Varsity Boys

Water Polo is a very physically demanding water sport. Each team has 6 field players and one goalkeeper. They play in a swimming pool between 20 x 10 or 30 x 20 meters in size and at least 1.8 meter deep. Today's tournament is in about 2 and a half meter deep end of an olympic size swimming pool which is 25 meter in length. There are four quarters of 7 minutes each because this is a US High School Varsity tournament. This team (in white swimming caps) is awaiting their turn to enter the water for the next game on the schedule. In real time, each quarter lasts about 12 minutes and at the end of the game, each player (save the goalkeeper) would have swam about 3 kilometers or more. Because they cannot stand, the players have to constantly swim or tread water during the active parts of the game. I can probably last 30 seconds.