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[caption id="attachment_628668" align="alignright" width="450"] UCLA win Back to Back NCAA Water Polo Champions[/caption] UCLA Stuns USC at the Buzzer to Win 2025 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Championship, 11–10 By Swimming World Staff STANFORD, Calif. – Same venue, same rivalry, new layer of history. Down...

By Swimming World Staff UCLA’s Repeat Bid, USC’s Spoiler Role and a Loaded Final Four The 2025 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Championship at Stanford has turned into a dream bracket for fans. Defending champion UCLA is two wins away from going back-to-back. USC looks perfectly positioned to play spoiler. Ho...

Big Ten Women's Championships, Day 1: Michigan Shatters Meet Record in Both Relays The University of Michigan swam to the lead at the 2026 Big Ten Women's Swimming and Diving Championships on Wednesday, Feb. 28, in Minneapolis. The Wolverines won both relays on Wednesday, the only two events on the ...

ESPN airing NCAA Water Polo Championship 3pm PST Stanford, Calif. – Same pool, same rivals, same trophy on the line – but with just enough change on both benches to make the 2025 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Championship feel wide open. On Sunday afternoon at Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center, UCLA and USC ...

By Annie Grevers, Swimming World Staff Writer Osprey Aquatics head coach Brian Bolster hated swimming as a 9-year-old. "There was not much coaching and no emphasis on technique on my big team," Bolster said. "So eventually, I quit." So how did Bolster find his feet planted firmly and happily on a po...

USA Beats Australia 13–12 at the Buzzer to Open Water Polo Exhibition Series Team USA opened its June men’s water polo exhibition series with a dramatic 13–12 victory over Australia, sealed by a buzzer-beating goal at Mt. San Antonio College. In front of a spirited California crowd, the match feat.....

Ryann Neushul and Ryder Dodd Win 2025 Peter J. Cutino Awards for NCAA Water Polo Excellence On a warm June evening in the heart of San Francisco, The Olympic Club once again played host to the 26th Annual Peter J. Cutino Awards, honoring the outstanding female and male collegiate water polo players....

By Jim Lutz WHILE cleaning out a closest in my "new" digs recently I came across numerous copies of SWIMMING WORLD. Some issues dated back to the late 1960’s when digital stopwatches were nothing more than a vision and a dream. Names like Rothhammer and Schollander graced the pages and in some cases...

UCLA and USC Sit Atop Preseason Men's Water Polo Rankings UCLA and USC, which met for last year's NCAA championship, sit atop the Collegiate Water Polo Association preseason rankings. UCLA occupies the top spot and tallied 100 points in voting, with Southern Cal following in the No. 2 spot with 95 p...

UCLA Women Win Nine Out of 10 Swimming Events in Win Over Nevada Following a loss to crosstown rival USC Friday, the UCLA Bruins bounced back with a dual meet win over Nevada Saturday by a final score of 163-80. The Bruins' Claudia Yovanovich, Sarah Bennetts, Fay Lustria and Jada Duncan topped the 2...

AUBURN, Ala. The Auburn women's swimming program looks to be adding exceptional talent to its already strong arsenal as the Tigers sign six during the Fall signing period for the 2002-03 season. "I am thrilled about the talent and the attitude our six newest Auburn Tigers bring to the pool," ass...

Following a stretch in which they knocked off two number one teams, this week the Gauchos of UC Santa Barbara ascended to the top of the Collegiate Water Polo Association’s Top 20. This is almost certainly the first time that UCSB has been ranked first in the CWPA poll; it is the first time since No...

NCAA Water Polo Crown Returns to West Hollywood: UCLA 11, USC 8 In a commanding performance at Stanford University's Avery Aquatic Center, the UCLA Bruins affirmed their top-seed status by defeating the USC Trojans 11-8 to clinch the 2024 NCAA Men's Water Polo National Championship. This victory mar...

The UCLA swimming and diving team opened the 2026 portion of the season with an emphatic 179-101 win over Iowa at the Spieker Aquatics Center. The Bruin divers also had a strong showing on day one of the Bruin Diving Invitational. In the dual with Iowa the Bruins earned event wins in 13 of 15 events...

The rivalry between the USC Trojans and UCLA Bruins has been typically one-sided in pool, where the ladies of Troy had previously won ten straight in the series. But in a Friday afternoon matchup at UCLA, the two teams tied at 150. According to USC sports information, the tie is the first-ever betwe...

Athens, Greece - Australia, the favorite to win the Olympic gold, overcame an incredible defensive performance by the USA women's water polo team by scoring two late-game goals, to win the Thetis Cup championship game. After a scoreless first half, Heather Moody (Green River, WY) broke the ice b...

The U.S. Pan American Women's Water Polo Team opened up the competition at the Atos Markham Pan Am Centre in strong fashion with a 25-3 victory over Mexico earlier today. Ashley Grossman (Santa Monica, CA/Stanford/LA Water Polo) and Maggie Steffens (Danville, CA/Stanford/Diablo) each scored four goa...

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 1. POOR Teri McKeever. The Cal women's coach just DOESN'T know quite what to do with her supersoph Natalie Coughlin. The second-year Berkeley standout, NCAA Swimmer of the Year last season and World 100 meter back champ last summer in Fukuoka, Coughlin swam the fastest 200 ...

PALO ALTO, CA., Dec. 1 -- TOP-ranked Stanford, 20-1, will be gunning for its ninth NCAA men's water polo championship when it hits the pool against the University of Massachusetts Minutemen here this afternoon in the first semi-final match of the 2001 NCAA Collegiate Championship. The other semi...

WESTWOOD, Calif., Jan. 9. IN a matchup usually between two schools that have cut their menb's teams, UCLA women's swimmers defeated Illinois, 174.5-125.5 here this afternoon in an intersectional dual meet at the Sunset Canyon Recreation Center Pool. Coach Cyndi Gallagher's Bruins, 7-2 ov...