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Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor SAN FRANCISCO, CA. In a decided contrast to last year’s ceremony, where controversy overshadowed the selection process, the 2018 Peter J. Cutino Awards ceremony at The Olympic Club in downtown San Francisco saw wins by the prohibitive favorites for the cr...

Ryann Neushul and Ryder Dodd Win 2025 Peter J. Cutino Awards for NCAA Water Polo Excellence On a warm June evening in the heart of San Francisco, The Olympic Club once again played host to the 26th Annual Peter J. Cutino Awards, honoring the outstanding female and male collegiate water polo players....

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Four male finalists for the Peter J. Cutino Award, given annually to the outstanding female and male Collegiate water polo players in the United States as voted by the coaches of NCAA Division I schools, were announced today by The Olympic Club. [capti...

Editor's Note: For the first time in the 19-year history of the award, Swimming World covered the Cutino Awards, the most prestigious event in American water polo. Thanks to Gary Crooks, Athletic Director for The Olympic Club, which has hosted the Cutinos for almost two decades, we were able to have...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Yesterday, The Olympic Club of San Francisco announced the 2017-2018 Cutino Award finalists. The female finalists are: Makenzie Fischer of Stanford; Paige Hauschild and Amanda Longan from USC. The male finalists, who were previously announced last Dece...

BY Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor In a nod to the necessity of the netminder, Princeton’s Ashleigh Johnson and USC’s McQuin Baron were recipients of the 2017 Peter J. Cutino Award Saturday night at The Olympic Club in San Francisco. Named for the deceased University of California Berke...

USA Beats Australia 13–12 at the Buzzer to Open Water Polo Exhibition Series Team USA opened its June men’s water polo exhibition series with a dramatic 13–12 victory over Australia, sealed by a buzzer-beating goal at Mt. San Antonio College. In front of a spirited California crowd, the match feat.....

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By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor PRINCETON, NJ. Laura Woodhead is not your typical water polo mom. The accomplished lawyer from the San Francisco Bay Area was a member of two Stanford Pac-12 conference champions (1987, 1988) under head swimming coach George Haine; in 1987, she helped ...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Earlier today The Olympic Club in San Francisco announced three finalists for this year's Peter J. Cutino award. As is often the case with an honor of this magnitude—selecting the year's top male collegiate water polo player—intrigue swirls around who ...

For the 2019 Pete Cutino Awards presentation—given annually to the country's top male and female collegiate water polo athletes—there was a pronounced change; the event was broadcast live for the first time. Saturday night at The Olympic Club in downtown San Francisco, Greg Mescall, USA Water Polo D...

BY Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor In my mind it’s the most prestigious award—maybe in all of water polo. I say that because the people behind the Cutino Award—The Olympic Club, number one—it’s a first-class event. The Olympic Club is a prestigious, old-school club. They do it right. Ad...

Andy Burke, a long-time administrator for water polo who served on numerous U.S. and international committees, passed away last Friday at the age of 91. For his efforts on behalf of American water polo, in 2018 Burke was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) for his substanti...

Editor’s Note: In one of the seminal matches in Eastern water polo history, on November 13, 1977, Pittsburgh faced Bucknell at the Joseph C. Trees Pool for the Eastern Water Polo League Southern Division Championship. A rematch of the 1976 final, won 14-12 by Pitt, with less than a minute remaining ...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor SAN FRANCISCO, CA. The Peter J. Cutino Award, named after former college water polo player and legendary coach Peter J. Cutino, is considered the most prestigious individual award in American collegiate water polo. Sometimes referred to as the “Heisman...

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...

In an announcement last weekend that overlapped the 2019 NCAA Women’s Water Polo Tournament, The Olympic Club released the finalists for the Peter J. Cutino Award. For the men—previously announced last December—the nominees are Ben Hallock (Stanford), Johnny Hooper (Cal), and Alex Wolf (UCLA). The w...