2017 U.S. NATIONALS/WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS TRIALS
- Tuesday, June 27th-Saturday, July 1st
- 50-Meter Course
- Indianapolis, Indiana
- Meet Info
- Prelims timelines
- Broadcast schedule
- Event-by-event previews
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
- Live Stream (U.S. viewers)
- Live Stream (International viewers)
Note: these rosters are still very much in flux. As swimmers make the World Championship teams in other events, they’ll be bumped from the World University Games Team. If WUGs swimmers make the Junior Worlds team later in the week (or vice versa), they’ll have to enter one or the other, as the dates conflict. There’s no specific word in USA Swimming’s selection procedures as to which meet takes priority, so it’s hard to predict whether the decision will come down to individual swimmers or whether one meet will supplant the other. On top of all that, many swimmers decline invitations to compete at these meets, particularly Junior Worlds swimmers, who may have commitments to school or other activities.
With all that said, consider this a tentative early look at the top qualifiers for the secondary international meets. It’s also certainly possible we overlooked someone with World University Games eligibility, as we don’t have perfect information on who is enrolled in some sort of collegiate academic program (whether in-person or online) and who isn’t. If you think we missed someone, please respectfully let us know in the comment section and we’ll do our best to confirm the information.
World University Games are starting to get crowded with one day remaining. The women’s roster is over capacity and the men hit their 20-person limit on the nose tonight.
Only 20 women can make that team, and 22 have qualified under one of the three priorities. At this point, the lowest priority swimmers would be the third-place finishers in the 100 and 200 freestyles: Caroline Baldwin and Katie Drabot. However, the team could still actually shrink in size tomorrow if members of the WUGs roster make the Worlds team individually. In fact, Baldwin moved into the third 100 free spot only because Olivia Smoliga made Worlds individually in the 100 back tonight. Smoliga was previously penciled in as an individual 100 free swimmers at WUGs.
The best candidates to jump from WUGs to Worlds tomorrow are Lia Neal (seeded 7th in the 50 free) and Ella Eastin (seeded 3rd in the 200 IM).
The men are currently at 20. Tomorrow has 4 spots up for grabs, 2 apiece in the 200 IM and 50 free. They’ll also have a handful of WUGs athletes looking to jump to the Worlds team: Gunnar Bentz (seeded 4th in the 200 IM) and Will Licon (seeded 7th in the 200 IM) are the most likely, with Ryan Held, Michael Chadwick and Zach Apple having outside shots in the 50 free. The men’s 800 free and women’s 1500 free do not offer direct qualifying for WUGs; they’ll instead be filled by swimmers already on the team.
It was a big day for qualifying doubles. There were no new boys qualifiers for Junior Worlds tonight – all 6 qualifiers had already made the team in a different event. Only one of the six girls qualifiers for tonight was a new addition to the Junior Worlds roster.
Even for the Worlds team, four of six in both genders were doubling up on previously-qualified events. The only new World Champs names tonight were Cody Miller, Matt Grevers, Katie Meili and Olivia Smoliga.
YOU CAN FIND FULL SELECTION PROCEDURES FOR EACH MEET HERE.
The current World Championships team after day 4 of Nationals is here.
Key points:
- Swimmers who make Worlds individually can’t do WUGs. They can still do Junior Worlds.
- Swimmers who make Worlds as relay-only swimmers can still do WUGs individually.
- WUGs are for swimmers enrolled in college as of Spring 2017 or Fall 2017
- Junior Worlds are for girls born in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 and boys born in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002.
- World University Games rosters are smaller: 20 men and 20 women, as opposed to 26 each for Worlds and Junior Worlds. As such, only the top 3 make it in each relay event. The rest of the relay spots (and the non-Olympic events) are filled by swimmers already on the team.
TENTATIVE ROSTERS
Women:
| WUGs (22/20) | Junior Worlds (21/26) | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 200 fly | Ella Eastin | Vanessa Krause | Madison Homovich | Ashlyn Fiorilli | |||
| 100 free | Lia Neal | Veronia Burchill | Lucie Nordmann | Grace Ariola | Julia Cook | Amalie Fackenthal | |
| 800 free | Hannah Moore | Cierra Runge | Erica Sullivan | Chase Travis | |||
| 200 free | Cierra Runge | Claire Rasmus | Leah Braswell | Diana Dunn | Ella Ristic | Kelly Pash | |
| 200 breast | Miranda Tucker | Kayla Brumbaum | Zoe Bartel | Ella Nelson | |||
| 200 back | Asia Seidt | Bridgette Alexander | Regan Smith | Alex Sumner | |||
| 50 fly | Emma Carlton | ||||||
| 400 IM | Brooke Forde | Ally McHugh | Christin Rockway | Madison Homovich | |||
| 100 fly | Hellen Moffitt | Katie McLaughlin | Regan Smith | Eva Merrell | |||
| 50 breast | Emily Weiss | ||||||
| 50 back | Grace Ariola | ||||||
| 400 free | Sierra Schmidt | Kaersten Meitz | Leah Braswell | Miranda Heckman | |||
| 100 breast | Andrea Cottrell | Miranda Tucker | Zoe Bartel | Emily Weiss | |||
| 100 back | Hannah Stevens | Ali DeLoof | Regan Smith | Grace Ariola |
Men:
| WUGs (20/20) | Junior Worlds (18/26) | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 200 fly | Gunnar Bentz | Justin Wright | Andrew Koustik | Nicolas Albiero | |||
| 100 free | Zach Apple | Michael Chadwick | Ryan Held | Daniel Krueger | Matthew Willenbring | Michael Andrew | Drew Kibler |
| 1500 free | PJ Ransford | Kevin Litherland | Andrew Abruzzo | Michael Brinegar | |||
| 200 free | Mitch D’Arrigo | Maxime Rooney | Grant Shoults | Trey Freeman | Patrick Callan | Jack LeVant | Cody Bybee |
| 200 breast | Andrew Wilson | Will Licon | Daniel Roy | Reece Whitley | |||
| 200 back | Robert Owen | Abrahm Devine | Austin Katz | Carson Foster | |||
| 50 fly | Michael Andrew | ||||||
| 400 IM | Gunnar Bentz | Jonathan Roberts | Kieran Smith | Eric Knowles | |||
| 100 fly | Justin Lynch | Zach Harting | Nicolas Albiero | Drew Kibler | |||
| 50 breast | Michael Andrew | ||||||
| 50 back | Michael Andrew | ||||||
| 400 free | Grant Shoults | Mitch D’Arrigo | Trey Freeman | Andrew Abruzzo | |||
| 100 breast | Andrew Wilson | Jacob Montague | Michael Andrew | Reece Whitley | |||
| 100 back | Justin Ress | Taylor Dale | Austin Katz | Nicolas Albiero |
Why isn’t Isabel Ivey in 100 free?
