Inter-Regional Gold for Worcester Crocodiles Jacob

Worcester Crocodiles player Jacob Lewis returns from his first inter-regional tournament with a Gold medal.

The last weekend in November 2022 saw the U14’s Boys’ Inter-regional Championships take place at Walsall Gala Baths. Nine teams were split into two groups to battle for the title.

West Midlands Warriors were put in group A with London Sharks, East, Ireland and East Midlands. As always being the first competition in that age group what standard the other teams were was anyones guess.

The “Warriors” first match was against local rivals East Midlands. A comfortable win 8 – 4 to West Midlands ensured a good start to the weekends tournament.

Next was London Sharks and another comfortable win (4-2). The final match of the day was against Ireland. Always worrying an “international” fixture at this level but West Midlands Warriors kept it together claiming another victory (5-3).

Finishing the first day top of the table the team had an early start the next day with their final group match against East. 

Another comfortable win against East meant they finished top of the table and faced 2nd placed North West Tigers from Group B in the first semi final. A game that was far more fairly matched the Warriors lived up to their name battling right until the end, in fact the last 20 seconds brought the winning goal to West Midlands. Final score West Midlands Warriors 9 -8 North West.

Gold medal match was against familiar Ireland. Having played them in the group stages this should be in the bag and it was. An easy 13- 6 win to West Midlands Warriors.

The second ever U14’s Inter-regional tournament win for The West Midlands boys’ we look forward to following the teams progress over the next 4 years.

Worcester Crocodiles Junior Men Midlands League Campaign

Worcester Crocodiles are pleased to announce their first under 18’s mens team to take part in the Midlands league for the 2022/23 season. 

Joining 5 other well established local teams Worcester will gain valuable experience and pool time being part of this transitional league from juniors (under 16’s) to mens water polo.

The league runs October to March and is usually dominated by local rivals Cheltenham. Post covid it has been great to see our junior side grow and it is testament to the hard work put in by the committee, coaches, players and parents that we now have a viable team in this league.

Head coach David Cash said “ this season is all about being competitive and our players learning about and adapting to this big step up. Not only have they competed in the first two games of the season, they have thrived. I am really pleased for them.”

Results for this season so far are –

Worcester Crocodiles 12 – 13 Warley Wasps Juniors

Worcester Crocodiles 16 – 7 Solihull Juniors

Worcester Crocodiles 2 – 27 Cheltenham Junior

Warley Wasps Juniors 22 – 5 Worcester Crocodiles

Worcester Crocodiles 12- 20 Boldmere

Solihull Juniors 7 – 11 Worcester Crocodiles

Boldmere 27 – 6 Worcester Crocodiles

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Final position 4th in the league!

Worcester Crocodiles Ladies 2022/2023 Midlands League Campaign

The Midlands ladies league runs September to March. This year only 5 teams from around the region intend to battle it out to be league winners.

Crocs ladies have come second for the past two years, 2021/22 was particularly close losing on goal difference only on the matches between the eventual winners Boldmere, when over the whole tournament Crocs had a considerably bigger goal difference.

Hopefully 2022/23 will eventually go the ladies way and they will bring home the bling they deserve.

Good luck ladies. 🐊

Results for this season so far are –

South Derbyshire Women 6 – 5 Worcester Crocodiles Women

Worcester Crocodiles Women H-W – Boldmere Women

Solihull 6 – 11 Worcester Crocodiles Women

City of Coventry Women 12 – 5 Worcester Crocodiles Women

Worcester Crocodiles Women 13 – 3 South Derbyshire Women

Boldmere 1 – 14 Worcester Crocodiles Women

Worcester Crocodiles Women 11 – 5 Solihull

Worcester Crocodiles Women H-W City of Coventry Women

(H-W denotes a home walkover)

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Final position WINNERS of the league🏆

Inter-Regional Bronze for Worcester Crocodiles Jess

Worcester Crocodiles player Jess Day was selected to play for the West Midlands U16 girls team in the recent Inter-Regional competition held at Liverpool Aquatics Centre, 25th & 26th June.

Taking on a full tournament format the regions were split into 2 groups. Each region played the others in their group with play offs depending on where they ended up in the table.

West Midlands were placed in group A with Ireland, North East Steelers, East Angels and South East Anderida. They drew their first match against North East (9-9), Lost to Ireland (7-3), beat South East (13-7) and East Angels (3-7). With 2 wins, 1 loss and 1 draw West Midland’s ended up in second place, in Group A, based on goal difference. Their first play off would be against the winners of Group B – North West Thunder.

A very close semi-final (15-10) resulted in a loss against North West Thunder, who eventually won the tournament. West Midland’s would face South West Sharks in the Bronze medal match.

In this match the girls played strongly and ended up winning by a margin of 16-19. This will mean the U16’s team will be in Division One for the U18’s competition in two years time.

