Swimming Canada has gotten an early start on naming a roster for the 2016 World Short Course Championships. Naming the team 7 months out from the December meet will help build anticipation among the local fan base with the event being hosted in Canada for the first time in its history.
While Canada’s Olympic standards were stringent and resulted in several National Champions being left home from Rio, they’ve opened the criteria up for the World Short Course Championships, resulting in a roster of 20 men and 17 women.
While that’s actually two fewer women than they’re sending to race in the pool at the Olympics, it’s an extra 13 men.
Included among the list of 20 men is 6 of those aforementioned Olympians (Santo Condorelli is the exception), plus a new list of swimmers that includes Mack Darragh, who won national titles in both the 100 and 200 flys at the Canadian Olympic Trials, but wasn’t under Swimming Canada’s designated standard to qualify for the Olympic team.
The meet will be hosted from December 6th-11tth at the WFCU Centre in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
| NAME | CLUB | COACH | HOMETOWN | RESIDENCE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEN | ||||
| Acevedo, Javier | Markham Aquatic Club | Scarborough, ON | Scarborough, ON | |
| Allen, Coleman | High Performance Centre- Vancouver | Tom Johnson | Spokane, WA | Vancouver, BC |
| Bagshaw, Jeremy | Island Swimming Club | Ryan Mallette | Victoria, BC | Victoria, BC |
| Baumann, Ashton | UNCAN | South Port, Australia | ||
| Block, Jason | University of Calgary Swim Club | Dave Salo | Calgary, AB | |
| Brothers, Peter | Island Swimming Club | Brad Dingey | Grantsburg, Wisconsin, USA | |
| Cochrane, Ryan | Island Swimming Club | Ryan Mallette | Victoria, BC | Victoria, BC |
| Cote, Tristan | Etobicoke Swimming | Mike Blondal | Mississauga, ON | Mississauga, ON |
| Darragh, Mack | Oakville Aquatic Club | John Pontz | Mississauga, ON | |
| Dekker, Nicolaas | Richmond Rapids Swim Club | Robert Pettifer | Vancouver, BC | |
| Funk, Richard | Edmonton Keyano Swim Club | Mike Bottom | Edmonton, AB | Ann Arbor, MI |
| Jarry, Mirando | Club Aquatique Montreal | Claude St-Jean | ||
| Kisil, Yuri | High Performance Centre- Vancouver | Tom Johnson | Calgary, AB | Vancouver, BC |
| Krug, Karl | Unattached | Chris Davis, Chris Davis Jr. | Yucaipa, CA | Atlanta, GA |
| Milosevic, Stefan | High Performance Centre- Vancouver | Tom Johnson | Burnaby, BC | Burnaby, BC |
| Reilly, Luke | High Performance Centre- Vancouver | Jozsef Nagy, Tom Johnson | Richmond, BC | Richmond, BC |
| Thormeyer, Markus | High Performance Centre- Vancouver | Ben Keast | Tsawwassen, BC | Delta, BC |
| Van Moerkerke, Evan | Guelph Marlin Aquatic Club | Don Burton | Tillsonburg, ON | Tillsonburg, ON |
| White, Evan | Oakville Aquatic Club | Mike Bottom | Oakville, ON | Ann Arbor, MI |
| Wood, Russell | University of Calgary Swim Club | Mike Blondal | Calgary, AB | Calgary, AB |
| WOMEN | ||||
| Anderson, Olivia | Etobicoke Swimming | Kevin Thorburn | Etobicoke, ON | |
| Caldwell, Hilary | High Performance Centre- Victoria | Ryan Mallette | White Rock, BC | Victoria, BC |
| Goss, Kennedy | Granite Gators Swim Club | Mike Westphu | Toronto, ON | Bloomington, IN |
| Lacroix, Audrey | Blue Machine St-Lambert | Ben Titley | Pont- Rouge, QC | Toronto, ON |
| MacLean, Brittany | Etobicoke Swimming | Kevin Thorburn, Harvey Humphries | Toronto, ON | Toronto, ON |
| Mainville, Sandrine | High Performance Centre- Ontario | Ben Titley | Boucherville, QC | Scarborough, ON |
| Masse, Kylie | Byron Macdonald | |||
| McCabe, Martha | High Performance Centre- Ontario | Ben Titley | Toronto, ON | Vancouver, BC |
| Nicol, Rachel | Lethbridge Swim Club | Peter Schori | Lethbridge, AB | Dallas, TX |
| Oleksiak, Penelope | Toronto Swim Club | Bill O’Toole | Toronto, ON | |
| Overholt, Emily | High Performance Centre- Vancouver | Tom Johnson | West Vancouver, BC | West Vancouver, BC |
| Pickrem, Sydney | Island Swimming Club | Randy Reese | Oldsmar, FL | Oldsmar, FL |
| Ruck, Taylor | Unattached | Kevin Zacher | Scottsdale, AZ | |
| Savard, Katerine | Club Aquatique Montreal | Claude St-Jean | Pont-Rouge, QC | Montreal, QC |
| Smith, Kierra | Liquid Lightning Swim Club | Emil Dimitrov, Kelly Kremer | Kelowna, BC | Kelowna, BC |
| Williams, Michelle | High Performance Centre- Ontario | Ben Titley | Toronto, ON | Toronto, ON |
| Zevnik, Alexia | Pointe-Claire Swim Club | Montreal | ||
