Hello, my name is Molly Masters

Just to be clear, Molly Masters doesn’t ride horses. She just plays water polo.

“I’ve gotten that so many times — ‘How do you get a horse in the water?’ Or they think we play with those little sticks,” Masters said.

The special education junior is co-president of the MSU women’s water polo team. The club officially starts its season next semester, when its members will be in the water for around two hours every day working on mechanics and scrimmaging, with an additional hour or more of cardio work on dry land.

On the weekends, the team is usually at tournaments. Anyone is welcome to join the team, so long as they’re ready to get beaten up a little, Masters said.

“You’re constantly swimming back and forth the entire time, and once you get to the other side, you wrestle. You don’t touch the ground ever,” she said. “There’s definitely a lot of black eyes, a lot of bruises.”

- Compiled by Dan Faas