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Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor INDIANAPOLIS, IN. In what Stanford head coach John Tanner described as one of the best collegiate water polo matches he’s been involved in, on Saturday his team rallied from a two-goal second half deficit to beat USC 11-10 in an NCAA women’s water polo se...

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...

After 14 days and almost 100 matches, the FINA World Water Polo Championships are now concluded. It was a fantastic tournament for the Italian men and American women, who each romped undefeated to gold at the Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center. It’s the first World Championship title in almo...

LIMA, PERU. Team USA is the big story here because of their out-sized success—their 54 match win streak is the longest in the Olympic era for either men’s or women’s polo—but the excitement of the first day of polo competition was carried by Peru’s Nizerrat Gauthier-Asmat. All of 15 years old and a ...

After cruising through five matches at the FINA Intercontinental Tournament with relative ease, the USA Women's National Team found themselves in a battle with longtime rival Australia in the title bout. As is often the case when the two meet, it came down to the wire. This time Team USA prevailed, ...

USA Women’s Water Polo routed Russia, 17-8, Friday in the FINA World League semifinals, booking a finals date with Hungary on Saturday. Maddie Musselman, Makenzie Fischer and Stephania Haralabidis each tallied a hat trick as the U.S. handled Russia easily. It steps up a finals date with Hungary, whi...

Sunday morning at the 2019 FINA World Aquatic Championship, it was possible to anticipate that Holland might advance to face Italy, and that Russia would play the United States in the World Water Polo Championship semifinals. By evening, after all four quarterfinal matches were complete, a series of...

PRINCETON, NJ. After having not lost in 624 days — a span of 64 matches — the U.S. Senior Women’s Water Polo team twice stared down defeat before rallying to beat the Netherlands 23-22 via penalty shots on Day Two of the USA Water Polo Holiday Cup. It was such a crazy game — one day after the Americ...

RIVERSIDE, CA. At 7 p.m. (PST) Saturday night in the Riverside Aquatics Complex at Riverside City College, the USA Women's National Water Polo Team will face the Greek National Team in the first of four friendly matches to be played in various Southern California locations. The other dates and times...

Women’s water polo opened play Sunday at the 18th FINA World Championships in Gwangju, and there were two significant scores that stood out: the host South Koreans lost 64-0 to Hungary, while South Africa, which is embroiled in a scandal due to a controversial coaching change, lost 33-0. The shellac...

BY Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor. INDIANAPOLIS, IN. In a match that encapsulated all the anxiety and delight, all the joy and dejection of perhaps one of the greatest seasons of NCAA varsity women’s water polo, the 2017 NCAA Women’s Water Polo Championship final was reduced to a singl...

LIMA, PERU. For a brief moment, it appeared that the American women’s squad, overwhelming favorites for gold at the 2019 Pan American Games, might have found a worthy opponent. Brazil, backstopped by Olympian Victoria Chamorro—familiar with the U.S. roster well from her days playing at USC—frustrate...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor In an encouraging sign for Head Coach Dejan Udovicic as well as for American water polo fans, on Sunday the U.S. Men’s Senior Team defeated Australia 9-6 in the final of the 2018 FINA Intercontinental Cup in Auckland, New Zealand. Led by three goals fr...

Following two straight victories over Australia in exhibition play last week, USA Women's National Team Head Coach Adam Krikorian has announced the roster for the FINA Intercontinental Tournament taking place this week in Auckland, New Zealand. Team USA opens play with Australia on Tuesday in New Ze...

Both the Men and Women's teams from the U.S. claimed the gold medals at stake yesterday in Auckland (NZL) where the Intern-Continental Cups of the FINA Water Polo World League were taking place since Tuesday April 3. The USA men's team were too fit and fast for Australia with a 9-6 victory in the fi...

Editor's Note: With a 10-9 win Sunday over Italy in the 2019 FINA World League SuperFinal title match, the U.S. women's water polo team qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Extending a half-decade of dominance, the US Senior Women’s Water Polo Team is on the verge of qualifying for the 2020 Tokyo ...

Huntington Beach, CA - August 1 - The USA Women's National Team returns to action later this month when they host Australia in a three-game series in California. The two longtime rivals will meet on August 19 in Berkeley, CA at the University of California, on August 22 in Pebble Beach, CA at the St...

LIMA, PERU. While the USA Women deal with the aftershocks of a tragic mishap in South Korea, the American men have one goal in mind: capture gold at the 2019 Pan American Games and qualify for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. In conversation with reporters yesterday at the Pan American Athletes Village, ...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor When Team USA opened play at the 2018 FINA Intercontinental Tournament in Auckland, New Zealand by dropping a match to Australia by 9-8, it appeared that perhaps this might be the year that a dominant U.S. women’s water polo squad would come back to th...

The USA Women's National Team picked up their second straight win over Australia tonight, claiming an 11-4 win at the Stevenson School. A crowded pool deck cheered on Team USA as four different players scored two goals each including Maggie Steffens (Danville, CA/Stanford/NYAC), Makenzie Fischer (La...