115 Swimmers Selected to USA Swimming’s 2019-2020 National Team
Six swimmers, including Michael Andrew, led the 2019-2019 U.S. National Team roster by qualifying in four events. Archive photo via Jack Spitser/Spitser Photography
USA Swimming has finalized the roster for its 2019-2020 National Team, with all pool swimmer selections matching our projections from the end of the qualifying period last week.
as determined by USASwimming.org’s world rankings from January 1, 2019 through August 25, 2019
Rankings will be pulled from the FINA site on September 3 (giving swimmers a chance to make sure their time is included in the database)
Prelims, semifinals and finals (A, B, C and D) from all USA Swimming or FINA sanctioned meets were eligible
Relay leadoffs, time trials, swim-offs and intermediate splits were not eligible
The 2019-2020 USA Swimming Open Water National Team is comprised of the athletes selected to compete at the 2019 FINA Open Water World Championship, which took place in July in Yeosu, South Korea. Remaining positions were filled based on results from the 2019 USA Swimming 10K National Championships.
Six swimmers qualified for the team in a roster-leading four events: Katie Ledecky (200, 400, 800, 1500 free), Ally McHugh (400, 800, 1500 free; 400 IM), Ashley Twichell (400, 800, 1500 free; 10k), Michael Andrew (50 free, 100 back, 100 breast, 200 IM), Bobby Finke (400, 800, 1500 free; 400 IM), and Zane Grothe (400, 800, 1500 free; 10k).
Twenty-six states are represented on the team and California leads the way with 16 athletes; 12 of those athletes represent Cal, which has the most athletes on the team of any club. More than 60 USA Swimming Clubs are represented in all. 24 swimmers made their first US National team; 12 of those are junior swimmers who moved up from the 2018-2019 U.S. National Junior Team.
The full roster is listed below. Click here to view the official women’s roster with affiliated coaches and clubs; click here for men.
Miller, Adrian, and Lochte holding on… the last of the old men in the young kid’s sport. Forgot to mention Shields, too.
KNOWS NOTHING
Brandon Fischer: isn’t this is his first time on the National Team?
The Man Himself
Grevers?
Coach Mike 1952
Zane in the 10K. That will be interesting. When did he qualify? details please…
Hoosier Eli
It is interesting since he got out of the water in the 10K at Nationals about halfway through the competition and didn’t finish.
owcoach
Good point … he quit 1/2 way through the race (got out), then came back “fresh” to win the 5K. Apparently, since he was “offered” a spot on the World OW team, but didn’t take it since it was a week before he would swim the 1500, 400 and 800 in pool events at Worlds, USA Swimming went ahead and named him to the National Team. They did the same with Hannah Moore (although a questionable DQ is different than getting out mid-way of a 10K) since she swam the 5K at Worlds.
Say What
The selection criteria is in black and white: The top six (6) American male finishers and the top six (6) American female finishers from the 2019 USA Swimming 10K Open Water Championships will be named to the 2019-20 USA Swimming Open Water National Team.
swimswamswum
Not true. The OW National Team selection criteria says “Athletes selected to the 2019 FINA Open Water World Championship Team will qualify for the 2019-2020 Open Water National Team.” Both Grothe and Moore made the OW World’s Team in the 5k. So, the event next to their name in the USAS Nat Team press release should actually be the 5k since they were selected based on that race. Neither of them placed in the 10k to make this team.
Torrey is from Oakland, CA, and majored in media studies and American studies at Claremont McKenna College, where she swam distance freestyle for the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps team. Outside of SwimSwam, she has bylines at Sports Illustrated, Yahoo Sports, SB Nation, and The Student Life newspaper.
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Wow no Whitley or Roy. Matheny on the hunt…
whitley cheated anyway so good riddance to him
You can’t say something like that and not back it up
Under water video from Nationals: dolphin kick right before the 200 breast A final finish maybe helped him out-touch Roy by 0.31 seconds.
Here is the USA Swimming video. Downward dolphin kick at about 6:24.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F84EV1zgOKo
Username checks out
Lol at the man himself. You were saying?
Miller, Adrian, and Lochte holding on… the last of the old men in the young kid’s sport. Forgot to mention Shields, too.
Brandon Fischer: isn’t this is his first time on the National Team?
Grevers?
Zane in the 10K. That will be interesting. When did he qualify? details please…
It is interesting since he got out of the water in the 10K at Nationals about halfway through the competition and didn’t finish.
Good point … he quit 1/2 way through the race (got out), then came back “fresh” to win the 5K. Apparently, since he was “offered” a spot on the World OW team, but didn’t take it since it was a week before he would swim the 1500, 400 and 800 in pool events at Worlds, USA Swimming went ahead and named him to the National Team. They did the same with Hannah Moore (although a questionable DQ is different than getting out mid-way of a 10K) since she swam the 5K at Worlds.
The selection criteria is in black and white: The top six (6) American male finishers and the top six (6) American female finishers from the 2019 USA Swimming 10K Open Water Championships will be named to the 2019-20 USA Swimming Open Water National Team.
Not true. The OW National Team selection criteria says “Athletes selected to the 2019 FINA Open Water World Championship Team will qualify for the 2019-2020 Open Water National Team.” Both Grothe and Moore made the OW World’s Team in the 5k. So, the event next to their name in the USAS Nat Team press release should actually be the 5k since they were selected based on that race. Neither of them placed in the 10k to make this team.