10 Candidates Will Vie for 4 Open Seats on USA Swimming Board of Directors

There are 8 candidates for the USA Swimming At-Large Board of Directors positions in 2025, along with 2 candidates for Athlete positions. Voting members of the House of Delegates at the USA Swimming Annual Business Meeting from September 24-27, 2025 in Denver will be eligible to vote.

• See the full election guide here.
• The list of voting members of the House of Delegates is here.

They will be vying for three At-Large Representative seats on the 14 member Board of Directors. Each member of the House of Delegates may cast up to three votes, and two of the three chosen individuals must be coaches to maintain the ratio of coaches on the board.

Only athlete representatives are eligible to vote for the athlete seats.

The list includes two of the three outgoing Board of Directors members who are vying to keep their seats. Clark Hammond and Ira Klein will run for re-election.

While outgoing Board Chair Chris Brearton will remain on the Board of Directors as the immediate past chair, there is one other spot opening because Bob Vincent resigned to take over as USA Swimming’s interim CEO.

2025 Board of Directors Candidates

Chosen by the nomination committee:

• Jack Bauerle (coach)
• Billy Doughty (coach)
• Clark Hammond
• Brent Lang
• Kate Lundsten (coach)
• Pete Raykovich (coach)
• Ann Senn

Self Nominated:

• Ira Klein (coach)

The coach requirements mean that only one of Hammond, Lang, and Senn are eligible for election.

The election comes as the Board of Directors comes under intense scrutiny for a number of things, but most imminently going almost a full year without finding a permanent replacement for CEO Tim Hinchey and telling only a half-truth when the first choice, Chrissi Rawak, ultimately resigned from the position shortly after accepting it.

USA Swimming has very strict guidelines on what candidates for the Board of Directors may and may not do in their campaigns ahead of the election.

At a recent Board of Directors meeting, these guidelines were softened a bit, but candidates are still not allowed to give independent interviews about their candidacy or ideas for the organization.

Board of Directors updated campaign rules:

Klein was accused of “overt campaigning” during the 2022 election and reached a settlement with the organization.

SwimSwam was unable to find any social media posts by any of the candidates stating their platforms, and most of them are not active on social media. Their bios, included in the Election Guide, sometimes include brief campaign statements, but when they do they are always vague and don’t address specific issues facing the organization.

Raykovich’s bio is unique in that he did lay out specific challenges that he saw as most important to address:

…USA Swimming faces increasingly difficult financial challenges with a limited number of available facilities, barriers to on-boarding new participants, lengthy competitions and the NIL influence on collegiate swimming. We need to get ahead of these challenges. Coaches, Athletes,
Officials and Volunteers can and must work together to resolve these complications.

Very Brief Bios on each Candidate (read the Election Guide for more complete information)

• Jack Bauerle – Head coach at the University of Georgia for 43 years, winning seven NCAA team titles.
• Billy Doughty – The CEO/head swim coach of DART Swimming in California and childhood coach of the United States’ lone 2025 men’s World Champion Luca Urlando
• Clark Hammond – Two-term director (2015-2018, 2021-2025), international referee, and former chair of the National Officials Committee, and Rules and Regulations Committee. Current partner with Wallace Jordan Ratliff and Brandt LLC, a member of the law firm’s litigation practice group.
• Brent Lang – A former swimmer at the University of Michigan and 1988 Olympian, Lang spent nine years as the CEO of publicly traded Vocera Communications, which was sold to Stryker in 2022. Until December 2024, he was a BOD member and treasurer for USA Gymnastics, where he was recruited following the organization’s sexual abuse scandal.
• Kate Lundsten – Head Coach of the Aquajets Swim Team in Minnesota since 2004. She has served on several international staffs, including 2017 World Juniors, 2018 Junior Pan Pacs, and 2019 Pan Am Games.
• Pete Raykovich – Head coach of DeAnza-Cupertino Aquatics in California since 1993, also the organization’s CEO.
• Ann Senn – Grew up as an age group swimmer in Wisconsin and competed for the University of Wisconsin, now an active Masters Swimmer. Outside of the pool, she was a partner at Deloittem one of the Big Four accounting firms and an organization with $67.2 billion annually. There are about 6,900 Deloitte partners in the United States.
• Ira Klein – Head coach of the Sarasota Tsunami Swim Team and CEO of the Klein Swim Academy. Klein said that this was the last time he will run for a USA Swimming position.

Frank Busch’s seat as head of the Steering Committee is also open, because he was elected to a one year term, but that is appointed by the Steering Committee.

Athlete Nominees

There are also two candidates to replace Maya DiRado as a Board of Directors’ Athlete Representative.

Olympian Andrew Gemmell and former National Team member Andrew Seliskar are both running for that mandated seat.

Gemmell, 34, was a 2011 World Champion in the 5km open water event and won individual silver in 2009 in the 10k. He also swam the 1500 free at the 2012 Olympic Games in the pool, finishing 9th. He is now working as a Director in KPMG’s Cloud Engineering & Artificial Intelligence division.

Seliskar, 28, was a National Age Group Record holder and the 2013 World Junior Champion in the 200 fly. He swam for four years at Cal and was named the 2019 Swammy Award winner for NCAA Male Swimmer of the Year. He was a three-time NCAA Champion and a member of the U.S. team at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, where he swam a leg of the 4th-place 800 free relay.

A Cal graduate, he now works as an associate for global consulting behemoth McKinsey & Company.