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Udovicic is in place for a fourth straight cycle. Both had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/adam-krikorian-dejan-udovicic-re-signed-for-paris-olympic-cycle-by-usa-water-polo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their contracts extended most recently in Dec. 2021<\/a> to stretch through the Paris Olympics in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Krikorian led the U.S. women to Olympic gold medals in London in 2012, Rio in 2016 and Tokyo in 2021 before the team fell to fourth place in Paris last summer. Under his watch, the women have won six World Aquatics Championships, four World Cups, four Pan Am Games and 11 World League Super Final titles. They compiled a 69-match winning streak, and Krikorian was named the USOPC\u2019s Olympic Coach of the Year in 2012.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/category\/water-polo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Water Polo News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cI am thrilled to continue to be a part of a program that has given so much to me personally and that has had such an enormous positive influence on the sport throughout our country and the world,\u201d Krikorian said <a href=\"https:\/\/usawaterpolo.org\/news\/2025\/1\/3\/womens-senior-national-team-national-team-head-coach-contracts-extended-through-la28-olympic-games.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a press release<\/a>. \u201cI look forward to working with the team of athletes and staff through the detailed process of development and forging the relationships along the way that makes the journey so special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Krikorian is a native of Santa Clara. The member of the UCLA Hall of Fame will get a chance to coach close to home in the 2028 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Udovicic took over the U.S. in 2012 and led it to a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics to end a 16-year medal drought. The U.S. men were 10th at the Rio Olympics, then sixth in Tokyo. He led the U.S. to its first World Cup medal since 1997, plus three Pan Am Games golds and three silver medals in the World Aquatics World League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so proud of what our team accomplished over the last four years and thrilled to continue as head coach of the USA men\u2019s national team,\u201d Udovicic said. \u201cI want to thank everyone in USA Water Polo for their support. I\u2019m excited to build on our results from Paris with Los Angeles up next. We have an excellent core group of athletes that are entering their prime [and] putting us in a position to achieve what has been my goal since the day I joined USA Water Polo: reaching the top of the podium and winning a gold medal. We know this won\u2019t be easy but I believe in our team and our staff and am confident the best is yet to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUSA Water Polo has two of the best international coaches in the world and I am excited to announce that Adam Krikorian will lead our women\u2019s senior national team and Dejan Udovicic our men\u2019s senior national team on our paths for gold medals at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games,\u201d USA Water Polo CEO <strong>Jamie Davis<\/strong> said. \u201cAdam\u2019s accomplishments are unparalleled, and under Dejan\u2019s leadership in Paris last summer our men won the program\u2019s first Olympic medal since 2008. We have big goals on the journey to LA28 and I\u2019m confident that Adam and Dejan will position us well for victory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Water Polo Renews Contracts of Adam Krikorian, Dejan Udovicic Through 2028 Olympics USA Water Polo on Friday announced that it has extended the contracts of women\u2019s national team coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8367,"featured_media":602913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[122077,12],"tags":[113361,70617,3384,27241,135437,3613],"class_list":["post-602912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas","category-water-polo","tag-2028-los-angeles-olympics","tag-2028-olympic-games-coverage-los-angeles","tag-adam-krikorian","tag-dejan-udovicic","tag-jamie-davis","tag-usa-water-polo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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His work has also appeared in The Guardian and The Athletic.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.swimmingworld.com","https:\/\/x.com\/sportsdoctormd"],"url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/author\/mattdg\/"}]}},"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"Photo Courtesy: USA Water Polo","source_text":"","source_url":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/convert.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p56Jja-2wQo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}