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By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Editor’s note: Randazzo first met Carl Quigley on the St. Francis pool deck in 2012, which launched his interest in (and reporting on) water polo. Ending a seminal chapter in American water polo, this past week St. Francis College announced that Cathal...

As the coronavirus ravages the country, the human toll is easily traceable. Click on a link and find an up-to-the-minute count of COVID-19 victims. There’s also invisible consequences of this all-too-deadly virus. Fear will be the biggest legacy of the global pandemic, but as Steve Doten, commission...

By Eric Velazquez Stars and Stripers Brush Past Netherlands, 6-5, in Semifinal Thriller Sydney, Australia—Heading into these Games, the U.S. women’s water polo team had a three-point plan. First, get into the semifinals. Second, to make it to the gold medal game. Point No. 3 was to win that game and...

For the past two decades, anyone who wanted to take the pulse of American water polo could type “Water Polo Planet” in their browser and be linked to a cornucopia of information on the sport unmatched anywhere in the world. Launched in 2002 by Richard “Doc” Hunkler and Joan Gould — referee Loren Ber...

There’s no question that the 2019 season is one of the most volatile in recent memory, and this uncertainty is reflected in the Collegiate Water Polo Association’s Top 20 poll. Stanford had ten-straight wins going into last Saturday's match in Los Angeles against a desperate USC team. A 9-8 loss to ...

The Collegiate Water Polo Association Men’s Varsity Water Polo Top-Ten was unchanged from last week, but a reordering at the top is almost certain to occur this weekend. Two of the nation’s top four teams have competitive matches—against each other. That would be the top-ranked Trojans of USC—3-0 la...

NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. August 28. Team USA defeated Romania in pre-Olympic competition, 7-4, on Sunday before a crowd of 366 at Newport Harbor High School. The U.S. scoring started out, appropriately enough, with a goal by Chris Humbert from two-meters early in the first quarter of play. A stop by Da...

USA Women Shine in Olympic Debut Baker’s Dozen Douses World Cup Champion Holland, 6-4 Sydney, Australia—It couldn’t have been scripted any better. All the years of lobbying and sacrifice had finally paid off for the U.S. women’s Olympic water polo team, their triumph practically painted on their fac...

On a rare rainy day in Southern California, the men’s water polo action in the Spieker Aquatics Center pool was anything but tepid, with a number of compelling matches taking place on Day Two of the 2019 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Invitational. Led by a much-anticipated match-up betwe...

SYRACUSE, Italy. June 1. RYAN BAILEY, (Long Beach, CA/UCI ’99) the six foot six, two-hundred and fifty pound center forward, powered the USA to a 6-5 victory over the Netherlands at the Trofeo de Siracusa, a six nation international water polo tournament taking place in Syracuse on Sicily. Bailey sc...

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...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor It’s possible that Brad Schumacher never slows down. Once one of the fastest swimmers in the world, the 43-year-old now races around the globe as president of Kap7, one of the world’s largest suppliers of water polo equipment. His life is a far cry fro...

BROOKLYN, NY. After a string of eye-opening developments—UC Santa Barbara beating #1 teams twice in one week and Cal losing three times in the season’s first two weekends, including to UC Davis for the first time in four decades—it seems right to delve into what’s going on with men’s water polo. And...

Team Captain, Perimeter Menace Share USWP’s Top Honor Colorado Springs, CO—U.S. men’s water polo national teamers Chris Oeding and Wolf Wigo, who led the U.S. charge into and through the Olympics, were named as the 2000 United Airlines/U.S. Water Polo male co-Players of the Year. Both will be honore...

By Eric Velazquez Baker’s Dozen Heads to Semis, Earns Berth in Medal Round Sydney, Australia—For a team that has lived, worked, practiced, and played together for the better part of the last two years, Wednesday’s (Sept. 20) 9-6 victory over Kazakhstan was a huge benchmark. The USA women’s water pol...

Calgary, CAN (March 16) - Water Polo Canada officials argued over the last time it happened. The best guess was 1976, but it didn't matter. The last time Canada beat the USA in men's water polo was a long, long time ago. Finally! After years of struggling, and playing second fiddle to the su...

Completing one of the greatest runs of water polo success in recent memory, UC Santa Barbara stormed into Avery Aquatic Center and beat top-ranked Stanford 15-10. The Gauchos, ranked second in the latest Collegiate Water Polo Association Varsity poll, broke out to an early 3-1 lead on the strength o...

2000 UPS International Cup June 27-July 2, 2000 u.s. water polo national aquatic center los alamitos, ca Day Five Results-July 1, 2000 Australia....12 Team UPS......6 Italy.....5 USA.......8 Yugoslavia...4 Croatia......6 Scoring: Australia: Marsden 2, Kovalenko 2, Boyd 1, Miller 1, Franklin 1, Woods...

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has imposed Level II violation sanctions on UCSB’s men’s water polo program after the school self-reported multiple violations of NCAA bylaws that involve impermissible contacts with recruits, the school announced today. It was nearly a year ago (11/15/18...

It was another busy weekend for the CWPA Top 20. Unlike previous weeks, there were no major upsets—though that's to say that Cal losing to UC Santa Barbara is now common place, as opposed to the previous 15 years, when the Gauchos couldn't buy a win over the Golden Bears. Stanford, UCLA, Pacific and...