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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: 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. ...

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 ...

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...

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’...

Editor’s Note: In one of the seminal matches in Eastern water polo history, on November 13, 1977, Pittsburgh faced Bucknell at the Joseph C. Trees Pool for the Eastern Water Polo League Southern Division Championship. A rematch of the 1976 final, won 14-12 by Pitt, with less than a minute remaining ...

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...

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 ...

Stanford's freshman goalkeeper, Nick Ellis, has been named MPSF water polo Player of the Week after a stellar performance in the net during the Cardinal's Southern California Tournament championship run. Also named to the SoCal All-Tournament first team, Ellis contributed 44 saves in tournament vict...

From Water to Ice, Carsten Vissering Set to Realize His Olympic Dream With the Winter Olympics beginning today in Milan/Cortina, Swimming World chatted with USC former breaststroke star Carsten Vissering, who will represent Team USA in bobsled. Carsten Vissering’s dreams still bring him back to the ...

This week was full of fast swimming across the world, from surprise appearances at NCAA meets to National Records and Personal Bests that continue to set up favorites heading into the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Read below to see all of the top headlines from The Week That Was! The Week That was is su.....

Editor's Note: This interview is from 2015—when the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation still included Long Beach State, Pacific, Pepperdine, UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine, and the SoCal Invitational was yet to be renamed for the MPSF. Terry Schroeder is perhaps the most successful water polo player...

With the start of a new season for the USC men's water polo team less than a week away, a new coach has stepped into the void created by the abrupt firing of Jovan Vavic last March. But the first new head coach of Trojan men's and women's program in a quarter century is actually not so new. Marko Pi...

In a little more than a week the 2019 men's water polo season will open. The service academies—with the USAFA Invitational and the Navy Invitational—as well as the Bruno Classic at Brown highlight the start of NCAA play next weekend. Before all that action begins, Swimming World complied the various...

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...

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...

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 ...

NEW COMMIT: The University of Southern California has scored a verbal commitment for the 2027-28 season and beyond from Lexi Byrn out of Boulder, Colo. Byrn specializes in butterfly and won the 200 fly at Juniors West last month. Regarding her commitment, she said: "After careful consideration I am ...