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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...

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 ...

Breaststroker Alicia Budacsek to Join UCLA's Class of 2031 NEW COMMIT: UCLA has scored a new verbal commitment for Fall 2027 from Alicia Budacsek of Wilmette, Ill. Budacsek will head to the West Coast as a member of the Bruins' Class of 2031. Regarding her commitment, she said: "I am extremely excit...

From www.uswp.org COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - USA Water Polo and Women's National Team Head Coach Guy Baker announced the 1998 Women's National Team roster at the conclusion of a training camp held over the Memorial Day weekend in San Jose, Calif. "This was our first camp and things went very well," said...

By Jim Lutz WHILE cleaning out a closest in my "new" digs recently I came across numerous copies of SWIMMING WORLD. Some issues dated back to the late 1960’s when digital stopwatches were nothing more than a vision and a dream. Names like Rothhammer and Schollander graced the pages and in some cases...

NCAA Women's Championships: Lucy Bell's Breaststroke Split Leads 200 IM Win Just about everyone had their turn near the front of the women’s 200 individual medley Saturday night. But when Lucy Bell and her bombing breaststroke went to the front, that was that. Bell split 31.28 on breaststroke, vault...

CAMBRIDGE, MA. Last weekend saw a bittersweet ending to an impressive water polo career at one of the East’s top programs. Two minutes into sudden death overtime — in his final game wearing his school’s colors — Armen Deirmenjian hit the winning shot to give Brown a 19-18 win over St. Francis Brookl...

Olympian Amanda Longan Joins UCLA Water Polo Coaching Staff Amanda Longan, an Olympic gold medalist with the United States, has joined the coaching staff of the UCLA women’s water polo team, the school announced Monday. Longan joins the staff of head coach Adam Wright as an assistant for the women’s...

NCAA Women’s Championships: Bella Sims Holds off Lucy Bell for 400 IM Title Bella Sims knew the charge was going to come from Lucy Bell on breaststroke Thursday night. When they turned for freestyle, the Michigan junior had enough left in the tank. Sims went 3:58.08 to win the NCAA title in the 400 ...

Three Olympic Medalists Heads USA Water Polo Hall of Fame 2023 Class Olympic medalists Nicolle Payne, Coralie Simmons and Peter Varellas headline the five-member Class of 2023 to the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame, announced on Thursday. Joining them are coach and referee Aaron Chaney and long-time coa...

It’s hard to believe that almost a year has passed since Stanford beat Cal last November and claimed the first Mountain Pacific Sports Federation title for the Cardinal since 2014. A new year, and new opportunities abound for the six schools that make up MPSF. The so-called Big Four of Cal, Stanford...

By Rachel Andersen, Swimming World College Intern. As summer break winds to a close and temperatures begin to fall, the international aquatic scene is just heating up. In Gwangju, South Korea, the FINA 2019 World Aquatics Championships are raging on. Between exhilarating swim events, doping scandals...

By Bill Bell STANFORD, Calif., Jan. 27. NUMBER 4-ranked Stanford (3-1, 3-1 Pac-10) splashed past No.8 USC (3-3, 1-3 Pac-10), 167-131, in a conference women's swimming and diving dual meet on Saturday at the Avery Aquatics Center in Palo Alto. Coach Richard Quick's Cardinal won 11 of the 16 e...

“This is the sort of thing that has the potential to wreck lives,” said Therese Langan, an authority on the treatment of sexually abused teens. Langan was referring to the downstream effects of sexual assault on the young players under the tutelage of Bahram Hojreh, a one-time age group water polo c...

The Collegiate Water Polo Association's Men's Varsity Top 20 poll—released on Wednesday—had no significant changes from the previous week. The biggest change was George Washington dropping out of the rankings after a one-sided loss to up-and-coming Navy. The country's top five programs—Stanford, UCL...

NCAA Water Polo Crown Returns to West Hollywood: UCLA 11, USC 8 In a commanding performance at Stanford University's Avery Aquatic Center, the UCLA Bruins affirmed their top-seed status by defeating the USC Trojans 11-8 to clinch the 2024 NCAA Men's Water Polo National Championship. This victory mar...

FOMO: Fear of missing out. Nearly everyone has experienced that feeling of disappointment when they miss out on an important event in their lives. Whether it’s a game, a meet, a life event, the feeling is the same. It’s a loss of an opportunity. In most cases it’s for a singular reason; an injury, a...

New Mexico Hires Naya Higashijima as Head Swimming Coach The University of New Mexico on Tuesday hired Naya Higashijima as the program’s new head swimming and diving coach. Higashijima has spent the last four years as the associate coach at Southern Methodist University. She’s spent 20 years as a co...

Friday saw the opening of tournament play in five conferences that will send teams to the 2019 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament as well as the one Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, which will send Whittier and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps to the new DIII Collegiate Championships, no...