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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...

NEW COMMIT: The University of Southern California has scored a verbal commitment for the 2027-28 season and beyond from Lexi Byrn out of Boulder, Colo. Byrn specializes in butterfly and won the 200 fly at Juniors West last month. Regarding her commitment, she said: "After careful consideration I am ...

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 ...

The world of water polo includes some intriguing individuals, and one of them is Tony Karaman. Originally from Croatia, Karaman played professionally for VK Jug in Dubrovnik, where one of his teammates was Elvis Fatovic, now head coach for the Australian national men's team. [On The Record with Elvi...

LOS ANGELES, CA. In a contest marked by 38 total exclusions and nine players fouling out, USC (8-2) built a five-goal lead through the first three quarters then withstood a late rally by California (9-5) to take fifth place at the 2019 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Invitational by a scor...

USA Swimming has released their updated top 10 rankings for the 2015-2016 long course meters season following the 2015 USA Swimming Winter Nationals. The lists include the top open swimmers and top 18-and-under swimmers. Each USA Swimming Zone also has their respective top tens listed. On the girls'...

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...

Stanford’s Aria Fischer, Ryann Neushul Looking to Add to Families’ Cutino Award Hauls Stanford’s Aria Fischer and Ryann Neushul were named finalists for the women’s Cutino Award on Thursday, each hoping to join sisters who have won the award. USC’s Tilly Kearns was the third finalist of the award, g...

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...

Who Makes the Mount Rushmore of NCAA Division I Swimming? If there were a sculpture made of the top NCAA Division I swimmers similar to the one depicting the four U.S. Presidents on Mount Rushmore, Tracy Caulkins, Natalie Coughlin, Pablo Morales and John Naber would be worthy honorees. No other U.S....

Ahead of Sixth Olympics, Ous Mellouli Will ‘Boycott’ Tokyo Games, Retire Just days before the open of what would have been his sixth Olympics, Tunisia’s Ous Mellouli announced he will “boycott” the Tokyo Games and retire from international competition. Mellouli announced the decision via social medi...

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 ...

In a story from earlier this week that at first glance seems patently absurd, video clips jangling around social media show water polo players from Pacifica High School in Garden Grove, California making “Heil Hitler” salutes and chanting a Nazi anthem during a sports banquet. Originally broken by T...

Lucas Henveaux, Mewen Tomac Debut for Cal as Golden Bears Dominate USC The California Golden Bears have finished first or second at every NCAA Men's Championships since 2010, and they will be in position for another strong finish this year thanks to a talented veteran core plus some strong additions...

The USC women's swimming and diving team completed an undefeated regular season in dual meets for the first time in program history on Friday. The Trojans defeated UCLA 164-136 in the final dual meet of the season. This year, No. 7 USC defeated No. 4 Stanford in a dual meet for the first time since ...

Lenny Krayzelburg To Receive 2023 NCAA Silver Anniversary Award Former USC swimmer Lenny Krayzelburg has been named one of six recipients of the 2023 NCAA Silver Anniversary Award, announced on Monday. The awards recognize outstanding athletes on the 25th anniversary of the end of their college care...

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...

Following a stretch in which they knocked off two number one teams, this week the Gauchos of UC Santa Barbara ascended to the top of the Collegiate Water Polo Association’s Top 20. This is almost certainly the first time that UCSB has been ranked first in the CWPA poll; it is the first time since No...