Boys water polo: Junior national team hopefuls

Corona del Mar High junior John Mann, as well as former Sea King

standout Garrett Bowlus and former Newport Harbor standout Steven

Jendrusina, are among 40 candidates for the 20-member U.S. junior

national water polo team, to be selected after a final tryout camp May

4-5 at Newport Harbor High.

Mann, Bowlus and Jendrusina survived the most recent cut, April 8,

after faring well at training sessions held at the U.S. Olympic Training

Center in Colorado Springs.

Mann was a Co-Player of the Year in the Pacific Coast League last

fall, was a first-team All-CIF Southern Section Division II performer for

the division champion Sea Kings.

Bowlus, a freshman at UCLA, was CIF Division II Co-Player of the Year

after helping lead CdM to the section crown in 2000.

Jendrusina, a freshman at UC San Diego, was a first-team All-CIF

Division I performer after his senior season at Harbor in 2000.