Results from UC Irvine’s study of concussions in water polo are trickling in. A survey of more than a thousand American athletes revealed that over 35% of them reported having experienced...
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“I thought college was going to be really awesome, all the time.” Elizabeth Williams, a captain on Michigan’s varsity water polo squad in 2015, is featured in an intimate examination of...
Santa Barbara along with New York are the first cities to ban the potentially deadly swimming practice. The move comes after the death of UC-Santa Barbara water polo player Nick Johnson. He...
Santa Barbara along with New York are the first cities to ban the potentially deadly swimming practice. The move comes after the death of UC-Santa Barbara water polo player Nick Johnson. He...
A simple search of the NCAA database by Professor James Hicks of UC Irvine revealed a startling fact about concussions in intercollegiate water polo: there were none. That is, there was...
The intercollegiate water polo community has suffered the loss of another young athlete. UC Santa Barbara sophomore poloist Nick Johnson was found unresponsive at the bottom of a local high...
A heart attack reportedly took the life of USC freshman water polo standout Jon Walters on Wednesday, but was likely quite different from the kind of “classic” myocardial infarction that...
CBS Los Angeles reports that USC water polo standout Jon Walters battled pneumonia and kidney failure before suffering a fatal heart attack on Wednesday. The 19-year-old rising star fell in...
President Obama made news in the sporting press today for his explicit concern about catastrophic injuries among football players. In one of the lighter passages of an interview published today...