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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...

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...

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 ...

“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...

The current men’s NCAA Water Polo season is one of the most competitive in recent memory: With only a few weeks remaining in the regular season, all the conferences have pivotal games ahead, and parity seems to be the norm. One of the breakout teams this season is UC Santa Barbara. Wolf Wigo’s squad...

BUFFALO, NY, Dec. 14. FAST swimming was the order of the day at the New York state girls' public school swimming and diving championships, held Nov. 17 at Flickinger Aquatic Center on the campus of Erie Commnity College. This is the same pool that hosted last March's NCAA Division III women&...

The 2019 NCAA men’s season reads much like a Hollywood script; the favorite gets pushed around by fresh-faced upstarts, stares blankly into an ignominious end to its season—then rallies behind a grizzled veteran. It’s no a script; it’s Trojan pride at its finest — which is why USC has emerged at the...

The UCLA women's water polo team completed a perfect season and claimed the NCAA Championship on Sunday at Spieker Aquatics Complex. The top-ranked Bruins defeated No. 3 Cal 7-4 in the finals to finish the season 26-0 and earn its eighth NCAA title in program history, the first under coach Adam Wrig...

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...

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...

The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Non-Subscribers Can Download This Issue Here In this issue of Swimming World, check out our 2022 NCAA preview. Can Kate Douglass help the Virginia Cavaliers win their second team title in school .....

By Rachel Andersen, Swimming World College Intern. As summer break winds to a close and temperatures begin to fall, the international aquatic scene is just heating up. In Gwangju, South Korea, the FINA 2019 World Aquatics Championships are raging on. Between exhilarating swim events, doping scandals...

One of the biggest draws of early season NCAA men's water polo matches on the East Coast is a chance to see some of the sports best as they travel to get in some matches against local teams while exposing fans to the nation's best players. In recent years past, Cal, Pacific, Pepperdine, Stanford, UC...

On a rare rainy day in Southern California, the men’s water polo action in the Spieker Aquatics Center pool was anything but tepid, with a number of compelling matches taking place on Day Two of the 2019 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Invitational. Led by a much-anticipated match-up betwe...

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...

BERKELEY, CA., Nov. 23. TOP-ranked Stanford and second-seeded UCLA advanced to the semi-finals of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation water polo tournment here today in first-round action. However, sixth-seeded and host Cal's Golden Bears upset third-seeded USC, 5-3, to put paid to the Trojan...

Coverage of the 2015 Pan American Games is sponsored by Triton Wear. Visit Swimming World’s event landing page for results and more! The U.S. Pan American Women's Water Polo Team won their fourth straight Pan Am Games Gold Medal earlier tonight after defeating Canada 13-4. Maggie Steffens (Danville,...

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...

UCLA Rallies to Tie Arizona State in Women’s Dual Meet UCLA bookended Friday’s meet in Tempe with a pair of narrow relay wins as the Bruins and Arizona State tied in a dual meet, 150-all. UCLA started the meet by claiming the 400 medley relay in 3:33.18. The quartet of Rosie Murphy, Sarah Bennetts, ...