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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...

NCAA Men's Championships: Luke Sitz Makes History for SMU with 1-Meter Crown SMU’s Luke Sitz scored 428.10 points Saturday to win 1-meter diving gold at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships. Sitz was second after prelims but scored 428.10 in finals. That was nearly 16 points better than Miami ...

NCAA Men's Championships: Texas A&M’s Emilio Trevino Wins Platform Title Texas A&M was close to a platform title last year with two divers in the top four. It took a new face to get them over the top. Emilio Trevino earned the program’s first NCAA platform title Saturday night, his score of 465.30 t...

NCAA Men's Championships: Collier Dyer Wins Historic 3-Meter for Missouri It’s been a long climb for Collier Dyer. In four years at the University of Missouri, the senior was in his ninth career NCAA Championships event on Friday night at Georgia Tech. Never before had he finished in the top eight. ...

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...

From Injury and Heartbreak to NCAA Champ: Meghan McAninch’s USC Comeback Honk! The final horn sounded. California’s last push had come up short. USC players were already sprinting toward each other in the water at UC San Diego. The 2026 NCAA Women’s Water Polo Championship belonged to The Women of.....

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor BERLIN, Germany. Bringing a young, inexperienced team to a tournament configured to test a variety of new rules for future application turned out to not be ideal for the U.S. Senior Men’s National team. Registering two wins in six days of action at the...

NCAA Women’s Championships: Anna Moesch Claims 200 Free in No. 2 All-Time 1:39.23 The quest all year in the women’s 200 freestyle has been aimed at 1:39.10, the NCAA record of Missy Franklin from 2015. Anna Moesch came closer to it than anybody has. Moesch went 1:39.23, brushing up against Franklin’...

Carsten Vissering, Former Northwestern Diver Finish in Top 20 of Olympic Bobsled Former USC swimmer Carsten Vissering made his Olympic debut on Saturday and finished 11th in the men’s four-man bobsled Sunday at the Milan Cortina Olympics. Vissering, a Pac-12 champion in breaststroke and an NCAA rela...

USC Takes Solo Hold of Top Spot in Women’s Water Polo Poll after Stanford Loss USC finds itself alone at No. 1 in the latest Collegiate Water Polo Association women’s water polo poll, breaking a preseason tie with Stanford. The Cardinal plummeted to seventh in the Week 1 poll after a loss to Fresno ...

Daniel Leyson has been all over the world for water polo, including an appearance at the Olympics—the highest level of competition for his sport. Along the way on a career that has taken him from club coaching with Rose Bowl to collegiate stops at his alma mater, USC (Class of ’92), and UCLA, to pla...

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 ...

BY Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor In a nod to the necessity of the netminder, Princeton’s Ashleigh Johnson and USC’s McQuin Baron were recipients of the 2017 Peter J. Cutino Award Saturday night at The Olympic Club in San Francisco. Named for the deceased University of California Berke...

NCAA Men's Championships: Lyle Yost Risks It, Reaps Reward of 1-Meter Crown By the fifth round of 1-meter diving Thursday night, Lyle Yost figured his originally scheduled sixth and final dive wasn’t going to cut it. That one carried a 2.6 degree of difficulty. Beneath the “in case of emergency brea...

Cal Completes Third Three-Peat for 17th NCAA Men’s Water Polo Title The University of California rode another stirring performance from Nikolaos Papanikolaou to claim the school’s third straight NCAA Men’s water polo title Sunday, a 13-11 decision over UCLA. Papanikolaou was named the NCAA Champions...

Canadian World Junior Champion Jade Hannah Transfers to LSU Canadian international Jade Hannah is transferring from USC to LSU, she announced via social media this week. Hannah spent her freshman year in Southern California, where she finished eighth in the 200 backstroke at the Pac-12 Championships...

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...

With two weeks of play in the books, the CWPA’s Varsity Women’s Water Polo poll has (mostly) taken shape. USC holds the top spot for the second consecutive week while Stanford, preseason No. 1, moves up a notch from seventh—the Cardinal’s lowest-ever poll position—into a tie with UC Irvine for sixth...

Big Ten Women's Championships, Day 1: Michigan Shatters Meet Record in Both Relays The University of Michigan swam to the lead at the 2026 Big Ten Women's Swimming and Diving Championships on Wednesday, Feb. 28, in Minneapolis. The Wolverines won both relays on Wednesday, the only two events on the ...