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His players affectionately called him “The Old Man.” And he treated them like family—one that stretched into the hundreds. “That's why all of his boys were sons-in-law,” said Gary Figueroa, who really was a son-in law. The “he” in question is legendary University of California at Irvine Head Coach E...

Courtesy www.usawaterpolo.com Winnipeg, Canada - Team USA's aggressive defense stymied Cuba on Saturday, leading to a 6-4 victory in preliminary play at the 1999 Pan American Games. Strong pressure on the outside gave Cuba limited chances early as the United States built a 3-0 lead in the first peri...

Nice, France - The USA Men's National Team lost to Italy in the French Open. The French Open starts the 2000 international competitive season, which will conclude with the Sydney Olympic Games, September 15 through October 1. The USA held a 4-2 lead with 1:22 left in the second quarter on two go...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor When Sasa Branisavljevic and Uros Dzelebdzic broke away from Huntington Beach Water Polo Club five years ago to form Vanguard Aquatics, it’s likely they never expected to enjoy immediate success. But, given their experience with Southern California's a...

University of Alabama senior swimmer Anton McKee and Texas A&M University senior swimmer Sarah Gibson headline the 2017 Academic All-America® Division I Men’s and Women’s At-Large Teams, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). McKee and Gibson have been selected ...

By Eric Velazquez U.S. goalkeeper Dan Hackett shook off four games of subpar goal play on Wednesday night against Greece, making a slew of amazing stops and finishing with 10 in three quarters played. His Hellenic opponents met came up empty shot after shot last night, with Hackett getting to balls ...

SYRACUSE, June 2. THE USA Men’s National Water Polo team lost twice today in the Trofeo de Siracusa, International Water Polo Tournament in Syracuse, Sicily. The losses came to Spain and Italy by scores of 7-1 and 6-3. Spain jumped out to a 4-0 first period lead and extended their dominance to a 5-0...

La Romana, Dominican Republic. March 24. THE draw is set and the USA Men's National Water Polo Team will play Canada in the opening game of the round-robin qualification tournament in the coastal resort of La Romana in the Dominican Republic on Sunday. USA officials view this game as a "must win...

Courtesy www.usawaterpolo.com SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - The United States men won their third consecutive match at the FINA World Cup, defeating Greece 10-4. The win send the team into the fifth place match Sunday against Yugoslavia, 7-5 winners over Australia. Greece struck first with an outside shot by ...

By USA Water Polo Cosenza, Italy (June 5, 2001) - The USA men's national water polo team beat Croatia for the second time in a week in a game played in Cosenza, Italy Tuesday night. Jeremy Pope (Fresno, CA/Pepperdine '99), Ryan Bailey (Long Beach, CA/UC Irvine '99) and Wolf Wigo (New Yor...

Courtesy www.usawaterpolo.com Winnipeg, Canada - Brad Schumacher, Chi Kredell and Chris Humbert scored four goals apiece, and the United States defense held Mexico scoreless in the second half en route to a 20-2 shellacking of Mexico in preliminary play Sunday at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winni...

Editor’s Note: Swimming World was down in Coral Springs, Florida for the annual South Florida International Tournament. Offered by Michael Goldenberg, his daughter Elina and extensive coaching staff from the South Florida Water Polo Club, this annual age group tournament—started in 2003 by Istvan Cs...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, July 3. THE United States men’s national water polo team will play a three game exhibition series against the Brazilian national team, July 6-8, 2001. Each game will be played at a different Southern California venue. The series will be a rematch of the final game from th...

Calgary, CAN (March 16) - Water Polo Canada officials argued over the last time it happened. The best guess was 1976, but it didn't matter. The last time Canada beat the USA in men's water polo was a long, long time ago. Finally! After years of struggling, and playing second fiddle to the su...

2000 Men’s Senior Nationals - Day 2 Results Trojan.............9 San Diego Shores...7 George Csaszar burned the net for four goals for Trojan in a 9-7 win over San Diego Shores. Shores, who was massacred by the Olympic Club last night, 19-5, only converted one of its six man-advantage opportunities....

By Rich McEvoy (rmcevoy@uswp.org) Cosenza, Italy (June 7, 2001) – Followers of the Italian Men’s NationalWater Polo Team flocked in groves to the swimming stadium in Cosenza, Italy tonight hoping to watch their team play its final warm-up game against theUnited States Men’s National Water polo Team ...

LA ROMANA, Dominican Republic. March 26. WOLF WIGO (Stanford '95/NY, NY & SF, CA) scored four goals and Tony Azevedo (Stanford '04/Long Beach, CA) scored three goals in an 11-2 win over Argentina at the FINA World Championship Qualification tournament in La Romana, Dominican Republic. Like y...

USA Water Polo is proud to announce the 35th induction class for the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame. The seven-member class features six Olympic-medal winning athletes alongside one of the most decorated college coaches in the game. Olympic Gold and Silver medalists Betsey Armstrong, Jessica Steffens, ...

Virginia Tech continued to pile up the wins at their home Fall Invitational Friday evening. Klaudia Nazieblo, Jessica Hespeler and Brandon Fiala all posted solid swims for the Hokies, but the highlight came with Robert Owen's dominant victory in the men's 400 IM. Purdue captured first place in the w...

By Dan D’Addona. Army-Navy week ends with one of the most iconic football games in the country. It began on Saturday with one of the closest swim meets in the history of the rivalry. Like in football, Navy had held the upper hand in the rivalry recently, the Midshipman winning the past 25 Star Meets...