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U.S. Women’s Water Polo Finish Atop Group in World Cup Qualifier

U.S. Women’s Water Polo Finish Atop Group in World Cup Qualifier The U.S. Women’s water polo team finished atop its four-team group in the first World Cup qualifier phase this week in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The Americans lost their opening game to Spain, 17-15, in a penalty shootout, on Tuesday, th...

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Three Olympic Medalists Heads USA Water Polo Hall of Fame 2023 Class

Three Olympic Medalists Heads USA Water Polo Hall of Fame 2023 Class Olympic medalists Nicolle Payne, Coralie Simmons and Peter Varellas headline the five-member Class of 2023 to the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame, announced on Thursday. Joining them are coach and referee Aaron Chaney and long-time coa...

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Passages: Viktor Ageev, Triple Olympic Medalist in Water Polo, 86

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...

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Stanford Starts 2023 Atop Preseason Water Polo Poll

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...

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Cal Leads ACWPC All-American Team Behind Nikolaos Papanikolaou

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...

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Olympian Amanda Longan Joins UCLA Water Polo Coaching Staff

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...

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Passages: Arthur Lambert, U.S. Water Polo Hall of Fame Coach, 86

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 ...

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Michigan Names Cassie Churnside Women’s Water Polo Coach

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...