Congratulations Jess and team, we await to hear of further success as the regional girls teams go from strength to strength.

Jess Day, Worcester Crocodiles Bronze Medal U16’s Inter regional Water Polo Competition 2022

Junior Crocs 2022 Midland League Campaign

2022 sees a change in the format for the Midland Junior League. Firstly all teams will play each other at least once, there will be no division 1 and division 2 as in previous years.

Midland Junior League play as mixed teams, so boys and girls from various teams from around the Midland region, however in 2022 there is also a change to the age groups with 2007 and younger boys able to play and 2006 and younger girls.

These changes will be a big challenge for the young Crocodiles who will have to play matches against well trained and very experienced players/teams.

At the end of the season there will be a tournament for both top and bottom halves of the table, guaranteeing a competitive finale and a chance of silverware.

Good luck Crocs.🐊

Worcester Crocodiles Results for 2022 are –

Worcester Crocodiles 1 – 16 Northampton Youth A

Boldmere Youth (2) 1 – 19 Worcester Crocodiles

Worcester Crocodiles 2 – 17 Cheltenham

Warley Wasps 27 – 6 Worcester Crocodiles

Worcester Crocodiles 6 – 5 Northampton Youth B

Solihull 15 – 6 Worcester Crocodiles

Worcester Crocodiles 3 – 15 Wellington

Worcester Crocodiles 10 – 12 City of Coventry

Boldmere Youth (1) 24 – 2 Worcester Crocodiles

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Inter-Regional Gold for Two Worcester Crocodiles

Worcester Crocodiles players Annie Garrett and Zoe Bloss return from 2022’s U18’s Inter-Regional competition with Gold medals. 

The determined West Midlands team showed great team spirit to win the Division Two competition in Bolton earlier this year.

This is the first ever Inter-Regional medal for the West Midlands girls since the split of the Midlands region into East and West, back in 2017. 

The team opened their campaign with a convincing 20-4 win over rivals East Midlands. They then went on to defeat East Angels 19-12. On the following day West Midlands drew with Scotland Saltires 11-11 and Ireland 10-10. This gave them enough points to top the leader board and win the tournament.

West Midlands coach Mark Ibbs said “West Midlands is a small region and our girls showed great team spirit, determination and skill to eventually get us over the line. The matches against Scotland and Ireland were particularly thrilling!”

Both Annie and Zoe came to Worcester Crocodiles Water Polo Club from local Swimming clubs. After deciding to stop going to competitive meets they turned their attention to Water Polo to keep their skills in an aquatic discipline.

Water Polo requires speed, power, flexibility and endurance in the water so is perfect for swimmers who want more from their sport.

Congratulations Dan Day

Worcester Crocodiles player Dan Day has been selected for the Great Britain under 19 men’s water polo team.  It has been a long hard road to success as this represents the pinnacle achievement for youth players and is the culmination of many years of National Academy training camps and more recently u19 training weekends in Manchester.  The team has played two warm-up competitions in early April (one in Hannover, Germany and the other in Bratislava, Slovakia) in the lead-up to the men’s u19 European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers in Valletta, Malta to be held between 14th-16th April 2022.  The team will face tough opposition as they are drawn in Group D against the hosts Malta, the Netherlands and Finland.  The top 2 teams will qualify for the finals which are to be held in Montenegro in September.

“I am delighted to have been selected to represent my country.  It is the ultimate goal for a water polo player.  It has not been an easy road to selection.  We have had to overcome lockdown obstacles and challenges with pool availability but despite all this we are all keen to showcase our abilities and determination to qualify.  I hope that the more junior players in the Club will see what can be achieved with hard work and determination and follow in our footsteps,” said Dan.  

Head Coach for Worcester Crocodiles Water Polo Club, David Cash commented “I am really proud of Dan. It is a massive challenge to play for your country, but even more so having to try and retain fitness and match readiness through lockdown. Dan has been resilient, inventive and focussed and thoroughly deserves this opportunity.”

On his experience with Worcester Crocodiles Dan said “I learned to play water polo in King’s School pool with the fantastic Worcester Club.  Without the support and guidance of the senior players and coaching staff I would not have been able to achieve GB u19 selection.  Worcester Crocodiles has always been both a friendly and welcoming club and I look forward to seeing other junior players repeat the recent GB selection successes”.

Worcester Men 2021/2022 Midlands League Campaign

The Mens Midland Water Polo League season typically runs from March to October.

At the culmination of the 2019 season, Worcester Men achieved promotion to Division 1 of the league for the 2020 season, following a dramatic two-legged play-off win over Warwick.

Sadly the 2020 season was lost due to Covid. The team have been playing an amended and shortened season during 2021-22, and are set to start the 2022 Season in April.

