﻿{"id":623492,"date":"2025-10-05T20:54:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T03:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=623492"},"modified":"2025-10-06T12:33:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T19:33:36","slug":"u-s-water-polo-olympian-maggie-steffens-announces-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/u-s-water-polo-olympian-maggie-steffens-announces-pregnancy\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Water Polo Olympian Maggie Steffens Announces Pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>U.S. Water Polo Olympian Maggie Steffens Announces Pregnancy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.S. water polo Olympian <strong>Maggie Steffens<\/strong> announced that she and her husband are expecting their first child.<\/p>\n<p>Steffens, 32, and husband <strong>Bobby Conner<\/strong> made the announcement on social media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPZSj04krq5\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPZSj04krq5\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Maggie Steffens Conner (@maggie.steffens)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Steffens is one of the most decorated water polo players in history. The Stanford graduate is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, one of only two female athletes to have earned that honor. She was part of the U.S.\u2019s gold-winning squads at the 2012, 2016 and 2021 Olympics, as well as the squad for the Paris Games that finished fourth. Steffens has not played for the U.S. since those Games.<\/p>\n<p>She is the all-time leading scorer in Olympic women\u2019s water polo competition, a record she set in Tokyo. She scored nine times at the Paris Olympics to take that record to 65. Steffens played through those Games with a heavy heart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/u-s-water-polo-star-maggie-steffens-coping-with-death-of-sister-in-law-at-olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">after Conner\u2019s sister died unexpectedly just after the team\u2019s arrival in Paris<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Steffens was voted the Most Outstanding Player of the 2012 Olympics, in which she led the tournament with 21 goals on 27 shots. She won the same award four years later, scoring a tournament-leading 17 times.<\/p>\n<p>Steffens has been a part of five World Championship teams, including in 2024. She was not part of the U.S. squad at the 2025 World Championships in Singapore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Water Polo Olympian Maggie Steffens Announces Pregnancy U.S. water polo Olympian Maggie Steffens announced that she and her husband are expecting their first child. 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