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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...

USC's Minna Abraham Withdraws from Big Ten Championships Citing 'Personal Reasons' USC's Minna Abraham will not be competing at the Big Ten Championships alongside her Trojan teammates. The school announced the withdrawal on social media, with a message from Abraham citing "personal reasons." ...

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...

From Water to Ice, Carsten Vissering Set to Realize His Olympic Dream With the Winter Olympics beginning today in Milan/Cortina, Swimming World chatted with USC former breaststroke star Carsten Vissering, who will represent Team USA in bobsled. Carsten Vissering’s dreams still bring him back to the ...

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 ...

The 2025 Big Ten Women's Swimming and Diving Championships kicked off on Wednesday night from McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion on the campus of Ohio State University. The first night consisted of the 200-yard medley relay and the 800 free relay. Here is a look at what happened on night one: Big Ten Women's...

USC Wins Crosstown Showdown Behind Justina Kozan's Double Victories The USC women's swimming and diving team defeated UCLA 174-126 in the Crosstown Showdown on Friday, Jan. 30. Justina Kozan won the 200-yard butterfly to lead the Trojans with a swim of 1:55.92. She also won the 200 IM in 1:54.32, ho...

Junior National Finalist Charlotte Milkie Verbally Commits to USC for 2027 NEW COMMIT: Riverside, Calif. native Charlotte Milkie has elected to remain in-state for her college career, having announced her verbal commitment to the University of Southern California for Fall 2027. Milkie is a U.S. Open...

Australian Olympic hopeful Nioka Thomas plans to embark on a grand adventure in the United States. Starting next fall, the 12th year high school water polo player from Meriden School will join the women’s polo program at the University of California Irvine. A member of the Aussie Stingers’ junior na...

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....

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...

By Ailish Dougherty, Swimming World College Intern. Every swimmer has heard the words "Go warm yourself up!" at any given meet at least once in their careers. And every swimmer has probably felt the ensuing dread that comes when having to figure out how to properly get themselves ready to race fast....

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...

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...

The USC men's swimming and diving team won 15 of 16 events to defeat UNLV 200-61 on Friday, Feb. 6, in the regular-season finale. The Trojans started with Michal Chmielewski, Junhao Chan, Jan Bialecki and Oliver Sogaard-Andersen winning the 200-yard medley relay. Thomas Olsen took the 1000 freestyle...

By Seren Jones, Swimming World College Intern. Who is Mark Schubert? Built a reputation as one of America's most prestigious coaches over the past five decades. Held head coaching positions at USC, the University of Texas, and served as the US National Team Director. An eight-time Olympic coach who ...

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...

CAMBRIDGE, MA. Saturday in Blodgett Pool, plucky Bucknell and host Harvard competed in a winner take-all match, in this case a play-in game for the 2019 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament. It ended as a most memorable day in recent Bucknell men’s water polo—and one most devastating for Harvard, seekin...

The Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) releases the Men’s Varsity National Top 20, Division III Top 10, Northeast Water Polo Conference (NEWPC) Top Five and Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference (MAWPC) Top Five Week 8/October 25 Polls for the 2017 season. The University of Southern California re...

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...