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[caption id="attachment_628668" align="alignright" width="450"] UCLA win Back to Back NCAA Water Polo Champions[/caption] UCLA Stuns USC at the Buzzer to Win 2025 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Championship, 11–10 By Swimming World Staff STANFORD, Calif. – Same venue, same rivalry, new layer of history. Down...

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...

Virginia Women, Texas Men Remain Atop CSCAA Top 25 polls The Virginia women’s team and Texas men remain atop the CSCAA Top 25 polls in December, released on Thursday. Texas led the way for the men with 400 points. Arizona State remains second, with Indiana third. California moved up two spots to fou...

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 ...

In Return to College Swimming, Torri Huske Seeking Individual National Title While Leading Stanford In her already international career that is already Hall-of-Fame worthy, Torri Huske has captured an individual world title and an individual Olympic gold medal while winning 26 total senior-level int...

SMU Invitational: Rafael Gu Sets Pool Records in Winning 100 Fly Rafael Gu set a pair of pool records for the Stanford men, who are well out in front after the first full day of the SMU Invitational. Arkansas leads the women’s competition in Dallas, each of which are six-team races. Gu set the pool ...

Passages: Arthur Lambert, U.S. Water Polo Hall of Fame Coach, 86 Arthur Lambert, the Hall of Fame coach of the 1968 U.S. Olympic team, died on Aug. 26. Lambert was 86 years old. He died from complications of Parkinson’s disease. On the international stage, he led Team USA to gold at the 1967 Pan Am ...

After Strong Season, Stanford Men Seeking Return to NCAA Powerhouse Status When Dan Schemmel took the Stanford men’s head coaching job, he knew he had a difficult task at hand. The team just had its lowest finish at NCAAs in more than 40 years, and the program was graduating Olympian Abrahm DeVine a...

STANFORD, Cal., Jan. 30. THE POWERHOUSE Stanford University men's swim team had little trouble dispensing with University of Pacific today, scoring a 115-78 victory in a dual meet at Avery Aquatic Center at Stanford University. The Cardinal mixed up its lineup but still managed to win every even...

Stanford Water Polo Legend Brenda Villa Returns as Associate Head Coach Brenda Villa, one of the most accomplished women’s water polo players in history, is returning to her alma mater Stanford as associate head coach. Stanford coach John Tanner made the announcement on Wednesday. He coached Villa, ...

Courtesy www.usawaterpolo.com WALNUT CREEK, CA - Sean Joy, STANFORD's senior driver (Orinda, CA), earned MPSF Player of the Week honors for his outstanding offensive contribution over the weekend, exploding for nine points in wins over No. 7 PEPPERDINE and No. 3 USC. In the Cardinal's 12-8 MPSF vict...

By Emma Foster, Swimming World College Intern On Super Bowl Sunday this year, the brand Always aired an ad highlighting what doing something “like a girl” means in society today. It was an immediate hit. The hashtag #likeagirl began trending on Twitter almost immediately in response to the call for ...

Summer Sanders Olympic Pool – Roseville, CA Roseville, CA—United States women’s water polo received a shot in the arm back on July 9, 2000 with Team USA emerging victorious in the 2000 Holiday Cup. The tournament, which featured all six teams that will be competing in Sydney this summer, established...

A study by a Stanford postdoctoral fellow published last week finds that Olympic swimmers are more than a third of a second faster, on average, in the evening than in the morning. The study is titled, “Gold, silver or bronze: circadian variation strongly affects performance in Olympic athletes.” It ...

TYR Sport Signs Olympic Medalist Claire Curzan At just 17-years-old, Claire Curzan is a rising victor in the water. A 15x Individual NAG record holder and the youngest female athlete to hold an American Record, Curzan has been a facet on the national stage for years.  She exploded onto the internati...

NCAA Women’s Championships Pre-Cut Psych Sheet: Virginia Holds 11 Top Seeds in Walsh Sisters' Finale The pre-cut psych sheets for the upcoming NCAA Women's Championships were released Tuesday morning. These are not the final entry lists for the meet, which will be held March 19-22 at Weyerhaeuser Ki...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 22. Olympians Aaron Peirsol, Diana Munz, Megan Quann and Scott Goldblatt all were winners tonight, on the fourth day of competition at the USA Swimming Spring National Championships, being held at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Peirsol, who set a world record i...

By David Rieder. Before he came to Stanford in the fall of 2015, Abrahm DeVine never saw himself becoming a nationally-relevant swimmer. But at the end of that first year, he “blew my times out of the water” at the Pac-12 championships and qualified for the NCAA championships, only to be intimidated...

2022 NCAA Men’s Championships: Leon Marchand Breaks Dressel 200 IM Mark with 1:37.69 Leon Marchand’s impact on NCAA swimming has been immediate, to say the last. The Frenchman added his name to the list of international freshmen to make massive impacts on the college scene, going 1:37.69 to win the ...

Morning Splash by David Rieder. Jody Maxmin, a professor of art history at Stanford, remembers that Monday in late September 2016 when the tall but familiar-looking girl with wet hair walked into her classroom. She came in with Brooke Stenstrom, the daughter of former Stanford quarterback Steve Sten...