The result we are looking forward to, our second season in top flight Midlands Water Polo playing against teams fielding former and current international players as well as experienced National League players.

For our regular senior players this is the reward for several years of hard work and coming close season after season and for our younger players a superb opportunity to showcase their skills against the best players in the Midlands and put themselves in contention for regional selection.

Exciting time for the Crocodiles. 🐊

Results for this season so far are –

Boldmere A 12-5 Worcester Crocodiles

Warley A 25-18 Worcester Crocodiles

City of Coventry A 12-8 Worcester Crocodiles

Worcester Crocodiles 12-22 Warley Wasps A

Worcester Crocodiles H-W Northampton

Worcester Crocodiles H-W Boldmere A

Worcester Crocodiles 15-14 City of Coventry

Northampton H-W Worcester Crocodiles

(H-W denotes a home walk over)

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Worcester Ladies 2021/2022 Midlands League Campaign

The ladies league runs September to March every year. Six all female teams from around the region battle it out to be the league winners. Worcester Crocodiles have finished 2nd in this league for the past two seasons. Faced with strong National League teams from Coventry and Boldmere (City of Birmingham) there has been awesome play from Crocs.

In 2021/2022 the ladies are competing against Coventry, Boldmere, Solihull, South Derbyshire and Northampton. After over 12 months with no training and reduced training time in our home pool this season could be quite a battle for Worcester Crocodiles.🐊

Results for this season so far are –

Northampton 7-22 Worcester Crocodiles

City of Coventry 3-14 Worcester Crocodiles

Boldmere 16-7 Worcester Crocodiles

Solihull 5-15 Worcester Crocodiles

South Derbyshire 6-9 Worcester Crocodiles

Worcester Crocodiles H-W Northampton

Worcester Crocodiles H-W Solihull

Worcester Crocodiles H-W South Derbyshire

Worcester Crocodiles 14-8 City of Coventry

Worcester Crocodiles 14-8 Boldmere

(H-W denotes a home walkover)

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Worcester Senior Men Take on MANUP!

Eight of Worcester Crocodiles Senior Men travelled to Liverpool’s Albert Docks on Saturday 31st July to take part in the first weekend of the MANUP! series of outdoor tournaments. This was the teams first competitive water polo action since lockdown.

The outdoor environment was a novel experience for many of the Crocs contingent, as was playing against a number of teams whom Worcester would never have played before, including a number of established British Water Polo League sides.


The MANUP! tournament runs slightly different rules, mainly to speed the games up. The most significant differences were games comprising of a single period of 8-minutes of running clock, 6 a side teams with 2 subs maximum. Pitches are shorter at 18m and there would be no centres, restarts are from the goalkeeper. Shot clocks are 20 seconds rather than the normal 30 seconds and there would be no corners. 


Crocs adapted well to these rules and came out flying in their opening game with a thumping 6-1 win over Blackpool – Morgan Wells opening the scoring with further goals added through Dan Day, Toby Elston and Toby Chilcott.

Next up were Tyldesley, in a very tight game a late goal from captain Dan Mason secured Crocs a 6-5 victory.


Unfortunately Crocs were unable to maintain their winning run and lost out 6-5 to Bridgefield 1st in game 3 of the day.

This narrow defeat ultimately cost Crocs top spot in their group and a place in the day’s final. 


However, Crocs didn’t let the disappointment hinder them and after a slow start, eventually ran out comfortable 8-3 winners in the final group game against Liverpool to secure 2nd spot in Group A and a third place play off match against Bridgefield 2nd (runner up of Group B).


A battling performance against Bridgefield 2nd almost saw Crocs claim the 3rd place play off win in normal time, however a late, controversial penalty  – which Bridgefield 2nd converted (to the joy of the ‘home’ supporters on the sidelines) – sent the game to a penalty shootout.

George Jones stepped up as the replacement goalkeeper for the shootout in place of the up till then ever present Donald Day, with Morgan Wells, Dan Mason and Ollie Chilcott taking on the responsibility of the penalties. After 3 penalties a piece, the shootout was tied at 3-3. Morgan Wells confidently dispatched his 2nd penalty on the second round (and Crocs’ fourth), leaving Bridgefield needing to score to keep them in the game. Bridgefield’s penalty was ultimately missed – the slimy/salty match ball slipping from the player’s grasp as he shaped to shoot – handing Crocs the 4-3 shootout victory and third place in their debut appearance in the tournament!


To finish 3rd out of 10 teams at an event such as this was a great achievement for the side, but irrespective of placing, the main thing was that a great, enjoyable day of polo was had by all. Hopefully more success will come from the team in the coming months as they get back to playing more competitive polo after the easing of Covid-19 restrictions.

Great achievement, Dan Mason (Captain), Don Day, Dan Day, Toby Elston, Ollie Chilcott, Toby Chilcott, George Jones & Morgan Wells.