DUNFERMLINE Water Polo Club will go for glory in four separate age groups as the Scottish National Championships Finals return this weekend.

The event, which is hosted by Scottish Swimming, is one of the highlights of the sport’s domestic calendar and it is being held at the Carnegie Leisure Centre on Sunday.

With the last two years having been disrupted by COVID-19, Dunfermline’s senior men and senior women, alongside their 2004 (under-19) and 2006 (under-17) girls’ teams will look to add more silverware to an already successful season.

All four of their sides that have progressed to the showpiece event have won their respective national league competitions, during a short season which ran from January to March.

The senior women finished top of their league with a flawless winning record, while their male counterparts won all but one of their matches to take the trophy ahead of Portobello.

The under-17 and under-19 girls, who joined forces with Menzieshill, were undefeated on their way to glory, while the under-15 boys and girls, and under-17 boys, who also all teamed-up with Menzieshill, finished as runners-up.

Sunday’s finals day begins at 8.30am with Dunfermline’s 2004 girls, who defeated Kirkintilloch and Kilsyth in their semi-final, taking on Portobello, the first of six matches that will be held.

Following the 2004 boys’ final between Stirling and Menzieshill, the 2006 girls, winners over Forth Valley Water Polo in the last four, will play Kirkintilloch and Kilsyth at 11.20am.

Dunfermline will feature in the final two games in the afternoon, with the senior women – emphatic semi-final winners over Kirkintilloch and Kilsyth – taking on Warrender (2.10pm), while the senior men, 16-10 victors over Warrender, in their last-four encounter, will play old adversaries Portobello at 3.45pm.

The finals come on the back of a busy period for members across the club’s age groups, which included Niamh Moloney travelling to Novi Sad, Serbia, with the Great Britain women’s development squad for their final matches in the Danube League.

Niamh helped the side end their campaign with a hard-fought win over Croatian side VK Jardan, who they had lost to earlier in the competition, while there was also GB representation for Zara Christie, who was with their under-17 junior women at the recent EU Nations competition.

In addition, the club had five players – Thomas Cameron, Christopher Campbell, Finlay Nesbitt, Rory Nesbitt and Harry Gray – competing for Scotland at the Senior Men’s Home International Tournament, which also included hosts England, Wales and Ireland, in Coventry.

Meanwhile, club captain Alasdair Campbell, was named as the University of Edinburgh Sports Union’s Coach of the Year, having led them to a first BUCS (British Universities and Colleges Sport) national title for the first time.