Carlos Duran

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[Carlos Duran @Losman72]

@ocvarsity @ocvarsityguy USA Water polo should really look at the culture it is brewing. This should never happen.

[JSerraAthletics @JSerraAthletics]

COACHES CORNER: It’s postseason time for the JSerra Girls Water Polo team, as the Lions will kick off the CIF-SS Open Division Playoffs on Wednesday with a road showdown against defending champion Oaks Christian in Westlake Village.

Girls Water Polo Head Coach Ethan Damato discusses the Lions’ growth and strong play to close out the regular season (including a memorable comeback against one of their upcoming playoff opponents), the team’s mentality heading into the postseason, and starting the playoffs against the defending champs.

[JSerraAthletics @JSerraAthletics]

The JSerra Girls Water Polo team and the visiting Foothill Knights went toe-to-toe in a back-and-forth nonleague thriller on Tuesday, with the Knights slipping past the Lions 9-8 in golden goal overtime at JSerra Catholic High School.

JSerra is now 8-3 on the season.

Behind two goals from senior Kamryn McCord and a goal apiece from senior Sloane Paulson and sophomore Aubrey Cardoza, the Lions held a 4-3 lead after the first period.

The Knights responded with two goals in the second period to take a 5-4 halftime, but the Lions answered in the third period, as freshman Dani Ku found the back of the net twice to give JSerra a 6-5 lead.

Senior goalie Sayre Duran was sensational in the period, producing six of her 11 total saves in the quarter to help the Lions maintain their lead.

Senior Maddie Weston put the Lions ahead 7-5 with her lone score of the contest with 5:35 remaining, but the Knights battled back and scored the game-tying goal with one second remaining in regulation to send the game into overtime tied at 7-7.

Paulson tallied her second goal in the first overtime period, but the Knights countered with the equalizer with 41 seconds remaining.

The game stayed tied 8-8 heading into golden goal overtime, where Foothill produced the game-winner with six seconds remaining in the first sudden death period.

[Carlos Duran @Losman72]

@ocvarsityguy @JSerraAthletics @JSGirlsBBall Well done ladies. #lionnation

[Carlos Duran @Losman72]

@ocvarsityguy What happened to Kirra?

[Sayre Duran @sayre_duran]

We are 7-2 headed to winter break. Let’s go lions!!! Took one to the face and check out my laser for the score. Not too bad for a goalie!!

#senioryear #class2026 #lionnation

[Carlos Duran @Losman72]

@espn Notre Dame always sucks and always will. So lame not to play. Bunch of spoiled babies.

[Carlos Duran @Losman72]

@ocvarsityguy Let’s go!!!

[Carlos Duran @Losman72]

@ocvarsityguy Wow!! Way to get back up and keep fighting.

[Carlos Duran @Losman72]

@ocvarsityguy @JSerraAthletics @USAWP #lionnation

[Dan Albano @ocvarsityguy]

Breaking girls water polo: JSerra has hired Ethan Damato as its new coach, school principal Eric Stroupe confirms

Major coaching hire for the Trinity League school, Damato guided Laguna Beach into a SoCal power

@JSerraAthletics @USAWP

[Carlos Duran @Losman72]

@ocvarsityguy Wow. Great game

[Carlos Duran @Losman72]

@ocvarsityguy Wow

[Carlos Duran @Losman72]

@ocvarsityguy Man great win for oaks and at MD

[Carlos Duran @Losman72]

Let’s go girls. It’s going to be a tough road game.

[JSerraAthletics @JSerraAthletics]

The JSerra Girls Water Polo team takes to the road on Wednesday to continue postseason play, as the Lions visit Dos Pueblos in the quarterfinals of the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta.

[Carlos Duran @Losman72]

Nice win girls!!!

[Sayre Duran @sayre_duran]

It’s all fun and games until the announcer forget to call me out. Luckily my dad took care of it. Hahahaha. You have to have fun once in awhile right?

Round one win vs Agoura. Next up? Doesn’t matter, we are ready to. State any opponent.
#lionnation

[Carlos Duran @Losman72]

Let’s go lions. CIF next

[Sayre Duran @sayre_duran]

Down by 1 with 9 seconds left and coach puts me at goalie position for 7/6 against Laguna. Tied game but we fell to them in sudden death. Great game girls!!! CIF next and we ready to rumble!!!
#clutch #goal #shooter #waterpolo #teamplayer #girlswaterpolo

[Carlos Duran @Losman72]

Let’s go!!!

[JSerraAthletics @JSerraAthletics]

The JSerra Girls Water Polo team dives back into Trinity League action on Wednesday, as the Lions play host to the Mater Dei Monarchs at JSerra Catholic High School.

[JSerraAthletics @JSerraAthletics]

A tightly contested nonleague battle in the pool between the JSerra Girls Water Polo team and Foothill saw the Knights pull out a 7-4 victory on Saturday at Foothill High School in Santa Ana.

Foothill forged an early 2-0 lead in the first period, but JSerra battled back.

Junior Sayre Duran scored the Lions’ first goal of the game at the mark of the period with shot the deflected off the Knights goalie and into the back of the net.

After the Knights re-established a two-goal lead, junior Maddie Weston drew a penalty, and fellow junior Kamryn McCord converted the five-meter penalty shot with left in the period to bring the Lions back within a goal.

Duran supplied the game-equalizer in spectacular fashion at the halftime buzzer, as she received a pass from sophomore Cece Schneider and rocketed a shot from the right side of the pool that twisted just past the right hand of the Knights goalie and into the upper far post corner of the goal.

Foothill seized momentum with two goals in a 22-second span in the third period and increased the lead with a goal 34 seconds into the fourth period.

Junior Sloane Paulson tallied the final score of the game for the Lions in the fourth period.

JSerra is now 11-3 overall.

[Carlos Duran @Losman72]

@ocvarsityguy They all know where everyone is going to be and they all know where they should be. Brenda rules