Tanner Turrall '22 Recruiting Profile

          Before I could remember, my parents had me swimming club, the same as my two older brothers. My brothers are a few years older than me. I have always tried to be better than my brothers at everything we did, but I never really was because I was smaller and younger than them. When my oldest brother changed schools he tried out water polo, and when I watched his first game when I was seven years old, it immediately sparked my interest. When the opportunity came, I asked my parents if I could play water polo, and a year later she had signed my brothers and me up for a camp at the Naval Academy. Although I was not any good, I felt like I had learned so much. At the school that I am going to, they do not allow sixth-graders to play sports, and in my seventh-grade year I wanted to quit swimming, so I played football. During those two years, I learned a lot about teamwork and that water polo was the sport that I love. After seventh-grade, I joined the Naval Academy's club water polo team, and I improved greatly.

            During freshman year, I was on the junior varsity team and I found out that my mother had stage four cancer that had caused her death. In that year, I decided to work hard to do as well in school as I possibly could and to be a leader for the water polo team. Later that year, I tore my left pectoral muscle during a tournament in Florida, and I was out of the pool for eight months. When my pec healed, it was the beginning of my sophomore varsity water polo season, and I was not as strong as I was before I got injured (as I suspected.) I worked my butt off until I could say that I was better than I was before and kept working harder. I lead my team in points and almost all other stats for the entire season which honestly didn't matter because we were beaten in the semifinals of our playoffs. I will give every sporting and academic event (if that is a class, a practice, a test, a game, etc) that I will ever be in, my one-hundred percent effort.