Water Polo

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...

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 ...