate environment and apply them to achieve both business and lifetime goals. I look forward to seeing the athletes compete with the KAP7 NCAA Official Water Polo Ball.”

“The NCAA is proud to partner with KAP7 at the NCAA water polo championships,” said Peter Davis, NCAA director of corporate alliances. “We’re also proud to partner with former NCAA student-athletes who have firsthand experience with our water polo championships and now know the nature of this business. We look forward to KAP7’s support and innovation in the future.” 

For additional information about the NCAA Water Polo Championships and KAP7, please visit www.ncaa.org and www.kap7waterpolo.com.

About KAP7 

Founded by aquatic greats Bradley Schumacher and Wolf Wigo, KAP7 is comprised of 5 former collegiate athletes. Combined they have participated in 12 NCAA Water Polo Championships, 3 NCAA Swimming Championships, 2 NCAA Swimming Finals, and claimed 7 NCAA Water Polo titles. Based on many years of combined experience, KAP7 was formed to design and build innovative world class products for the water polo community that are “Built by Water Polo Players, For Water Polo Players”. 

About the NCAA

The NCAA® is a membership-led nonprofit association of colleges and universities committed to supporting academic and athletics opportunities for more than 400,000 student-athletes at more than 1,000 member colleges and universities. Each year, more than 54,000 student-athletes compete in NCAA Championships in Divisions I, II and III sports. Visit NCAA.org and NCAA.com for more details about the Association, its goals and members and corporate partnerships that help support programs for student-athletes.

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LOS ALAMITOS – The CIF Southern Secti on is pleased to announce conti nuing/new offi cial ball partnerships with Spalding, Dudley, Rawlings, Wilson Tennis and Kap7.

The new ‘offi cial ball’ being introduced for 2011-12 will be the Kap7 water polo ball. Kap7 Internati onal is an industry leader in the club water polo community and is already the offi cial water polo ball of the CIF San Diego, Los Angeles and Central Secti on’s. Kap7 will be the offi cial ball that is required for playoff s in both boys and girls water polo.

“Kap7 Internati onal is proud to be the offi cial ball for CIF-SS Water Polo,” said Kap7 co-founder Wolf Wigo. “ It is wonderful to be in a positi on to align our experience, passion and best in class products with the support and growth of the sport.

“It has always been a goal of ours to provide water polo products that will raise the talent of local players,” added Wigo “We love seeing our gear out there being uti lized at a high level, especially in the hot bet of youth water polo in the USA.”

In additi on to Kap7, long ti me CIF-SS partners Spalding, Rawlings and Wilson Tennis have agreed to conti nue as the offi cial balls in their respecti ve sports through 2016. Each have been the offi cial playoff ball in these sports since 2001-02.

SPALDING: Conti nues as offi cial ball of the CIF Southern Secti on-Ford Championships in the sports of football, basketball, soccer and volleyball. Dudley, a division of Spalding, remains the offi cial soft ball.

RAWLINGS: Conti nues as offi cial ball of the CIF Southern Secti on-Ford Baseball Championships.

WILSON TENNIS: Remains the offi cial tennis ball of the CIF Southern Secti on-Ford Boys/Girls Tennis Championships.

All agreements run from July 1, 2011 through the 2016 school year.

In exchange, the CIF-SS will receive fi nancial compensati on that will off set costs of championship events, venues and fund valuable awards programs.

“On behalf of our member schools, the CIF Southern Secti on is pleased and proud to conti nue our current partnerships and to add new friends,” said CIF-SS Commissioner of Athleti cs Dr. Jim Staunton. “This agreement, in conjuncti on with our other business partners, allows the secti on to provide our first class championships as well as helping to keep the promise of low costs to our schools.”

The CIF-SS generates over 20% of an annual $3.5 million operati ng budget through corporate partnerships. These partnerships save the schools an average $1,000 per year that would otherwise have

BALL AGREEMENTS (Cont.): to be assessed through member dues and sport fees. This corporate support enabled the CIF-SS to eliminate head count based dues two years ago and conti nue to be the only high school associati on that revenue shares with parti cipati ng schools in all rounds of football, basketball and volleyball playoffs.

“The support and responsiveness provided by both Spalding and Rawlings the last ten years has been grati fying,” added Staunton. “The mandatory playoff ball has given our schools a standardized quality ball in all playoff rounds. The most benefi cial part of the program is that have been able to save each school student body nearly $4,000 specifi cally through these ball agreements. This is money they can use for on-campus programs.”

The offi cial ball program, adopted by the CIF-SS in 2001, now generates over $340,000 per year in fi nancial support to the secti on that would otherwise have to be passed on in fees to the 582 member schools.

OFFICIAL BALL PER SPORT

SCHOOL INFO FOR PURCHASING KAP7 BALLS:
CIF-SS schools can purchase Kap7 balls at www.kap7waterpolo.com, by Purchase Order at 949-502-3336 or through Sport Chalet team sales. Discounted price of $25.95 for orders of 12+ balls. For more informati on, contact Kap7 Custom Service at 949-727-3535 x 101.

CHAMPIONSHIP TITLING:
A reminder to all news organizati ons, all references to the sport championships and playoff games should conti nue to be ti tled the CIF Southern Secti on-FORD (sport) Championships, presented by Farmers.

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