By Mark Etheridge South Africa's Under-17 boys' waterpolo team are back home after playing their way to a fine runners-up spot at last month's EU Nations competition in Vienna, Austria.
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By Mark Etheridge For so long treading water on the international scene, South Africa's water polo players have more than kept their heads above the water and recently notched up a watershed victory at the EU 8 Nations Cup in Odense, Denmark.
There were mixed fortunes for South Africa's men's and women's water polo teams at the Commonwealth Championships in Aberdeen, Scotland on Tuesday, writes Mark Etheridge.
Generous support from HSH Princess Charlène of Monaco has made it possible for the South African men's water polo team to travel to Scotland for the 2014 Commonwealth Water Polo Championships which start on Saturday and end on 10 April.
World champions and hosts Serbia breezed past South Africa on the opening day of the 2010 FINA men's water polo World League Super Final in Nis, Serbia on Wednesday.
The FINA Men's Water Polo World League got underway in Nis, Serbia on Wednesday and South Africa could not have asked for a tougher opening round. Serbia won the competition in 2007 and 2008 and finished third in 2009.
It will be an all Western Province women's affair in the final day of the Telkom SA National Water Polo Championships on Sunday, following Saturday's women's semi-finals.
Western Province teams continued where they left off on Thursday at Friday's second day of the Telkom SA National Water Polo Championships in Durban.
Thursday's opening day of the Telkom SA National Water Polo Championships saw some ferocious action at the Kings Park Aquatic Centre in Durban.
South Africa's men's waterpolo players proved out of their depth when losing for the second time in as many matches at the 13th Fina World Aquatic Championships in Rome on Wednesday. The 12-1 setback to Canada will not have helped the cause of those lamenting SASCOC's decision to not allow them to compete at last year's Beijing Olympics.