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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...

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 ...

Cathy Coler, IM specialist from Amador Valley HS in Pleasanton, CA. She has top marks in both the 200 and 400 IM events. Coler will provide valuable depth in these events for team. Brooke Winkler, IM/Breaststroke from St. Francis HS and lives in Los Altos, CA. One of the top recruits in California, ...

NCAA Water Polo’s Best Honored June 7 at The Olympic Club The 26th Annual Peter J. Cutino Awards—college water polo’s highest individual honor will be presented on Saturday, June 7, 2025, at The Olympic Club in San Francisco. Named for legendary coach Peter J. Cutino, the award recognizes the top ma...

“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...

Ryann Neushul and Ryder Dodd Win 2025 Peter J. Cutino Awards for NCAA Water Polo Excellence On a warm June evening in the heart of San Francisco, The Olympic Club once again played host to the 26th Annual Peter J. Cutino Awards, honoring the outstanding female and male collegiate water polo players....

Starting today, Princeton men's water polo welcomes 13 teams to the DeNunzio Pool for a full weekend of competition; 23 matches that include seven teams from the Collegiate Water Polo Association's Top 20 rankings. Now in his second year leading the Princeton men's program is Dustin Litvak. Once a f...

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...

UCLA and USC Sit Atop Preseason Men's Water Polo Rankings UCLA and USC, which met for last year's NCAA championship, sit atop the Collegiate Water Polo Association preseason rankings. UCLA occupies the top spot and tallied 100 points in voting, with Southern Cal following in the No. 2 spot with 95 p...

Try Water Polo for Free – August 22–24, 2025 USA Water Polo invites athletes of all ages to dive into the sport with free one-day clinics happening nationwide from August 22 to 24, 2025. Whether you’re brand new to water polo or just looking for a fun team sport, this is your chance to get started—w...

This week swimmers at the University of Buffalo continued to make their voices heard after their men’s program was cut unexpectedly in April, with six swimmers now suing the university. Read about that fight and all of the other news from the week in this edition of The Week That Was. https://youtu....

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...

By Bill Bell BELMONT SHORES, CA., Jan. 16. OLYMPIANS Kaitlin Sandeno and Aaron Peirsol continued their relentless quest for a berth on this summer's World Championship team by churning up the waters of the Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool over the King Holiday weekend, and former UCLA All-America Mich...

If you're a water polo fan and haven't heard about the UC Santa Barbara men's water polo team, the appropriate response is: Where have you been?! The Gauchos are off to the best start in an illustrious history that includes an NCAA championship in 1979—exactly forty years ago. It may seem that this ...

STANFORD, CA - Ivan Babic scored a two-point goal with 1:03 to play to lift the third-ranked USC water polo team to a 7-6 victory over top-ranked UCLA in the championship game of the NorCal Tournament on Sunday at deGuerre Pool. In the third place game, Stanford, ranked second in the nation, dropped...

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...

The Pac-12 Conference will cancel sports for the fall semester, through Jan. 1, 2021, due to the coronavirus pandemic. The decision would sideline many of the nation’s top NCAA swimming programs and hamper the Olympic training efforts of numerous hopefuls from a variety of countries. The conference ...

UCLA Stays Atop Women's Water Polo Poll After Claiming Kalbus Invitational Title Last weekend, nine of the nation’s top ten teams traveled to Irvine, CA—only Princeton declined a spot in the 2024 Barbara Kalbus Invitational—offering a prime opportunity to evaluate NCAA title contenders. Fresno State...