Winter League
Please find attached the Canoe Polo Winter League Info Pack for 2024
Registrations close Tuesday 4th June
Link for Registrations further down this page:
The first 2 weeks of play are GRADING GAMES for schools (C and D grade will possibly be combined for grading)
· Please do your best to register your team in the right grade(If you're not sure please ask)
· Competition round is 8 weeks, with finals on Wed 25th and Thurs 26th September
· We will break for over school holidays and also for a week during Tourney Week
· Any Dispensation requests are to be emailed to cphbwinterleague@gmail.com
Basic Summary(More detailed information is in the info pack)
Week 1 Starts Tuesday 18h June will run for 2 weeks in Term 2 for grading games.
Break over the school holidays including last week of Term 1 starting back Tuesday 23rd July
No games 28th July at Flaxmere due to Primary Schools Competition(Make up day for these Grades 8th Sept)
Break for Tourney week no games Sunday 1st Sept - Thursday 5th Sept (Normal play Sunday 8th to make up for Grades missing 28th July)
Finals 25th and 26th September(Last year we ran finals in one evening and will do the same if we can fit it in)
School and Social Grades
Division | Pool | Day | Time |
A1 Grade | Flaxmere | Thursday or Sunday | Thursday 7PM or Sunday afternoon |
A2 Grade | Flaxmere | Sunday evening | Sunday Afternoon |
B1 Grade | Clive or Flaxmere | Sunday afternoon/evening | Clive Approx 4pm - TBC (After C Grade) or early afternoon Flaxmere |
B2 Grade | Flaxmere | Tuesday | 7PM On - TBC |
C Grade | Clive or Flaxmere | Sunday | Morning at Flaxmere or afternoon at Clive |
D Grade | Clive | Sunday | Morning at Flaxmere or afternoon at Clive |
D/C Grade* | Clive | Wednesday | 6.30pm - TBC |
Please Note It is also possible depending on pool availability all Sunday grades may run at Flaxmere back to back starting at around 10am. Starting with D Grade followed by C, B1, Social, A2 and A1.
This is the preference of pool staff and will depend on entries as well as pool availability.
D/C Grade* will possibly be used to accommodate boarding students and may end up being D and C Grade depending on entries.
Division | Criteria |
A Grade | Top school teams. Very confident players. |
B Grade | First year pushing. Confident players. |
C Grade | Less confident Yr 9 – 11 students. NO PUSHING |
D Grade | New High School teams. Most likely to be Yr 9 or 10 students. NO PUSHING |
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CHAIRPERSON - KELLY WALTERS - M: 021 2052833 E: cphb08@gmail.com