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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...

The Silver Anniversary of UCLA Claiming First NCAA Women's Water Polo Crown By Alex Ellison There was an overwhelming level of excitement at Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center on May 13, 2001. Stanford and UCLA were tied 4-4 with just 1:28 left on the clock when UCLA's Coralie Simmons broke free to go ...

World Aquatics Finalizes Qualification System for LA28 Olympics The International Olympic Committee and World Aquatics on Thursday published the final qualification system for the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028. The qualification scheme is available here. Like qualification for other aquatics sport, i...

Northern California Won a Championship by Playing for Each Other Long overshadowed by Southern California in youth water polo, a Northern California group built around trust, role clarity, and unselfish play turned an underdog run into a breakthrough championship. Editor’s Note: The USA Water Polo O...

[caption id="attachment_644698" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Ausmus & Dodd Win Cutino Award[/caption] 2026 Cutino Awards: First Timer Emily Ausmus, Two-Time Winner Ryder Dodd College water polo’s biggest individual honors went to sophomore USC standout Emily Ausmus and for the second year in a r...

Emily Ausmus, Stanford Duo Named Cutino Award Finalists USC’s Emily Ausmus and the Stanford duo of Juliette Dhalluin and Jenna Flynn were named finalists for the Peter J. Cutino Award on Wednesday. The award for the best college water polo player, both men’s and women’s, has been presented annually ...

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...

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 ...

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...

The Century of the Elite Water Polo/Swimming Dual-Sport Athlete By Jeff Moulton and Russ Hafferkamp In the 20th century, it was not uncommon for American male athletes to excel in both water polo and swimming.  Indeed, several of the top ten American male swimmers were excellent water polo players a...

By Connor Bailey, Swimming World College Intern There was a pool in the backyard of the Bender household. When Lisa Bender was a baby, she would play in the shallow end of that pool with her sisters. And, because Lisa was a bold child, she would try to swim in the deep end at every opportunity. So, ...

The Best American Men’s Water Polo Players of the NCAA Era (Part III: No. 1 to No. 10) By Jeff Moulton In the third and final installment of this three-part series, water polo expert Jeff Moulton discusses the individuals he has ranked No. 1 to 10 in his unofficial list of the top-25 American men’s ...

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...

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 ...

World Aquatics to Debut 4x4 Water Polo Format in September World Aquatics last week announced plans to debut a new 4x4 water polo format starting in September. The format, branded as WP4, will include four players per team on a smaller field of play and a shorter shot clock. It follows a trend with ...

.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...

A Huge Opportunity for NYC Water Polo as Giants in Sport Unite with College Powers This Thursday, Asphalt Green will host New York City’s most highly anticipated water polo match in decades: the Italian giant Pro Recco vs. reigning Euro League champions Ferencvaros. Not since the beginning of the pr...

Uruguay was awarded the FINA World Men's Water Polo Development Trophy title on Sunday October 22 in Gzira, Malta, after the host country team and 2015 Trophy champions Iran were disqualified for unacceptable behaviour within the field of play. As Malta-Iran were competing in the pool for the gold m...