2021 U.S. OLYMPIC SWIMMING TRIALS
- When:
- Wave I Dates: June 4-7, 2021
- Wave II Dates: June 13-20, 2021
- Prelims: 10am CDT | Finals: 7pm CDT
- Where: CHI Health Center / Omaha, Nebraska
- 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Qualifying Cuts
- Wave I & II Event Order
- LCM (50m)
- Wave I Psych Sheets
USA Swimming has released psych sheets for Wave I of the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials, which begin this Friday in Omaha, Nebraska.
You can see the full Wave I Olympic Trials psych sheets here.
The Olympic selection meet was split to allow for smaller athlete fields amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Wave I will feature athletes who made the original Olympic Trials qualifying times, with the top 2 finishers in each event moving on to the Wave II meet the following week. Athletes who hit a new set of tougher qualifying times are locked into the Wave II meet already.
In Wave II, the overall results will select the Olympic team, with the top 2 in each event likely making the Olympic roster, along with the top 6 in the 100/200 freestyles.
A few notes on the Wave I psych sheets themselves:
- As expected, the Wave I meet will feature most of the meet’s youngest competitors. 13-year-old Kayla Han is the youngest qualifier listed on the Wave I psych shsets. She’ll swim the 400 IM for La Mirada Armada.
- The size of field for each event varies wildly in this bunch. The distance races will be especially thin, with just 10 qualifiers in the women’s 800 free and men’s 800 free, 7 qualifiers in the women’s 1500 free and 14 qualifiers in the men’s 1500 free.
- Most other events range from 25-40 athletes per event in Wave I, though the men’s 50 free has 96 entrants and the men’s 100 breast has 85.
- A few notable names in the Wave I field:
- NCAA-scorer Mykenzie Leehy of the University of Houston.
- Princeton standout Ellie Marquardt.
- Indiana All-American Jacob Steele.
- 13-year-old Kayla Han
- 14-year-olds Olivia Suarez, Alex Shackell, and Teagan O’Dell
I was looking for a Wave 2 psych sheet.
I think it’s an “honor” to be swimming at Olympic Trials no matter if you’re Wave 1 or Wave 2!! My Mom had an invitation for the diving aspect of the Olympic Trials in 1952 but her father (my Grandpa) refused to let her go to them because of her age (she passed on to the next world 6 years ago). I always felt that because of that, it was “incomplete”☹️. My grandson (her great grandson) will be swimming in Wave 1 of the Olympic Trials this weekend and though I can’t be there (but will definitely be watching it), I know my Mom will be there with him! I’ll be watching Wave 2 the following weekend as well but… Read more »
so if someone qualified for Wave 1, and doesn’t appear on the psych sheet.. I assume they are not going to the meet, and they have not been registered in the OME database to swim at this meet?
Assuming they don’t also have a Wave 2 cut, you would be correct.
I understand the public health motivation for splitting into two meets. (Now, with rising vaccination rates, maybe this isn’t strictly necessary. But I know this wasn’t clear when the meets were planned.)
At the same time, I’m disappointed on behalf of the Wave 1 athletes. Olympic Trials are a big deal, many athletes have trained for years to get to this point, and realistically most of them don’t have a chance of making the Olympic team. Competing at trials is the culmination of many peoples swimming careers. It must be really disappointing to qualify for Trials, only to be relegated to a separate, second-tier meet instead. I hope the organizers are able to make the Wave 1 meet a good… Read more »
Could not agree more. If Wave 1 feels like a stripped down version of the “Wave 2 Big Meet” then the organizers have failed. If Wave 1 gets treated like a “fundraiser”…again, a fail.
Someone please tell if there is any way to live stream the US Olympics trials outside USA
Someone please help
Let’s get cooking 🙂
Soooo was it actually necessary to have this meet at all..? There are multiple events that will have less than 2 heats. And then there’s the men’s 100 breast with 84 entries. Confused on the standard choices
Stop. You are trying to apply logic to an organization that does not update their pandemic related rules in sync with the CDC. Ruin young up and coming kids dreams of swimming with Olympians first, change rules later. That is tue USA swimming approach to this meet. It’s ridiculous. I’m swimming in wave 2 and have to get tested for a virus that I am immune to. I got the vaccine and still must test multiple times to be eligible in the meet. Renders getting the vaccine useless if rules and regulations don’t get lifted for those who have it.
The field will be relatively small, but it will be exciting and very unpredictable – maybe more unpredictable than wave II. Congratulations and good luck to all qualifiers who will be competing!