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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 ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA., Feb. 28. DEFENDING men's Eastern League champ Harvard leads after the first day of this season's championship meet at the Crimson's Blodgett Pool. Coach Tim Murphy's Harvard squad racked up 461 points to 421 for second-place Princeton, coached by former USC All-Americ...

“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...

USC Wins Crosstown Showdown Behind Justina Kozan's Double Victories The USC women's swimming and diving team defeated UCLA 174-126 in the Crosstown Showdown on Friday, Jan. 30. Justina Kozan won the 200-yard butterfly to lead the Trojans with a swim of 1:55.92. She also won the 200 IM in 1:54.32, ho...

Colorado Springs, CO—U.S. women’s water polo coach Guy Baker has been selected as the 2000 United Airlines/U.S. Water Polo Coach of the Year and will be honored, along with Developmental Coach of the Year, Randy DiMicali, at the USWP awards luncheon in January. For Baker, this will be his second rei...

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....

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...

If you're a water polo fan and haven't heard about the UC Santa Barbara men's water polo team, the appropriate response is: Where have you been?! The Gauchos are off to the best start in an illustrious history that includes an NCAA championship in 1979—exactly forty years ago. It may seem that this ...

BROOKLYN, NY. After a string of eye-opening developments—UC Santa Barbara beating #1 teams twice in one week and Cal losing three times in the season’s first two weekends, including to UC Davis for the first time in four decades—it seems right to delve into what’s going on with men’s water polo. And...

BELMONT SHORES, CA., Feb. 28. ARIZONA froshwoman Emily Mason swam the fastest 500 of the year to highlight opening-day results of this year's women's Pac-10 Championships. Mason, a Phoenix native who was high-point winner at last summer's Mission Viejo Invitational before matriculating t...

PALO ALTO, Oct. 14. BACK in the '70s, a counter-culture Hollywood flick was dubbed "Who'll Stop the Rain?" Were it to be remade today, it'd probably be entitled: "Who'll stop the Cardinal?", specifically, Coach Dante Dettamenti's top-ranked Stanford Cardinal men's water polo ...

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...

Editor's Note: Swimming World was stationed pool-side for the entire week of men's and women's water polo competition at the 2019 Pan American Games. For Team USA and Canadian water polo watchers, the 2019 Pan American Games was an eye-opener regarding how the rest of the hemisphere plays polo. At f...

ANNAPOLIS, MD. Even thought it's early, no one in American water polo has had a better year then Ben Hallock, star for Stanford and the senior U.S. team's main two-meter man. After a stellar 2018 collegiate season, in which he led his team to it's first NCAA final in a decade, last June Hallock rece...

LOS ANGELES, CA., Nov. 10. USC'S Blythe Hartley and Nicci Fusaro finished one-two on the 10 meter platform on the final day of the Trojan Diving Invitational at the McDonald's Swim Center on Saturday. Hartley finished with 430.75 points, just edging out her teammate, Fusaro, with 427.25. Sta...

By Dan.D'Addona. The first week of the new year is a chance to get back to racing. Many college swimming & diving teams have several weeks, even a month, without lining up on the blocks against an opponent. Some teams have training trips that conclude with meets in warm climates. The Pac-12 saw seve...

The USMS Coaches Committee announced three coaches who have been named for the Munich Coaching Program at this summer's World Masters Swimming Championships to be held in Munich Germany July 27-Aug 5, 2000. The head coach is Michael Collins, who coaches the UCLA Bruin Masters. Well know in Maste...