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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 ...

NCAA Men's Championships: Texas A&M’s Emilio Trevino Wins Platform Title Texas A&M was close to a platform title last year with two divers in the top four. It took a new face to get them over the top. Emilio Trevino earned the program’s first NCAA platform title Saturday night, his score of 465.30 t...

NCAA Men's Championships: Collier Dyer Wins Historic 3-Meter for Missouri It’s been a long climb for Collier Dyer. In four years at the University of Missouri, the senior was in his ninth career NCAA Championships event on Friday night at Georgia Tech. Never before had he finished in the top eight. ...

NCAA Men's Championships: Luke Sitz Makes History for SMU with 1-Meter Crown SMU’s Luke Sitz scored 428.10 points Saturday to win 1-meter diving gold at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships. Sitz was second after prelims but scored 428.10 in finals. That was nearly 16 points better than Miami ...

Carsten Vissering, Former Northwestern Diver Finish in Top 20 of Olympic Bobsled Former USC swimmer Carsten Vissering made his Olympic debut on Saturday and finished 11th in the men’s four-man bobsled Sunday at the Milan Cortina Olympics. Vissering, a Pac-12 champion in breaststroke and an NCAA rela...

USC's Minna Abraham Withdraws from Big Ten Championships Citing 'Personal Reasons' USC's Minna Abraham will not be competing at the Big Ten Championships alongside her Trojan teammates. The school announced the withdrawal on social media, with a message from Abraham citing "personal reasons." ...

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...

Junior National Finalist Charlotte Milkie Verbally Commits to USC for 2027 NEW COMMIT: Riverside, Calif. native Charlotte Milkie has elected to remain in-state for her college career, having announced her verbal commitment to the University of Southern California for Fall 2027. Milkie is a U.S. Open...

The USC men's swimming and diving team won 15 of 16 events to defeat UNLV 200-61 on Friday, Feb. 6, in the regular-season finale. The Trojans started with Michal Chmielewski, Junhao Chan, Jan Bialecki and Oliver Sogaard-Andersen winning the 200-yard medley relay. Thomas Olsen took the 1000 freestyle...

Editor’s Note: In one of the seminal matches in Eastern water polo history, on November 13, 1977, Pittsburgh faced Bucknell at the Joseph C. Trees Pool for the Eastern Water Polo League Southern Division Championship. A rematch of the 1976 final, won 14-12 by Pitt, with less than a minute remaining ...

After a season of streaks, upsets, and tremendous promise, the UC Santa Barbara men's water polo team now has a major distraction to overcome on the way to perhaps its first national championship tournament in three decades: the NCAA. Sanctions that were leveled earlier this week have focused unwant...

From Water to Ice, Carsten Vissering Set to Realize His Olympic Dream With the Winter Olympics beginning today in Milan/Cortina, Swimming World chatted with USC former breaststroke star Carsten Vissering, who will represent Team USA in bobsled. Carsten Vissering’s dreams still bring him back to the ...

NCAA Women’s Championships: Anna Moesch Claims 200 Free in No. 2 All-Time 1:39.23 The quest all year in the women’s 200 freestyle has been aimed at 1:39.10, the NCAA record of Missy Franklin from 2015. Anna Moesch came closer to it than anybody has. Moesch went 1:39.23, brushing up against Franklin’...

This week was full of fast swimming across the world, from surprise appearances at NCAA meets to National Records and Personal Bests that continue to set up favorites heading into the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Read below to see all of the top headlines from The Week That Was! The Week That was is su.....

FOMO: Fear of missing out. Nearly everyone has experienced that feeling of disappointment when they miss out on an important event in their lives. Whether it’s a game, a meet, a life event, the feeling is the same. It’s a loss of an opportunity. In most cases it’s for a singular reason; an injury, a...

Passages: Per-Ola Lindberg, Two-Time Swedish Olympian, Age 82 Per-Ola Lindberg, a Swedish swimmer who excelled at the University of Southern California, died on Dec. 19. He was 82 years old. Lindberg competed in the 1960 Olympics in Rome and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. He won an NCAA title with USC and...

In 2019 NCAA Men's Water Polo Tournament action Thursday at Pacific’s Chris Kjeldsen Pool, third-seeded Pepperdine and #4 USC won and advanced to the semifinals, to be held Saturday. The Waves, appearing in the national championship for the first time in two decades, rode a six-goal explosion by Chr...

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...