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UCLA's Chase and Ryder Dodd: Play the Best to Be the Best Over the last decade, the UCLA men’s water polo team has routinely made early season visits East. But this year’s cross-country trip was something special, even for the nation’s top ranked team and defending NCAA champions. They came to New Y...

Ferencvaros Head Coach Balazs Nyeki: “We Want to be the Best” A few days after its historic match in New York City against Pro Recco, Ferencvaros coach Balazs Nyeki was still excited by his team’s win as well as their visit to the U.S. Speaking on the pool deck at Princeton University, where his tea...

Water Polo Match to Remember Closes Out Pro Recco 2025 World Tour In a fitting finish to two weeks of lavish, Euro-style treatment of the continent’s best professional water polo clubs, Pro Recco, the world’s most celebrated team, dropped a thrilling 16-14 (penalties) decision to Ferencvaros, reigni...

Pros vs. College Kids Brought Attention to New York City Water Polo Last night, Asphalt Green played host for the first of two evenings of high-quality water polo. As hoped, it was an entertaining—if one-sided—extravaganza, as Pro Recco, the world’s most recognizable water polo club, headlined a sla...

Asphalt Green's David Rodriguez Has High Hopes for Water Polo Growth in NYC On Wednesday night, history will be made at Asphalt Green (AG) on New York City’s Upper East Side. Two professional water polo clubs—Italy’s Pro Recco, whose 11 Champions League titles make it the world’s best, and Ferencvar...

European Water Polo Royalty Set for Big Apple Appearance The biggest water polo extravaganza in (recent) New York City history is on! Tomorrow night, Asphalt Green, New York City’s premier aquatic facility, will host matches between professional water polo clubs Pro Recco of Italy and Ferencvaros of...

USA Water Polo Selecting Jamie Davis, of USA Volleyball, as New CEO For just the second time in two decades, USA Water Polo, the national governing body for the sport in the United States, is hiring a new CEO. After 18 years—currently the longest tenure of any NGB leader in the country—Chris Ramsey ...

As U.S. Women's Water Polo Seeks Another Gold, Change is Part of the Game A quick scan of the U.S. Olympic Women's Water Polo Team roster for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris is disorienting. Not only is Makenzie Fischer not among the final group announced last week; her sister Aria is not listed eit...

Cal Sweeps Cutino Awards: Nikolaos Papanikolaou, Isabel Williams Top Collegiate Water Polo Athletes The Olympic Club in downtown San Francisco turned into a hometown hootenanny as the local Cal Golden Bears swept the awards for the best male and female water polo players in collegiate play.  In capt...

A Look at the Cutino Finalists For College Water Polo Players of the Year The 2023-24 Cutino Award finalists for the top collegiate men and women water polo athletes in America are in. Like the NCAA men’s and women’s finals, this year’s Cutino prospects are a replay of Cal versus UCLA matchups with ...

Taylor Swift Show Gives U.S. Women's Water Polo a Sneak Peek of Paris Olympics Venue What happens when you put Paris, the U.S. national women’s water polo team and mega pop superstar Taylor Swift together? A night to remember for all and perhaps a precursor to what may be Olympic history. Earlier th...

It’s on! Competition for the 2024 NCAA Women’s Championship opens May 9, with all matches to be held at Spieker Aquatics Center at the University of California, Berkeley. On Monday all nine spots for NCAAs were confirmed after months of fierce competition.  Six berths were decided by last weekend’s ...

Freshman Goalie Lauren Steele Has Had Immediate Impact for Top-Ranked UCLA Women's Water Polo Reading through the women’s water polo stat sheet from the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, few UCLA players’ names appear. Not in the lists for goals or assists or points, stats you might assume tell a ...

Princeton Rallies for 2024 CWPA Women’s Water Polo Title On Houlahan’s Last-Minute Goal With a 10-9 win over Michigan yesterday at Harvard’s Blodgett Pool, Princeton women’s water polo captured their second-straight Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) title and their sixth title in program hist...

As NCAA Women's Water Polo Tourney Nears, There's Jockeying For Postseason Momentum Is it possible that one of the Big Four does not qualify for this year’s NCAA Women’s Tournament? It happened in 2016 when Cal didn’t make the cut. Barring a major upset—Hawai’i losing early in the Big West tournamen...

In a typical year, it would be obvious who the top contenders are for the best female collegiate water polo player in America. The criterion is usually: Are they on a top four (or five) team in the CWPA rankings? Is their team a legitimate contender for an NCAA title?  Do they play for Stanford? I m...

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 ...

For Now, Wagner Claims New York Water Polo Bragging Rights With Win Over LIU BROOKLYN, NY. In a rematch of last year’s Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference women’s water polo championship final, Wagner College, for a decade the MAAC’s top team, crossed the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge from Staten Island t...

An Interview With UCI Water Polo Coach Dan Klatt; Compassion a Hallmark of Veteran Leader IRVINE, CA. Water polo will never be mistaken for a kumbaya-kind of athletic experience. It’s physically and emotionally draining. But those who care most about the sport—especially coaches—have tremendous comp...

Unbeaten UCLA Remains Atop College Women's Water Polo Poll; Hawaii Holds at No. 2 The Collegiate Water Polo Association poll for women’s varsity play has not seen much change these past few weeks, especially at the top. UCLA, Hawai’i, Stanford, Cal and USC have been in roughly the same spots for a m...