Christchurch Earthquakes not stopping Eglinton

Canterbury Under 16 Girls' Lottie Eglinton is in no way letting the earthquakes which devastated her home pool stop her from playing the sport that she loves - and playing it well.

ALL SMILES: Canterbury's Lottie Eglinton after their loss against Harbour City

Eglinton scored 3 of her team's 5 goals in their 5-11 loss to Wellington's Harbour City today at Sacred Heart Aquatic Center, including two beautiful lobs over the goal keeper.

The 2010 and 2011 earthquakes were devastating for water polo in Christchurch, losing many of the pools in the central city, including QEII which hosted the 2010 NZ Under 16 Champs.

"The earthquakes were pretty bad because obviously QEII went down and that's where we trained. We've combined both the clubs - Wharenui and QEII - so now we're Canterbury."

Lottie was selected in the New Zealand Under 15 Girls Cadet team who traveled to Brisbane last year. She narrowly missed selection this year.

"I'm kind of seeing how it's all going - there's no teams that I can train with to that intensity. I'm just swimming and going to the gym and stuff so I don't really have the experience that all the other girls have. But I definitely don't want to stop playing water polo - it's fun - but I'll just see how it all goes." said Eglinton.

Canterbury lost to North Harbour B 7-1 on Sunday - which Eglinton said was disappointing; "It was our first game. If we played them after another two more games we could've done better."

SUITING UP: Canterbury girls braving the rainy conditions today

Canterbury have Marist and Queensland left to play in their group.