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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...

Torri Huske, Caroline Bricker Triple in Stanford Sweep of USC Stanford's women completed the Southern California sweep, adding a dominant dual meet win over USC by a final score of 208-91 one day after also beating UCLA. As expected, Olympic gold medalist Torri Huske was central to the effort with t...

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 ...

Alexei Sancov entered his freshman year at USC as a top recruit. Already an Olympian for Moldova and a former Junior World record holder, he seemed set to take the college swimming world by storm. After moving to the United States with his parents as a 16-year-old, he taught himself English and bega...

Passages: Per-Ola Lindberg, Two-Time Swedish Olympian, Age 82 Per-Ola Lindberg, a Swedish swimmer who excelled at the University of Southern California, died on Dec. 19. He was 82 years old. Lindberg competed in the 1960 Olympics in Rome and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. He won an NCAA title with USC and...

USC swimming and diving dominated the day, sweeping both UNLV and UC San Diego to kick off the second half of the season. The No. 11 Trojans picked up 11 event wins while No. 18 Troy earned nine. The USC men beat UNLV 180-82 and UC San Diego 174-87. The USC women beat UNLV 215-46 and UC San Diego 18...

BELMONT SHORES, CA., May 11 -- Back in the heyday of the Mission Viejo-Florida Aquatics cross-continent rivalry during the 1970s and '80s, FAST stars David McCagg and David Larson would sport t-shirts showing an oversized gator torching a Spanish-style building with the words "Burn Down the Miss...

The 2024 Pac-12 Women's Swimming and Diving Championships continued with the Day 3 finals from Federal Way, Washington. The Day 3 events are the 400 IM, 100 butterfly, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke. 100 backstroke and 400 medley relay. Cal entered the day with the lead and kept it despite some win...

Editor’s Note: In one of the seminal matches in Eastern water polo history, on November 13, 1977, Pittsburgh faced Bucknell at the Joseph C. Trees Pool for the Eastern Water Polo League Southern Division Championship. A rematch of the 1976 final, won 14-12 by Pitt, with less than a minute remaining ...

Pac-12 Men's Championships, Day 2 Finals: Leon Marchand Sets NCAA Record in 500 Free Leon Marchand is a great many things. You would not suspect that a distance swimmer is among them, not when he arrived at Arizona State and not on the international stage for France. And yet … no man in NCAA history...

Nikolaos Papanikolaou’s 7 Goals Help Cal Stun USC in NCAA Men’s Water Polo Final Nikolaos Papanikolaou scored seven times, and Roberto Valera’s goal with 41 seconds left sent Cal to a 13-12 win over USC in the NCAA Men’s Water Polo final. It’s the second straight title for the top-seeded Golden Bear...

Tomorrow starts a new decade — as well as the beginning of the end of the latest Olympic quadrennial. With the Tokyo Games set to open on July 24th, the next seven months will see a run-up to the most important water polo tournament in the sport. Before we go forward, Swimming World will go back — o...

Reigning National Champion USC Tops 2022 Preseason Women's CWPA Poll Reigning national champion USC holds the top spot in the first women's CWPA Poll of 2022, released on Wednesday. USC is coming off its sixth national championships, having beaten No. 3 seed UCLA in the final last spring in an 18-9 ...

The world of water polo includes some intriguing individuals, and one of them is Tony Karaman. Originally from Croatia, Karaman played professionally for VK Jug in Dubrovnik, where one of his teammates was Elvis Fatovic, now head coach for the Australian national men's team. [On The Record with Elvi...

USC sprinters Laticia Transom, Marta Ciesla and Tatum Wade made their move at the 2020 Pac-12 Women's Championships on Saturday night, and sent coach Dave Salo out with a huge final night to his Pac-12 career. The meet may have gone to Stanford, but the 100 free went to the Trojans. Transom claimed ...

Editor's Note: Swimming World was stationed pool-side for the entire week of men's and women's water polo competition at the 2019 Pan American Games. For Team USA and Canadian water polo watchers, the 2019 Pan American Games was an eye-opener regarding how the rest of the hemisphere plays polo. At f...

By Phillip Whitten LOS ANGELES, March 5. NOTHING is official yet, but rumors are swirling around the UCLA campus as well as at other schools in the Pac-10 Conference, that UCLA will be declared the winner of the women's Pac-10 title after a recount of the team scores is completed. Arizona was or...

Olympic Dream Leads USC's Anicka Delgado to Scratch NCAAs NCAAs was never part of the plan for Anicka Delgado this season. The freshman at USC has geared the last year-plus of her life toward qualifying for the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo to represent Ecuador, as she did at the World Championships in 201...

USC’s John Naber, Tony Azevedo of Stanford Inducted to Pac-12 Hall of Honor USC swimmer John Naber and Stanford water polo player Tony Azevedo are two of the 12 inductees in the 2022 class to the Pac-12 Hall of Honor. The 2022 class is the 20th since the Pac-12 Hall of Honor was created in 2022. One...