Water Polo

Passages: Viktor Ageev, Triple Olympic Medalist in Water Polo, 86 Viktor Ageev, a three-time Olympic water polo medalist for the Soviet Union, died on Jan. 30. He was 86 years old. Born in Moscow in 1936, Viktor Ivanovich Ageev rose through the Soviet sporting ranks. He made his Olympic debut with t...

Stanford Starts 2023 Atop Preseason Water Polo Poll Reigning national champion Stanford starts 2023 atop the preseason college water polo Top 25 poll, released this week. Stanford won their eighth NCAA title last year, defeating USC in the final, 10-7. The topped the Trojans in the 2019 final as wel...

Cal Leads ACWPC All-American Team Behind Nikolaos Papanikolaou Cal placed three players on the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) All-American team, released this week. That includes national player of the year Nikolaos Papanikolaou, plus coach of the year Kirk Everist. The nationa...

USA Water Polo Plans North Texas New Year’s Showcase with Serbia, Spain The U.S. Men’s Water Polo Team will host Serbia and Spain for a six-game tournament this month, calling it the North Texas New Year’s Showcase, announced on Monday. Six games will be played over seven days from Dec. 28-Jan. 3. T...

Nikolaos Papanikolaou’s 7 Goals Help Cal Stun USC in NCAA Men’s Water Polo Final Nikolaos Papanikolaou scored seven times, and Roberto Valera’s goal with 41 seconds left sent Cal to a 13-12 win over USC in the NCAA Men’s Water Polo final. It’s the second straight title for the top-seeded Golden Bear...

How a Year Away from Water Polo is Helping Maddie Musselman Build Toward Paris Maddie Musselman decided to play it cool and see how long it would take. For the 2022-23 academic year, while rehabbing a hip injury and resting physically and psychologically for the hectic final year’s push to the Paris...

NCAA Men’s Water Polo Championships to be Broadcast on ESPNU, ESPN App ESPN has announced plans to broadcast the NCAA Men’s Water Polo Championships next month on ESPNU and the ESPN streaming app. The Division I title game will take place on Sunday, Dec. 4 at 6 p.m. ET at the Spieker Aquatics Comple...

Iran Men’s Water Polo Team Declines to Sing National Anthem in Sign of Protest Video circulating on social media this week appears to show members of the Iran men’s water polo team declining to sing the national anthem before a match, seen as an act of defiance against an Iranian regime facing rampa...

The Stanford men's water polo program mourns the loss of legendary head coach Dante Dettamanti, who passed away on Oct. 25. Dettamanti was 80. "It's hard to imagine any other coach having such a profound impact on their athletes, colleagues and community," said The Dunlevie Family Director of Men's ...

Maggie Steffens Recognized as Women’s Sports Foundation’s Sportswoman of the Year Maggie Steffens was recognized Wednesday night as the Women’s Sports Foundation’s Sportswoman of the Year in the team category at its annual Salute to Women in Sports banquet in New York City. Steffens joins her Americ...

Olympian Amanda Longan Joins UCLA Water Polo Coaching Staff Amanda Longan, an Olympic gold medalist with the United States, has joined the coaching staff of the UCLA women’s water polo team, the school announced Monday. Longan joins the staff of head coach Adam Wright as an assistant for the women’s...

Passages: Arthur Lambert, U.S. Water Polo Hall of Fame Coach, 86 Arthur Lambert, the Hall of Fame coach of the 1968 U.S. Olympic team, died on Aug. 26. Lambert was 86 years old. He died from complications of Parkinson’s disease. On the international stage, he led Team USA to gold at the 1967 Pan Am ...

Michigan Names Cassie Churnside Women’s Water Polo Coach Michigan has announced the hiring of Cassie Churnside as the program’s new women’s water polo coach. Churnside spent the last eight seasons as an assistant coach at Harvard University, working with both the men’s and women’s teams. “First, I w...

Danish Polo Players in Brooklyn Are Almost Unseen - Except to Those Who Care the Most In Brooklyn’s century-old Metropolitan Pool and Bathhouse—one of a precious few indoor pools in a city of nine million people—an unlikely celebration of life, family, friendship and athletic prowess recently took p...

Maddie Musselman Scores Five, U.S. Women’s Water Polo Wins Fourth Straight Title Behind five goals from the sensational Maddie Musselman, the United States overcame Hungary, 9-7, in the women’s water polo final at the 2022 FINA World Championships. It’s the fourth consecutive title for the U.S., an ...

Water Polo Worlds: Seven Americans from Gold-Winning Tokyo Squad Words-Bound The U.S. women’s water polo team that will take on the 2022 FINA World Championships starting Monday features seven members from the Tokyo gold medal squad. Most of the headliners from the three-time reigning Olympic gold m...

Makenzie Fischer Wins Second Cutino Award; Nikolaos Papanikolaou Wins Men’s Honor Stanford Olympian Makenzie Fischer and Cal’s Nikolaos Papanikolaou won the 2022 Peter J. Cutino Awards Saturday night, taking home college water polo’s equivalent of the Heisman Trophy. The award winners were announced...

USA Water Polo Announces 38th Hall of Fame Class; Layne Beaubien Among Inductees USA Water Polo is proud to announce the 38th induction class for the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame. This year's class represents the complete water polo experience: Athletes, coaches and referees with involvement at the a...

USA Water Polo Hires Ethan Damato as Women’s ODP Academy Coach USA Water Polo on Wednesday announced the hiring of Ethan Damato as a full-time women’s head Olympic Development Program Academy coach. Damato has a long history coaching at high levels, a nine-time CIF champion at Laguna Beach High Scho...

Michael Phelps, Natalie Coughlin Finalists for U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame Swimmers Michael Phelps and Natalie Coughlin are among the finalists announced Monday for the Class of 2022 of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame. The swimming duo are among 15 Olympic finalists for the hon...