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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...

Bill Barnett, who for five decades coached boys and girls water polo at Newport Harbor High School, and who led the U.S. Men’s Water Polo Team at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics, has passed away at the age of 76. According to Dan Albano in The Orange County Register, the venerated coach who steered the S...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor The Cutino Awards Dinner has been held at The Olympic Club in San Francisco for the past 19 years—and Chris Dorst has been at every single one, leading one of the greatest celebrations in American water polo. Which is just as it should be, because if P...

Long Beach City College Dedicates Monte Nitzkowski Aquatic Center Long Beach City College on Wednesday dedicated the Monte Nitzkowski Aquatic Center in honor of the hall of fame coach. A member of the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame and International Swimming Hall of Fame, Nitzkowski three times served ...

by Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor. By many measures the greatest player in American water polo history, last summer at the Rio Olympics Tony Azevedo joined an exclusive club — only eight other water polo athletes have competed in five or more Olympics (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016)....

Each day through August 4, Jeff Commings will take you back 30 years to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, highlighting one of that day’s swimming events that continues to be a benchmark for the current culture of the sport. A full list of medalists from that day’s competition follows at the end of t...

Goalkeeper Dan Hackett Notches 14 Saves in USA’s Final Pre-Olympic Contest Malibu, CA—Coming into last week’s training series with Romania, the U.S. Olympic water polo team didn’t know exactly what to expect. A few factors figured into this uncertainty. For one, the Romanians, who will not be in the...

As much as anyone over the past 40 years, including top-tier coaches like Monte Nitzkowski, Pete Cutino, Bob Horn, Bill Barrett, and the recently deceased Ted Newland, Coach Richard Francis “Doc” Hunkler shaped the sport of water polo in America. Hunkler, who passed away last week at the age of 83, ...

Monte Nitzkowski passed away Thursday night. The legendary water polo coach at Long Beach City College and with the U.S. National Water Polo team was considered the most innovative coach in the sport's history. Nitzkowski coached the 1972 Olympic team to a bronze medal and the 1984 squad to a silver...