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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...

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 ...

The 2019 NCAA Men's Water Polo Tournament field was set on Sunday, with five conferences bestowing automatic bids on their tournament champions, and two at-large bids being designated by selection. In a change from the past five years, there will not be eight participants; the Southern California In...

Peter Richardson, Jacy Dyer to Lead U.S. Team to 2023 World University Games Peter Richardson and Jacy Dyer have been named head coach of the men’s and women’s teams, respectively, for the United States at the 2023 World University Games. Both will work with director of swimming Ian Quinn to select ...

As the coronavirus ravages the country, the human toll is easily traceable. Click on a link and find an up-to-the-minute count of COVID-19 victims. There’s also invisible consequences of this all-too-deadly virus. Fear will be the biggest legacy of the global pandemic, but as Steve Doten, commission...

In 2019 NCAA Men's Water Polo Tournament action Thursday at Pacific’s Chris Kjeldsen Pool, third-seeded Pepperdine and #4 USC won and advanced to the semifinals, to be held Saturday. The Waves, appearing in the national championship for the first time in two decades, rode a six-goal explosion by Chr...

Livermore Aquacowboys Seniors Gabby Kleman & Gabe Benitez Announce Class of 2025 Commitments The Livermore Aquacowboys recently announced two college commitments for senior Gabe Benitez and junior Gabby Kleman. Both athletes are lifelong friends and attend Granada High School in Livermore, CA. When ...

BROOKLYN, NY. After a string of eye-opening developments—UC Santa Barbara beating #1 teams twice in one week and Cal losing three times in the season’s first two weekends, including to UC Davis for the first time in four decades—it seems right to delve into what’s going on with men’s water polo. And...

And then there were six. The Bucknell Bison opened the 2019 Men's NCAA Water Polo Tournament with a hard fought 13-12 victory in the opening round against the 29-0 Harvard Crimson at Blodgett Pool in Cambridge, MA.  In the survive and advance portion of the season, John McBride's team earned a trip ...

Hawaii’s women’s team won its fifth consecutive (sixth overall) title at the MPSF Championships that concluded Saturday, while the BYU men’s team claimed its fifth title and first since 2016. Meet Page Full Results The BYU men put forth a dominant performance, scoring 885.50 points to outdistance Ha...

In a potential death knell to the 2020-21 men’s water polo season in California, the Big West Conference, which numbers Long Beach State, UC Davis, UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara among its members, has announced the cancellation of all fall sports due to the rising COVID-19 infection rates in the Go...

Big West Approves Addition of Men’s and Women’s Swimming in 2024-25 The Big West Conference last week approved the addition of men’s and women’s swimming and diving for the 2024-25 season. The decision was taken at the Big West Board of Directors spring meeting, which included hosting NCAA president...

In an unprecedented chain reaction to the impact of the novel coronavirus on American sporting life, today, the presidents of universities in some of the nation's largest and most prestigious athletic conferences voted to suspend the remainder of their respective seasons, including a currently conte...

In the wake of #1 USC—defending national champions—loss last Sunday to UC Santa Barbara, the first time the Trojans have lost to the Gauchos since 1990, there was a roiling of the rankings in the Collegiate Water Polo Association’s Top 20. But not enough to suit fans of the upstart Gauchos, off to t...

The Tritons of UC San Diego are leaving the Western Water Polo Association after this season—and the rest of the league can’t wait to say good-bye! As part of a move from NCAA DII to DI status, UCSD is moving all of its sports to the Big West by 2020. Before they go, they’re favored for yet another ...

The UC Irvine Invitational was renamed The Barbara Kalbus Invitational in 2017 to honor Dr. Barbara Kalbus, who was seemingly at every important competition involving college or USA Water Polo events in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Kalbus—inducted in 1993 into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame—worked tireles...

UC Davis lost a game to its rival UC San Diego during this summer's USA Water Polo Senior National Championships and its first two games against the Tritons earlier in the season, but UC Davis coach Dan Leyson was looking at the long run. By the time the Western Water Polo Association (WWPA) confere...

Earlier this week,  Sonoma State University, a Division II institution and a part of the 23-member California State University System, announced that it is dropping women's water polo from its athletic program effective at the end of the academic year. Chelsea Hennan, the team's head coach the past ...

UC Davis has hired Matt Macedo as its he women’s swimming and diving coach, continuing Macedo’s travels through the state’s swimming realm. Macedo spent seven season at UC Santa Barbara after six at UC San Diego. He graduated from the University of California in 2003. Macedo replaces Barbara Jahn, w...

Daniel Leyson has been all over the world for water polo, including an appearance at the Olympics—the highest level of competition for his sport. Along the way on a career that has taken him from club coaching with Rose Bowl to collegiate stops at his alma mater, USC (Class of ’92), and UCLA, to pla...