BUENA PARK- Members of the water polo community Sunday night called for more stringent management of their pool decks in the wake of a report that photographs of apparently unsuspecting high school boys water polo players have surfaced on gay-oriented Web sites.

The Orange County Register reported Sunday that it found five gay-oriented Web sites that contained dozens of non-action photographs from high school players from at least 11 Orange County high schools as well as schools in Los Angeles and San Diego counties.

"It's so gross," Newport Harbor senior Clinton Jorth said before an awards dinner at the Knott's Berry Farm Resort Hotel.

Jorth, The Register's 2007 player of the year, suggested that photographers with high-powered lenses at matches or ones working from the pool deck should be required to wear an identification badge.

Jorth also said players could combat problematic photographers by covering up outside the water.

"The way high schools could also prevent those kinds of shots would be getting robes," he said. "(Make rules that) you're required to wear your robe on the deck and on the bench. You wouldn't be as vulnerable, I guess."

Newport Harbor boys coach Jason Lynch said his program is going to assign a deck manager to police matches.

"Our plan is to get a deck manager to kind of police and make sure there are no photographers there who are not supposed to be there," he said.

Villa Park coach John Carcich said since he became aware of the situation, he has been asking photographers for their credentials or parent photographers for more specific information.

"And that's more easily handled at your home site," Carcich said.

"The problem, I think, occurs more if you go to a tournament where you've got potentially eight or 16 teams filtering in and out and you don't really know what's going on."

Jeff Ehrlich, the men's coach at the Air Force Academy, believes people should question photographers if they have concerns.

"I think there is nothing wrong with folks noticing if there is someone who maybe isn't with family or isn't with a team and there is someone taking shots when a kid is getting out of the water," said Ehrlich, formerly of Villa Park. "I think there is nothing wrong with going up and approaching them."

Others in the water polo community said the proliferation of technology makes management of pool decks tough.

"There are so many people who have access to phone cameras to the small cameras," parent Keith Colton said. "They could be zooming up on someone on the bench and you would never know it at all.

"I don't like it at all but it's going to be really hard to do something about it."