Water Polo Players Spend Time in The Bahamas for Spring Break

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Six players, including senior Bahamas national water polo player Nicholas Wallace-Whitfield, from the prestigious Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers visited our The Bahamas on February 28th to March 7th, 2025 and Mantas Club’s water players took full advantage of it.

During last week, combined trainings and scrimmages were kept with these very experienced and high-level athletes.

The young players did ball technique and tactical moves with them in small groups lead by the visitors.

Our swimmers bonded well with them, giving 100% effort, learned “a lot of cool moves” and enjoyed playing matches in higher speed and more tactical.

“We hope to keep up cooperation with the Mountaineers and run more training camps with them in the near future” said Coach Lazlo Borbely, Bahamas Mantas Water Polo club.

Bahamas Aquatics Executive Christine Wallace-Whitfield and mother to Nicholas Wallace-Whitfield said it was truly an honour and a pleasure to host the young men here in The Bahamas for a week, during their Spring Break vacation.

The visitors included: Alex and Chris from Greece, Casper and Carter from Canada, and Michael, from the USA, who is co-captain with Nicholas of the Mens Mountaineers Water Polo team back in Maryland.

As first timers to the Bahamas, they enjoyed the amazing sunny weather, a boat ride to Exuma, and exploring the beautiful blue Bahamian waters and beaches.

They were excited and ready to get into the pool at the BKKAC along with the Bahamas Mantas Water Polo members to share their techniques and skills from their Collegiate training.

It was nice watching them interact with the kids from Mantas who were very happy to learn, and Coach Lotty was happy to have them play a game at the end of each practice.

Nicholas Wallace -Whitfield is hoping to invite their teammates back this summer to host a water polo camp along with the Mantas Water Polo club and Bahamas Aquatics.

Nicholas said it is important to keep this sport alive here in The Bahamas.

“Being a former competitive swimmer, I moved over to water polo and have never looked back. I love the sport as it is a team sport and it has been a great avenue for me with many successful achievements. I have traveled with the Bahamas National Water Polo team to many countries throughout the world representing the Bahamas at CARIFTA, CAC, CCAN and the Junior Olympic Qualifiers, which have all helped me afford opportunities at the Collegiate level and the NCAA level for sports.”

Nicholas Wallace-Whitfield will be graduating this May with a Bachelors in Economics and business, and has recently been accepted to Nottingham University, in England, to a Masters degree program continuing to play Water Polo there.

He says all of this would not be possible without good grades, and the support and discipline he has achieved from water polo, Coach Lotty and the Bahamas Aquatics Federation.

The water polo players from the Mount St Mary Mountaineers presented both Coach Lotty of the Mantas water polo club and Bahamas Aquatics Federation President Algernon Cargill, a Mount St. Mary university shirt as a small token of appreciation.