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Girls' water polo gets hard-earned three-peat
The girls’ water polo team won its third straight state title and seventh in the last eight years with a 9-6 victory over Olympia (Orlando) High on April 16. Coach Eric Lefebvre said the team’s season could be summed up with one stat: Six players scored in the final. This wasn’t RE’s most talented team ever, yet it might have been its best.
No team in Ransom Everglades girls' water polo history, Lefebvre said, made a larger leap in achievement from the beginning to the end of the season.
“They were a diamond in the rough – deep in the rough,” Lefebvre said. “They had to work on a lot. The amazing thing is, they all did it collectively. As a group, they all improved so much.”
The girls started the season with two losses in their first three games, but they ended it having a dance party in the locker room during the title game – as they waited out a two-hour rain delay. The girls preferred to crank up the music and sing and dance, rather than quietly ponder the day’s stakes.
“Fun works better for this team,” said goalie Claire McDowell ’16, an All-Dade first team selection in 2014-15. “It loosens us up. When we are stressed, we psych ourselves out.”
In the final, Elle Futernick ’17 scored three goals; Sofia Carrera-Justiz ’16 added two; and Carolina Carrera-Justiz ’18, Mya Wright ’17, Isa Reyes-Capo ’16 and Ande Edmunds ’18 each scored one.
Unlike previous teams that featured players who competed in water polo all year long, several of this squad’s top players also made significant commitments to other sports. McDowell, who is headed to UC Berkeley, also played basketball and swam. Carrera-Justiz, who is Harvard-bound, played volleyball and soccer and earned first-team All-Dade honors in all of her sports.
“It shows you how good of a coach Eric Lefebvre is,” Carrera-Justiz said. “He can make an athlete become a great water polo player in the span of one season.”
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