Steve Munatones - (Author)

Over the years, I have attended numerous awards ceremonies from the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame induction ceremonies and the Catalina Channel Swimming Federation banquet to the Golden Goggle Awards and high school and university season-ending celebrations. Last (week) was the 20th G...

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Micha Shaw won the USA Swimming national open water swimming championships in 2008, qualifying for the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim qualification race. She upset eventual two-time Olympian Chloe Sutton and a number of other top American swimming stars in...

UC Davis lost a game to its rival UC San Diego during this summer's USA Water Polo Senior National Championships and its first two games against the Tritons earlier in the season, but UC Davis coach Dan Leyson was looking at the long run. By the time the Western Water Polo Association (WWPA) confere...

Friday was the first day of a long conference championship weekend that will result in conference champions crowned and NCAA qualifiers decided across the country. From the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, Golden Coast Conference, Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and the W...

40 years ago, UC Santa Barbara won its only NCAA water polo championship on the backs of its outstanding goalie Craig Wilson and All-American high scorers Greg Boyer and John Dobrott. The 1979 season was a perfect storm for UCSB that resulted in a national championship. After a tie with Stanford in ...

Johnny Hooper of Cal Berkeley is up for this year’s Peter J. Cutino Award for the best collegiate water polo player along with Stanford’s Ben Hallock and UCLA goalie Alex Wolf.  The three players have long played with and against each other throughout their water polo careers, and all three will be ...

Ben Hallock is up for this year’s Peter J. Cutino Award for the best collegiate water polo player along with Cal Berkeley attacker Johnny Hooper and UCLA goalie Alex Wolf, two players who he has long played with and against throughout his water polo career. [On Deck With UCLA Water Polo's Alex Wolf]...

Swimming World spoke with Alex Wolf about his water polo career starting at Huntington Beach Water Polo Club and Huntington Beach High School as well as at UCLA and Team USA

By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Contributor Editor’s Note: Steven Munatones is the founder of the World Open Water Swimming Association and the Daily News of Open Water Swimming. After each college water polo game and after morning workouts at some high schools, Team Moms go in overdrive...

By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Contributor Editor’s Note: Steven Munatones is the founder of the World Open Water Swimming Association and the Daily News of Open Water Swimming. Munatones' son Skyler is a junior playing for the UC San Diego men's water polo team. While UCLA (11 NCAA tit...

By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Contributor Editor's Note: Steven Munatones is the founder of the World Open Water Swimming Association and the Daily News of Open Water Swimming. With over 40,000 commercial swimming pools throughout the state of California, the landscape is dotted with ...