http://www.tonyazevedo.com Captain of the USA Water Polo National Team Mon, 06 May 2013 10:02:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.tonyazevedo.com/uncategorized/jug-dubrovnik/ http://www.tonyazevedo.com/uncategorized/jug-dubrovnik/#comments Sat, 30 Mar 2013 10:14:49 +0000 Tony Azevedo http://www.tonyazevedo.com/?p=5070 http://www.tonyazevedo.com/uncategorized/jug-dubrovnik/feed/ 0 http://www.tonyazevedo.com/press/globetrotting-jocks-pack-smart-stick-to-routine/ http://www.tonyazevedo.com/press/globetrotting-jocks-pack-smart-stick-to-routine/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:51:38 +0000 Tony Azevedo http://www.tonyazevedo.com/?p=4997 Professional water polo player Tony Azevedo, who serves as captain of the men’s U.S. National Water Polo Team and has competed in three Olympics, travels more than 90 days a year.
Azevedo plays for a Croatian team during the professional water polo season (from August through May), flying commercial all over Europe. During the summer, he trains with Team USA and travels around the world for tournaments.
“The only equipment we need to take are caps, and the team ...]]> http://www.tonyazevedo.com/press/globetrotting-jocks-pack-smart-stick-to-routine/feed/ 0 http://www.tonyazevedo.com/press/olympian-tony-azevedo-adopts-abandoned-kitten/ http://www.tonyazevedo.com/press/olympian-tony-azevedo-adopts-abandoned-kitten/#comments Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:47:01 +0000 Tony Azevedo http://www.tonyazevedo.com/?p=4984 U.S. Olympic water polo captain Tony Azevedo has always considered himself a “dog person” and never really considered adopting a cat—that is, until he saved a cat’s life. For the last two years, Azevedo has lived in Montenegro playing professional water polo. He says one of the first things that he noticed about the area is how many stray animals there are, especially cats. While there, he and his fellow polo players took to the animals and grew to ...]]> http://www.tonyazevedo.com/press/olympian-tony-azevedo-adopts-abandoned-kitten/feed/ 0 http://www.tonyazevedo.com/press/tony-azevedo-olympic-athlete-and-animal-lover/ http://www.tonyazevedo.com/press/tony-azevedo-olympic-athlete-and-animal-lover/#comments Thu, 26 Jul 2012 03:55:53 +0000 Tony Azevedo http://www.tonyazevedo.com/?p=4828 At the end of this week, Team USA will storm London, vying for the top medal count in the 2012 Olympic Games. When the Games begin, Olympic water polo player Tony Azevedo will join in the team’s quest for gold.
Azevedo is currently the captain of the US National Team, and has achieved a high degree of success in the water. Considered to be one of the best American water polo players in recent memory, Azevedo is gearing up ...]]> http://www.tonyazevedo.com/press/tony-azevedo-olympic-athlete-and-animal-lover/feed/ 0 http://www.tonyazevedo.com/tonys-blog/last-days-before-the-games-begin/ http://www.tonyazevedo.com/tonys-blog/last-days-before-the-games-begin/#comments Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:16:40 +0000 Tony Azevedo http://www.tonyazevedo.com/?p=4823 We have also been through outfitting, and I have to say that this is the best gear we have ever received: four bags full of 28 Nike and Ralph Lauren ...]]> http://www.tonyazevedo.com/tonys-blog/last-days-before-the-games-begin/feed/ 2 http://www.tonyazevedo.com/press/what-do-you-carry-tony-azevedo/ http://www.tonyazevedo.com/press/what-do-you-carry-tony-azevedo/#comments Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:53:32 +0000 Tony Azevedo http://www.tonyazevedo.com/?p=4818 Widely considered one of the world’s top water polo players, Tony Azevedo takes a break from training to talk with PCMag about his favorite apps, waterproof tech, and the upcoming Olympic Games.
Many people have never been to the gym, let alone the Olympic Games. But Tony Azevedo, captain of the USA’s National Men’s Water Polo Team, is heading to London to compete in his fourth. Azevedo has a water polo résumé that would make any landlubber gasp for ...]]> http://www.tonyazevedo.com/press/what-do-you-carry-tony-azevedo/feed/ 0 http://www.tonyazevedo.com/press/long-beach-azevedo-will-try-to-lead-usa-water-polo-to-olympic-gold/ http://www.tonyazevedo.com/press/long-beach-azevedo-will-try-to-lead-usa-water-polo-to-olympic-gold/#comments Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:31:12 +0000 Tony Azevedo http://www.tonyazevedo.com/?p=4781 This team, who trains at Cal Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, has done something no other Olympic water polo team has done which is to forgo lucrative contracts overseas in ...]]> http://www.tonyazevedo.com/press/long-beach-azevedo-will-try-to-lead-usa-water-polo-to-olympic-gold/feed/ 0 http://www.tonyazevedo.com/press/tony-in-the-new-york-times/ http://www.tonyazevedo.com/press/tony-in-the-new-york-times/#comments Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:05:17 +0000 Tony Azevedo http://www.tonyazevedo.com/?p=4760 Nicknames in sports are often subtle, a way for teammates to share an inside joke or longtime friends to remind a star where he came from.
With Tony Azevedo, however, there is no such intricacy: Azevedo, at times, has been known as the Savior in the water polo community because, quite simply, that is what he is supposed to be.

]]> http://www.tonyazevedo.com/press/tony-in-the-new-york-times/feed/ 0 http://www.tonyazevedo.com/tonys-blog/preparing-for-london/ http://www.tonyazevedo.com/tonys-blog/preparing-for-london/#comments Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:43:44 +0000 Tony Azevedo http://www.tonyazevedo.com/?p=4749 Following our trip to Europe, we have been picking up our swimming and legs everyday as well as fine-tuning a lot of our tactics. Today started with 12 200′s all out and two hours of gym.
We leave ...]]> http://www.tonyazevedo.com/tonys-blog/preparing-for-london/feed/ 1 http://www.tonyazevedo.com/game-recaps/2012-london-olympic-games/ http://www.tonyazevedo.com/game-recaps/2012-london-olympic-games/#comments Fri, 06 Jul 2012 03:44:00 +0000 Tony Azevedo http://www.tonyazevedo.com/?p=4735 Team USA was in an initial bracket with five other teams: Hungary, Montenegro, Serbia, Romania and Great Britain. The first game was against Montenegro, followed by Romania, Great Britain, Serbia and Hungary. (The other bracket consisted of Greece, Australia, Croatia, Italy, Kazakhstan and Spain).
The top four teams in each bracket advanced to the next round and played each other in the opposite order (so #1 from Bracket 1 played #4 from Bracket 2, #2 played #3 ...]]> http://www.tonyazevedo.com/game-recaps/2012-london-olympic-games/feed/ 0