San Francisco, Calif., June 11, 2002—USA Water Polo national team players Coralie Simmons (2001), Brenda Villa (2002), and Tony Azevedo (2001) were all honored as the recipients of the sport’s

CANBERRA, Australia, June 12. DETAILS are lacking at the moment, but reports from several reliable sources indicate that Genadi Touretski, the brilliant Russian coach who works at the Australian Institute

Los Alamitos, Calif., June 10, 2002—The U.S. women’s team will be taking on 2001 World Champion Italy in a pair of exhibition games at the USA Water Polo National Aquatic

CHARLOTTE, NC, June 9. NATALIE Coughlin ought to put in for a raise from her coach, Teri McKeever. Swimming her fourth and fifth individual races over the Charlotte UltraSwim Invitational's

RALEIGH, North Carolina, June 10. KLETE Keller (Olympic bronze and silver medalist) and Nate Dusing (Olympic silver medalist) turned professional today, signing with Premier Management Group (PMG), an agency exclusively

CANET, FRANCE, June 9. MEMO to Big Foot: Remember that little round golden object you failed to get a couple of Septembers ago at some minor meet in Sydney? Well,

By Phillip Whitten SHREVEPORT, LA., June 10. CENTENARY COLLEGE in Shreveport, LA., will be adding men’s and women’s swim teams starting next fall. The addition of swimming to the athletic

CHARLOTTE, NC, June 8. PSSSST, don't breathe a word of this to anyone, but Wonder Woman Natalie Coughlin is eminently beatable. In the finals of the 400 free this evening

CANET, FRANCE, June 8. SLOVAKIA'S Martina Moravcova, looking more and more like one of the favorites in next month's freestyle sprints at the European Championships in Berlin, won her third

MECKLENBURG, NC, June 7. SHE'S been THE dominant American woman swimmer the past two years. She's six-for-six at the last two NCAA Division 1 Championships. During this year's meet she