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EDITOR’S NOTE: The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men’s water polo tournament will celebrate its golden anniversary this weekend, with the national championship being held at Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center. Looking back at the history of the country’s most prestigious polo tourname...

Ben Hallock is up for this year’s Peter J. Cutino Award for the best collegiate water polo player along with Cal Berkeley attacker Johnny Hooper and UCLA goalie Alex Wolf, two players who he has long played with and against throughout his water polo career. [On Deck With UCLA Water Polo's Alex Wolf....

EDITOR’S NOTE: The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men’s water polo tournament will celebrate its golden anniversary this weekend, with the national championship being held at Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center. Looking back at the history of the country’s most prestigious polo tourname...

NCAA Women’s Water Polo 2025: Full Conference Championship Recap and NCAA Tournament Outlook The road to Indianapolis is now officially set after an action-packed Sunday across NCAA Women’s Water Polo. Conference champions punched their tickets, top players delivered heroic performances, and NCAA To...

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....

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.....

USA Water Polo National League: Mission (UCLA) Wins 2025 Championship The 2025 USA Water Polo Men’s National League Championships wrapped up with a dramatic day of finals action at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, California. UCLA captured the National League crown in thrilling fashion over The O....

The most prestigious—and likely most significant—non-conference tournament of the 2019 NCAA women’s varsity season begins today at UC Irvine. The Barbara Kalbus invitational, now in it’s 13th year, opened with top seed USC facing San Diego State followed by #2 seed Stanford against California State ...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor At the top of the list of Division I All-Americans released yesterday by the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) are the usual programs, identified by the media as the “Big Four:” Cal, Stanford, UCLA and USC. Those top polo programs co...

The Collegiate Water Polo Association Men’s Varsity Water Polo Top-Ten was unchanged from last week, but a reordering at the top is almost certain to occur this weekend. Two of the nation’s top four teams have competitive matches—against each other. That would be the top-ranked Trojans of USC—3-0 la...

Editor's Note: Immediately following a 12-10 loss to the host Terriers at St. Francis Brooklyn College on October 3, Princeton Head Coach Dustin Litvak spoke with Swimming World's Michael Randazzo about the challenge of playing in the Terriers' den of deafness, the loss of center Sean Duncan, the im...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Adam Krikorian is arguably one of America’s finest and most accomplished coaches in any discipline. After winning 10 NCAA titles as a head coach of the UCLA men’s and women’s water polo teams (men: 1999, 2000, 2004; women: 2001, 2003, 2005-2009), in 20...

By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Contributor Editor’s Note: Steven Munatones is the founder of the World Open Water Swimming Association and the Daily News of Open Water Swimming. After each college water polo game and after morning workouts at some high schools, Team Moms go in overdrive...

Editor’s Note: The 2019 NCAA Women’s Water Polo Tournament is happening this week—and Swimming World has you covered! Keep up with all the action online or look for #SwimmingWorld on Twitter and other social media platforms. STANFORD, CA. What began as a blowout for Stanford (22-2) turned into a nai...

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...

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...

Growth Mindset Has Led Max Irving to Water Polo Stardom One wakeup call occasioned another for Max Irving. It was 2017, and Irving’s star was rising fast. He’d gone from a redshirt season at UCLA in 2013 to an All-American. That June brought his first U.S. national team call—in the FINA Intercontine...

Stanford, UCLA Advance to NCAA Men's Water Polo Semifinals Top-seeded UCLA demonstrated its offensive depth with a commanding 20-3 victory against Salem University in the quarterfinal round of the NCAA Championships. Freshman attacker Ryder Dodd and graduate student Makoto Kenney spearheaded the Bru...

The new varsity women’s water polo season is starting to take shape, and the defending NCAA champions, University of Southern California (8-0), are off to a fast start, outscoring opponents 140 to 19. Leading the way for the top-ranked Trojans has been native Hollander Maude Megens (18 goals), who a...

His players affectionately called him “The Old Man.” And he treated them like family—one that stretched into the hundreds. “That's why all of his boys were sons-in-law,” said Gary Figueroa, who really was a son-in law. The “he” in question is legendary University of California at Irvine Head Coach E...