This weekend, Hailey Williams maneuvered the waters for her Davis club team at the 2018 Golden State Invitational, part of a summer smack dab in between the end of a sensational four-year career with St. Mary’s High and the beginning of a new career with the UC Davis Aggies.
If you ran that sentence by a younger Williams — say, the sixth grade version — she may not have believed you. Back then, she was known to go full Ferris Bueller when it came to water polo.
“I actually hated it when I started,” Williams said. “I would pretend to be sick so I didn’t have to go in the water.