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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...

Carsten Vissering, Former Northwestern Diver Finish in Top 20 of Olympic Bobsled Former USC swimmer Carsten Vissering made his Olympic debut on Saturday and finished 11th in the men’s four-man bobsled Sunday at the Milan Cortina Olympics. Vissering, a Pac-12 champion in breaststroke and an NCAA rela...

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 ...

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...

Reed Malone, a two-time NCAA champion at USC and a long-time member of the U.S. national team, announced his retirement last week. Malone made the announcement via Instagram, months before he was due to compete at his third U.S. Olympic Trials. View this post on Instagram ...

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...

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...

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...

USC Removes Interim Tag on Lea Maurer as Head Coach Lea Maurer, who served as USC’s men’s and women’s swimming head coach last season on an interim basis, has had that tag removed, the school announced Friday. Maurer is the first female coach to lead the combined men’s and women’s program at USC. Th...

Rex Maurer's Dream NCAAs Cause of Celebration for USC coach Lea Maurer There were no USC swimmers in the fastest heat of the 1,650 freestyle at the NCAA Men’s Championships Saturday night. You wouldn’t know that if your eyes were fixed on coach Lea Maurer and Trojans fifth-year Luke Maurer. Planted ...

Peter Richardson Returns to Arizona as Associate Head Coach Peter Richardson was hired late last week by Arizona as an associate head coach, returning to the program he was at from 2019-22 for new coach Ben Loorz. Richardson guided the distance program over that time before heading across the Pac-12...

Fordham Adds Olympic Trials Qualifier Harry Homans as Assistant Coach Fordham on Tuesday hired former USC swimmer Harry Homans as an assistant coach to Tom Wilkens. A native of Barrington, R.I., Homans completed his career at USC for four seasons after starting at the University of Georgia in 2019-2...

In a statement released today by USC Athletics, Marko Pintaric, who starred for USC as a player and then served for 18 season as an assistant to former head coach Jovan Vavic, has been named head coach for both the Trojan men and women. "After conducting a national coaching search, it was evide...

By Danielle Repper, Swimming World College Intern The Bruins and the Trojans battled on the boards, Friday, February 12 at the Spieker Aquatics Center. The first event was the 3 meter competition. The points separating the divers between first and sixth place were close.  Madison Witt, freshman dive...

The UC Santa Barbara men’s water polo team was one of the enduring stories for 2019. A program record 16-match winning streak to open the season included wins in consecutive weeks against the nation’s #1 team. That success pushed the Gauchos to the top of the CWPA rankings for the first time ever. [...

CAMBRIDGE, MA. Behind an inspired performance from freshman goalie Adrien Touzot and an offensive explosion by senior Rade Joksimovic, Bucknell, the Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference (MAWPC) champions, came to Blodgett Pool and shocked host Harvard 13-12 in an NCAA play-in game, ending the Crimson'...

Agon is the proud sponsor of all high school coverage (recruiting, results, state championships, etc.) on SwimmingWorld.com. For more information about Agon, visit their website Agonswim.com. Tim Wynter of the Jamaican National Team has committed to join the USC Trojans this fall. Wynter is one of J...

Who Makes the Mount Rushmore of NCAA Division I Swimming? If there were a sculpture made of the top NCAA Division I swimmers similar to the one depicting the four U.S. Presidents on Mount Rushmore, Tracy Caulkins, Natalie Coughlin, Pablo Morales and John Naber would be worthy honorees. No other U.S....

In 2019 NCAA Men's Water Polo Tournament action Thursday at Pacific’s Chris Kjeldsen Pool, third-seeded Pepperdine and #4 USC won and advanced to the semifinals, to be held Saturday. The Waves, appearing in the national championship for the first time in two decades, rode a six-goal explosion by Chr...