Water Polo

U.S. Women’s Water Polo Sweeps Australia in Three-Game Exhibition Series The U.S. Women’s Water Polo team swept Australia in a three-game exhibition series in California this week. The U.S. used 15 saves from Ashleigh Johnson to start it with a 10-4 win last Sunday at Dos Pueblos High School in Gole...

In a typical year, it would be obvious who the top contenders are for the best female collegiate water polo player in America. The criterion is usually: Are they on a top four (or five) team in the CWPA rankings? Is their team a legitimate contender for an NCAA title?  Do they play for Stanford? I m...

Unbeaten UCLA Stays Atop Women's Water Polo Poll; LMU Makes Big Jump The past two weeks, a number of teams have faced conference opponents in matches with postseason implications. Nowhere more significant was the contest between Fresno State and Loyola Marymount on March 23. Picked #1 and #2 in the ...

For Now, Wagner Claims New York Water Polo Bragging Rights With Win Over LIU BROOKLYN, NY. In a rematch of last year’s Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference women’s water polo championship final, Wagner College, for a decade the MAAC’s top team, crossed the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge from Staten Island t...

Hall of Fame Player Merrill Moses Promoted to Pepperdine Water Polo Head Coach Merrill Moses, a Hall of Fame player and the associate head coach of Pepperdine men’s water polo program, has been promoted to the top job. Moses will replace his mentor, Terry Schroeder, who will transition to an associa...

Gold Medalist Kiley Neushul Leads Four Inductees to USA Water Polo Hall of Fame USA Water Polo on Monday announced the four members of its 2024 USA Water Polo Hall of Fame Class, led by Olympian Kiley Neushul. Neushul, of one of the sport’s most prolific families, will be joined by Chris Oeding, Dou...

An Interview With UCI Water Polo Coach Dan Klatt; Compassion a Hallmark of Veteran Leader IRVINE, CA. Water polo will never be mistaken for a kumbaya-kind of athletic experience. It’s physically and emotionally draining. But those who care most about the sport—especially coaches—have tremendous comp...

Unbeaten UCLA Remains Atop College Women's Water Polo Poll; Hawaii Holds at No. 2 The Collegiate Water Polo Association poll for women’s varsity play has not seen much change these past few weeks, especially at the top. UCLA, Hawai’i, Stanford, Cal and USC have been in roughly the same spots for a m...

Coach Adam Wright Guiding Weighs in on Guiding UCLA's Powerful Water Polo Programs HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA. Spending time with Adam Wright, UCLA men’s and women’s water polo head coach, is like being in the company of a powerful politician. Wright is surrounded by success; there’s Chase and Ryder Dodd,...

UCLA Stays Atop Women's Water Polo Poll After Claiming Kalbus Invitational Title Last weekend, nine of the nation’s top ten teams traveled to Irvine, CA—only Princeton declined a spot in the 2024 Barbara Kalbus Invitational—offering a prime opportunity to evaluate NCAA title contenders. Fresno State...

Dodd Brothers - Chase and Ryder - Hoping to be Part of Team USA Trip to Paris Olympics Chase and Ryder Dodd—brothers and fellow UCLA Bruin water polo players—are chasing the biggest roster spot in U.S. men’s water polo: Representing America at the 2024 Paris Olympics. They have played together for m...

NEWPORT BEACH, CA. In sports, as in life, it’s always best to walk away while you’re ahead. In the case of Maureen Cole, head coach for the Hawai’i women’s water polo team, she’s determined to finish her gig by leading the Rainbow Wahine to the greatest season in their history. And then leaving with...

Passages: Giuseppe D’Altrui, Italian Water Polo Legend, 89 Giuseppe D’Altrui, one of the titans of Italian water polo, died on Feb. 26. He was 89 years old. D’Altrui captained Italy to the gold medal at the 1960 Olympics in Rome. He also played on the 1956 team that finished fourth and captained the...

South Africa Turns Down Olympic Water Polo Bids; Romania (Men) and Canada (Women) Claim Spots In a surprising development, Swimming South Africa (SSA) pulled its men’s and women’s water polo teams from the upcoming 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. SSA chief executive Shaun Adriaanse told the Daily Maver...

Kalbus Invitational Highlights Spectacular Weekend of Water Polo Action The Barbara Kalbus Invitational—previously known as the UCI Invitational—is the most competitive tournament of the women’s NCAA regular season. It is an invitational, and nine of the nation’s current top-10 teams—and 13 of the t...

The results from the desert—Qatar, to be exact—at the 21st World Aquatics Championships were decidedly mixed for USA men’s and women’s water polo. The women, coached by Adam Krikorian, delivered in the clutch as they so often have during Krikorian’s impressive tenure. Last Friday the Americans captu...

There was not much change in this week’s Collegiate Water Polo Association’s Poll as the top 12 teams remained the same. The biggest leap was by Pacific, which moved from 17th to No. 13. The biggest drop? Four spots by UC Santa Barbara, which split four matches at the ASU Invitational and is now ran...

The USA Women's National Team claimed gold at the 2024 World Aquatics World Championships with a 8-7 win over Hungary. Rachel Fattal led the scoring with three goals while Maggie Steffens added two in the win. Ashleigh Johnson had a total of 12 saves for Team USA and was named top goalkeeper of the ...

World Championships: Ashleigh Johnson Makes 11 Saves as U.S. Tops Spain in Semifinal On a day where the American offense wasn’t as crisp as usual, Ashleigh Johnson showed why she’s the best goalkeeper in the world. Johnson made 11 saves as the U.S. hung on for an 11-9 win over Spain in the semifinal...

World Championships, Women’s Water Polo: U.S. Survives Australia; Netherlands Dethroned There will be a new world champion in Doha. Thanks to Maddie Musselman and Ashleigh Johnson, it might yet be the United States. Musselman scored three times, and Johnson made 10 saves as the U.S. built a big lead...