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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...

Saint Mary’s Names James Lathrop as Men’s Water Polo Coach Saint Mary’s has rounded out its inaugural head coaching staff, announcing the hiring of James Lathrop as men’s water polo coach Monday. The Division I school in California will launch men’s and women’s water polo teams and men’s and women’s...

Ryder Dodd, Robert Lopez-Duart, Mihailo Vukazic Named Cutino Award Finalists UCLA’s Ryder Dodd and the USC duo of Robert Lopez-Duart and Mihailo Vukazic were named finalists Tuesday for the Cutino Award by the Olympic Club in San Francisco. Dodd won the award last year. Vukazic was a finalist last y...

World Championships: Alvaro Granados Gives Spain ‘Movie’ Ending with Gold Alvaro Granados played the hero for Spain on Thursday, with two of the team’s six fourth-quarter goals in a 15-13 win over Hungary at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. Greece routed Serbia, 16-7, for the bron...

U.S. Wins Bronze at World Aquatics World Cup After Appeal Leads to Replay Team USA lost the bronze-medal game to Hungary at the World Aquatics World Cup on Sunday. Until it didn’t. A refereeing appeal reversed what had been a win by Hungary, leading to the final four minutes, 24 seconds being replay...

Montenegro claimed the victory tonight (Saturday June 23) in Budapest (HUN), where the FINA Men's Water Polo World League Super Final 2018 was taking place since Monday June 18. The Balkan team stunned the hosts 13-11 after a penalty shootout in a thrilling final at the brand new state-of-the-art Du...

Head coach Alyssa Diacono Thursday announced the inaugural men's and women's rosters for Mount St. Mary’s water polo teams. The university announced in January that it would add water polo to its athletic offerings. The inaugural rosters include 11 men and nine women, with 12 of the players being fr...

Passages: Long-Time Mercyhurst Water Polo Coach Curtis Robinette, 41 Mercyhurst water polo head coach Curtis Robinette passed away Saturday following a battle with cancer. He was just 41. Robinette was set to enter his 20th season at the helm of the Lakers’ men’s and women’s water polo programs. He’...

World Championships: Italy Tops Serbia in Shootout on Second Day of Men’s Water Polo Italy capped a long day at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships with a penalty shootout win over Serbia, 17-16, on Monday in Singapore. The day opened with the United States stopping Brazil, 16-7, and included a 13...

Olympian Alex Obert Returns to Pacific as General Manager American Olympian Alex Obert will return to his alma mater Pacific as the men’s water polo team’s general manager. Pacific is the first program to establish a general manager for their water polo team. The new position is becoming a popular o...

USA Water Polo Plans North Texas New Year’s Showcase with Serbia, Spain The U.S. Men’s Water Polo Team will host Serbia and Spain for a six-game tournament this month, calling it the North Texas New Year’s Showcase, announced on Monday. Six games will be played over seven days from Dec. 28-Jan. 3. T...

Stanford Opening Second Probe into Water Polo Retaliation Stanford University recently cleared men's water polo coach Brian Flacks of allegations of abusive behavior but is now probing reports of retaliation against his accusers, according to a report by the San Francisco Chronicle. Flacks was inves...

UCLA, Augustana Head MPSF Men’s Water Polo Coaches Poll Defending NCAA champion UCLA collected 99 points and nine first-place votes to top the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation men’s water polo preseason coaches poll in the conference’s Western Division, released on Tuesday. With 62 points, Augusta...

World Championships: Four Euro Teams Prevail to Set Up Olympic Semifinal Rematches Four European teams prevailed in the men’s water polo crossover round of the 2025 World Championships, setting up replays of both Paris Olympic semifinals in the Worlds quarters on Sunday. Serbia beat Japan, 21-14, to...

The team of Hungary won the gold medal of the 2018 FINA Men’s Water Polo World Cup, after beating Australia by 10-4 in the final match of the tournament, held in Berlin (GER), from September 11-16. The bronze medal of the competition went to Serbia, who comfortably defeated the host squad by 15-9. I...

Both the USA Water Polo men's and women's teams secured victories on the second day of competition at the 2018 FINA Intercontinental Tournament. Details from each match can be found below: USA Men's Match Auckland, New Zealand - April 3 - The USA Men's National Team picked up their second straight w...

USA Men's National Team Head Coach Dejan Udovicic has announced the roster for the upcoming 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia. Team USA is coming off gold at the recently completed Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada where they qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games. The same 13 athlete...

Three Olympic Medalists Heads USA Water Polo Hall of Fame 2023 Class Olympic medalists Nicolle Payne, Coralie Simmons and Peter Varellas headline the five-member Class of 2023 to the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame, announced on Thursday. Joining them are coach and referee Aaron Chaney and long-time coa...

Cal Leads ACWPC All-American Team Behind Nikolaos Papanikolaou Cal placed three players on the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) All-American team, released this week. That includes national player of the year Nikolaos Papanikolaou, plus coach of the year Kirk Everist. The nationa...

Passages: Arthur Lambert, U.S. Water Polo Hall of Fame Coach, 86 Arthur Lambert, the Hall of Fame coach of the 1968 U.S. Olympic team, died on Aug. 26. Lambert was 86 years old. He died from complications of Parkinson’s disease. On the international stage, he led Team USA to gold at the 1967 Pan Am ...