Notable changes in this week’s Collegiate Water Polo Association Men’s Varsity Poll: Pepperdine dropped five spots due to a loss to host UC San Diego at the Triton Invitational; Harvard...
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Despite any protestations to the contrary, there’s no real parity in men’s college water polo. Over a half-century of NCAA championship play, only three programs outside the “Big Four” have...
Stanford Senior Maggie Steffens shrugged off one of UCLA’s best defenders to unleash the winning shot in Sunday’s NCAA Women’s Water Polo Championship final. Her tally with nine seconds remaining in the game gave...
The Big Four resumed their dominance of NCAA women’s water polo on Saturday at the NCAA Championship in Indianapolis. Stanford and UCLA emerged as winners of their semi-final matchups against...
LOS ANGELES, CA. An old sports adage suggests that defense wins championships. Given its dominant defensive effort Sunday against Stanford in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation title match, the UCLA...
The #2 Stanford Cardinal needed all the defensive prowess they could muster to stop the #3 Trojans of USC, taking a 6-5 decision in the semifinals of the Mountain Pacific...
Water polo is undeniably a California-based phenomenon. Plentiful access to expansive outdoor pools coupled with brilliant weather simply makes the sport better, and more popular, out West. But polo is...
The NCAA women’s water polo season was once again punctuated by a game featuring made-for-movie melodrama. USC recovered from a two-goal Stanford onslaught – which tied the match at seven – in the...
Fist pumps and joyful facial expressions done in typical high style by water polo renaissance man Steve Carrera. Final four action from Saturday when Michigan’s disciplined attack put some worried faces on...
The Big Splash failed to live up to expectations this fall. The annual match between NorCal’s biggest varsity water polo powers is a typically dramatic affair. Cal ignored the script...