Selections are based off of Nationals results, not best times. Ivey finished 23rd while the four on the roster finished 15th, 17th and tied for 18th.
Why not Dakota Luther in the 200 fly? (Jr. Worlds)
She made the Budapest team
Only girls born between 2000 and 2003 are eligible. Luther was born in 1999.
Jared, I’m surprised to see Mitch D’Arrigo in your roster. I know he has the dual citizenship, US and Italian, but he represents Italia at international meets.
First I’m surprised to see he can swim at these US championships which serve as world trials. At best you allow him to swim prelims but I don’t understand he can swim the finals. Even more the A-Final. He takes the lane of an American who can qualify for worlds, WUGS or world juniors.
Is he allowed to swim because he has chosen to represent USA now at international meets?
Yes, he has decided to swim for the US. There is an article about this.
https://swimswam.com/italian-olympian-mitch-darrigo-changing-sports-citizenship-to-usa-eligible-for-wugs/
Zanna’s correct, D’Arrigo is transitioning his sports citizenship. He’s not eligible in time for Worlds, but will be for World University Games, at least based on what we’ve heard from USA Swimming.
Thanks Zanna and Jared. I had missed the article.
Why not Prenot ahead of Licon for the 200 breast spot?
Josh Prenot will turn 24 before the start of the meet, which puts him outside of USA Swimming’s selected age range for the meet (though not the official FISU age limits)
Weird. Mike Alexandrov has been on the WUGs team before when he was like 28 years old.
I remember that year, because I was also hoping for a WUGs spot in that event! The age range used to be much broader, but both FISU and USA Swimming are gradually lowering it since that year (2013, I believe).
Why no Daniel Carr in the 100 Back?
For Junior Worlds? He’s just too old to be eligible. Even though he might be 18 now, FINA calculates ages by birth year, so only swimmers born in 1999-2002 are eligible. Carr’s listed birth year in meet results is 1998.
Okay then. Bummer. He went really fast
Also, think about those relays at WUGs.
400: Chadwick/Apple/Held/Rooney
800: Bentz/D’Arrigo/Roberts/Rooney
Medley: Ress/Wilson/Lynch/Chadwick
That’s pretty darn impressive.
i doubt they all will chose to do both meets, especially since WUGs is so late this year
Did some research on this because I was curious – you can see my full post above, but in 2015, 9 of 10 swimmers eligible to swim both did indeed swim both. WUGs does run later this year than Worlds did in 2015, but my guess would be that most of those guys won’t pass up a chance to compete internationally.
Ress can’t do both WUGs and Worlds
He’s only qualified for Worlds in the 50 back (a non-Olympic event) so he is eligible to swim both.
I thought Hannah Stevens made it in the 50, so she’s uneligible for WUGS?
Swimmers in non-Olympic events only at Worlds can compete at WUGs. However, they did note in the selection procedures that Stevens could choose to decline the 50 back spot to focus entirely on WUGs if she wanted to (unlikely).
Gotcha. Do swimmers who competed at Worlds ever decline WUGs?
I don’t think it’s very common, but I don’t know off the top of my head if anyone has done that recently.
Makes sense. I wasn’t sure about people like Neal
Yes they have.
Did some research on this: in 2015, the last time Worlds and WUGs happened in the same summer, 9 of 10 swimmers eligible to swim both chose to swim both (Chenault, Bootsma, Campbell, Neal, Smith, Vreeland, Weitzeil, Malone and Youngquist). Only Michael Weiss didn’t compete at both – he swam the 800 free relay at Worlds but didn’t swim the 200 free or 800 free relay at WUGs.
That was a slightly different situation, as qualifying happened in the summer of 2014 for all of the 2015 meets. But there’s precedent, at least, for most swimmers electing to swim both, which makes sense. It’s hard to pass up a chance to be a part of Team USA at any sort… Read more »