PG North/East: Players from area water polo team hopes to make a big splash

By Chris Adamski, Tri-State Sports & News Service Rob Clinger enjoyed playing basketball growing up, but once he jumped into a swimming pool with a different type of ball, he never went out on the court again. Water polo has always been a fringe sport in the Pittsburgh area, but Clinger is part of a group of young players working to change that. Clinger, who will be an eighth-grader in the North Allegheny School District this fall, is one of the area's top water polo players. "Whenever I get asked about if I play any sports I say water polo, and either they say, 'I've never heard of it before. What's it like?' Or they tell me, 'That's a tough sport,' and that I should be kind of lucky I even found a club around here to be able to play it," Clinger said. The Pittsburgh Water Polo Club is striving to make sure neither of those... [read full story]