Read this arti­cle; giv­ing credit to the com­plex­ity of water polo

When our panel of experts ranked the degree of dif­fi­culty of sports accord­ing to cat­e­gories that ranged from endurance to agility to ana­lytic apti­tude, water polo came in at No. 11.

With all due respect to our experts, that’s a crock.….

Com­ing into the 2011 Men’s Club Water Polo sea­son the Spartan’s had very high hope, try­ing to win their sev­enth con­sec­u­tive big ten title and punch their ticket to club nation­als in Atlanta, Geor­gia. With many return­ing key play­ers it seemed that these goals were well within reach. To open the sea­son the Spartan’s held their own Sparty invi­ta­tional with com­pe­ti­tion com­ing from all over the mid­west. Mak­ing it into the finals with some hard fought wins the Spar­tans beat The Apos­tles in over­time to cap­ture their own Sparty Invi­ta­tional Crown. Into Big Ten reg­u­lar sea­son play the Spar­tans con­tin­ued to play strong work­ing to a third seed in the Big Ten tour­na­ment. In the Big Ten Cham­pi­onship tour­na­ment the Spar­tans glided into the finals to face rival Michi­gan. The Spar­tans bat­tled hard with Michi­gan with lead changes through­out, but when the game came to a close the Spar­tans were unfor­tu­nately on the wrong side of the score­board. Although the sea­son did not end on the best not a few bright spots were Jacob Marsh and Michael Scar­celli earn­ing Sec­ond Team All Amer­i­can and Hon­or­able Men­tion All Amer­i­can awards respec­tively. With this, the Spar­tans hope to build on this sea­son into next year as new play­ers come into dif­fer­ent roles for the Spartans.