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[caption id="attachment_628668" align="alignright" width="450"] UCLA win Back to Back NCAA Water Polo Champions[/caption] UCLA Stuns USC at the Buzzer to Win 2025 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Championship, 11–10 By Swimming World Staff STANFORD, Calif. – Same venue, same rivalry, new layer of history. Down...

ESPN to Present 2026 NCAA Women’s Water Polo Championships ESPN will collaborate with USA Water Polo to present the 2026 NCAA Women’s Water Polo Championships, the organization announced this week. The NCAA champion will be decided at the University of California, San Diego’s Canyonview Aquatic Cent...

Now that the U.S. men's senior water polo team has qualified for the 2020 Olympics, losing Bret Bonanni from the roster might not seem so devastating. But the absence of a player of Bonanni's ability during Team USA's current qualification cycle should not be understated. The leading scorer in Stanf...

At a time when perhaps being USA Water Polo CEO is not so desirable, Christopher Ramsey plans to stay put—in spite of critics clamoring for his removal and a raging pandemic that has brought the sport to a virtual standstill. A petition launched two weeks ago by former Olympians, past national team ...

After multiple reports cited that the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center, venue for men’s and women’s water polo at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, contains asbestos, organizers are vowing to take “emergency countermeasures.” The Asahi Shimbun, The Japan Times and Reuters, among others, have cited...

By Michael Randazzo. Swimming World Contributor On Sunday, the NCAA men’s varsity water polo season came to a close as USC jumped out to a huge lead then held on for a 14-12 national title win over Stanford at Avery Aquatic Center. It was a fitting end to the NCAA’s fiftieth national championship to...

Continuing Swimming World's exclusive interview with Christopher Ramsey, CEO of USA Water Polo, the conversation picks up with USAWP's executive director discussing financial challenges due to the cancellation of a majority of the organization's premier events—including the Junior Olympics, the worl...

Earlier this week the Olympic Club affirmed that the Cutino Awards ceremony honoring the top male and female intercollegiate water polo athletes is still scheduled to take place on the first weekend in June. But, like everything in these challenging times, the status of the most prestigious individu...

An incident last weekend in St. Petersburg, Florida exposed a flash point in a contentious legal battle involving USA Water Polo and former SOPAC Zone coach Bahram Hojreh, the subject of criminal and civil charges for alleged abuse of his players. Pictures of Hojreh with members of the Jacksonville ...

Last night, after a four month delay due to COVID-19, USA Water Polo feted its 2020 Hall of Fame class of honorees. It was worth the wait as new inductees Gavin Arroyo, Kelly Rulon, Gary Robinett, Elsie Windes and Bruce Wigo, along with previous Hall of Fame honorees, were recognized in an online ce...

Fortuitous Path Has Made Greg Mescall the Voice of Water Polo One part of Greg Mescall’s dual career path had been ingrained from a young age. The second came by random chance early in that professional career. Mescall has always been drawn to sports and to their presentation. He was the kid that wo...

BY Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Today, tomorrow and Sunday the USA Water Polo Junior Olympics—which over the past two decades has grown into the largest water polo tournament in the world—opens Northeast Region Zone Qualifications in Greenwich, CT. 42 teams from Connecticut, Maryland...

For the 2019 Pete Cutino Awards presentation—given annually to the country's top male and female collegiate water polo athletes—there was a pronounced change; the event was broadcast live for the first time. Saturday night at The Olympic Club in downtown San Francisco, Greg Mescall, USA Water Polo D...

In response to the petition launched Wednesday calling for the resignation of USA Water Polo CEO Christopher Ramsey and Board Chair Michael Graff, late Wednesday night the organization released a statement. It alleges that one of the USAWP's staff members is listed as a supporter without their conse...

USA Water Polo, the national governing body for the sport in America, has demonstrated a willingness of late to expand out of its California base to promote water polo in the U.S. The most recent example of its growth strategy was on display a week ago at the first-ever Olympic Development Program (...

PHOENIX, Arizona, June 4. SWIMMING World is proud to announce its eighth annual Sports Information Director of the Year award. Swimming Canada's Nathan White has earned the 2014 honor. The Swimming World SID of the Year is an "editor's award" chosen solely by General Manager of Media Properties Jaso...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor In the wake of the recent grotesque scandal at USA Gymnastics, in which Larry Nassar, former team doctor for the U.S. Olympics program, was sentenced to life imprisonment for sexually abusing athletes, American youth sports organizations are reviewing ...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor In a highly anticipated men's water polo re-match between long-standing rivals, on Saturday morning #3 California avenged an early season upset loss to #2 UCLA with a 12-9 win at Spieker Aquatics Center in Westwood. Cal’s Odysseas Masmanidis led the Go...

Davis, CA - May 5 - Melissa Seidemann's (Walnut Creek, CA/Stanford/NYAC) goal with one second left from beyond five meters secured a 6-5 victory for Team USA Water Polo over Canada on day four of competition at the FINA Intercontinental Tournament. Seidemann's goal capped a rally for the United Stat...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Last week, the Pac-12 Networks—arguably American water polo’s most important broadcast partner—announced its 2018 fall schedule of livePac-12 sports broadcasts. Its coverage of men’s intercollegiate polo will include seven matches between Pac-12 member...