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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...

Olympic Men’s Water Polo: Marko Vavic, Adrian Weinberg Lead U.S. to Semifinals in Shootout Win Two saves by Adrian Weinberg and a fifth-round goal from Marko Vavic led the United States to an 11-10 win over Australia in a penalty shootout in the Olympic quarterfinals Wednesday. The win sends the U.S...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Day Two at the Mountain Pacific Invitational saw host Stanford affirm its position as the nation’s top team. Behind freshman Jackson Seybold’s goal with one second remaining, the Cardinal ended UCLA’s 20-match win streak over two seasons—which includes...

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, CA - June 17 - USA Men's Senior National Team Head Coach Dejan Udovicic has announced his roster for the upcoming FINA World League Super Final. Coming off a gold medal at 2018 FINA Intercontinental Tournament, Team USA heads to Budapest, Hungary for competition following a week of...

It 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...

LOS ANGELES, CA. In the aftermath of a scandal such as the one that has upended the water polo community at USC, attempts at restoring normalcy start with the strong familial bonds at the core of any successful program—and for the past two decades, Southern Cal has been among the best in that regard...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor BERLIN, Germany. Perhaps overlooked in the focus on new rules and the positive feelings generated by the hometown German team’s success is that there is something else at stake here at the Europasportpark: four spots at the 2019 FINA World Water Polo C...

2019 was a year like no other for water polo. Not only did the Stanford men's program return to NCAA glory after almost two decades, the Cardinal women also won a national championship, making for a varsity polo sweep. Both the U.S. women's team (expected) and the American men (touch and go) qualifi...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor The 2018 NCAA men’s season begins next month, with reigning NCAA champion UCLA opening play on September 1 with a match against Fresno Pacific at Spieker Aquatic Center. Starting next week, Swimming World will preview the six conferences that will send...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Earlier today The Olympic Club in San Francisco announced three finalists for this year's Peter J. Cutino award. As is often the case with an honor of this magnitude—selecting the year's top male collegiate water polo player—intrigue swirls around who ...

Crunch Time! By Michael Randazzo In 2016, Dejan Udovicic, head coach of the U.S. men’s water polo team, made a bold proclamation: by 2020, he promised, his team would be Olympic gold medalists. “I am guaranteeing it,” he quipped to ESPN. Now, as the U.S. men prepare for a busy summer of play, cappe....

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Don’t look now, but a Fab Five may be on the horizon for USA Water Polo’s boy's youth team. Nico Tierney, Ethan Parrish, Ike Love, Tanner Pulice and Garret Griggs return from the group of 15 year olds that last summer stormed into Serbia and went undef...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Editor’s Note: Last weekend, Swimming World spoke twice with Adam Wright, head coach for the men’s and women’s water polo teams at UCLA: the Friday before a 2017 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament semifinal match against Pacific—an 11-9 win for the Bruin...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor LOS ANGELES — Thursday night in its own pool, the University of Southern California men’s water polo team had little difficulty subduing a game but overmatched Harvard squad in a 2017 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament quarterfinal match. In registering ...

Swimming World continues its coverage of the 2019 men’s and women’s water polo world championships. Stick with us for comprehensive coverage of this year’s most prestigious polo tournament. In what must have been an anxious start for some—including Matt Farmer, playing his first game representing hi...

Amid all the excitement of Stanford men’s water polo’s best start since the 2001 NCAA-winning squad is one basic reality: in the arms race that’s the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF), USC has the best collection of pure shooters in college polo. A 13-11 loss last Saturday to Stanford—their ...

In a first day of men’s water polo action marked by surprise, unexpected adversity and a reversed retirement, there was one constant: Serbia is playing better polo right now than any team in the world. The Serbs—a heavy favorite to win a second straight FINA World Championship crown, dominated an ov...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor The 2018 Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) Division I All-America selections are now out, and—no surprise–they confirm the strength of the pool of talent at Cal, Stanford, UCLA and USC. 18 members of the big four were among the count...

The U.S. men’s water polo team found itself down three goals less than two quarters into its Olympic tournament Sunday. It took a big effort to turn it around. Five goals from Alex Bowen did the trick, leading the U.S. to a 15-13 win over Japan in its Olympic water polo opener at the Tatsumi Water P...