Polo team sparks intrigue

Rumors of an underground Polo Team have circulated recently through the halls of the school.  Everyone seems to ask, over and over again – water polo? Horseback-riding polo?  Marco Polo?  The answer to all is:  none of the above.

So many questions are posed, and yet the answer is the simplest one available, the most obvious one.  Members don’t play water sports or have an odd fascination with deceased explorers. They just wear polo shirts.

“We don’t play it, we wear it,” senior Patrick Stroud said.  “It’s mainly a joke, really.”

Another conflict is whether they are a club or a team. Most people assume it is a club, but the members strongly insist they are a team.

According to Stroud, members Sam Mjalli, Richard Storey, Logan Owens and Darrian Petruzzi first came up with the concept for the nine-member shirt-based team when they happened upon the unlikely coincidence of all four wearing similar polo shirts on the same day.

The other five members of the group, while not the originators, are seniors Allen Graham, Steven Verhagen, Michael Rosetta, and Max Drizin.

It was the consensus of the group to run with the joke and transform it into something far more literal.  The team, which has sanctioned “Polo Monday Mondays,” had shirts printed out and given to its members so they could wear matching team shirts on these days.

But some members stray off the beaten path every once in a while.

“I don’t always wear my Polo team shirt on Polo Monday Mondays.  Sometimes I wear a different one just to switch things up,” Drizin said.

Though they are frequently asked if they are associated with sports, members of the Polo Team say it was never their intention to poke fun at organized athletics clubs.

In truth, they are not an official school club at all, just a group of friends sharing an inside laugh.  They are not out to make statement or anything of the sort.

A couple of them have tried their hand at water polo, though.

“I’ve played water polo,” Graham said.

“Yeah, water polo in freshman gym,” Drizin said.

As of now, the team has yet to secure teacher sponsorship in order to become an officially recognized club.