Water Polo

István Szívós, Jr, Water Polo Legend, Has Died April 24, 1948 - November 10, 2019 István Szívós, Jr. - whose father was a two-time Olympic champion (in 1952 and 1956) and whose son, Marton, was a world champion and 2012 Olympian - has died in Budapest. Szívós took part in four Olympic Games and won ...

After a season of streaks, upsets, and tremendous promise, the UC Santa Barbara men's water polo team now has a major distraction to overcome on the way to perhaps its first national championship tournament in three decades: the NCAA. Sanctions that were leveled earlier this week have focused unwant...

BROOKLYN, NY. Today, for the first time this season, the Pac-12 Networks will broadcast a men’s water polo match, an occasion worthy of both celebration and inquiry. Celebration because of the high production values of Pac-12 broadcasts. Questions are also fair game. More than halfway through the se...

There’s no question that the 2019 season is one of the most volatile in recent memory, and this uncertainty is reflected in the Collegiate Water Polo Association’s Top 20 poll. Stanford had ten-straight wins going into last Saturday's match in Los Angeles against a desperate USC team. A 9-8 loss to ...

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has imposed Level II violation sanctions on UCSB’s men’s water polo program after the school self-reported multiple violations of NCAA bylaws that involve impermissible contacts with recruits, the school announced today. It was nearly a year ago (11/15/18...

Editor's Note: This interview is from 2015—when the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation still included Long Beach State, Pacific, Pepperdine, UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine, and the SoCal Invitational was yet to be renamed for the MPSF. Terry Schroeder is perhaps the most successful water polo player...

The current men’s NCAA Water Polo season is one of the most competitive in recent memory: With only a few weeks remaining in the regular season, all the conferences have pivotal games ahead, and parity seems to be the norm. One of the breakout teams this season is UC Santa Barbara. Wolf Wigo’s squad...

Did anyone foresee the surprising success of the University of California Santa Barbara’s men’s water polo varsity, 2019 edition? Ranked #7 in NCAA preseason polls, Coach Wolf Wigo’s Gauchos broke out of the gates with 15 straight victories, including wins over California, USC and Stanford, and for ...

For the first time since 2016, when the Hungarian women's team appeared in a series of friendlies against the U.S. Women's Senior National Team, some of the world’s top women’s water polo teams will compete on the East Coast. Headlining the 2019 USA Water Polo Holiday Cup—to be held December 16-21 a...

With wins Saturday, Johns Hopkins and MIT secured spots in the first-ever Division III Men’s Water Polo Collegiate Championship, to be held in December. Competing in the 2019 Collegiate Water Polo Association DIII Eastern Championship, the Blue Jays knocked off Austin College and Connecticut College...

It was another busy weekend for the CWPA Top 20. Unlike previous weeks, there were no major upsets—though that's to say that Cal losing to UC Santa Barbara is now common place, as opposed to the previous 15 years, when the Gauchos couldn't buy a win over the Golden Bears. Stanford, UCLA, Pacific and...

This weekend in Bridgeville, PA, the annual Division III Eastern Championship will take on an entirely new significance. Whichever two of six contenders makes the final at noon on Sunday will not only be playing for a regional title, they will potentially represent half of the Final Four that will c...

CAMBRIDGE, MA. Last weekend at the 2019 Harvard Invitational men's water polo tournament, eight Eastern programs descended on Blodgett Pool along with DIII heavyweight Pomona-Pitzer from California. In addition to the compelling action in the pool—seven of the 18 matches were decided by two goals or...

By James Smith, Editor and Publisher of Total Waterpolo and TX Waterpolo A watershed moment is how we described the UIL's decision to officially make water polo a legit high school sport in Texas. Monday's approval is only about 72 hours old and the celebrations rightly continue, but are tempered by...

With a vote yesterday by the Orange County Great Park Board and the Irvine City Council, plans and funding were approved for a new aquatics center in the heart of Irvine. The primary beneficiary of vote—final hurdle in a process that has been years in the making—is USA Water Polo, the national gover...

CAMBRIDGE, MA. Five years ago, if there was a conversation about the East's best men's water polo team, it would not have included Harvard. Now, not only are the Crimson this coast's favorite to make the 2019 NCAA Men's Water Polo Tournament quarterfinals—to be held in Stockton, California—they are ...

In one of the more favorable recent development for the sport's growth in America, the University Interscholastic League (UIL) Legislative Council has approved water polo as a pilot program at the high school level in Texas. Play will officially begin in the fall of 2021. "The adoption of water polo...

CAMBRIDGE, MA. On a perfect weekend for two Ivy League water polo programs, it was Pomona-Pitzer that proved its championship mettle at the fourth annual Harvard Invitational. The Sage Hens easily handled La Salle and bested DIII rival MIT on Day Two of competition. But it was their performance on S...

CAMBRIDGE, MA. It was a day of great competition at Blodgett Pool on the Harvard campus, with the host Crimson scoring two victories—including a sudden-death overtime scare against Pomona-Pitzer—to run a season-opening winning streak to 16. The biggest winner Saturday may have been St. Francis, down...

CAMBRIDGE, MA. A number of key contests take place this weekend, with perhaps the biggest being a clash Sunday between Golden Coast Conference rivals #3 Pacific and #5 UC Santa Barbara. In the GCC preseason coaches poll, the Gauchos (15-4) were chosen as favorites for their first-ever title, and a t...