Water Polo

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) Monday released its 2019 Impact Report, formerly its annual report, detailing the organization’s financials. The report was accompanied by a letter from USOPC CEO Sarah Hirshland and a sport-specific breakdown of expenditures, the Sport Bene...

George Washington University has made the decision to cut seven varsity sports after the 2020-21 school year, meaning athletes in those sports will have one more year to compete at the university, including women playing George Washington water polo. The affected sports are women's water polo, men's...

Editor's Note: Following is one in a series of articles and interviews about the situation with the Chelsea Piers age group water polo club. For the past eight years the club was been under the Chelsea Piers Connecticut (CPCT) umbrella until the program was cut two weeks ago. a victim of the coronav...

Editor's Note: Following is one in a series of articles and interviews about the situation with the Chelsea Piers age group water polo club. For the past eight years the club had been under the Chelsea Piers Connecticut (CPCT) umbrella until the program was cut two weeks ago, a victim of the coronav...

The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) has announced that high school sports in the state will be indefinitely delayed with start dates anticipated in December or next January. In an opaque press release Monday, the CIF announced that “education-based athletics for the 2020-2021 school year...

Brenda Villa and John Abdou, co-chairs of the USA Water Polo Racial Equity & Reform Task Force have announced nine appointments to join them in their efforts to expand access to water polo for all while ensuring zero tolerance of racism. Hailing from states across the country, with a variety of back...

Water polo player Adam Wright is among nine inductees to the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame’s Class of 2020, announced Wednesday night. Wright is one of six Olympic medalists in the class, having earned a silver with the U.S. team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He remains at the school as the head coach ...

“It was amazing getting back in the water,” said Nate Schulhoff, who confessed it felt like forever since he was last able to swim. For 11-year-old Sabrina Kazemi, along with her friend Naila Noble, the chance to jump into a pool—even in the midst of a pandemic—was simply too good to pass up. “It wa...

At 6 feet 5 inches, Andrei Belofastov is a giant of a man—and a bridge between the Soviet Union’s glorious water polo past and the bright future of what is now a Russian-only endeavor. A member of the Unified Team that took bronze in the 1992 Barcelona Games, Belofastov spoke recently with Swimming ...

Aleksandr Kabanov, who struck Olympic gold in 1972 and 1980 as a player for the Soviet Union men’s water polo team and a pair of bronze medals as coach—in 1988 as an assistant with the USSR in the Seoul Olympics, then as head coach for Russia in the 2004 Athens Games—passed away Wednesday at the age...

A. E. Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying Young” is an English 101 staple. Employing a simple rhyming scheme, anyone can easily follow Housman’s poetical path, culminating in a four-stanza punch line: Now you will not swell the rout Of lads that wore their honors out, Runners whom renown outran And the n...

In yet another blow to the proud tradition of Hungarian water polo, Tibor Benedek, a three-time Olympic champion, European and world water polo champion, died Thursday at the age of 47, the result of pancreatic cancer. On Wednesday, Gyorgy Karpati, a four-time Olympian—including gold medals at the 1...

Gyorgy Karpati, a four-time Olympic medalist and three-time gold medalist, died Wednesday at age 84. The death was announced by the Association of Immortal Hungarian Athletes. No cause of death was listed. Karpati won gold medals for Hungary in 1952, 1956 and 1964. He also won a bronze medal at the ...

A new task force charged with ensuring zero tolerance of racism and expanding access to water polo for all – especially people of color, was announced today. Jointly commissioned by USA Water Polo Board Chair Mike Graff and CEO Chris Ramsey, the Racial Equity and Reform Task Force will be co-chaired...

Editor’s Note: In one of the seminal matches in Eastern water polo history, on November 13, 1977, Pittsburgh faced Bucknell at the Joseph C. Trees Pool for the Eastern Water Polo League Southern Division Championship. A rematch of the 1976 final, won 14-12 by Pitt, with less than a minute remaining ...

With his two-year contract with Pro Recco concluded, the career of Ratko Rudic, the most successful coach in water polo history, is over. Francesco Grillone, who edits the WaterPoloItaly.com site, reports that—as expected—the 72-year-old Rudic will retire as head coach for the Biancocelesti. After b...

Editor's Note: Following an illustrious career in international water polo, Ratko Rudic—the only man in history to coach four Olympic gold water polo medalists—has officially retired from the sport. In a statement translated from Italian, Pro Recco President Maurizio Felugo and Biancocelesti legend ...

It's now a common thread throughout intercollegiate sports: where were you when the novel coronavirus ended the NCAA spring season? As Adam Wright, NCAA men's and women's coach explains below, he and his Bruin women had recently returned to Los Angeles following a successful swing in the Bay Area. T...

Editor’s Note: In one of the seminal matches in Eastern water polo history, on November 13, 1977, Pittsburgh faced Bucknell at the Joseph C. Trees Pool for the Eastern Water Polo League Southern Division Championship. A rematch of the 1976 final, won 14-12 by Pitt, with less than a minute remaining ...

Earlier this week,  Sonoma State University, a Division II institution and a part of the 23-member California State University System, announced that it is dropping women's water polo from its athletic program effective at the end of the academic year. Chelsea Hennan, the team's head coach the past ...