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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 Gains 2027 Verbal From In-State Sprinter Olivia Somers NEW COMMIT: Olivia Somers of Sacramento, Calif. has opted to remain in-state for her college career after she verbally committed to the University of California, Los Angeles for Fall 2027. A talented sprint freestyler, Somers is a Junior Na...

LONG BEACH, CA - #1 ranked Pepperdine University advanced to the semifinals of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Men's Water Polo Championships Friday afternoon at the Belmont Plaza Pool. The Waves, who are 32-1 overall, downed the #8-seeded Long Beach State 49ers 11-2. LBSU won a play-i...

.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...

Courtesy www.usawaterpolo.com United States National Team coach John Vargas announced the members of the team that will compete in the XI FINA Water Polo World Cup September 28-October 3, 1999 in Sydney, Australia. The World Cup serves as a pre-Olympic test event, and includes the eight best teams i...

Courtesy www.usawaterpolo.com WALNUT CREEK, CA - Sean Joy, STANFORD's senior driver (Orinda, CA), earned MPSF Player of the Week honors for his outstanding offensive contribution over the weekend, exploding for nine points in wins over No. 7 PEPPERDINE and No. 3 USC. In the Cardinal's 12-8 MPSF vict...

UCLA Gets 2027 Verbal Pledge From Western Zone Senior Champion Lilla Kapinya NEW COMMIT: The University of California, Los Angeles has secured another verbal commitment for Fall 2027, this time from in-state standout Lilla Kapinya of Carmichael, Calif. Kapinya is a versatile Junior National qualifie...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

UCLA Stays Atop Women's Water Polo Poll After Claiming Kalbus Invitational Title Last weekend, nine of the nation’s top ten teams traveled to Irvine, CA—only Princeton declined a spot in the 2024 Barbara Kalbus Invitational—offering a prime opportunity to evaluate NCAA title contenders. Fresno State...

Sprint Depth Leads Arizona Past UCLA Arizona put its sprint depth to good use Saturday, with a 1-2 finish in the 200 freestyle relay needed to seal a 160-139 win over UCLA in a battle of former Pac-12 schools. Arizona held a slim lead heading into the concluding relay and just needed to make sure UC...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, January 28. THE USA Men's Senior National Team will kick off their 2014 competition schedule with a visit to Sznolnok, Hungary to take part in the Volvo Cup this February. Team USA will meet Serbia, Germany, and Hungary in three matches from February 7-9. Head Coach Dej...

BERKELEY, CA., Nov. 23. TOP-ranked Stanford and second-seeded UCLA advanced to the semi-finals of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation water polo tournment here today in first-round action. However, sixth-seeded and host Cal's Golden Bears upset third-seeded USC, 5-3, to put paid to the Trojan...

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - Chinese swimmers have been invited to compete at the 1999 Pan Pacific Championships despite a push by the U.S. to have them banned because of their horrendous record of drugs in sport. The Americans wanted to ban China but had been outvoted after a meeting of the Pan Pac Charter ...

UCLA women's swimming showed its depth, getting 10 individual event winners and posting the top time in all but one event in a comprehensive 177-115 win over Fresno State Saturday, the Bruins’ first meet of the season. The meet was held over two days, with Fresno State’s lone win coming in the secon...

Following a stretch in which they knocked off two number one teams, this week the Gauchos of UC Santa Barbara ascended to the top of the Collegiate Water Polo Association’s Top 20. This is almost certainly the first time that UCSB has been ranked first in the CWPA poll; it is the first time since No...

IRVINE, CA., May 28. AGELESS Chad Carvin just keeps swimming -- and winning. The 27-year-old University of Arizona graduate, who's had more ups and downs in his career than Jack Nicholson at a Laker game, was up Up UP this weekend during the Speedo Grand Challenge Meet in Irvine's Heritage (...