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The Best American Men’s Water Polo Players of the NCAA Era (Part III: No. 1 to No. 10) By Jeff Moulton In the third and final installment of this three-part series, water polo expert Jeff Moulton discusses the individuals he has ranked No. 1 to 10 in his unofficial list of the top-25 American men’s ...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor The recent UANA Pan American Junior Water Polo Championship in Clearwater, Florida was an enlightening experience, underscoring as it did just how seriously select teams from both North and South America take their water polo at all levels. In particul...

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....

It's official: The International Olympic Committee has selected Los Angeles as the Host City of the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The City of Angels has also hosted the Games in 1932 and 1984, spreading pride and tradition through American Olympic athletes for the last eight decades. Some of th...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men’s water polo tournament will celebrate its golden anniversary this weekend, with the national championship being held at Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center. Looking back at the history of the country’s most prestigious polo tourname...

2000 UPS International Cup June 27-July 2, 2000 u.s. water polo national aquatic center los alamitos, ca Croatia 1-1-1-4--7 Team UPS 1-1-1-0--3 Yugoslavia 5-4-3-2--14 Italy 1-2-1-4-- 8 USA 0-3-1-3--7 Australia 2-2-3-0--7 Game 1: Scoring: Croatia: Dogas 2, Stritof 2, Sanc 1, Kobescak 1, Oreb 1 Team U...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor One of the brightest young minds in American water polo is not at USC. Or Stanford. Or Cal or UCLA. Alex Rodriguez—known as “A-Rod,” just like the notorious former baseball player—is head coach for the men’s and women’s teams at Pomona-Pitzer, a Divisi...

Lessons with the Legends: Ratko Rudic By Michael J. Stott Ratko Rudic was born in Yugoslavia in 1948. At age 15, he began a distinguished playing career in which he made 297 international appearances with his country’s national team, winning medals at the World Championships, European Championshi...

The U.S. Pan American Men's Water Polo Team won their sixth straight Pan Am Games crown topping Brazil 11-9. The U.S. men's water polo team had already earned a 2016 Olympic Games berth with their semifinal win over Canada, with the victory over Brazil capping an undefeated run in Toronto. Josh Samu...

Riverside, CA - June 4 - Another sellout crowd and another Team USA win over Serbia. This time a pivotal third quarter pushed the USA Men's National Team to a 9-5 win over Serbia, their second straight over the second ranked team in the world, at the Riverside Aquatics Complex. Bret Bonanni (Hunting...

SYRACUSE, Italy. June 1. RYAN BAILEY, (Long Beach, CA/UCI ’99) the six foot six, two-hundred and fifty pound center forward, powered the USA to a 6-5 victory over the Netherlands at the Trofeo de Siracusa, a six nation international water polo tournament taking place in Syracuse on Sicily. Bailey sc...

Courtesy www.usawaterpolo.com Winnipeg, Canada - Chris Humbert's five goals in just 13 minutes of play paired with solid goal-tending by Dan Hackett led Team USA to an 11-7 victory over Cuba in the gold-medal match of the 1999 Pan American Games. More importantly, though, the victory secured an Olym...

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...

Nice, France - Italy defeated the USA, 11-10 in an exciting, closely contested water polo game to win the 2000 French Open title in Nice, France. Two-time Olympic medalist Silipo started the scoring for Italy, but the USA came back in the first period on goals by Wolf Wigo (NY, NY), Chris Humbert (L...

2000 Men’s Senior Nationals July 21-July 23, 2000 U.S. Water Polo National Aquatic Center Los Alamitos, CA July 21, 2000 Long Beach Shore...12 Big Valley..........7 Scoring: Long Beach:Lynn 4, Oeding 2, Hadfield 1, Armato 1, Azevedo 2, Pope 2 Big Valley: Lund 1, Wisniewski 2, Norvall 1, Bayse 1, Now...

LA ROMANA, Dominican Republic. March 27. WOLF Wigo (Stanford '95/NY, NY & SF, CA) scored three goals and Genai Kerr (UC Irvine '99/Coronado, CA) recorded 12 saves in the goal to lead to the USA to a hard fought 7-5 win over Brazil at the FINA World Championship Qualification tournament in La...

PALO ALTO, CA., Nov. 10. TOP-ranked and undefeated Stanford (17-0) swept past Pepperdine in a key Mountain Pacific Sports federation match here this afternoon, 5-3. The Cardinal, seeking to make Coach Dante Dettamanti's final season at the Stanford helm a championship year, drowned the Waves on ...

A Who's Who of Olympic athletes, coaches and others at the helm of the aquatic sports sector sent a letter Tuesday to President Donald Trump urging him to help get pools reopened across the U.S. as a matter of public health and safety. The letter, which is below, is signed by 36 Olympic swimmers and...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor. One of the most influential thinkers about the future of American youth water polo is a Serbian native who lives in the northern reaches of Canada. Dragan Jovanovic, formerly a top goalie for Yugoslavia and Serbia, is the CEO for DJ Global Wave, a Cal...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor BROOKLYN, NY. One of the more compelling stories of the 2016 men’s varsity water polo season was Harvard’s Cinderella-like run to the NCAA Men’s Tournament Final Four. The Crimson, who in 35 previous years of varsity play had never qualified for the po...