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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...

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 ...

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...

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.....

The six-day FINA Men's Water Polo World League Super Final is kicking-off on Monday June 18 in Budapest (HUN), with the eight best teams from the Inter-Continental Cup and the European preliminaries. Still fresh from Budapest World Championships' thrilling final in Margaret Island, current World cha...

The U.S. Pan American Men's Water Polo Team won their sixth straight Pan Am Games crown topping Brazil 11-9. The U.S. men's water polo team had already earned a 2016 Olympic Games berth with their semifinal win over Canada, with the victory over Brazil capping an undefeated run in Toronto. Josh Samu...

Hannes Daube, Alex Bowen Lead U.S. Men’s Water Polo to Paris Qualification Hannes Daube and Alex Bowen scored five times each as the U.S. men’s water polo team defeated Brazil, 17-7, on Saturday in the final of the Pan Am Games. The win marks an eighth straight win at the continental championship fo...

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...

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...

Italy Men’s Water Polo Team Handed Six-Month Suspension for Abuse of Officials The Italian men’s water polo team was handed a six-month suspension on Thursday for abuse of officials, which will rule them out of the 2025 World Cup. Italy, which won a silver medal at the 2023 World Cup and silver at t...

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...

Budapest, Hungary - June 23 - The USA Men's Water Polo National Team took seventh place at the FINA World League Super Final with a 9-3 win over Kazakhstan. Alex Bowen (Santee, CA/Stanford/NYAC) scored two goals to lead the offense with McQuin Baron (North Tustin, CA/USC/NYAC) and Alex Wolf (Hunting...

Benjamin Sasaki’s Double-OT Goal Gives Pomona-Pitzer First Water Polo Title It took two overtimes Sunday to separate two teams located just a single street part. Benjamin Sasaki scored at 2:23 of the second overtime period, the only goal of two extra sessions to lead Pomona-Pitzer to a 13-12 win ove...

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’...

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...

Reigning Winner Nikolaos Papanikolaou Again a Finalist for Cutino Award Nikolaos Papanikolaou, the 2022 winner of the Peter J. Cutino Award, was named Monday as a finalist for the third straight year. Joining the University of California junior are USC’s Jake Ehrhardt and Reuel D’Souza of Pacific. T...

World Championships: Hungary Wins Semis Thriller over Serbia; Spain Takes Shootout The semifinals of the 2025 World Aquatics Championships men’s water polo tournament didn’t disappoint, with Spain surviving a shootout to beat Greece, 11-9 and Hungary outlasting Serbia, 19-18, in regulation. Hungary ...

Spain Captain Felipe Perrone Ends Legendary Career with Storybook Title Felipe Perrone described it like a movie ending, one that maybe even Hollywood would’ve thought a little too on the nose Thursday. Perrone’s last acts as an international water polo player unspooled at the OCBC Aquatic Centre in...

Loyola Marymount Turns to David Carrasco as Water Polo Head Coach Loyola Marymount All-American David Carrasco is the next leader of its men’s water polo program, the school announced this weekend. Carrasco takes over for John Loughran, who retired this month after 40 seasons at the helm (including ...