The 2026 Junior Olympics, archived.
Three sessions across Southern California & North Texas, over 12 days of water polo. Every score, bracket and standing is frozen below — pick a session, or start with its champions. Free, no login.
Season totals count each club and pool once: 273 clubs entered 1,114 teams, and Sessions I and II shared Orange County pools — 73 distinct pools hosted the season’s 4,468 games.
The stories the season totals don’t tell.
Tidy numbers, messy summer. Mined from every final score of 2026: who beat the seeds — favorites fell once in 3 in Dallas but only once in 8 in the boys’ week — where the 247 shootouts piled up, the day 673 games hit the water, and the medal table nobody printed: 9 clubs took home hardware from two different sessions.
And five clubs — Longhorn, LOWPO, Mavericks, Norco and Viper Pigeon — made the trip to all three.
In 1 of every 6 matchups, the better seed lost.
Across 769 games where both teams carried a seed, the lower seed won 133 of them. Each square is one matchup.
247 games needed a shootout.
Most spilled over early — 102 in group play, 105 more in the brackets. Just 8 happened with a medal on the line, and gold went to sudden death only twice all summer.
Deepest of all 247: Meridian outlasted Diablo Alliance A 6–6 · Shootout 10–9 — 19 made shots in a Group game, 16U Girls · Championship · I. Straight from the season’s scores.
2026 season · the closer the medal, the closer the game
The games tighten
all the way up.
A nail-biter is decided by a single goal — or a shootout. Watch the rate climb, round by round, the nearer a team gets to the podium.
23 of 114 gold & bronze finals across the season's three sessions came down to one goal or a shootout — straight from the final scores.
Independent live scores — not affiliated with USA Water Polo.