Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story! Once Maureen Cole got up to speed with the terminology, it wasn’t long before she’d charged to the forefront of Hawaii water polo. Her introduction to the sport had come as a twice-a-week treat at the end of her 10-and-under swimming classes at the Oahu Club in Hawaii Kai. But that was about the extent of her experience when Cole, still a pre-teen, signed up to play with adults in the water polo competition in the Aloha State Games in the early 1990s. “I could swim really fast, but I had no idea how to throw a ball or any of…