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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...

Editor’s Note: The 2019 NCAA Women’s Water Polo Tournament is happening this week—and Swimming World has you covered! Keep up with all the action online or look for #SwimmingWorld on Twitter and other social media platforms. STANFORD, CA. A full day of action under ideal conditions in Stanford’s Ave...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor With conference tournament play underway this weekend, by Sunday night all eight berths in the 2018 NCAA Men's Water Polo Tournament will be finalized; six automatic berths for conference winners and two at-large bids claimed by whichever of the Big Fo...

NCAA Water Polo’s Best Honored June 7 at The Olympic Club The 26th Annual Peter J. Cutino Awards—college water polo’s highest individual honor will be presented on Saturday, June 7, 2025, at The Olympic Club in San Francisco. Named for legendary coach Peter J. Cutino, the award recognizes the top ma...

Tournament bids are now set and the real action begins Saturday with regional play-in matches for the 2018 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament. Princeton will host George Washington at 1 p.m. (EST) while Long Beach State will face Pomona-Pitzer at 10 p.m. (EST) in Long Beach. By virtue of a 12-10 win o...

Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor At the conclusion of a hectic weekend of conference play, where all eight entrants to the 2017 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament were decided, one thing stood out: change at the top of varsity polo is rare. Despite the inclusion of the University of the Pa...

Stanford, UCLA Advance to NCAA Men's Water Polo Semifinals Top-seeded UCLA demonstrated its offensive depth with a commanding 20-3 victory against Salem University in the quarterfinal round of the NCAA Championships. Freshman attacker Ryder Dodd and graduate student Makoto Kenney spearheaded the Bru...

Following a long illness, Bob Horn, men’s swim and water polo coach for UCLA, and Olympic water polo athlete and coach for the U.S., has passed away at the age of 87. [caption id="attachment_339845" align="alignleft" width="275"] Bob Horn at Fullerton. Photo Courtesy: UCLA Athletics[/caption] Born i...

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...

Adam Wright is one of America's best coaches, and his approach to his UCLA men’s and women’s teams, as well as the health of the sport in the U.S., is both frank and refreshing. Much has been written about his career playing for the U.S. Senior Men’s National Team—participating in three Olympics, an...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Last weekend the 2018 season for men’s water polo season started off with a bang! At the Bruno Classic, Harvard, #9 in the latest Collegiate Water Polo Association’s Poll, upset #11 UC Davis, winning 15-14. It was a back-and-forth affair, punctuated by...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Editor’s Note: Last weekend, Swimming World spoke twice with Adam Wright, head coach for the men’s and women’s water polo teams at UCLA: the Friday before a 2017 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament semifinal match against Pacific—an 11-9 win for the Bruin...

Growth Mindset Has Led Max Irving to Water Polo Stardom One wakeup call occasioned another for Max Irving. It was 2017, and Irving’s star was rising fast. He’d gone from a redshirt season at UCLA in 2013 to an All-American. That June brought his first U.S. national team call—in the FINA Intercontine...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Adam Krikorian is arguably one of America’s finest and most accomplished coaches in any discipline. After winning 10 NCAA titles as a head coach of the UCLA men’s and women’s water polo teams (men: 1999, 2000, 2004; women: 2001, 2003, 2005-2009), in 20...

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 ...

Ben Hallock is up for this year’s Peter J. Cutino Award for the best collegiate water polo player along with Cal Berkeley attacker Johnny Hooper and UCLA goalie Alex Wolf, two players who he has long played with and against throughout his water polo career. [On Deck With UCLA Water Polo's Alex Wolf....

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor The women’s water polo season is now in full tilt, as the last of the varsity programs will open play this weekend at the Mercyhurst Invitational in Erie, PA. There has been a great deal of action so far—including a big match last weekend at the Triton...

A tweet from USA Water Polo's account—followed by numerous accolades—registered a specific milestone for Adam Krikorian, U.S. Senior Women's Water Polo Head Coach: a decade leading Team USA to unparalleled success. Since taking over the national team from Guy Baker in 2009, following the American wo...

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...

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...