Amanda Benton '11 chats with Amanda Amorosa '17 and Water Polo Coach Chris Vidale about water polo at Marist and playing professionally.

Amanda made the junior national Canadian team in 2014 and participated in the Junior World Championship in Triste, Italy. She played at Marist College from 2013 through 2017. After college. Amanda went to Lille, France to play professionally for two years. While there, she partook in the European world championship tournament and won the French championship both years.

In 2019 she returned to Canada to prepare for the 2020 Olympics. Now she is playing professionally in Greece for the club of Rethymno.

Chris has been the head coach of the Marist water polo team since 2016. Prior to Marist, he coached at Greenwich HS where he led the team to the CT state championship, the New York Athletic Club, where he coached 10 current or former Olympians, and at Iona College. He played water polo for Iona before joining the Trinidad and Tobago National Team and helping them earn Bronze at the Central American and Caribbean Games in 2009.