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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...

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 ...

Breaststroker Alicia Budacsek to Join UCLA's Class of 2031 NEW COMMIT: UCLA has scored a new verbal commitment for Fall 2027 from Alicia Budacsek of Wilmette, Ill. Budacsek will head to the West Coast as a member of the Bruins' Class of 2031. Regarding her commitment, she said: "I am extremely excit...

“This is the sort of thing that has the potential to wreck lives,” said Therese Langan, an authority on the treatment of sexually abused teens. Langan was referring to the downstream effects of sexual assault on the young players under the tutelage of Bahram Hojreh, a one-time age group water polo c...

By Phillip Whitten EAST MEADOW, N.Y., March 15. SIX teams are very much in the hunt for a national title after the first day of competition at the Women's Division I NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, being held at the Nassau Aquatic Center on Long Island, New York. The surprise leader afte...

CAMBRIDGE, MA. Last weekend saw a bittersweet ending to an impressive water polo career at one of the East’s top programs. Two minutes into sudden death overtime — in his final game wearing his school’s colors — Armen Deirmenjian hit the winning shot to give Brown a 19-18 win over St. Francis Brookl...

The Wisconsin men's and women's swim teams earned victories in San Diego on Saturday, Jan. 3. The Badgers won the women's meet with 117 points, ahead of UCLA (100), UC-San Diego (44) and Tulane (1). The Wisconsin men defeated UC-San Diego 175.5-86.5. The Badgers opened the meet with a win in the 400...

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...

Cyndi Gallagher, Tracy Huth, Adam Soldati Finalists for 2025 National Collegiate and Scholastic Trophy Cyndi Gallagher, Tracy Huth and Adam Soldati were named finalists on Wednesday for the 2025 National Collegiate and Scholastic Trophy, awarded by the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association...

This commentary by Steven V. Selthoffer, was originally published over 2 years ago. Swimming World thought it was worth republishing in light of Michael Phelps and Anthony Ervin making the 2016 USA Swimming Olympic Team ------- Michael Phelps stepped up on the blocks with a smile on his face during ...

NCAA Women's Championships: Lucy Bell's Breaststroke Split Leads 200 IM Win Just about everyone had their turn near the front of the women’s 200 individual medley Saturday night. But when Lucy Bell and her bombing breaststroke went to the front, that was that. Bell split 31.28 on breaststroke, vault...

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...

The Collegiate Water Polo Association's Men's Varsity Top 20 poll—released on Wednesday—had no significant changes from the previous week. The biggest change was George Washington dropping out of the rankings after a one-sided loss to up-and-coming Navy. The country's top five programs—Stanford, UCL...

NCAA Water Polo’s Best Honored June 7 at The Olympic Club The 26th Annual Peter J. Cutino Awards—college water polo’s highest individual honor will be presented on Saturday, June 7, 2025, at The Olympic Club in San Francisco. Named for legendary coach Peter J. Cutino, the award recognizes the top ma...

Monte Nitzkowski passed away Thursday night. The legendary water polo coach at Long Beach City College and with the U.S. National Water Polo team was considered the most innovative coach in the sport's history. Nitzkowski coached the 1972 Olympic team to a bronze medal and the 1984 squad to a silver...

By Lynne Lussier LOS ANGELES, April 10. A SWIM-A-THON will be held at the Stephen S. Wise Temple Freedom Pool on April 22, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm in support of the family of Irish swimmer and water polo player Niall Skehan. The Freedom Pool is located at 15500 Stephen S. Wise Drive, in Los Angeles...

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...

Women's Top 25: 1. Stanford (297 points), 2. Southern Methodist (283), 3. Georgia (275), 4. Southern California (267), 5. Arizona (249), 6. Auburn (228), 7. Michigan (224), 8. California (205), 9. Minnesota (204), 10. Nebraska (203), 11. Texas (178), 12. Florida (163), 13. Northwestern (139), 14. Wi...

DENVER, Jan. 6. WASHINGTON State University freshman Rachel Dong captured three events and overall first place as the WSU Cougars defeated host Denver and Texas Christian in a five-event aqua-pentathlon swim meet here Saturday. In a format occasionally seen at Masters meets, each swimmer was require...