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By Swimming World Staff UCLA’s Repeat Bid, USC’s Spoiler Role and a Loaded Final Four The 2025 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Championship at Stanford has turned into a dream bracket for fans. Defending champion UCLA is two wins away from going back-to-back. USC looks perfectly positioned to play spoiler. Ho...

ESPN airing NCAA Water Polo Championship 3pm PST Stanford, Calif. – Same pool, same rivals, same trophy on the line – but with just enough change on both benches to make the 2025 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Championship feel wide open. On Sunday afternoon at Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center, UCLA and USC ...

Last week Princeton University announced that its men's swimming and diving team's season was being suspended after misogynistic and racist messages were discovered on a school listserv. Today, the University's initial press release was updated to announce that the season has been cancelled. The upd...

Agon is the proud sponsor of all high school coverage (recruiting, results, state championships, etc.) on SwimmingWorld.com. For more information about Agon, visit their website AgonSwim.com. By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. February 8th marks the beginning of a weekend of high scho...

When you’ve won 68 straight games in a two-year period, and beaten everyone who plays your sport, there’s not much you can do for an encore. Except keep winning, of course, which is exactly what the U.S. Senior Women’s Water Polo Team has done, brilliantly. During competition last week at the 2019 U...

The men's Ivy League swimming and diving championships kicked off tonight at Blodgett Pool on the campus of Harvard University. The host school is the defending champion, having won the last three seasons. The Crimson look to claim their 26th team title and will be challenged by Princeton, which has...

Kentucky Names Bret Lundgaard Head Swim Coach The University of Kentucky on Monday named Bret Lundgaard as its new head coach of men’s and women’s swimming. Lundgaard was previously the coach of the Princeton women’s swimming team. He replaces Lars Jorgensen, who resigned last month. Lundgaard has b...

Play in the 2020 NCAA women's varsity started last week with were early season upsets. UCLA, Cal and Michigan lost and felt it in the CWPA Top 25 varsity rankings. A number of schools begin play this weekend, while others are in the midst of taxing non-conference schedules in preparation for confere...

CAMBRIDGE, MA. It was a day of great competition at Blodgett Pool on the Harvard campus, with the host Crimson scoring two victories—including a sudden-death overtime scare against Pomona-Pitzer—to run a season-opening winning streak to 16. The biggest winner Saturday may have been St. Francis, down...

In the latest development of the fast-moving coronavirus crisis in the United States, due to the dangers posed by Covid-19 the presidents of the eight Northeastern institutions that constitute the Ivy League voted earlier today to cancel all athletic competition in their spring sports for the remain...

The news came like a thunderclap; #1 University of Southern California, the defending national champions, lost a match in their opening weekend of play for the first time since 1996. Adding insult to injury, the 13-9 defeat came at the hands of UC Santa Barbara, a team that had not beaten the Trojan...

The fourth and final night of the Ivy League men's swimming and diving championships from the campus of Harvard University. Harvard leads the team standings heading into the final, with Princeton within striking distance. A few swimmers will be challenging for their third individual titles. Events t...

Princeton Jumps on Notre Dame Quickly to Take Double Dual at Navy Princeton’s women’s swim team started fast and kept the momentum going, topping Navy and Notre Dame over a two-day double dual meet in Annapolis Friday and Saturday. Notre Dame’s men swept their two dual meets, with Princeton topping ...

With the postseason for every NCAA varsity conference slated to begin this Friday, there was little change in the rankings of the Collegiate Water Polo Association’s Top 20 poll. There was, however, a couple of noteworthy matches last week that have impact on this weekend’s postseason action. A much...

Stroke Depth Helps Princeton Retain Cannon Trophy vs. Rutgers Depth in the stroke events helped Princeton top Rutgers, 212.5-87.5 and retain the Cannon Trophy in the battle of New Jersey programs held on Saturday. It’s the fifth straight year that No. 22 Princeton has won the Cannon Trophy, all sinc...

Starting today, Princeton men's water polo welcomes 13 teams to the DeNunzio Pool for a full weekend of competition; 23 matches that include seven teams from the Collegiate Water Polo Association's Top 20 rankings. Now in his second year leading the Princeton men's program is Dustin Litvak. Once a f...

Night three of the 2020 Ivy League men's swimming and diving championships got underway in Cambridge, Mass with Harvard and Princeton locked in a tight battle for the team title. Today's events included the timed final 1000 freestyle, 400 Individual Medley, 100 Butterfly, 200 Freestyle, 100 Breastst...

After Second Gold, Ashleigh Johnson Expounds on ‘Mission’ of Promoting Inclusion Ashleigh Johnson’s journey to water polo stardom is well known by now. She’s won two gold medals as the goalie behind the U.S. women’s powerhouse team. A native of Florida and a graduate of Princeton, she’s a rare non-C...

In a reflection of the rippling waves of growth that the sport is enjoying at the moment, Friday Mount St. Mary's Director of Athletics Lynne Robinson announced that, beginning in the 2020-21 school year, men's and women's water polo will become the Mount's 23rd and 24th varsity sports. "We are plea...

Cal’s Nikolaos Papanikolaou a Finalist for Cutino Award, Looking for Third Win Cal’s Nikolaos Papanikolaou was named one of three finalists for the men’s Peter J. Cutino Award, released Monday by the Olympic Club in San Francisco. Papanikolaou is joined by Princeton’s Roko Pozaric and Rafael Real Ve...