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Though they're co-captains of the Harvard water polo team in the same season. Rich Guerra and Dave Fasi are products of two different eras in the team's history...
...When Fasi arrived at Blodgett Pool in the fall of 1980, the team was starting to change. Since then, he's noticed the differences between those players on the club team and those who came later. "We have a lot better relationship with the coach now. Last year's seniors all remembered what it was like when it was really informal and relaxed. Steve's been trying to make things stricter, and he couldn't do that with them...
Adept at playing the crucial "hole" position in front of the opposition's goal, Fasi usually leads the team in scoring. Guerra tends to play on the offense's perimeter at left wing...
...Fasi comes from another sun-and-fun spot. Honolulu, where his father was mayor for 12 years. (He finished second in a gubernatorial race this fall.) Actually, there are only four high school squads there: the big polo action is sponsored by the Amateur Athletic Union, which stages the annual Hawaiian Invitational, involving 50 to 60 teams. Fasi was named an All-American while playing for the regional AAU squad in his junior year...
Interestingly, neither Guerra nor even Fasi chose to come to Cambridge thinking they would play polo here. Guerra says he didn't even know of the club team's existence when he was applying. And Fasi remembers that "out of six schools I applied to. Harvard was the only one that didn't recruit me for water polo." He wasn't planning to play here until he heard in May 1980 of the switch to varsity status...