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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...

[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...

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 ...

NCAA Water Polo Crown Returns to West Hollywood: UCLA 11, USC 8 In a commanding performance at Stanford University's Avery Aquatic Center, the UCLA Bruins affirmed their top-seed status by defeating the USC Trojans 11-8 to clinch the 2024 NCAA Men's Water Polo National Championship. This victory mar...

STANFORD, CA., Oct. 27. WHO'LL stop the Cardinal? For the third time in less than a month, Stanford's top-ranked men's water polo team, led by freshman sensation Tony Azevado, thrashed No. 2-ranked and double-defending NCAA Champ UCLA, this time 8-3, in a key Mountain Pacific Sports Fede...

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...

By Phillip Whitten EAST MEADOW, N.Y., March 15. SIX teams are very much in the hunt for a national title after the first day of competition at the Women's Division I NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, being held at the Nassau Aquatic Center on Long Island, New York. The surprise leader afte...

“This is the sort of thing that has the potential to wreck lives,” said Therese Langan, an authority on the treatment of sexually abused teens. Langan was referring to the downstream effects of sexual assault on the young players under the tutelage of Bahram Hojreh, a one-time age group water polo c...

CAMBRIDGE, MA. Last weekend saw a bittersweet ending to an impressive water polo career at one of the East’s top programs. Two minutes into sudden death overtime — in his final game wearing his school’s colors — Armen Deirmenjian hit the winning shot to give Brown a 19-18 win over St. Francis Brookl...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, June 26. THE USA Women's Senior National Team will head to Kirishi, Russia to compete in the Kirishi Cup this July 1-5. USA Head Coach Adam Krikorianhas assembled a roster featuring many of the athletes that helped the United States to gold at the recent FINA World Leag...

The No. 14 USC women's swimming and diving team swept crosstown rival No. 22 UCLA, defeating the Bruins 215-85 at the Uytengsu Aquatics Center. The Trojans swept every event for the first time in the history of the rivalry (USC leads 33-17-1). It was also historic for being USC's first ever Big Ten ...

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...

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WESTWOOD, Calif., Jan. 9. IN a matchup usually between two schools that have cut their menb's teams, UCLA women's swimmers defeated Illinois, 174.5-125.5 here this afternoon in an intersectional dual meet at the Sunset Canyon Recreation Center Pool. Coach Cyndi Gallagher's Bruins, 7-2 ov...

BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 26. THE number 6-ranked California women's team (5-1) handily defeated No. 3 Arizona, 135-108, this afternoon at Spieker Aquatics Complex. Coach Terri McKeever's Golden Bears won seven of the meet's 13 events and were led by sophomores Natalie Coughlin and Danielle...

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 11. THE UCLA women's swim team shocked the #1-ranked Arizona Wildcats today with an upset dual meet victory, 159-140. Last year the Bruins beat #2-ranked Stanford in dual meet competition. The meet appeared to be going to form, with Arizona winning the first five events: the 20...

The Potential Effects of Conference Realignment on College Swimming On July 1, 2022, the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), two of the most storied athletic programs in the NCAA, shook the college sports world when they announced they would ...

Rosie Murphy Sets Pool Record as UCLA Sprints by UC San Diego Rosie Murphy set one of four pool records on the day as UCLA handled UC San Diego, 193-99, in a women’s meet on Saturday. Murphy was the only of the four pool marks set by a UCLA swimmer at Canyonview Aquatic Center. The freshman went 1:5...

Longtime Swimming World employee Judy Jacob, 62, died May 30 from gall bladder and liver cancer. Beginning as a circulation assistant in 1974, she had been involved in nearly every aspect of the magazine—circulation, editorial and production—as well as writing stories for the website. After a short ...

The UCLA women's water polo team completed a perfect season and claimed the NCAA Championship on Sunday at Spieker Aquatics Complex. The top-ranked Bruins defeated No. 3 Cal 7-4 in the finals to finish the season 26-0 and earn its eighth NCAA title in program history, the first under coach Adam Wrig...