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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...

World Aquatics to Debut 4x4 Water Polo Format in September World Aquatics last week announced plans to debut a new 4x4 water polo format starting in September. The format, branded as WP4, will include four players per team on a smaller field of play and a shorter shot clock. It follows a trend with ...

Olympian Jordan Raney Joins Harvard Women’s Water Polo Staff Harvard’s women’s water polo team hired U.S. Olympian Jordan Raney as an assistant coach on Tuesday. Raney joins the staff of coach Ted Minnis. Raney was a member of the U.S. women’s team that finished fourth at the 2024 Olympics in Paris....

Hall of Fame Player Merrill Moses Promoted to Pepperdine Water Polo Head Coach Merrill Moses, a Hall of Fame player and the associate head coach of Pepperdine men’s water polo program, has been promoted to the top job. Moses will replace his mentor, Terry Schroeder, who will transition to an associa...

5 Games To Make Swim Practice Fun By Lucas Draper Before I start this article, I want to preface this by saying that I know sports and swim practice, especially at a competitive level, aren’t meant to be fun and games all the time. We work hard every day, striving to improve all areas of our perform...

Unbeaten UCLA Stays Atop Women's Water Polo Poll; LMU Makes Big Jump The past two weeks, a number of teams have faced conference opponents in matches with postseason implications. Nowhere more significant was the contest between Fresno State and Loyola Marymount on March 23. Picked #1 and #2 in the ...

Los Angeles 2028 Aquatics Schedule: Triathlon Gets First Medals, Water Polo Gets Early Start The schedule for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics dropped on Wednesday, 975 days away from the Opening Ceremony on July 14, 2028. It gives athletes aspiring to the games concrete targets to aim at, and can help...

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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 ...

Alvaro Granados, Foteini Tricha Named World Aquatics Water Polo Players of the Year Spain’s Alvaro Granados and Foteini Tricha of Greece were named World Aquatics’ Water Polo Players of the Year this week. Both players led their teams to gold medals at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singap...

Ryder Dodd, Robert Lopez-Duart, Mihailo Vukazic Named Cutino Award Finalists UCLA’s Ryder Dodd and the USC duo of Robert Lopez-Duart and Mihailo Vukazic were named finalists Tuesday for the Cutino Award by the Olympic Club in San Francisco. Dodd won the award last year. Vukazic was a finalist last y...

Fortuitous Path Has Made Greg Mescall the Voice of Water Polo One part of Greg Mescall’s dual career path had been ingrained from a young age. The second came by random chance early in that professional career. Mescall has always been drawn to sports and to their presentation. He was the kid that wo...

Tonight, October 19th, the Women's Sports Foundation held their 37th Women's Sport Federation Annual Salute where water polo's own Ashleigh Johnson was crowned Sportswoman of the Year in the team category. Johnson, a native of Miami, FL, was a key member of the USA women's water polo team at the 201...

By Rachel Andersen, Swimming World College Intern. As the water polo season rises into full swing, players and coaches alike will begin to be bombarded by the same question from friends and family alike: What is water polo? Whether you are new to the game or just curious about that strange sport in ...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor The 2016 men’s water polo season was filled with ebbs and twists—but in the end order was restored with the University of California capturing back-to-back overtime wins over higher ranked opponents on its way to a record 14th NCAA title. It’s a title ...

By Jennifer Yoo, Swimming World College Intern. The only people who can truly understand the ins and outs of a sport are the people directly involved. Many people only associate swimming with the Olympics yet don’t see the daily struggles and satisfying moments that swimmers share with their team an...

The Best American Men's Water Polo Players of the NCAA Era (Part II: No. 20 to No. 11) By Jeff Moulton In Part II of this three-part series, water polo expert Jeff Moulton discusses the individuals he has ranked No. 11 to 20 in his unofficial list of the top-25 American men’s water polo players of t...

While the in-pool competition ended last week, the second week of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games still brought plenty of action across diving, water polo, and open water events, not to mention a fair bit of controversy away from the pool. Get up to speed on all of the events from this past week by readi...

Did anyone foresee the surprising success of the University of California Santa Barbara’s men’s water polo varsity, 2019 edition? Ranked #7 in NCAA preseason polls, Coach Wolf Wigo’s Gauchos broke out of the gates with 15 straight victories, including wins over California, USC and Stanford, and for ...