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[caption id="attachment_628668" align="alignright" width="450"] UCLA win Back to Back NCAA Water Polo Champions[/caption] UCLA Stuns USC at the Buzzer to Win 2025 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Championship, 11–10 By Swimming World Staff STANFORD, Calif. – Same venue, same rivalry, new layer of history. Down...

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...

UCLA exploded for 6 1st-quarter goals and held off a late USC rally to defend its national title at the 1996 NCAA Water Polo Championships, hosted by UC San Diego. Final score: UCLA 8, USC 7. UC Davis defeated Massachusetts, 11-8 in the third place game.

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 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...

The current men’s NCAA Water Polo season is one of the most competitive in recent memory: With only a few weeks remaining in the regular season, all the conferences have pivotal games ahead, and parity seems to be the norm. One of the breakout teams this season is UC Santa Barbara. Wolf Wigo’s squad...

Why Ireland Feels Like a Real Next Step for UCLA Star Rosie Murphy After a standout UCLA career, Rosie Murphy is preparing for a move to Dublin that could reshape her swimming future. But the opportunity comes with pressure on both sides: for Murphy, who would be leaving California and everything fa...

CAMBRIDGE, MA. Last weekend saw a bittersweet ending to an impressive water polo career at one of the East’s top programs. Two minutes into sudden death overtime — in his final game wearing his school’s colors — Armen Deirmenjian hit the winning shot to give Brown a 19-18 win over St. Francis Brookl...

Kentucky Adds Karissa Kruszewski as Associate Coach Kentucky this week announced the hiring of Karissa Kruszewski as an association head coach on Bret Lundgaard’s staff. Kruszewski spent six seasons with UCLA’s women’s program, starting as an assistant coach in 2019 and elevated to associate head co...

This commentary by Steven V. Selthoffer, was originally published over 2 years ago. Swimming World thought it was worth republishing in light of Michael Phelps and Anthony Ervin making the 2016 USA Swimming Olympic Team ------- Michael Phelps stepped up on the blocks with a smile on his face during ...

Olympian Amanda Longan Joins UCLA Water Polo Coaching Staff Amanda Longan, an Olympic gold medalist with the United States, has joined the coaching staff of the UCLA women’s water polo team, the school announced Monday. Longan joins the staff of head coach Adam Wright as an assistant for the women’s...

AUSTIN, Tx., March 8. SWIM Atlanta's Amanda Weir must enjoy foreign travel, because she's quickly becoming an excellent prospect to tour a very prominentand very ancient European capital that begins with the first letter of the alphabet in just two more years. Athens, of course, site of the ...

By Rachel Andersen, Swimming World College Intern. As summer break winds to a close and temperatures begin to fall, the international aquatic scene is just heating up. In Gwangju, South Korea, the FINA 2019 World Aquatics Championships are raging on. Between exhilarating swim events, doping scandals...

Using a revamped offensive strategy focused on driving, the No. 4 Stanford men's water polo team (8-3, 2-1 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) soundly defeated No. 8 Long Beach State 15-5 and No. 6 UCLA 7-3 on its weekend road trip. Stanford head coach Dante Dettamanti said the Cardinal's emphasis o...

“This is the sort of thing that has the potential to wreck lives,” said Therese Langan, an authority on the treatment of sexually abused teens. Langan was referring to the downstream effects of sexual assault on the young players under the tutelage of Bahram Hojreh, a one-time age group water polo c...

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...

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 UCLA swimming and diving team opened the 2026 portion of the season with an emphatic 179-101 win over Iowa at the Spieker Aquatics Center. The Bruin divers also had a strong showing on day one of the Bruin Diving Invitational. In the dual with Iowa the Bruins earned event wins in 13 of 15 events...

.By Rachel Andersen, Swimming World College Intern. A few weeks ago, the seniors at the University of California, Los Angeles walked across a stage to receive their degrees after years of hard work, sweat and tears. Completing a degree at UCLA is no easy feat. However, while all of the graduates lab...

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...