Water Polo

For the seventh straight time and 14th time in program history, the USA Water Polo Women's National are FINA World League Super Final champions. The latest gold medal came with a 14-8 win over Hungary as Team USA held off a furious second half rally by the Hungarians. Captain Maggie Steffens scored ...

A Look at Advancements in the Water Polo World Men’s Water Polo was the first Olympic team sport at the 1900 Games. Since then, tradition has long since dominated the sport, though in different regions the game adapted in different ways. Play itself has changed little.  In the late 19th century, the...

USA Women’s Water Polo routed Russia, 17-8, Friday in the FINA World League semifinals, booking a finals date with Hungary on Saturday. Maddie Musselman, Makenzie Fischer and Stephania Haralabidis each tallied a hat trick as the U.S. handled Russia easily. It steps up a finals date with Hungary, whi...

Mirko Vičević has won gold at every major event on the water polo world stage; the Olympic Games, the World Championships and the FINA World Cup.  His original club was Primorac of Kotor, Montenegro (formerly Yugoslavia), where he played from 1982 to 1989. After that, he played for several teams, Ja...

The USA Water Polo Women's National Team continued their winning ways in Greece with a 20-6 victory over Japan to earn a spot in the semifinal round at the FINA World League Super Final. Maggie Steffens was named player of the game as she led nine different scorers, delivering four goals in the win....

The USA Water Polo Women's National Team finished group play undefeated at the FINA World League Super Final following an 18-9 win over Spain earlier today. Team USA takes the top spot in Group B and will take on Japan tomorrow in the quarterfinal round currently scheduled for 1:15pm et/10:15am pt. ...

The USA Water Polo Women's National Team picked up their second straight win at the FINA World League Super Final with a convincing 20-2 victory over Kazakhstan. Stephania Haralabidis delivered five goals while Amanda Longan recorded 14 saves in net to earn player of the match honors. Team USA close...

The USA Women's National Water Polo Team opened up play at the FINA World League Super Final with a 16-9 win over Greece on Monday. Maddie Musselman scored three goals and was named player of the match while Stephania Haralabidis and Rachel Fattal added three scores each to bolster the offense. Ashl...

Editor's Note: Following is statement released Monday by USA Water Polo regarding a settlement in a civil action against Bahram Hojreh, the Anaheim Unified School District, the Irvine Unified School District, the International Water Polo Club, USA Water Polo and USAWP CEO Christopher Ramsey and USAW...

Editor's Note: Following is statement released Monday by the law firm Manly, Stewart & Finaldi who represented 13 former female water polo in a civil action against Bahram Hojreh, the Anaheim Unified School District, the Irvine Unified School District, the International Water Polo Club, USA Water Po...

A settlement—the largest ever levied against an American water polo organization—has been reached in the civil suit involving water polo coach Bahram Hojreh, a one-time age group water polo coach in Southern California. While head coach for his International Water Polo Club (IWPC), Hojreh is alleged...

The World of Water Polo: How Much Do You Know? By Gigi Picard Swimming World College Intern  An official blows sharply on a whistle and 12 anxious players, six per team, dash wildly toward the middle of the pool. Two of the 12 sprint for a bright yellow polo ball plopped between the racing teams bec...

Why Water Polo Players Should Join a Swim Team Most water polo players aren’t eager to join a swim team to train during the offseason. But, swimming can actually be extremely beneficial for a polo player. Well-conditioned swimmers can better resist fatigue, are more agile in the water and are able t...

How USA Water Polo's Olympic Development Program Fought COVID-19 The date was March 11th, 2020. Email inboxes of many of the nation’s most promising female athletes dinged with disappointment. After passing through the first two tryouts, USA Water Polo’s Girls' National Championships remained the ne...

Late last week, after conducting interviews, digging in on statistics and pounding away at my keyboard, I was ready to publish a piece on how LIU women’s water polo—despite only eight available players, including two goalies—was primed for a run at the 2021 Metro Atlantic Athletics Conference (MAAC)...

BROOKLYN, NY. It took more than a year—due to COVID-19—but the women’s water polo team of Long Island University  finally got to swim in its home waters. Originally scheduled to open at home on March 21, 2020, when the Sharks (4-0; 4-0 MAAC) tipped off last night against Metro Atlantic Athletic Conf...

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, USA Water Polo announces today the cancellation of the postponed 2020 Men's and 2021 Women's Division III Collegiate National Championship. In coordination with FINA, USA Water Polo is also canceling the FINA Intercontinental Tournament slated for later this mo...

An outbreak of COVID-19 has caused the cancellation of the last month of the UC Santa Barbara women’s water polo season. The university announced the decision Monday. The Gauchos had three matches scheduled for April, including games outside the two-week window for quarantines, but the plug was pull...

Larry Rogers, who spent five decades coaching swimming and water polo at Bellarmine Prep in California, died on March 31. He was 74. Rogers has won more California Interscholastic Federation titles than any other coach, claiming 57 at Bellarmine from 1982 until he retirement in 2017. He also won wat...

Filmmaker John L. McLeod Looking to Go ‘Beyond’ in Telling Olympic Stories As a kid, John L. McLeod was entranced by the Olympics. Watching Bud Greenspan’s features of the Games, there was a mystique in the Olympics of the post-World War II era that McLeod, growing up in Canada, was drawn into. It w...