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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 ...

After a season of streaks, upsets, and tremendous promise, the UC Santa Barbara men's water polo team now has a major distraction to overcome on the way to perhaps its first national championship tournament in three decades: the NCAA. Sanctions that were leveled earlier this week have focused unwant...

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 ...

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...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada. May 27. HE'S BAAAAAAcK! Former USC NCAA champ Lenny Krayzelburg, who owns world records in the 50-100-200 meter backstrokes but hadn't swum competitively since winning a trio of gold medals at the Olympics in Sydney last September, made his 2001 debut her...

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...

Pac-12 Men's Championships: Arizona State Sets NCAA Record in 200 Medley Relay (Video) The final Pac-12 Championships are here, as the men will take the conference’s bows at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center starting Wednesday. It may well be a championship swansong, in the final conferenc...

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...

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...

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...

With yet another big win—Saturday over USC in Stockton, California—the University of Pacific [UOP] has emerged as the biggest current threat to decades of Pac12 dominance of NCAA men's water polo. The 12-11 win at Chris Kjeldsen Pool, the Tigers' second over the Trojans this season and fourth over a...

BY Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor In a nod to the necessity of the netminder, Princeton’s Ashleigh Johnson and USC’s McQuin Baron were recipients of the 2017 Peter J. Cutino Award Saturday night at The Olympic Club in San Francisco. Named for the deceased University of California Berke...

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 ...

Canadian World Junior Champion Jade Hannah Transfers to LSU Canadian international Jade Hannah is transferring from USC to LSU, she announced via social media this week. Hannah spent her freshman year in Southern California, where she finished eighth in the 200 backstroke at the Pac-12 Championships...

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...

Defending conference champion and NCAA runner-up USC placed on top of the 2020 MPSF Women’s Water Polo Coaches’ poll, collecting 33 points and four first-place votes. Winners of four of the last seven conference titles, the Trojans return senior All-Americans Denise Mammolito (29 goals) and Kelsey M...

The 2025 Big Ten Women's Swimming and Diving Championships continued on Friday from McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion on the campus of Ohio State University. The Day 3 prelims consisted of the 100 butterfly, 400 IM, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke and 100 backstroke before the afternoon 3-meter diving sessi...