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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...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Editor’s Note: Last weekend, Swimming World spoke twice with Adam Wright, head coach for the men’s and women’s water polo teams at UCLA: the Friday before a 2017 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament semifinal match against Pacific—an 11-9 win for the Bruin...

Diabetes Didn’t Stop Grayden Reynolds From Fulfilling His Potential; It’s What Got Him There On the surface, Grayden Reynolds, a junior on USC’s perennial national championship-contending water polo team, is an enigma. His role on the team is a cross between Tim Riggins and the Dos Equis man. Even b...

STANFORD, CA. Last weekend saw brilliant action at the 2019 NCAA Women’s Water Polo Tournament. For the first time in the almost two-decade history of the women’s national championship, both semifinals went to overtime, with USC overcoming Cal 10-8 and Stanford surviving a scare from UCLA to prevail...

Swimming World spoke with Alex Wolf about his water polo career starting at Huntington Beach Water Polo Club and Huntington Beach High School as well as at UCLA and Team USA

“Operation Varsity Blues”—the massive federal indictment of college administrators, coaches, parents and advisors—has just claimed the biggest name in American collegiate water polo. According to a statement from USC, Jovan Vavic, the winningest water polo coach in the history of NCAA men's and wome...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor As an annual gathering of the nation’s best men’s water polo teams, there’s nothing that can top the MPSF Invitational, which kicks off later today at Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center with a match between the top-seeded Trojans (18-1) and #16 Air Force ...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor At the top of the list of Division I All-Americans released yesterday by the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) are the usual programs, identified by the media as the “Big Four:” Cal, Stanford, UCLA and USC. Those top polo programs co...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor With the selection last night of three at-large teams, the field is now set for the 2018 NCAA Women’s Water Polo Tournament. Defending champion Stanford, Cal and UCLA were selected to join fellow Pac12 member USC, which on Sunday won the Mountain Pacif...

USA Beats Australia 13–12 at the Buzzer to Open Water Polo Exhibition Series Team USA opened its June men’s water polo exhibition series with a dramatic 13–12 victory over Australia, sealed by a buzzer-beating goal at Mt. San Antonio College. In front of a spirited California crowd, the match feat.....

Editor’s Note: Jovan Vavic, former USC head men’s and women’s water polo coach, will be arraigned today in federal court in Boston, MA on criminal racketeering charges, in connection with the massive Varsity Blues scandal that has rocked America’s higher education system. Vavic remains the biggest c...

Day One of NCAA men’s varsity conference tournament play went almost entirely as expected, with a couple of upset wins and a few close calls by favored teams. In the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF), both Cal—the tournament’s number 3 seed—and UCLA, which is #4, advanced easily. After #5 Pe...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor With one week remaining, a pair of match-ups in Los Angeles today between Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) rivals set the stage for a compelling finish to the 2018 NCAA men’s varsity water polo regular season. #3 Cal will travel to Uytengsu Aq...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor It was—in many ways—an impossible dream: a talented and determined young water polo player from the middle of the country going west to play water polo at UCLA, one of the country’s most accomplished programs. But Matt Farmer of La Grange, Illinois, wa...

Editor's Note: For the first time in the 19-year history of the award, Swimming World covered the Cutino Awards, the most prestigious event in American water polo. Thanks to Gary Crooks, Athletic Director for The Olympic Club, which has hosted the Cutinos for almost two decades, we were able to have...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor LOS ANGELES — In a compelling contest that saw the home team go up by three goals early then fall into a sizable deficit late, host USC got standout performances from senior Grant Stein and freshman Marko Vavic to defeat defending champion Cal 12-11 in...

Adam Wright is one of America's best coaches, and his approach to his UCLA men’s and women’s teams, as well as the health of the sport in the U.S., is both frank and refreshing. Much has been written about his career playing for the U.S. Senior Men’s National Team—participating in three Olympics, an...

LOS ANGELES, CA. As #2 Stanford and #1 Southern Cal prepare to clash today in the first home water polo match for the Trojan women since the massive Varsity Blues admissions scandal resulted in the firing of Jovan Vavic, USC’s long-time men’s and women’s head coach, the Trojans are not exactly takin...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor The women’s water polo season is now in full tilt, as the last of the varsity programs will open play this weekend at the Mercyhurst Invitational in Erie, PA. There has been a great deal of action so far—including a big match last weekend at the Triton...