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STANFORD, CA. Last weekend saw brilliant action at the 2019 NCAA Women’s Water Polo Tournament. For the first time in the almost two-decade history of the women’s national championship, both semifinals went to overtime, with USC overcoming Cal 10-8 and Stanford surviving a scare from UCLA to prevail...

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....

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. Munatones' son Skyler is a junior playing for the UC San Diego men's water polo team. While UCLA (11 NCAA tit...

Adam Wright is one of America's best coaches, and his approach to his UCLA men’s and women’s teams, as well as the health of the sport in the U.S., is both frank and refreshing. Much has been written about his career playing for the U.S. Senior Men’s National Team—participating in three Olympics, an...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor As the water polo community looks forward to a new year, Swimming World takes a look back at the top five events in men’s water polo for 2018. The only major championship this season was the 33rd LEN European Water Polo Championships in Barcelona, wo...

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...

In a massive indictment—dubbed "Operation Varsity Blues"—involving more than 60 federal agents and as many as 50 defendants including USC Water Polo Coach Jovan Vavic, the United States Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts charged William "Rick" Singer, a college adviser to the rich and famous, and ot...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor PALO ALTO, CA. Three years after Johnny Hooper led his Santa Barbara “Polo Pals” to the 2015 18U title, the “Cozy Boys” of United Water Polo—another all-star team of friends made through various U.S. national team training programs—held on for a 9-7 wi...

Day One of NCAA men’s varsity conference tournament play went almost entirely as expected, with a couple of upset wins and a few close calls by favored teams. In the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF), both Cal—the tournament’s number 3 seed—and UCLA, which is #4, advanced easily. After #5 Pe...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Earlier today The Olympic Club in San Francisco announced three finalists for this year's Peter J. Cutino award. As is often the case with an honor of this magnitude—selecting the year's top male collegiate water polo player—intrigue swirls around who ...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Last weekend the 2018 season for men’s water polo season started off with a bang! At the Bruno Classic, Harvard, #9 in the latest Collegiate Water Polo Association’s Poll, upset #11 UC Davis, winning 15-14. It was a back-and-forth affair, punctuated by...

In a season of unprecedented tumult, with includes the almost-inconceivable firing of USC Head Coach Jovan Vavic, it should come as little surprise that there is corresponding turmoil in the Collegiate Water Polo Association’s Top-25 poll—specifically the nation’s top ten teams. The biggest change i...

Diabetes Didn’t Stop Grayden Reynolds From Fulfilling His Potential; It’s What Got Him There On the surface, Grayden Reynolds, a junior on USC’s perennial national championship-contending water polo team, is an enigma. His role on the team is a cross between Tim Riggins and the Dos Equis man. Even b...

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.....

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...

Editor’s Note: Jovan Vavic, former USC head men’s and women’s water polo coach, will be arraigned today in federal court in Boston, MA on criminal racketeering charges, in connection with the massive Varsity Blues scandal that has rocked America’s higher education system. Vavic remains the biggest c...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor After marching unopposed this season to 17 wins, on Saturday in Palo Alto USC ran into a determined Stanford squad, which claimed a 13-11 decision over the nation's top-ranked squad. The host Cardinal, which at one point enjoyed a five-goal advantage b...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor As an annual gathering of the nation’s best men’s water polo teams, there’s nothing that can top the MPSF Invitational, which kicks off later today at Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center with a match between the top-seeded Trojans (18-1) and #16 Air Force ...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Editor’s Note: Last weekend, Swimming World spoke twice with Adam Wright, head coach for the men’s and women’s water polo teams at UCLA: the Friday before a 2017 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament semifinal match against Pacific—an 11-9 win for the Bruin...