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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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Gergo Zalanki is Hungary's Hammer as Pursuit of Olympic Water Polo Gold Begins A new year brings a new quest for Hungarian water polo player Gergo Zalanki, the Swimming World 2023 Male Water Polo Player of the Year. For Zalanki, a 28 year-old left-hander who also plays professionally for Pro Recco, ...

The 2025 USA Water Polo National League Championship concludes today at Mt. San Antonio College, featuring an exciting matchup between undefeated Mission and a star-studded Los Angeles Athletic Club lineup. With Olympic veterans and future stars in the pool, today’s championship game at 3:00 PM PT w...

Passages: Colleen Lischwe, Water Polo Coach at McKendree University, 34 Colleen Lischwe, the head men’s and women’s water polo coach at McKendree University, died Wednesday in an automobile accident. She was 34 years old. The university confirmed the death on Thursday. Lischwe was named the head coa...

IOC Approves Gender Parity for Water Polo Teams at LA 2028 Olympics The International Olympic Committee’s approval of sports and quota spots for the LA 2028 Olympics on Wednesday included parity in the number of water polo teams competing. For the first time in Olympic history, the Los Angeles Games...

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...

The Top-25 American Men's Water Polo Players of the NCAA Era (No. 21-No. 25) By Jeff Moulton Before his untimely death in a bicycle accident in October 2022, Hall of Fame coach Dante Dettamanti and I often discussed American water polo players, coaches, and teams of the past and present. These discu...

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...

Pushing Forward: The Antifragile Identity of Jordan Raney In three articles released by both USA Water Polo and On Her Turf, USA Women’s Water Polo athlete, Jordan Raney, has been featured as one of the most dedicated teammates. She has bravely shared her story and provided a first-hand perspective ...

St. Francis Brooklyn to Drop All Sports Programs, Including Swimming, Water Polo St. Francis College in Brooklyn announced on Monday it will drop all collegiate athletics at the end of the spring semester. It includes the school’s men’s and women’s swimming and men’s and women’s water polo programs....

A Look at Advancements in the Water Polo World Men’s Water Polo was the first Olympic team sport at the 1900 Games. Since then, tradition has long since dominated the sport, though in different regions the game adapted in different ways. Play itself has changed little.  In the late 19th century, the...

Three-Time Olympic Water Polo Player Kaleigh Gilchrist Retires Kaleigh Gilchrist, a two-time gold medalist and three-time Olympian for the U.S. women’s water polo team, announced her retirement on Thursday. The 32-year-old made the announcement on social media. She helped the U.S. win gold medals at...