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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...

[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...

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 ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA. Behind an inspired performance from freshman goalie Adrien Touzot and an offensive explosion by senior Rade Joksimovic, Bucknell, the Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference (MAWPC) champions, came to Blodgett Pool and shocked host Harvard 13-12 in an NCAA play-in game, ending the Crimson'...

LIMA, PERU. Day Three of the 2019 Pan American Games was good all-around for the U.S. men’s and women’s national water polo teams, as both captured the top spots in their respective groups by virtue of lopsided wins. In morning play at the Villa Maria del Triunfo Aquatics Complex, the USA women brok...

Rex Maurer's Dream NCAAs Cause of Celebration for USC coach Lea Maurer There were no USC swimmers in the fastest heat of the 1,650 freestyle at the NCAA Men’s Championships Saturday night. You wouldn’t know that if your eyes were fixed on coach Lea Maurer and Trojans fifth-year Luke Maurer. Planted ...

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...

The No. 14 USC women's swimming and diving team swept crosstown rival No. 22 UCLA, defeating the Bruins 215-85 at the Uytengsu Aquatics Center. The Trojans swept every event for the first time in the history of the rivalry (USC leads 33-17-1). It was also historic for being USC's first ever Big Ten ...

BELMONT SHORES, CA., May 11 -- Back in the heyday of the Mission Viejo-Florida Aquatics cross-continent rivalry during the 1970s and '80s, FAST stars David McCagg and David Larson would sport t-shirts showing an oversized gator torching a Spanish-style building with the words "Burn Down the Miss...

Justina Kozan Wins Twice as USC Sweeps Past UNLV Justina Kozan won a pair of races as USC swept both meets against UNLV on Saturday. The women’s team claimed a 148-109 win, while the USC men won 143-111. Kozan went 54.91 to win the 100 backstroke. She also was quickest in the 100 butterfly in 55.10,...

The 2019 NCAA men’s season reads much like a Hollywood script; the favorite gets pushed around by fresh-faced upstarts, stares blankly into an ignominious end to its season—then rallies behind a grizzled veteran. It’s no a script; it’s Trojan pride at its finest — which is why USC has emerged at the...

The Potential Effects of Conference Realignment on College Swimming On July 1, 2022, the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), two of the most storied athletic programs in the NCAA, shook the college sports world when they announced they would ...

After a season of streaks, upsets, and tremendous promise, the UC Santa Barbara men's water polo team now has a major distraction to overcome on the way to perhaps its first national championship tournament in three decades: the NCAA. Sanctions that were leveled earlier this week have focused unwant...

In this Pac-10 women's dual meet, UCLA surprised Arizona 150-148. Led by Keiko Price's wins in the 50 and 100 yard freestyle (23.93 and 51.54 respectively) and Lindsay Etter's wins in the 100 and 200 yard breastroke (1:04.24 and 2:17.94 respectively), the Bruins stunned a talented Wildcat squad feat...

Australian Olympic hopeful Nioka Thomas plans to embark on a grand adventure in the United States. Starting next fall, the 12th year high school water polo player from Meriden School will join the women’s polo program at the University of California Irvine. A member of the Aussie Stingers’ junior na...

Texas Invitational: USC Women Score Pair of Relay Wins on Opening Day USC has two relay wins to show for its first day at the Texas Hall of Fame Swimming Invitational on Wednesday in Austin. The USC women’s 200 medley and 800 freestyle relays both tallied wins in NCAA A cuts on the first day of the ...

Water Polo: USC Leads Way with Three Finalists for Cutino Award Three players from USC are among the six finalists for the men’s and women’s Peter J. Cutino Award, announced on Thursday. Finalists for the men’s award as USC’s Jacob Mercep, UCLA’s Nicolas Saveljic and the University of California’s N...

Stanford’s Aria Fischer, Ryann Neushul Looking to Add to Families’ Cutino Award Hauls Stanford’s Aria Fischer and Ryann Neushul were named finalists for the women’s Cutino Award on Thursday, each hoping to join sisters who have won the award. USC’s Tilly Kearns was the third finalist of the award, g...

This season, a handful of swimmers have already achieved an "A" cut and are qualified for the NCAA Championships in March. In individual events, "A" cuts are calculated using the three-year average of the eighth-fastest time in each event. In relays, it's the three-year average of the 16th-fastest t...

Lenny Krayzelburg To Receive 2023 NCAA Silver Anniversary Award Former USC swimmer Lenny Krayzelburg has been named one of six recipients of the 2023 NCAA Silver Anniversary Award, announced on Monday. The awards recognize outstanding athletes on the 25th anniversary of the end of their college care...