Women’s Water Polo ready for season

Rob Flores and Perla Lara • September 9, 2015

Women’s Water Polo team practice, from front to back Co-captain Breanna Zuniga, Attacker Maria Figueroa, Attacker Jenny Parra, Co-captain Claudia Martinez, Attacker Lucila Davies, Attacker Stephanie Garcia, and Attacker Janay williams. The team practice’s left, right and center launches. Photo credit: Perla Lara

Women’s water polo team prepared to enter their first tournament Sept. 10 through 12 in Sacramento, California.

Assistant coach Shanon Ku believes the tournament will be a great experience for the team, as it would allow them to compete against schools they normally wouldn’t compete against in Southern California.

Assistant coach Stephanie Tuning said, “This tournament will not affect the team win or lose; our first conference is Sept. 16 at Cerritos College against Rio Hondo College.”

Ku was a product of the Cerritos College water polo team. She competed in 2011-2012 along side Assistant coach Tuning who competed in 2010-2011.

Co-captain Breanna Zuniga has two years on the team and is ready for competition.

Zuniga said, “12 of us are going to compete in Sacramento.”

After competing for Cerritos College, Zuniga hopes to major in criminal justice.

Co-captain Vanessa Hinojosa looks to her family for inspiration, “My family competed in high school water polo and swimming, so I knew I wanted to be in water polo.”

Hinojosa added, “I hope our team improves as we are getting ready for the rest of the season.”

She competed in high school, but when she went to the University of California Irvine, she found out there wasn’t water polo team only a club, so she decided to come to Cerritos College to compete.

This is her first year on the team; Hinojosa plans to major in physics.

Co-captain Claudia Martinez, has been on the team for two years and said she feels the she is more mature.

Martinez took a leave of absence last season and is happy to be back.

Martinez believes water polo is a great experience and can be a great support group.

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About the Contributors

Rob Flores, Staff Writer

Jaime Roberto Flores Junior is a Radio Television student best known as Rob. He began his involvement at Cerritos College through WPMD Radio hosting his show Falcon Spotlight which you can find the facebook fan page “Cerritos College Falcon Spotlight” where he has interviewed a variety of leaders from students, faculty and elected officials such as Lynwood City Council Member and the Mayor of Norwalk. After serving the Country in AmeriCorps where he received congressional recognition from congress woman Linda Sanchez and the Presidential Volunteer Service award he decided to get involved in student government known as the Associated Students of Cerritos College . As a Student Senator, he was appointed Chair of the Special Services and Activities sub-committee. He later went on to serve a year as the Assistant Commissioner of Public Relations. As an original member of Go Green he was part of the hiring committee that hired the first ever student recycling nest technicians. He served a year as the Student Representative in the Institutional Committee known as Enrollment Management and the Faculty Senate Sub- Committee known as Student Learning Outcomes (SLO) . Currently he is active in the City of Lynwood as a Block Watch Captain promoting safety. He also serves as a City Intern. In addition he serves in the Lynwood Park Advisory Committee for the new Linear Park opening Fall 2015. As of 2015 he is now a Life Time Member of the National Association of Latino Appointed and Elected Officials (NALEO) . He hopes to one day have a career in the entertainment industry and would like to be appointed as a Commissioner in his City. You can also reach him on twitter @lynwoodRobJF & Instagram RobJF2013

Perla Lara, Managing Editor

I am a journalism student with a love of photography which makes me a photojournalist at heart. My objective is to write about people and the stories they create. I also believe that photography and journalism are great ways to document history and to connect with other people throughout space and time. My goal is to take photographs, and write stories that make an impact in peoples lives.

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