Water Polo

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...

Passages: Ukrainian Water Polo Player Yevhen Obedinsky Killed in Mariupol Yevhen Obedinsky, a former captain of the Ukrainian men’s water polo team, was killed on March 17 in the Russian-led siege of Mariupol. Obedinsky was 39 years old. Per reports in Ukraine, his 12-year-old daughter Kira Obedinsk...

Maddie Musselman and Mackenzie Fischer are back in college, breaking records and dreaming of NCAA titles. Ashleigh Johnson and Maggie Steffens are in Europe, pursuing pro careers as they prep for yet another crack at Olympic water polo gold in 2024. That left Amanda Longan as the sole USNT member fr...

Emilio Torrealva Gallardo, coach of the Peruvian women's water polo team, has been for almost five years the head of an ambitious project that seeks to make the Peruvian team competitive. Emilio is a Venezuelan coach and also played and trained in his country. Currently, he is also in charge of the ...

USA Water Polo Gets Revenge, and Gold, against Australia in Intercontinental Cup Final By Luis Olaya LIMA, PERU — Sunday morning the United States men’s water polo team arrived at the Villa Deportiva Nacional pool with a thirst for revenge. After stumbling Friday against Australia on a last second s...

Australia Water Polo Suns USA with 12-11 Win in Final Seconds at Intercontinental Cup By Luis Olaya Undefeated runs at the 2022 FINA Intercontinental Cup, ended abruptly Friday for both the U.S. men’s and women’s water polo teams at Lima’s Villa Deportiva Nacional. A power-play goal by Australia’s B...

USA Water Polo Overwhelms Colombia 21-8 in Intercontinental Cup Play in Peru By Luis Olaya With one-sided losses in his team’s first two matches of the 2022 FINA International Cup—by 21-5 to Brazil and 19-4 to Argentina—Colombia men’s assistant water polo coach Mario Ochoa knew that a match-up versu...

Young Brazilian Water Polo Squad Schooled by American Men in Intercontinental Cup Play By Luis Olaya Tuesday at the Villa Deportiva Nacional pool a difficult task was in store for a young Brazilian men’s water polo team that has endured much the past few years, including an absence of competitive to...

USA Water Polo Opens FINA Intercontinental Cup with 10-9 Win Over Canada in Rematch of 2019 PanAm Final By Luis Olaya LIMA — In front of an enthusiastic crowd on the opening day of the 2022 FINA International Cup at the Villa Deportiva Nacional pool, the United States men’s water polo team edged Can...

In First Game Since Olympics, U.S. Men’s Water Polo Falls to Greece The U.S. men’s water polo team suffered a 16-13 defeat to Greece on Wednesday in its first match since last summer’s Tokyo Olympics. The match in Volos, Greece, was tied at seven at halftime. But the Tokyo Olympic silver medalists p...

Water Polo Coach Mirko Vicevic Leaves Serbian Club after Fans’ Racist Banner Water polo coach Mirko Vicevic last week left Serbian club Red Star Belgrade after fans displayed a racist banner insulting several ethnic groups at a match. Vicevic had taken over Red Star, based in the Serbian capital, la...

USA Water Polo Adds Athletes Max Irving and Lolo Silver to Board USA Water Polo this week announced the addition of Max Irving and Lauren “Lolo” Silver to the organization’s board of directors as athlete members. Both are decorated athletes in the U.S. program. Irving, 26, won a pair of NCAA titles ...

A Golden Journey: Ashleigh Johnson Has Shined As Backbone Of Team USA Water Polo Ashleigh Johnson, a two-time water polo Olympic gold medalist, continues to put in the work to stay on top of her game, a level of talent that has made her a global water polo icon. And with it, she’s contemplating what...