Shhhh! Kidding. Parking at Woolett can be challenging. The library is a good option as is the neighborhood.
He is correct. The back parking lot always has plenty of parking, covered from the sun.
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West Stockton!! That made me laugh!! 
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Yeah. We had a game a Freedom High School. Over an hour drive for 1 game at a crap pool that the officials had to walk around the springboards and were only able to officiate from one side of the pool. Sure we drove past dozens of alternative pools between San Jose & Oakley. Not to say every pool in Orange County is great, but a lot less driving.
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Is this official or a speculation?
The move to OC permanently? I’d say 90%. It is just speculation but the fact I’ve heard it from numerous club coaches and others on this message board mention it makes me think it’s going to happen.
But until they update the JO Home page with a location for next year it’s just speculation.
His skits on Parents and Youth Sports is frigging hilarious!
Mt. Sac will not draw—look at National League and CIFSS Championships–very underwhelming attendance. Was hoping CIFSS would go back to Woolette—Wednesday (semis for Open/D1/D2 is a great event. But CIFSS doesn’t want to spend money on that, so the fans/sport suffers.
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Liberty…crazy to me that at JOs in LA this summer I drove 37 miles, but it took me 2 hrs in LA traffic. Also crazy to me that the same people complaining about driving, fly to tournaments where they can end up playing the same teams. Liberty is in Brentwood and has the lowest crime rate, it’s nothing like Stockton and it’s 45-50 mins West of Stockton. Liberty boys waterpolo team has also had some of the few black players represented in NCS D1 every year. Hosting JOs in these areas not only grows the sport, but exposes high level waterpolo to kids that have never seen it. One kid joined because he watched a JO game at Liberty, he was then invited to ODP for the first time, and was the only black kid to make it on the Pacific zone National roster….And received the Nick Johnson inspiration award.
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That looks like an awesome pool deck.
If I still had kids of JOs age, I would have no issues going to Bay Area for JOs. I would actually love to keep going every other year, to my mini vacay in that area. Over the years we have found so many cool places to go eat and have a couple cold ones in between games, with all the parents from the team. Staying at the team hotel, where everybody from all age groups gathers after the games to see how each team did is part of the fun.
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It was a nice area, safe, good places to eat, and your photos are representative. None of that changes that it is closer to Sacramento than it is to Stanford.
I’m all for giving areas like Brentwood an opportunity to showcase their community, but I like the idea of including areas into hubs. I could see Classic having a more inland hub that included Davis and Sacramento pools. As much as you talk down Stockton, I think the pool at UOP would be great for hosting the championship games for the Classic division.
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Liberty is just one example. As a parent of a player on the older side and having done multiple JO and Futures in both locations, the Bay Area is way more of a grind. Some pools way out are nice and some not Its more about having to drive so far away and the remoteness the Bay Area has
It is great that you are advocating for your pool. And yes, it looks very nice. The problem is that it is way too far from Stanford, as several people have already pointed out. I doubt that many college coaches/ club friends would be willing to go that far from the JO’s center to scout or cheer for players. I am sure there are some horror stories about traffic/driving in OC during JOs, but personally, I have not heard any of those. Not to say that they do not exist - it is just I have never heard the really bad ones. On the other hand, I have heard quite a few stories about having to go to Brentwood/ Oakley/ Antioch area from a team hotel in San Jose/Santa Clara. It is 27 miles from Liberty HS to the center of Stockton, and 68 miles from Liberty HS to the Avery Aquatics Center. While calling Liberty by West Stockton might be an attempt at humor, one might say that from Stanford it does look this way, if only a little bit.
Girls 16U super finals B division championship games were at Liberty. Nice pool! No college coaches made the trek. It was an hour drive from the Super Finals Hotel block…
Officially announced for OC next year
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Why would they change the boys date to second session to the end of July , knowing that they’re entering high school season early August, essentially depriving them of any vacation or break time? This is another missed step in the USWP.
The Session 2 Championship game this year happened on July 27. The Session 2 Championship game next year will happen on July 26. This upcoming season’s Championship game is a day earlier. I don’t get what you are asking.
Now we just need Woollett to invest in real shade structures.
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news but girls start school the same time as the boys and they handled it just fine. It flips back the following year and hopefully goes back and forth every year. The girls would like an extra week every once in a while too.
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