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Editor's Note: Swimming World was stationed pool-side for the entire week of men's and women's water polo competition at the 2019 Pan American Games. For Team USA and Canadian water polo watchers, the...

LIMA, PERU. Of the many different water polo teams that participated at the 2019 Pan American Games, Cuba's program offered perhaps the most potential. A once-dominant program—in 1991 Cuban men's polo...

Tragedy again struck Gwangju, South Korea and the 2019 FINA World Aquatics Championships. Saturday night in a 70+ masters water polo match between the Blue Thunder Masters Polo Team from Southern Cali...

LIMA, PERU. It was one of the greatest upsets in Olympic men's water polo history. Brazil—playing in the Olympics for the first time in 32 years—beat Serbia, the soon to be Gold medalists, in group pl...

LIMA, PERU. With the 2019 Pan American Games involving so many nations from all over North and South America, unexpected pairings have resulted—some out of convenience, others out of necessity. This i...

LIMA, PERU. The difference in skills and experience was vast among the 16 teams assembled for men's and water polo at the the 2019 Pan American Games. At the top were the Americans—double gold medalis...

LIMA, PERU. After all the planning and effort and anxiety that go into an Olympic qualification, in the end the USA men’s water polo team passed their biggest test with flying colors. Racing out to a ...

LIMA, PERU. After a handful of matches against decidedly inferior opponents, the USA women’s water polo team had Canada, a top-ten opponent, opposite them in the gold-medal match of the 2019 Pan Ameri...

LIMA, PERU. On a day when the USA women’s water polo team captured its 58th-straight victory, it was Canadians who wept tears of joy at their regional rival's 31-7 semifinal win over Cuba. That’s beca...

LIMA, PERU. Saturday evening at the Villa Maria del Triunfo Aquatics Complex dreams, desires and anxieties will overlap when Canada faces the USA in the men’s water polo final. This is not merely a ga...

LIMA, PERU. Saturday at the Villa Maria del Triunfo Aquatics Complex, the American and Canadian men’s and women’s water polo teams will meet for gold in both finals at the 2019 Pan American Games. The...

LINA, PERU. Boris Margeta is perhaps the most experienced water polo referee patrolling the pool decks at the 2019 Pan American Games. A veteran of multiple Olympic Games as well as World Championship...

LIMA, PERU. The USA women were in a tough spot. Playing in a quarterfinal water polo match at the 2019 Pan American Games—a day after they gave their Olympic goalie field practice as a hedge against i...

LIMA, PERU. The ultimate water polo opportunity—an Olympic berth—is now within grasp for four men’s teams at the 2019 Pan American Games. The question now is: who will seize the moment, win gold and q...

LIMA, PERU. In a country with virtually no history of water polo success, Augusto Otero is an important and influential outlier for Peru. Stumbling on the sport when he was 11, Otero has persevered, r...

LIMA, PERU. Day Three of the 2019 Pan American Games was good all-around for the U.S. men’s and women’s national water polo teams, as both captured the top spots in their respective groups by virtue o...

LIMA, PERU. It was an unusual, though not unprecedented scenario: Ashleigh Johnson, arguable the world’s best female goal keeper, switched caps and jump into the water as a field player against Venezu...

LIMA, PERU. For a brief moment, it appeared that the American women’s squad, overwhelming favorites for gold at the 2019 Pan American Games, might have found a worthy opponent. Brazil, backstopped by ...

LIMA, PERU. On Day Two of the 2019 Pan American Games, what at one point looked to be a blowout for the U.S. men’s water polo team turned into a dogfight late against a scrappy Canadian side. Thanks t...

LIMA, PERU. The U.S. men’s water polo team opened up the defense of their Pan American Games title with a decisive 21-6 thumping of Cuba on the first day of men’s and women’s water polo play at Villa ...