Water Polo

The USA Men’s Water Polo team had been scheduled to return to competition next week in Croatia, but a positive COVID-19 test from a Croatian athlete has cancelled the tournament. USA Water Polo announced the decision Friday, citing the Croatians’ cancellation. The USA Men's National Team was set...

Increased COVID-19 infection rates in the Tri-State region will not affect a water polo clinic with five-time Olympian Tony Azevedo at Chelsea Piers Field House in Stanford, Connecticut, scheduled for this weekend. Scott Schulte, who last August assumed leadership of the age group polo club that for...

Mount St. Mary’s announced Tuesday that Hall of Fame coach Lynn Kachmarik will join the coaching staff as a volunteer assistant for the water polo program’s inaugural seasons. Kachmarik is a legend in the water polo community and the first woman to be inducted to the College Water Polo Hall of Fame....

Assuming leadership of the Puerto Rican Swimming Federation (FPN)—the island's national governing body for diving, open water swimming, synchronized swimming, water polo and competitive swimming—during a pandemic presents distinct challenges. But Fernando Delgado, elected Saturday to lead the FPN, i...

In a sign of just how deadly the coronavirus has been to collegiate athletics, on Tuesday La Salle University in Philadelphia announced that it was cutting men’s water polo as a part of clearing out seven NCAA varsity  sports. It is the third varsity polo program that has been eliminated during the ...

Daniel Leyson has been all over the world for water polo, including an appearance at the Olympics—the highest level of competition for his sport. Along the way on a career that has taken him from club coaching with Rose Bowl to collegiate stops at his alma mater, USC (Class of ’92), and UCLA, to pla...

In a blow to both its prestige and fiscal health, this week USA Water Polo cancelled the 2020 National Junior Olympics (JOs) tournament. The decision, announced in a statement on Thursday, puts an end to USAWP’s attempts to hold the world’s largest youth polo tournament in the midst of the Covid-19 ...

Australian Olympic hopeful Nioka Thomas plans to embark on a grand adventure in the United States. Starting next fall, the 12th year high school water polo player from Meriden School will join the women’s polo program at the University of California Irvine. A member of the Aussie Stingers’ junior na...

Like his peers in the water polo coaching community, Dan Klatt has endured an unexpected stretch of inactivity brought on by the coronavirus pandemic—which as of today has infected more than six million Americans and killed almost 190,000 in the U.S. For Klatt, head coach of the UC Irvine women's te...

Canadian national teamer Krystina Alogbo announced her retirement from the Canadian national team Friday, ending a 15-year international career. Alogbo, 34, debuted with the national team in 2005. She competed in four Pan American games and eight World Championships in a storied career for Canada. S...

USC has paused workouts for men's water polo and football until at least Sept. 8 after a spate of athletes in those sports tested positive for COVID-19. Eight positive tests were reported Aug. 26 when the sports were originally paused. An additional positive test was found on Aug. 28. Rounds of test...

Head coach Alyssa Diacono Thursday announced the inaugural men's and women's rosters for Mount St. Mary’s water polo teams. The university announced in January that it would add water polo to its athletic offerings. The inaugural rosters include 11 men and nine women, with 12 of the players being fr...

Andy Burke, a long-time administrator for water polo who served on numerous U.S. and international committees, passed away last Friday at the age of 91. For his efforts on behalf of American water polo, in 2018 Burke was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) for his substanti...

USA’s Ashleigh Johnson Speaks With NBC: What Happens When Life Doesn’t Follow Script Ashleigh Johnson, one of the country's more visible Olympic athletes due to her success and her race, spoke recently about the challenges of re-tooling her life and outlook as a result of the year-long postponement ...

An unnamed female former water polo player, referred to as "Jane HA Doe" in court filings, has filed a lawsuit in Orange County Superior Court that Bahram Hojreh sexually abused, molested and harassed her between the ages of 15 and 17 under the guise of coaching while she was a student at University...

Croatian water polo player Ante Vukicevic has tested positive for COVID-19, leading to an early interruption of a national team camp last week. Vukicevic, per reports, was not part of the camp that took place Aug. 10-15 in Korcula. But he had contact with athletes taking part in the camp prior, and ...

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...