Ben Stevenson - (Tag)

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor BERLIN, Germany. Bringing a young, inexperienced team to a tournament configured to test a variety of new rules for future application turned out to not be ideal for the U.S. Senior Men’s National team. Registering two wins in six days of action at the...

To close out their 2018 season, the U.S. Senior Men’s National Team has invited a few friends into town—specifically, the Italian National Team—for a three game set that starts tonight at Foothill High School, 7 p.m. (PST) in Tustin, CA. Tomorrow the action moves to Chapman University in Orange at 4...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor LOS ANGELES — Thursday night in 2017 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament quarterfinal action at USC’s Uytengsu Aquatics Center, the University of Pacific men’s water polo team avoided a meltdown of epic proportions. Head Coach James Graham fumed as his sq...

Water Polo Worlds: Seven Americans from Gold-Winning Tokyo Squad Words-Bound The U.S. women’s water polo team that will take on the 2022 FINA World Championships starting Monday features seven members from the Tokyo gold medal squad. Most of the headliners from the three-time reigning Olympic gold m...

United States men’s water polo coach Dejan Udovicic on Friday named the 13-man roster for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, led by five-time Olympian Jesse Smith. Team USA is fresh off a silver medal at the FINA World League Super Final in Tbilisi, Georgia. The team has been qualified since its gold meda...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor In an interesting twist to the start of the 2018 NCAA men’s varsity season, last week four college athletes—Johnny Hooper of Cal, Jack Turner of UC San Diego, Ben Hallock and Dylan Woodhead of Stanford—left their teams to represent their country at the...

NEW COMMIT: Futures qualifier Ben Stevenson of New Albany, Ohio has announced his verbal intention to continue his academic and swimming career at Indiana University beginning in the fall of 2022. He will join Alex Stone, Harry Herrera, Alejandro Kincaid and Drew Reiter as a member of the Hoosiers’ ...

Olympics: Alex Wolf Makes 13 Saves, U.S. Spreads Offense in Drubbing South Africa Ben Hallock led an offensive parade with four goals, and Alex Wolf stopped 13 shots in his Olympic debut as the U.S. men’s water polo team routed South Africa, 20-3, on Tuesday. [caption id="attachment_483266" align="a...

HUNTINGTON BEACH - The first year of the USA Water Polo National League comes to a close this weekend with a championship tournament featuring the top six teams in regular season action. Acalanes High School in Lafayette, California will play host with admission available each day for just $5 (at th...

Swimming World continues its previews of the six conferences that will send teams to the 2018 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament, to be held November 29 – December 2 at Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center. Look to SW for in-depth stories and game recaps of all the action from this year’s exciting NCAA men...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor BROOKLYN, NY. After a respite to take in all that I experienced in Berlin at the FINA Men’s World Water Polo Cup 2018—and to finish transcribing an interview with Andrey Kryukov, Bureau Liaison for FINA’s Technical Water Polo Committee—here’s a stab at...

HUNTINGTON BEACH - The rosters have been announced for the three USA National Teams competing in the USA Water Polo Men's National League starting January 10-11 at Segerstrom High School in Santa Ana, CA. The three USA squads (Red, White, and Blue) will be joined by four club teams in National Leagu...