Read moreAs NCAA Men's Water Polo Season Goes into Conference Play, CWPA Top 20 Holds Steady01 November 2019The Collegiate Water Polo Association's Men's Varsity Top 20 poll—released on Wednesday—had no significant changes from the previous week. The biggest change was George Washington dropping out of the rankings after a one-sided loss to up-and-coming Navy. The country's top five programs—Stanford, UCL...
Long Beach Shore Ousts Olympic Club in Senior Nationals Final22 July 2000Championship Game: Olympic Club..........7 Long Beach Shore......8 Sunday’s championship game between the Olympic Club and Long Beach Shore Aquatics was nothing less than entertaining. Big shots, big saves, and big defense highlighted Long Beach’s 8-7 win over the Olympic Club. Long Beach, guided by...
Read more2017 Men’s Water Polo Preview: Golden Coast Conference31 August 2017Swimming World contributor Michael Randazzo is providing previews of the conferences that will send teams to the 2017 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament to be held December 2 and 3 at USC’s Uytengsu Aquatics Center. Teams arranged by projected order of finish. Rankings are from the 2017 Collegiate Wat...
Read moreRevenge of the GCC: Pacific, Pepperdine and UC Santa Barbara in Top Five of CWPA Varsity Poll28 October 2019It was another busy weekend for the CWPA Top 20. Unlike previous weeks, there were no major upsets—though that's to say that Cal losing to UC Santa Barbara is now common place, as opposed to the previous 15 years, when the Gauchos couldn't buy a win over the Golden Bears. Stanford, UCLA, Pacific and...
Read moreMPSF Invite Win Propels Stanford Back to # 1 in CWPA Top 20 Poll03 October 2019The MPSF Invitational—also known as the SoCal Invitational—has been a reliable measure of which of the Big Four, as Cal, Stanford, UCLA and USC are collectively identified, is the top dog in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation and, ultimately, the national championship. In the last 10 years, the ...
Read moreStanford Leaps Ahead in CWPA Top-Ten but UCLA Hopes to Crash Women’s Water Polo Rankings05 April 2019In a season of unprecedented tumult, with includes the almost-inconceivable firing of USC Head Coach Jovan Vavic, it should come as little surprise that there is corresponding turmoil in the Collegiate Water Polo Association’s Top-25 poll—specifically the nation’s top ten teams. The biggest change i...
Read more2019 Swimming World Men’s Water Polo Previews: Golden Coast Conference04 September 2019There’s an intriguing mix of men's water polo programs in the Golden Coast Conference. There’s Pacific, which—until derailed in last year’s conference final—had won back-to-back GCC titles (2016, 2017) behind a pair of foreign players. Then there’s Long Beach State, which has drawn in a core of ex-H...
Read moreStability Comes to CWPA Top 20; Stanford, UCLA & Pacific Top Three for Second Week in a Row10 October 2019For the first time in weeks, there’s relative stability at the top of the Collegiate Water Polo Association Top 20 poll. Stanford, UCLA and Pacific remained in the top three spots; leapfrogging UC Santa Barbara for #4 in the rankings was USC, a 10-9 winner over the Gauchos on Sunday in Santa Barbara...