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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...

UCLA Hires James Robinson-O’Brien as Women’s Water Polo Head Coach UCLA on Tuesday announced the hiring of James Robinson-O’Brien as the head coach of its women’s water polo team. Monday, UCLA had publicized two additions to the men’s water polo coaching staff. That is the staff of head coach Adam W...

By Danielle Repper, Swimming World College Intern Growing up, I learned that there was a difference between being hurt, and being injured. Bumps, bruises and pain, are part of any sport. If you are hurt, you brush yourself off and get back in the game. Injuries are not that simple. Athletes push the...

If you’re not familiar with the lure of the USC Trojans, you might actually be from another planet, because the Southern California athletics brand is among the America's most recognizable. There’s many reasons for this, but the most compelling ones are the 107 National Collegiate Athletic Associati...

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...

By Rod Commons FEDERAL WAY, Wash., Feb. 22. THE USC TROJANS hold a slim lead after the first day of action at the Pacific-10 Conference Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships, while a pair of champions from last year successfully defended their crowns at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Cente...

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....

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 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...

UCLA Gains 2027 Verbal From In-State Sprinter Olivia Somers NEW COMMIT: Olivia Somers of Sacramento, Calif. has opted to remain in-state for her college career after she verbally committed to the University of California, Los Angeles for Fall 2027. A talented sprint freestyler, Somers is a Junior Na...

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 week saw two huge stateside competitions, including the fourth stop of the TYR Pro Swim Series in Bloomington with a strong pro group led by world-record holder Lilly King. Several college programs also announced who would be leading their programs after a busy hiring season. Check out all the ...

“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...

Unbeaten UCLA Remains Atop College Women's Water Polo Poll; Hawaii Holds at No. 2 The Collegiate Water Polo Association poll for women’s varsity play has not seen much change these past few weeks, especially at the top. UCLA, Hawai’i, Stanford, Cal and USC have been in roughly the same spots for a m...

Sunday saw a whirlwind of activity in pools across the country, as championships were decided in the nation’s varsity water polo conferences. But, the most contentious decision for the 2019 polo season — which teams would receive at-large berths — was resolved outside the water. In a web-update post...

It's now a common thread throughout intercollegiate sports: where were you when the novel coronavirus ended the NCAA spring season? As Adam Wright, NCAA men's and women's coach explains below, he and his Bruin women had recently returned to Los Angeles following a successful swing in the Bay Area. T...

NCAA Women’s Championships: Bella Sims Holds off Lucy Bell for 400 IM Title Bella Sims knew the charge was going to come from Lucy Bell on breaststroke Thursday night. When they turned for freestyle, the Michigan junior had enough left in the tank. Sims went 3:58.08 to win the NCAA title in the 400 ...

IRVINE, California, May 24. THE Speedo Grand Challenge is quickly becoming the favorite meet for Stanford's Maya DiRado. She broke into world-class levels of speed last year at the meet, and has returned on fire this year. The meet is known for its unique four-person final setup, where only four swi...

This week was a stellar one for the Stanford Cardinal, who picked up four strong members for the eventual class of 2021 while Katie Ledecky made her NCAA competition debut in the team’s win over Oregon State. Catch up on all that action and more from The Week That Was below! The Week That Was #5 -.....