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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...

Unbeaten UCLA Stays Atop Women's Water Polo Poll; LMU Makes Big Jump The past two weeks, a number of teams have faced conference opponents in matches with postseason implications. Nowhere more significant was the contest between Fresno State and Loyola Marymount on March 23. Picked #1 and #2 in the ...

Olympian Jordan Raney Joins Harvard Women’s Water Polo Staff Harvard’s women’s water polo team hired U.S. Olympian Jordan Raney as an assistant coach on Tuesday. Raney joins the staff of coach Ted Minnis. Raney was a member of the U.S. women’s team that finished fourth at the 2024 Olympics in Paris....

Hall of Fame Player Merrill Moses Promoted to Pepperdine Water Polo Head Coach Merrill Moses, a Hall of Fame player and the associate head coach of Pepperdine men’s water polo program, has been promoted to the top job. Moses will replace his mentor, Terry Schroeder, who will transition to an associa...

Ryder Dodd, Robert Lopez-Duart, Mihailo Vukazic Named Cutino Award Finalists UCLA’s Ryder Dodd and the USC duo of Robert Lopez-Duart and Mihailo Vukazic were named finalists Tuesday for the Cutino Award by the Olympic Club in San Francisco. Dodd won the award last year. Vukazic was a finalist last y...

5 Games To Make Swim Practice Fun By Lucas Draper Before I start this article, I want to preface this by saying that I know sports and swim practice, especially at a competitive level, aren’t meant to be fun and games all the time. We work hard every day, striving to improve all areas of our perform...

Los Angeles 2028 Aquatics Schedule: Triathlon Gets First Medals, Water Polo Gets Early Start The schedule for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics dropped on Wednesday, 975 days away from the Opening Ceremony on July 14, 2028. It gives athletes aspiring to the games concrete targets to aim at, and can help...

Alvaro Granados, Foteini Tricha Named World Aquatics Water Polo Players of the Year Spain’s Alvaro Granados and Foteini Tricha of Greece were named World Aquatics’ Water Polo Players of the Year this week. Both players led their teams to gold medals at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singap...

By Rachel Andersen, Swimming World College Intern. As the water polo season rises into full swing, players and coaches alike will begin to be bombarded by the same question from friends and family alike: What is water polo? Whether you are new to the game or just curious about that strange sport in ...

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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 ...

Tonight, October 19th, the Women's Sports Foundation held their 37th Women's Sport Federation Annual Salute where water polo's own Ashleigh Johnson was crowned Sportswoman of the Year in the team category. Johnson, a native of Miami, FL, was a key member of the USA women's water polo team at the 201...

Fortuitous Path Has Made Greg Mescall the Voice of Water Polo One part of Greg Mescall’s dual career path had been ingrained from a young age. The second came by random chance early in that professional career. Mescall has always been drawn to sports and to their presentation. He was the kid that wo...

The Top-25 American Men's Water Polo Players of the NCAA Era (No. 21-No. 25) By Jeff Moulton Before his untimely death in a bicycle accident in October 2022, Hall of Fame coach Dante Dettamanti and I often discussed American water polo players, coaches, and teams of the past and present. These discu...

USA Water Polo, Diversity in Aquatics Launch Co-Ed Team at Howard University USA Water Polo has teamed with Diversity in Aquatics to relaunch a co-ed water polo team at Howard University. The effort looks to build on the success that Howard’s swimming and diving team has enjoyed in recent years. The...

Where Did They Go?  The Disappearance of the Elite Water Polo/Swimming Dual-Sport Athlete By Russ Hafferkamp and Jeff Moulton In Part I of this article (The Century of the Elite Water Polo/Swimming Dual-Sport Athlete (swimmingworldmagazine.com), we showed that the United States produced an impressiv...

Breaking: IOC Approves Addition of 50 Strokes for Los Angeles 2028 Olympics The International Olympic Committee on Wednesday announced the addition of the 50-meter breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. The decision was taken after an executive board meeting and...

Filmmaker John L. McLeod Looking to Go ‘Beyond’ in Telling Olympic Stories As a kid, John L. McLeod was entranced by the Olympics. Watching Bud Greenspan’s features of the Games, there was a mystique in the Olympics of the post-World War II era that McLeod, growing up in Canada, was drawn into. It w...

Legendary Loyola Marymount Water Polo Coach John Loughran Retires Longtime Loyola Marymount water polo coach John Loughran retired this week, caping a career that included nearly 700 NCAA wins. Loughran coached the men’s and women’s water polo teams in Los Angeles starting in 1997. He won 416 games ...