The Cali Condors have finalized their roster for the 2019 International Swimming finale in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 20th and 21st. With rumors swirling about teams that might pick up the remaining ‘impact’ swimmers who have not yet committed to ISL teams for the inaugural season, there are no real surprises on the Condors’ roster.
That’s in line with what we’ve seen from them all season. While other clubs have scrambled to pick up pieces as swimmers dropped out, got injured, or had to miss meets for various reasons, the Condors have held a pretty stable roster throughout the season.
The only swimmer on their ‘extended roster’ who won’t attend the meet will be Australian Jack Cartwright. They had to leave 1 male swimmer home to reduce their roster to the requisite maximum of 14 men and 14 women, and Cartwright was the odd man out – which is not a big surprise given that he didn’t swim at any of the team’s regular season meets either. His participation felt like a long shot anyway after injuries kept him out of the summer championship season.
The Condors won the first 2 meets of the 2019 ISL season in Indianapolis and Naples, but were ultimately upended in a down-to-the-wire win by the LA Current at the U.S. Derby meet.
Still, with Caeleb Dressel, who is the frontrunner to win the MVP Award in the finals meet (he missed Indianapolis, which pretty well eliminates him from season MVP), the Condors will be in contention at every meet. Dressel is a heavy favorite to win the triple-points skins race at the end of the meet. The Condors also have an ‘ace’ in Lilly King, who has not yet lost an individual race this season, going 9-for-9 in the breaststrokes through 3 meets.
Would love to see Kylie Masse put in the 200 Free. Its been foverever since she’s swam it and has improved a ton in her 200 back since.
I hope Townley is tapered. It’s no fun watching him get 7th place.
He swam very well in Atlanta so hoping for the best.
Curious about Jack Cartwright. Haven’t heard anything about him for a long time. Is his shoulder problem still unsolved? If so, his Olympic prospect doesn’t look very good as there’s not too much time left and he hasn’t raced for too long.
This is all I know from months ago but am keen for an update too:
https://swimswam.com/cartwright-confirms-not-swimming-1500-at-aussie-world-swimming-trials/
I think next year they will have to find another butterflier behind Dressel.
Switkowski has hurt them points wise in races where Dressel has won (6-8 place finishes).
I hear this guy named Michael is pretty good. Not sure if he’s up for ISL though
I think you might have meant Kelsey Wog (not Wong).
Nah they replaced Kelsey Wog with her chinese twin, Kelsey Wong
Nah it’s just the Wong spelling.
I recall an article here a while back mentioned that the additional 2 swimmers (above 12) are relay only swimmers but don’t the ISL rules say they are just reserves? Can you confirm? I don’t think I’ve seen any teams using the additional swimmers in relays?
Troyy – the other 2 are available for relay-only purposes. While not every one has been used at every meet, there are definitely examples of it. Amanda Weir, for example, swam 2 relays for the Condors and 0 individual events in DC.
That’s interesting because the rules on the website just calls them substitutes and doesn’t mention anywhere that they can be used in relays. It’d suck to travel halfway across the world to just be a substitute so it makes more sense to allow them to swim in the relays.
Yeah, we’ve discovered a few little minor inconsistencies in the technical guide that they published. Lots of teams have signed more than 16 swimmers too. I think there were a few things that evolved after that edition that didn’t make it into the ‘public’ rules.
I’m suprised they’re putting Caeleb dressel. Hes not even that fast and doesn’t even score that many points.
He also doesn’t have any endurance whatsoever and will last barely a single 50.
Who’s he?
Caeleb transcends what it means to be a sprinter. Which other sprinter can swim that many events and distances??
I think that their free relays may be exposed against the big teams but feel that they may also be alot closer to the top than thought, alot of VERY good swimmers in that team, could be a suprise contender.
I think it depends how many shave and taper for this meet will decide how close they are to the European teams