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With yet another big win—Saturday over USC in Stockton, California—the University of Pacific [UOP] has emerged as the biggest current threat to decades of Pac12 dominance of NCAA men's water polo. The...

PRINCETON, NJ. Following a tough 13-5 loss to Princeton on the road—a match moved from Brooklyn Heights due to a faulty heater in the St. Francis Brooklyn pool—Terrier Will Lapkin met up with his long...

For this weekend's home coming celebration in Thousand Oaks, Cal Lutheran will honor Justin Meek, a former player for the Kingsmen who was heroically killed in the Borderline Shootings last year. Head...

For the first time in weeks, there’s relative stability at the top of the Collegiate Water Polo Association Top 20 poll. Stanford, UCLA and Pacific remained in the top three spots; leapfrogging UC San...

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, NY. It's been a banner season so far for the St. Francis Brooklyn men's water polo team. With an 11-4 record—3-1 in Northeast Water Polo Conference (NWPC) play—so far in 2019, the Te...

For the first time since 2017, when the FINA Women’s Water Polo World League Intercontinental Tournament was held in Davis, California, the United States will be the site of a major international wate...

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, NY. St. Francis College of Brooklyn bills itself as a “The Small College of Big Dreams.” Over a weekend of men’s water polo play against Northeast Water Polo Conference (NWPC) oppone...

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, NY. This Saturday marked the start of conference play for all six members of the Northeast Water Polo Conference (NWPC). A key feature in the opening of conference play are matches a...

BRONX. NY. The compelling water polo news out of California—where UC Santa Barbara and Pacific have made claim to territory traditionally occupied by the Big Four—should not overshadow the story of Ge...

The MPSF Invitational—also known as the SoCal Invitational—has been a reliable measure of which of the Big Four, as Cal, Stanford, UCLA and USC are collectively identified, is the top dog in the Mount...

Stanford's 13-9 win over Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) and Pac12 rival UCLA in the 2019 MPSF Invitational final was sweet for the Cardinal—especially in the Bruins' home pool at Spieker Aq...

On a rare rainy day in Southern California, the men’s water polo action in the Spieker Aquatics Center pool was anything but tepid, with a number of compelling matches taking place on Day Two of the 2...

The opening day of competition at the 2019 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Invitational saw no upsets as all the higher seeded teams advanced to second round action Saturday at UCLA's Spieke...

Starting today is the most important of the non-conference men's water polo tournaments: the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Invitational. Or, if you like, the Socal Invitational, as UCLA—one of tw...

If you're a water polo fan and haven't heard about the UC Santa Barbara men's water polo team, the appropriate response is: Where have you been?! The Gauchos are off to the best start in an illustriou...

Following a stretch in which they knocked off two number one teams, this week the Gauchos of UC Santa Barbara ascended to the top of the Collegiate Water Polo Association’s Top 20. This is almost cert...

BROOKLYN, NY. After a string of eye-opening developments—UC Santa Barbara beating #1 teams twice in one week and Cal losing three times in the season’s first two weekends, including to UC Davis for th...

Completing one of the greatest runs of water polo success in recent memory, UC Santa Barbara stormed into Avery Aquatic Center and beat top-ranked Stanford 15-10. The Gauchos, ranked second in the lat...

PRINCETON, NJ. Last weekend's Princeton Men’s Water Polo Invitational did not feature marquee West Coast teams, as they have in year’s past, but it had something more appealing: exciting competition. ...

A tried and true sports tale is of the team missing a single piece to succeed—and when that player arrives, together they achieve greatness. It's too early to know if this is the story of the 2019 Uni...