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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...

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 ...

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...

By Ailish Dougherty, Swimming World College Intern. Every swimmer has heard the words "Go warm yourself up!" at any given meet at least once in their careers. And every swimmer has probably felt the ensuing dread that comes when having to figure out how to properly get themselves ready to race fast....

From Injury and Heartbreak to NCAA Champ: Meghan McAninch’s USC Comeback Honk! The final horn sounded. California’s last push had come up short. USC players were already sprinting toward each other in the water at UC San Diego. The 2026 NCAA Women’s Water Polo Championship belonged to The Women of.....

Editor's Note: This interview is from 2015—when the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation still included Long Beach State, Pacific, Pepperdine, UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine, and the SoCal Invitational was yet to be renamed for the MPSF. Terry Schroeder is perhaps the most successful water polo player...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor BERLIN, Germany. Bringing a young, inexperienced team to a tournament configured to test a variety of new rules for future application turned out to not be ideal for the U.S. Senior Men’s National team. Registering two wins in six days of action at the...

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...

In a statement released today by USC Athletics, Marko Pintaric, who starred for USC as a player and then served for 18 season as an assistant to former head coach Jovan Vavic, has been named head coach for both the Trojan men and women. "After conducting a national coaching search, it was evide...

Texas Invitational: USC Women Score Pair of Relay Wins on Opening Day USC has two relay wins to show for its first day at the Texas Hall of Fame Swimming Invitational on Wednesday in Austin. The USC women’s 200 medley and 800 freestyle relays both tallied wins in NCAA A cuts on the first day of the ...

Canadian World Junior Champion Jade Hannah Transfers to LSU Canadian international Jade Hannah is transferring from USC to LSU, she announced via social media this week. Hannah spent her freshman year in Southern California, where she finished eighth in the 200 backstroke at the Pac-12 Championships...

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...

Emily Ausmus, Stanford Duo Named Cutino Award Finalists USC’s Emily Ausmus and the Stanford duo of Juliette Dhalluin and Jenna Flynn were named finalists for the Peter J. Cutino Award on Wednesday. The award for the best college water polo player, both men’s and women’s, has been presented annually ...

Fordham Adds Olympic Trials Qualifier Harry Homans as Assistant Coach Fordham on Tuesday hired former USC swimmer Harry Homans as an assistant coach to Tom Wilkens. A native of Barrington, R.I., Homans completed his career at USC for four seasons after starting at the University of Georgia in 2019-2...

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 -.....

Cal Completes Third Three-Peat for 17th NCAA Men’s Water Polo Title The University of California rode another stirring performance from Nikolaos Papanikolaou to claim the school’s third straight NCAA Men’s water polo title Sunday, a 13-11 decision over UCLA. Papanikolaou was named the NCAA Champions...

Chase Bloch and Meghan Hawthorne Are Living the 'Southern California' Dream After competing collegiately as members of the University of Southern California swim team, Chase Bloch and Meghan Hawthorne are back - coaching the very program for which they once competed. Bloch, a 2013 All-American and c...