Final Projected USA World Champs Rosters: 21 Women, 26 Men, Heading to Fukuoka

by Robert Gibbs 80

July 01st, 2023 News

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After five days of competition, and countless readings of the selection criteria, here’s how we project the final roster will look for USA Swimming’s 2023 World Aquatics Championships next month.

All six women who finished in the top two spots today were already on the team, meaning that Maxine Parker is safely added to the roster for the 4×100 free, and 21 women will represent the USA in Fukuoka.

Meanwhile, the men project to be one over the route limit of 26 swimmers, meaning that Michael Andrew, the winner of the 50 fly, won’t make the final roster.

USA Swimming is scheduled to announce the final roster shortly, but here’s how we think it will appear.

Men

Women

 

Men’s Projected Rosters

Note: We wanted to get the Worlds roster up quickly, so we have not fully updated the spreadsheets for the Junior Worlds, Pan Ams, and LEN U23 rosters. We will continue to update throughout the evening. Also, while we’ve made every effort to ensure these projected rosters are accurate as possible, there’s a lot of moving pieces, and there’s also the possibility we’ve made a mistake somewhere. Please don’t buy plane tickets to see your favorite swimmer based solely on the info below.

Women’s Projected Rosters

 

Here’s a summary of the relevant priorities by team, courtesy of the various USA Swimming selection documents:

World Championships – max of 26

  • Priority #1. The first priority will include both (i) the four best finishing Available Swimmers based on finish order from the Finals the Qualifying Competition in each of the 100-meter and 200-meter Freestyles, and (ii) the best finishing Available Swimmer based on finish order from the Finals of the Qualifying Competition in each of the Individual Olympic Events other than the 100-meter and 200-meter Freestyle.
  • Priority #2. The second priority will include the second best finishing Available Swimmer based on finish order from the Finals of the Qualifying Competition in each of the Individual Olympic Events other than the 100-meter and 200-meter Freestyle.
  • Priority #3. The third priority will include the fifth best finishing Available Swimmer based on finish order from the Finals of the Qualifying Competition in each of the 100-meter and 200-meter Freestyles.
  • Priority #4. The fourth priority will include the sixth best finishing Available Swimmer based on finish order from the Finals of the Qualifying Competition in each of the 100-meter and 200-meter Freestyles.
  • Priority #5. The fifth priority will include the best finishing Available Swimmer based on finish order from the Finals at the Qualifying Competition in the Individual Non-Olympic Events. No more than one Available Swimmer may be selected in each Individual Non-Olympic Event. If the Available Swimmer with the fastest time at the Finals in an Individual Non-Olympic Event declines the invitation to be Selected to the Team when that invitation is offered by USA Swimming and/or declines to swim in the Event for which he/she qualifies in the Championships, USA Swimming will not Select an Available Swimmer in that Individual Non-Olympic Event via Priority #5.

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John26
1 year ago

Curiously, as I look through the list of winning times from the Budapest 2022 World champs, I think the winning time for every single race on the women’s side should be faster this year.

I’m sure it won’t happen, but with so many top player out on the women side last year, and so many young talents still on the rise last year, it definitely seems possible.

Coach
1 year ago

If we have 5 unused women’s spots why are we not using them on 2nd place stroke 50s or something similar? Even extra relay-only people.

Troyy
Reply to  Coach
1 year ago

The limit per gender is enforced by World Aquatics,

Awsi Dooger
1 year ago

It’s interesting to see the life changes from names who have been mainstays on recent teams. Today on Instagram story Kathleen was enjoying a boating trip with her husband, Hali was touting real estate opportunities, and Mallory was blasting a bucket of range balls.

Joel Lin
1 year ago

Not a critical point aimed at Regan Smith – she had some incredible performances. Either of her backstroke wins could’ve been the performance of the meet.

But I do wish the performance award went to Ryan Held for his 21.50 in the 50 for sentimental reasons. The only thing this guy didn’t do to get an individual swim in a major meet before this was walk on fire or crawl over crushed glass to get one. Now he has it with that performance in the last event of the meet. A special swim.

Weinstein-Smith-Ledecky-Sims
Reply to  Joel Lin
1 year ago

It has nothing to do with sentimentality.

Regan Smith posted not one, not two, but three Top 10 All-Time Performances at the 2023 Phillips 66 National Championships.

If anything, dole out the men’s perseverance award to Ryan Held.

NCSwimFan
Reply to  Joel Lin
1 year ago

There were a LOT of picks they could’ve made. Makes sense to go with a US Open record. Three set on the final day alone and six total.

Could’ve went with Gretchen’s 50 fly since that was the only American record set. I probably would have went with either Ledecky’s 800 or Douglass’s 200 IM. But Smith’s 200 back was a good choice.

Ryder
1 year ago

So the “world championships” are NOT really the world championships because the number of men and women qualifiers for any team is limited.

Gheko
1 year ago

Don’t understand this non Olympic event stuff, it’s not the Olympics, but a medal event here.

Torchbearer
Reply to  Gheko
1 year ago

Australia has always done this too- throw anyone sitting around into the 50m events and hope for the best!

Marcy Spann
1 year ago

i believe since shaine casas made the worlds team in the 200 IM, that he also gets to do the 50 FL.

i think he’s the only other male swimmer on the worlds team that achieved the “A” cut during this season?

wow what a day haha

NCSwimFan
Reply to  Marcy Spann
1 year ago

Held achieved the A cut in prelims and since he swam it at this meet he will get the second spot.

Marcy Spann
Reply to  NCSwimFan
1 year ago

ahhhh good point my bad, didn’t see those prelims results oops

thank you 🙂

Marcy Spann
Reply to  Marcy Spann
1 year ago

plus nic fink is the only male american doing the 50 BR, stinks :/

dang all this scrambling because of MA

Andy
1 year ago

MA deserves a place in the team.200m 7th place finisher insted of 50 fly winner doesn’t make any sense.

NCSwimFan
Reply to  Andy
1 year ago

I don’t really understand why Peplowski was selected this year (specifically because Gemmell wasn’t last year) but there’s precedence there with Tarwater in 2012. Gives more relay flexibility and more potential for success, instead of choosing two out of four ladies to come up onto the finals relay you’re choosing one out of four, and the odds are greater that at least one will perform excellent compared to two.

MA missed the team as the qualification standards were set. Gripe about it all you want, this is how it was structured, and he didn’t get the job done.

Lap Counter
Reply to  NCSwimFan
1 year ago

Peplowski isn’t listed above! Are u sure she got added? I agree that isn’t what happened last summer unless they changed the rules?!

Ali
Reply to  Lap Counter
1 year ago

Yeah they announced her when they announced the team (this article was written before, hence ‘projected’). But her getting added has nothing to do with Andrew being left off. The mens and womens rosters are separate. Not sure if you were insinuating that but the above comments seem to be tying the two things together.

IMO
Reply to  Braden Keith
1 year ago

Except Ledecky dropped the event last year and they didn’t add the 7th place finisher.

Joel Lin
Reply to  Braden Keith
1 year ago

very cool for her to get a spot, also very gracious of Katie to drop this event to focus on her other 3 stronger events.

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