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Adam Wright Officially Resigns as Head Coach of UCLA Women's Water Polo Seven months after stepping away from his day-to-day role as head coach of the UCLA women's water polo, Adam Wright has officially resigned from the position. UCLA Athletics announced Wright's decision in a press release that wa...

By Michael Randazzo. Swimming World Contributor On Sunday, the NCAA men’s varsity water polo season came to a close as USC jumped out to a huge lead then held on for a 14-12 national title win over Stanford at Avery Aquatic Center. It was a fitting end to the NCAA’s fiftieth national championship to...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor With one week remaining, a pair of match-ups in Los Angeles today between Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) rivals set the stage for a compelling finish to the 2018 NCAA men’s varsity water polo regular season. #3 Cal will travel to Uytengsu Aq...

By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Contributor Editor’s Note: Steven Munatones is the founder of the World Open Water Swimming Association and the Daily News of Open Water Swimming. After each college water polo game and after morning workouts at some high schools, Team Moms go in overdrive...

USA Water Polo National League: Mission (UCLA) Wins 2025 Championship The 2025 USA Water Polo Men’s National League Championships wrapped up with a dramatic day of finals action at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, California. UCLA captured the National League crown in thrilling fashion over The O....

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....

NCAA Women’s Water Polo 2025: Full Conference Championship Recap and NCAA Tournament Outlook The road to Indianapolis is now officially set after an action-packed Sunday across NCAA Women’s Water Polo. Conference champions punched their tickets, top players delivered heroic performances, and NCAA To...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Dustin Litvak, the new head coach for the Princeton men’s team comes East from one of the most successful programs in the country: the UCLA Bruins, led by Adam Wright. Forsaking the Hollywood Hills for the Jersey Pine Barrens isn’t as terrible as it so...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor BROOKLYN—Because the whole of metro LA seems to be sustained by the motion picture industry, I wasn’t surprised that the cab I caught after the 2017 NCAA water polo title match was driven by an actor. Joe Spellman is a Hofstra University grad who got i...

His players affectionately called him “The Old Man.” And he treated them like family—one that stretched into the hundreds. “That's why all of his boys were sons-in-law,” said Gary Figueroa, who really was a son-in law. The “he” in question is legendary University of California at Irvine Head Coach E...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor With the selection last night of three at-large teams, the field is now set for the 2018 NCAA Women’s Water Polo Tournament. Defending champion Stanford, Cal and UCLA were selected to join fellow Pac12 member USC, which on Sunday won the Mountain Pacif...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Day One at the 2018 Mountain Pacific Invitational saw only one upset—Pepperdine, seeded #10, dispatched seventh-seeded UC San Diego by a score of 10-9—and many impressive individual performances. Cal’s Johnny Hooper is making up for time lost while pla...

With major tournaments being played almost every weekend, February is the busiest month in the NCAA varsity women’s water polo season. There are noteworthy match-ups all over the country, as teams look to sharpen skills for their respective conference seasons, which typically begin play in March. In...

By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Contributor Editor’s Note: Steven Munatones is the founder of the World Open Water Swimming Association and the Daily News of Open Water Swimming. Munatones' son Skyler is a junior playing for the UC San Diego men's water polo team. While UCLA (11 NCAA tit...

 By Rachel Andersen, Swimming World College Intern. On August 10, the final whistle blew for the 2019 Pan American Games. Much to the delight of the USA Women's National Team, they once again proved their mettle on the international stage. After six competitive games and with gold encircling their n...

Editor’s Note: The 2019 NCAA women’s water polo season officially opened on Saturday, January 12th with the ASU Invitational at Arizona State. Action continued last weekend for numerous NCAA varsity programs. Swimming World will provide previews of the seven varsity conferences—Big West, Collegiate ...

The UCLA women's water polo team completed a perfect season and claimed the NCAA Championship on Sunday at Spieker Aquatics Complex. The top-ranked Bruins defeated No. 3 Cal 7-4 in the finals to finish the season 26-0 and earn its eighth NCAA title in program history, the first under coach Adam Wrig...

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...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor The Massachusetts Institute of Technology—among the world’s top institutions of higher learning—will never be mistaken as a top destination for water polo athletes. But the Engineers, a Division III program, have experienced outsized success in recent ...

STANFORD, CA. Last weekend saw brilliant action at the 2019 NCAA Women’s Water Polo Tournament. For the first time in the almost two-decade history of the women’s national championship, both semifinals went to overtime, with USC overcoming Cal 10-8 and Stanford surviving a scare from UCLA to prevail...