Water Polo

‘Golden Legends,’ Film About Hungary Water Polo Team, Setting Records “Golden Legends,” a feature documentary about the Hungary water polo team that won three consecutive Olympic titles, has become one of the most successful documentary releases in that country. Variety reported that the film, relea...

Worlds Water Polo: Netherlands Wins Shootout Over Spain for First Gold in 32 Years Brigitte Sleeking’s goal in the fifth round of the shootout gave the Netherlands a 17-16 win over Spain Friday in the women’s water polo championship game at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka. The Dutch went...

Worlds Water Polo: U.S. Uses Penalty Shootout to Top Hungary, Finish Fifth The United States required a penalty shootout to defeat Hungary, 15-13, in the fifth-place game at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka on Friday. Amanda Longan made 10 saves in regulation, then Ashleigh Johnson steppe...

Worlds Water Polo: U.S. Men’s Comeback Falls Short in Quarterfinals Loss to Hungary A fourth-quarter rally by the United States men’s water polo team fell just short Tuesday in Fukuoka, the U.S. dropping its quarterfinal to Hungary, 13-12. The loss eliminates the U.S. from medal contention. It will ...

Worlds Water Polo: Dogged Defense Helps Italy Stun the U.S., 8-7 Thunder boomed outside the Marine Messe Hall B in Fukuoka, Japan, on Monday afternoon. Inside, the pool hosted a lightning-strike rarity of its own. Italy frustrated the American offense throughout the quarterfinal of the World Aquatic...

Worlds Water Polo: Hannes Daube Scores 7 Goals as U.S. Reaches Quarters Hannes Daube was magnificent Sunday for the United States, scoring seven goals to power a 13-10 win over Canada in the crossover round at the World Aquatics Championships. Daube was 7-for-8 shooting at the Marine Messe Hall in F...

U.S. Men’s Water Polo Drops Big Lead to Greece, Falls to Second in Group The U.S. men’s water polo team dropped 15-14 decision to Greece on Friday, sending the American to second place in their group at the World Championships in Fukuoka and to a crossover game to reach the quarterfinals. The U.S. w...

Worlds Water Polo: Ashleigh Johnson Backstops American Rout of France Ashleigh Johnson made 14 saves, holding France to just two goals in the first three quarters, as the U.S. completed an unbeaten run through Group A with a 16-5 on Thursday at the World Championships. The Americans led by a 13-2 sc...

Worlds Water Polo: Amanda Longan, U.S. Defense Slow Australia The United States women’s water polo team has one foot in the knockout round at the 2023 World Championships thanks to a 9-5 win over Australia on Tuesday, the second day of competition in Fukuoka, Japan. Amanda Longan stood tall in goal ...

Tyler Abramson Scores 5 Goals as U.S. Men, Women Open Worlds with Wins The American men and women each opened the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, with wins this week. The U.S. men’s team rolled to an 18-5 win over Kazakhstan to open Group A play. Tyler Abramson scored five goals in t...

U.S. Men’s Water Polo Names Roster for Fukuoka with Nine Olympians Nine Olympians are among the U.S. men’s water polo roster for the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, which starts this week. The roster includes 15 athletes. Only 13 will be eligible to be on each gameday roster, with that deci...

Six Olympians Lead U.S. Women’s Water Polo Roster for Worlds Six Olympians are among the 15 players who were named to the U.S. women’s water polo roster for the World Aquatics Championships on Monday. Ten members of the team were part of last year’s squad, which won gold in Budapest. The Americans h...

Kate Douglass, Jordan Crooks, Aria Fischer Sullivan Award Semifinalists Kate Douglass led three aquatic athletes among the 24 semifinalists for the 93rd annual James E. Sullivan Award, presented by the AAU. The University of Virginia’s Douglass joins Tennessee swimmer Jordan Crooks and Stanford wate...

U.S. Wins Bronze at World Aquatics World Cup After Appeal Leads to Replay Team USA lost the bronze-medal game to Hungary at the World Aquatics World Cup on Sunday. Until it didn’t. A refereeing appeal reversed what had been a win by Hungary, leading to the final four minutes, 24 seconds being replay...

Heather Petri is a four-time Olympian, winning one gold (2012), two silver (2000, 2008) and a bronze medal (2004) as part of the USA Women’s National Water Polo Team.  She is only one of four women to be a four-time Olympian and one of two who has won four Olympic medals. Petri is only the sixth wom...

U.S. Men Fall to Italy in Semifinals at Men’s Water Polo World Cup The United States men dropped a 15-12 decision to Italy Saturday in the semifinals of the World Aquatics Men’s Water Polo World Cup, sending them to the bronze-medal match. Italy will take on Spain, which bested Hungary, 10-8, for go...

The USA women's water polo team claimed its fourth consecutive World Cup title with a 12-11 win over the Netherlands. The U.S. led 8-3 but the Netherlands stormed back and nearly had a game-tying goal in the final seconds. "One thing we talk about as a team is maintaining a gold standard, regardles...

USC Water Polo Restructures: Marko Pintaric to Lead Men, Casey Moon Women The USC water polo program has undergone a “restructuring” that for the first time separates the coaching staff. Marko Pintaric, long in charge of both programs, will take over the men’s team, while his associate coach Casey M...

Denison, Division III Women’s Swimming Champs, Among College Teams Honored at White House Denison University’s women’s swimming and diving team, this year’s NCAA Division III champion, was among the college teams that visited the White House on Monday. An invitation was extended by President Joe Bid...

Nikolaos Papanikolaou Repeats as Cutino Award Winner; Stanford’s Aria Fischer Adds to Family Legacy The University of California’s Nikolaos Papanikolaou has been named the Peter J. Cutino Award winner for the second straight year. The women’s award went to Stanford's Aria Fischer, who joins older si...