WPA x Project Confidence

WPA x Project Confidence is a Water Polo Australia initiative which supports the empowerment of young members to feel safe and confident in their bodies, normalise conversations on the specific challenges faced in the sport and create an environment that empowers more young people to keep playing water polo throughout and beyond puberty.

We believe it is imperative to enable equity both within the sport and its potential leaders long-term, to enable equity opportunity within the sport which starts from a place of safety and confidence.

This project offers an online safe environment with the sole focus on providing resources and education materials for young teens to best continue their engagement with the sport while accommodating specific issues that they may be facing. Our key messages:

BE STRONG - empowering strong minds and bodies
BE POSITIVE - inspiring a positive self-image
BE CONFIDENT - celebrating self confidence

Welcome to WPA x Project Confidence

We surveyed the WPA community, partners, players, parents, coaches and volunteers to understand what the most important topics were that members wanted to hear about, and contacted several subject matter experts to share their informative and engaging stories.

Hello Period x Project Confidence

Hello Period is the Official Period Partner of Water Polo Australia and together we have partnered up on a mission to reduce the stigma around period conversations and increasing period confidence!

Hello Period don’t only just provide the best sustainable period care on the planet, for the planet – they are passionate about normalising periods and empowering people with periods. For everything you need to know about Hello Period's award-winning range of period care products – visit their website!

Alice Williams x Project Confidence

Water Polo Australia is proud to be working together with Ord Minnett Aussie Stingers Olympic silver medalist Alice Williams as the ambassador for Project Confidence.

Australian Youth Water Polo Championships x Project Confidence

In April 2025, Water Polo Australia delivered the Australian Youth Water Polo Championships (AYWPC) - which has grown to become the largest participation water polo competition in the southern hemisphere. The AYWPC plays host to more than 3000 athletes from across the country, in 12&U through to 18&U age groups.

In 2025, there was an on-site WPA x Project Confidence activation which featured an Insta-video photo booth inviting participants to create social media content empowering themselves and others through water polo.