BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — Saint Francis University’s Taylor Halbauer (So., Edmonton, Alberta/Mother Margaret Mary) is among a group of 40 athletes selected to Water Polo Canada’s Senior National Team Talent Pool (SNTTP) for the 2020-2021 season.
“For the first time in many years, WPC is publishing its Senior National Team Talent Pool marking a key shift to further integrate transparency and integrity to the selection process. Although the pandemic impacted the majority of 2020, we are hopeful that 2021 will bring opportunities to our programs. I’d like to be the first to congratulate the selected athletes to their respective talent pools,” explained Justin Oliveira, Water Polo Canada’s High Performance Director.
The SNTTP consists of the athletes eligible to represent Canada, demonstrating the potential to earn a position on Water Polo Canada’s Senior National Team for activities within the 2020-2021 season. Changes to the athlete pool may be made at the discretion of the head coach of the women’s team.
A center, Halbauer is coming off a COVID-19 abbreviated freshman season in which she led the Red Flash in goals (40), steals (27), ejections drawn (65) and penalties drawn (17), and finished second in assists (three) in her first season.
A member of the 18U Canadian National Team at the Women’s Youth World Championships in Serbia and the 17U Canadian National Team which won a bronze medal at the Youth Pan American Championships in Peru, she competed on the Alberta Provincial Team Member from 2014-2017. Further, she garnered an array of individual honors: 2018 Western All-Star Team Selection, 2018 Western 19U Regular Season Second Top Scorer, the 2017 and 2018 Edmonton Tsunami Female Athlete of the Year, 2018 bronze medalist at 19U Canadian Nationals and top scorer honors (66 goals in 19 games) during the 2017 Western 16U National Championship League.
It marks the second Water Polo Canada spot earned by Halbauer in the past three months as she garnered a position in September among a group of 21 NextGen athletes selected by the National Team Program selected to train at the National Training Centre in Montreal.
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