Bruce Wigo's involvement and impact on water polo in the United States is so extensive it's hard to summarize. Stretching more than 50 years and involving a countless number of projects and initiatives, Wigo simply was all about pushing water polo forward. Introduced to the sport in the late 1960s at the Philadelphia Athletic Club by USAWP Hall of Famer Paul Barren, Wigo competed in AAU water polo before swimming took priority in his college years. He circled back to the sport in the 1970s, first as a coach for the U.S. Virgin Islands and then with the New York Athletic Club's Saturday morning youth program, where his son Wolf was introduced to the sport. He served as Zone 1 chairman and was a collegiate referee before taking on the role of interim executive director of USA Water Polo in 1991, an assignment that would last more than 12 years. In that time, working with a dedicated corps of volunteers, Wigo delivered on multiple fronts. He played a key part in securing a new training facility in Los Alamitos, boosting membership and installing coaching staffs for the Men's and Women's National Teams that set the stage success for years to come. Back on the domestic scene Wigo helped track down new sponsors for the organization, increased youth participation in conjunction with the YMCA, opened the Junior Olympics to all comers, and developed a variety of much-needed coaching materials. Wigo assisted in the production of videos and other promotional materials in an effort to bring women's water polo to the Olympic Games, a feat achieved at the 2000 Games in Sydney while also placing a premium on the health of men's college water polo and growth of the women's game. He hasn't strayed far from the sport or the aquatics world, serving as CEO of the International Swimming Hall of Fame for a dozen years and more recently working as a consultant to various aquatic-related organizations and museums.