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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...

Alvaro Granados, Foteini Tricha Named World Aquatics Water Polo Players of the Year Spain’s Alvaro Granados and Foteini Tricha of Greece were named World Aquatics’ Water Polo Players of the Year this week. Both players led their teams to gold medals at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singap...

Unbeaten UCLA Stays Atop Women's Water Polo Poll; LMU Makes Big Jump The past two weeks, a number of teams have faced conference opponents in matches with postseason implications. Nowhere more significant was the contest between Fresno State and Loyola Marymount on March 23. Picked #1 and #2 in the ...

Hall of Fame Player Merrill Moses Promoted to Pepperdine Water Polo Head Coach Merrill Moses, a Hall of Fame player and the associate head coach of Pepperdine men’s water polo program, has been promoted to the top job. Moses will replace his mentor, Terry Schroeder, who will transition to an associa...

5 Games To Make Swim Practice Fun By Lucas Draper Before I start this article, I want to preface this by saying that I know sports and swim practice, especially at a competitive level, aren’t meant to be fun and games all the time. We work hard every day, striving to improve all areas of our perform...

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 Best American Men’s Water Polo Players of the NCAA Era (Part III: No. 1 to No. 10) By Jeff Moulton In the third and final installment of this three-part series, water polo expert Jeff Moulton discusses the individuals he has ranked No. 1 to 10 in his unofficial list of the top-25 American men’s ...

Los Angeles 2028 Aquatics Schedule: Triathlon Gets First Medals, Water Polo Gets Early Start The schedule for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics dropped on Wednesday, 975 days away from the Opening Ceremony on July 14, 2028. It gives athletes aspiring to the games concrete targets to aim at, and can help...

By Rachel Andersen, Swimming World College Intern. As the water polo season rises into full swing, players and coaches alike will begin to be bombarded by the same question from friends and family alike: What is water polo? Whether you are new to the game or just curious about that strange sport in ...

Fortuitous Path Has Made Greg Mescall the Voice of Water Polo One part of Greg Mescall’s dual career path had been ingrained from a young age. The second came by random chance early in that professional career. Mescall has always been drawn to sports and to their presentation. He was the kid that wo...

USA Water Polo, Florida High School Athletic Associations Join to Grow Sport USA Water Polo and the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) on Tuesday entered into a partnership to grow high school water polo in the Sunshine State. Florida’s small but passionate community has voiced support...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Andrey Kryukov, Bureau Liaison for FINA's Technical Water Polo Committee, may be the world's most important decision-maker regarding water polo's future. The Kazakhstan native is spearheading FINA’s ambitious effort to reform polo, which includes overh...

2026 Cutino Award Watch List Released: Nation's Top Water Polo Talent Recognized USA Water Polo, The Olympic Club, and the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches recently released the 2026 Peter J. Cutino Award Watch List, highlighting 20 of the best players in collegiate water polo. The list,...

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...

Water Polo and Swimming: Sharing More Than Just Pool Space By Alex Ellison For years, swimming and water polo have been two sports that shared a pool but little else. Yet for a growing number of athletes, the lines between these disciplines are beginning to blur. Historically, Duke Kahanamoku, Johnn...

Pepperdine Water Polo Coach Terry Schroeder Earns 500th Career Win Pepperdine men’s water polo coach Terry Schroeder earned his 500th career win at the helm of the program against Bucknell on Saturday. Schroeder is 502-343 all-time leading the Waves. He has been in Malibu for two stints totaling 31 ...

It’s the gap week before NCAAs; only nine collegiate women’s water polo teams will continue their seasons next weekend at Cal’s Spieker Aquatics Complex. Those teams either won one of six conference tournaments or captured the three at-large berths put out by the NCAA selectors.  To examine the succ...

Swim England CEO Jane Nickerson has welcomed news that water polo clubs have been given the green light to return to training and competition. The governing body had submitted evidence to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport at the beginning of the month and it has now been confirmed...

Where Did They Go?  The Disappearance of the Elite Water Polo/Swimming Dual-Sport Athlete By Russ Hafferkamp and Jeff Moulton In Part I of this article (The Century of the Elite Water Polo/Swimming Dual-Sport Athlete (swimmingworldmagazine.com), we showed that the United States produced an impressiv...