Jamie Kolar - (Author)

As fallout from the coronavirus outbreak stretches from days to weeks, the desire for what comes next—when it's again safe to congregate—is that much stronger. That includes water polo; all play is suspended and major tournaments like the national Junior Olympics, the world's biggest youth water pol...

In tangible proof that silver linings remain despite a sports blackout imposed by health concerns as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, today USA Water Polo announced the 2020 class of honorees for its Hall of Fame: Olympians Gavin Arroyo, Kelly Rulon and Elsie Windes, water polo executive Bruce ...

With much of the sporting world shut down due to the coronavirus outbreak, Swimming World continues to reach out to those areas struggling against what the World Health Organization (WHO) has now labeled a pandemic. In the past week, Spain has seen a spike in Covid-19 infections, with Wednesday's co...

Earlier this week the Olympic Club affirmed that the Cutino Awards ceremony honoring the top male and female intercollegiate water polo athletes is still scheduled to take place on the first weekend in June. But, like everything in these challenging times, the status of the most prestigious individu...

https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/ivy-league-to-cancel-all-athletic-events-through-remainder-of-spring/Wednesday offered a stunning development in American intercollegiate sports. For the first time in memory, an athletic conference voted to shut down the seasons of multiple schools due to...

In an unprecedented chain reaction to the impact of the novel coronavirus on American sporting life, today, the presidents of universities in some of the nation's largest and most prestigious athletic conferences voted to suspend the remainder of their respective seasons, including a currently conte...

Following a period of uncertainty, as sports entities as diverse of La Liga in Spain, the Ivy League athletics conference in the U.S., LEN in Europe and even the National Basketball Association (NBA) announced postponements or cancellation of athletic events, earlier today FINA confirmed what most k...

In the latest development of the fast-moving coronavirus crisis in the United States, due to the dangers posed by Covid-19 the presidents of the eight Northeastern institutions that constitute the Ivy League voted earlier today to cancel all athletic competition in their spring sports for the remain...

Water polo—a sport relatively unknown in America and one difficult for the uninitiated to comprehend—inspires tremendous loyalty among those who play it. Count Leonardo Ruzzante, a teenager eager to pursue his passion wherever it leads, as one who has caught the polo “bug.” That includes relocating ...

Almost two months into the NCAA varsity women's water polo season, individual conference play moves front and center. The six conferences that will send teams to the national championship—The Big West, the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA), the Golden Coast Conference (GCC), the Metro Atlanti...

Mount St. Mary's Director of Athletics Lynne Robinson announced today that The Mount has selected Alyssa Diacono to lead their brand new men's and women's water polo program. "We are thrilled to announce Alyssa Diacono as the head men's and women's water polo coach at Mount St. Mary's University." R...

Given the new national championship format in place for DIII women's water polo programs—on May 9 and 10 four teams will compete for the DIII Collegiate National Women's Water Polo Championship, sponsored by the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA), the Southern California Intercollegiate Athlet...

MIAMI, FL. The high school girls water polo scene in the Magic City presents a mixture of possibilities, with Ransom Everglades, the 2019 Florida state champions, the favorite to win a second-straight FHSAA title—unless Hialeah, the 2018 champs, can overcome a coaching change and significant losses ...

The postponement last week of the Women’s Olympic Water Polo Qualifier—scheduled for March 8 - 15 in Trieste, Italy, but now postponed to May 17-24—continued a pattern of athletic event disruption by the novel coronavirus, which has infected 90,000 people world-wide, and claimed 3,000 lives. [FINA P...

Acknowledging the inherent threat posed by COVID-19, the novel coronavirus that has sickened thousands worldwide and claimed almost three thousand lives, USA Water Polo, the leading voice for water polo in America, issued a statement to USAWP membership regarding the disease’s potential impact on th...

In contrast to a blogosphere super-charged by statements yesterday from Dick Pound—a senior International Olympic Committee (IOC) member who suggested that the 2020 Tokyo Olympics may prove too dangerous to hold—Andrey Kryukov has provided Swimming World with an exclusive behind-the-scenes look into...

This is the Barbara Kalbus Invitational edition of the Collegiate Water Polo Association Top-25 poll. Swimming World includes final results from the just-completed tournament in UC Irvine. As the biggest non-conference tournament in the women’s season—with all of the nation’s top ten teams included ...

PRINCETON, NJ. The relationship between player and coach can be both rewarding and challenging. Establishing common ground is not always easy—especially when considering the outsized influence of a previous coach. And then, the player becomes a coach in their own right, and the impact of lessons lea...

Minnesota is not the first place that comes to mind when considering outstanding women's water polo programs. But one of country's best Division III programs is located at Macalester College, a small, liberal arts institution in St. Paul. The Scots have recently dominated competition in the ten-scho...

In years past, teams from the Collegiate Water Polo Association’s Division III conference—a collection of ten schools from the East and Midwest divided over two brackets—had no shot at a national championship. The best that Connecticut College, Grove City, Penn State Behrend, Utica, and Washington &...