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RIVERSIDE, CA. At 7 p.m. (PST) Saturday night in the Riverside Aquatics Complex at Riverside City College, the USA Women's National Water Polo Team will face the Greek National Team in the first of four friendly matches to be played in various Southern California locations. The other dates and times...

Doug Peabody, a San Diego native, has been at the helm of the San Diego Shores Water Polo Club since he founded the club in 1992. In that time, the Shores Club has enjoyed phenomenal success, winning 35 national championships and developing more than 350 players who have gone on to play in college. ...

Picking the best of anything is never easy. The best croissants in Paris, the best pizza in Chicago, the best pitcher in baseball — many of these decisions come down to personal preference. And are subject to endless second-guessing. Except when it comes to the best female water polo player in the w...

BY Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor. INDIANAPOLIS, IN. In a match that encapsulated all the anxiety and delight, all the joy and dejection of perhaps one of the greatest seasons of NCAA varsity women’s water polo, the 2017 NCAA Women’s Water Polo Championship final was reduced to a singl...

Fresh off qualifying for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics the USA Women's Water Polo National Team opened up their four game exhibition series against Greece with a 17-6 victory in front of a sold-out crowd. Coming off her MVP performance at the FINA World League Super Final Maddie Musselman (Newport Beach, ...

Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor LOS ANGELES, CA. When first meeting John Tanner, head coach for Stanford women’s water polo, it’s easy to be taken in by his calm demeanor, clear insights and a comfortable manner that immediately conveys friendship. It’s likely that—given his team's leve...

With the 18th World Championship scheduled to open today in Gwangju, South Korea, one of the biggest challenges for Adam Krikorian, U.S. head women’s water polo coach has been: who’s going on the trip? The defending world champions boast nine players who helped Team USA capture gold at the 2016 Rio ...

Irvine, CA - December 14 - The USA Women's National Team opened up their four-game exhibition series with a 10-5 win over China earlier tonight at UC Irvine. Paige Hauschild (Santa Barbara, CA/USC/Santa Barbara 805) scored two goals to lead a balanced attack featuring nine different goal scorers. Ga...

This week swimmers at the University of Buffalo continued to make their voices heard after their men’s program was cut unexpectedly in April, with six swimmers now suing the university. Read about that fight and all of the other news from the week in this edition of The Week That Was. https://youtu....

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor With the 2017 FINA World Swimming Championships opening next month in Budapest, the U.S. men’s and women’s national water polo teams renew a quadrennial chase for Olympic success that culminates at the 2020 Tokyo Games. Prior to FINA Worlds, I had the ...

Women's Water Polo World Championships: USA vs. South Africa The USA Women's National Team, defending FINA World Champions, delivered a convincing victory to start their run at the 2017 FINA Water Polo World Championships in Hungary with a 24-2 win over South Africa. Jamie Neushul (Isla Vista, CA/St...

At the 2019 USA Water Polo Holiday Cup last month, women's teams from Italy, the Netherlands and Russia traveled to Princeton, N.J. to sharpen their skills for a final push to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. But one top European team did not make the trip East. Hungary last visited the U.S. in ...

The USA Women's National Team rallied from an early 2-0 deficit and multiple one-goal deficits for an 8-6 win over the Netherlands at Loyola Marymount University. Maddie Musselman (Newport Beach, CA/UCLA/CDM Aquatics) scored two goals in the win with Ashleigh Johnson (Miami, FL/Princeton/NYAC) and G...

Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor INDIANAPOLIS, IN. In what Stanford head coach John Tanner described as one of the best collegiate water polo matches he’s been involved in, on Saturday his team rallied from a two-goal second half deficit to beat USC 11-10 in an NCAA women’s water polo se...

The USA Women's National Team will have a chance to defend their gold medal title at the FINA World League Super Final after advancing to the title bout with an 8-4 win over Hungary. Maddie Musselman (Newport Beach, CA/UCLA/CdM Aquatics) scored three goals and Gabby Stone (La Jolla, CA/Stanford/SD S...

Tustin, CA - December 19 - In front of a capacity crowd at Foothill High School the USA Women's National Team wasted little time exciting their fans on the way to a 14-1 victory over China. On an evening where two-time Olympic gold medalist Courtney Mathewson was recognized following her retirement ...

Both the Men and Women's teams from the U.S. claimed the gold medals at stake yesterday in Auckland (NZL) where the Intern-Continental Cups of the FINA Water Polo World League were taking place since Tuesday April 3. The USA men's team were too fit and fast for Australia with a 9-6 victory in the fi...

Shanghai, China - The USA Women's National Team kept up their winning ways at the FINA World League Super Final winning their fourth straight gold medal at the event and 11th Super Final title in program history after a 12-6 triumph over Canada. Makenzie Fischer (Laguna Beach, CA/Stanford/SET) score...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor With age group action heating up nationally as a result of upcoming USA Water Polo Junior Olympics Zone Qualifications, recent activity in North Carolina demonstrates that water polo is growing all along the Eastern seaboard. Part of this exciting deve...

Against the backdrop of a landmark decision last Thursday by FINA's Technical Water Polo Congress, which approved an increase in women’s teams at the Tokyo Olympics from eight to ten, group play for women’s water polo at the 17th FINA World Championships opened Sunday at the Alfréd Hajós National Sw...