The Tony Azevedo Podcast

Congrats to Tony for being included in USA Water Polo's 2021 Hall of Fame class!

Today's guest, Levon Dermendjian started reffing at the age of 17 in 2001. Levon has been an International Referee with USAWP since 2013 and Head Referee for the CCA zone from 2015-2018. In addition, he has been the Instructional Chair for SCAF-WP referee association from 2012-18 and an NCAA referee. He is currently USA Water Polo's National Referee Manager. We talk about the new rules & a lot more.

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Asante played High School polo in Coronado and collegiately at CLU. Now he is on a mission to bring Water Polo to the country of Ghana, where his father is from in Africa.

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Maro Jokovic' is a 3 time Olympian, winning Gold in 2012 and Silver in 2016 with Croatia. We talk to him about the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, what makes Croatia a Water Polo powerhouse, and the incredible 25-24 shoot out his team had vs Russia to earn their Tokyo bid.

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The two top scorers from the 2016 Team USA Olympic squad join us to talk shooting, training, and coaching styles while Tony is attacked by a loud crow.

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Tony and Dave are joined by Coach Jim Floerchinger all the way from New Zealand. We talk about his club Sea Wolf Water Polo, unpack a lot of stories and views about the sport globally.

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Tony and Dave are joined by Spain Captain Felipe Perrone. Tony thinks very highly of Felipe in and out of the pool and says he may be the best player in the world at the moment.

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Tony and Dave are joined by long tenured Stanford Men's Coach John Vargas. John coached Tony in College and at the National level. Their great rapport is still evident as we pick up the episode with them immediately chatting it up before we even get an official intro going!

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Tony's Mom, Libby, joins us with many stories of young Tony and wisdom about being a Water Polo Mom from her years of experience (wait until you hear about how she put aggressive rival parent in his place!)

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Tony and Dave are joined by Tony's teammate at Stanford (NCAA Champions 2001 & 2002) and Team USA (2008 Silver Medalist), Peter Hudnut.

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Tony tells Dave about his trip to Florida, helping out the Water Polo parents with "Wine Wednesdays", and the potential of Beach Water Polo in Puerto Rico and beyond! 6-8 Sports on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/68sports/ Follow Tony on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tonyazevedo8 Follow Dave on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/davewcomedy