The Coaching Staff
Terry Lowe,
Head Coach

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Terry is beginning his 29th year as GHS water polo coach.  The Cardinal Water Polo Team is one of two teams, for which, at the urging of enthusiastic students, Coach Lowe was the 'founding father'. The other is Rugby. As the only head coach in the history of GHS polo, he has experienced only one losing season. In 1975, its first full season, the Big Red was 4-6. Since then, the Cards have compiled an overall record of 461 wins, 132 losses and 6 ties for a .775 winning percentage. Three times, the Cardinals have had undefeated seasons, and six times they have been crowned Eastern Interscholastic Champions. Eight times they have won or shared the title in their own annual Cardinal Tournament, which will be held for the 27th time this year. A 1964 graduate of Dartmouth, Terry received an MAT in mathematics at Wesleyan University in 1966. With the exception of a two-year stint in the army, when he was a mathematician-statistician with the Joint Chiefs, he was a full-time mathematics teacher at GHS until his "retirement" in 2001. Now teaching only one math class at Greenwich High School, Terry expects to continue his coaching duties at GHS for several years. With the creation of the National Interscholastic Coach's Association Water Polo recognition program in 1980, Terry has had players annually named to the All-America Teams. A National High School Coach of the Year (1985) for swimming, Terry has also been inducted into the Connecticut High School Coaches Hall of Fame. In 1995 he was honored as the National Football League's Teacher of the Year. San Francisco 49er quarterback Steve Young, who Terry had in his math classes for two years, nominated him for the honor. Equally successful in her career at GHS, Terry's wife of 26 years, Joan, has been an English teacher, guidance counselor and is currently a social worker. They have two children - Zachary, 25, a Dartmouth graduate and a former Big Red polo player who, after two years of high school teaching is a graduate student at William & Mary; and Sarah, 21, who is a senior at Harvard.

 

Bill Smith,
Assistant Varsity & Head Junior Varsity Coach

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bill is returning for a fifth year as a water polo coach at GHS. Having led the Varsity B team to the championship in the Saint Benedict Gray Bee Classic and the 9th and 10th graders to the title in the 1998 & 2001 Cardinal Cup, Bill's enthusiasm for water polo has already had a major impact on the program. Additionally, Bill was the driving force behind the creation of the Greenwich Youth Water Polo program. In just it's third year, GYWP proved its progress by sending two very competitive teams to the 2002 summer Junior Olympics. With more than 150 boys and girls participating in GYWP, the future for boys and girls age-group and high-school water polo in Greenwich now has a firm foundation. Bill and his wife Cathy, have been residents of Greenwich for the last 18 years.  They have two children both of whom are water polo players - Patricia, 14, and Will, 15 who joins the high school team this year as a freshman.  Bill has extensive water polo experience having played throughout the United States and internationally. He was an AAU All-American and Captain of the United States Junior National Team. Bill has a degree in Electrical Engineering from Villanova University, where he was named the most valuable water polo player. After graduation, Bill worked at an engineering firm and continued to play water polo for the Philadelphia Aquatic Club, and he was the assistant coach of the Villanova University's polo team . He subsequently transferred to Indiana, where he ended up coach of Indiana University's water polo team and was founder of the Indiana AAU Water Polo Association. Bill came back to the East Coast to get an MBA at the Wharton School in 1978. While at Penn, Bill was the player coach for Penn's team and led them to the title in the first ever Ivy League Water Polo Championships. 
Bill was recently named as the Lead Assistant Coach to the USA Water Polo National Cadet Boy's Team trip to Belgrade, Yugoslavia for the first World Cadet Championships. Bill is presently the President of Renaissance Capital, a securities firm that focuses on the initial public offering market.

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