USA Swimming has released its roster for the 2019 World Junior Championships, highlighted by four-individual-event entrants Carson Foster, Luca Urlando and Claire Curzan.
The rosters are almost identical to what we projected at the end of U.S. Nationals last week, with only one change. Destin Lasco appears to have declined his spot on the boys roster, leaving openings in the 100 free, 4×100 free relay and 200 IM. Next up in the individual 100 free is Jake Magahey, who would’ve swum the event as part of the 4×100 free relay, but will now swim it individually as well. Jack Armstrong is now on the roster as the final relay swimmer. And Sean Faikish jumped onto the roster as the next 200 IMer up.
The official roster also features the entrants in the 50s of fly, back and breast, which weren’t swum at the qualifying meet.
You can view the full roster here.
A few juniors will have extraordinarily busy lineups. Foster, Urlando and Curzan each have four individual entries. Urlando will likely add three relays to that: the boys 4×200 free, the boys medley and the mixed medley relay. Foster should swim the 4×200 free relay, and Curzan the girls medley relay and perhaps the mixed medley.
The 2019 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships will run from August 20th to 25th in Budapest, Hungary.
Here are the full rosters. We’ve included the top qualifiers in each 100 as the likely medley relay participants, though that’s not official yet. We haven’t included either of the mixed relays, as they’re harder to predict:
Girls:
| First Name | Last Name | Event 1 | Event 2 | Event 3 | Event 4 | Event 5 | |
| 1 | Ellie | Andrews | 100 BR | 50 BR | |||
| 2 | Abby | Arens | 200 BR | ||||
| 3 | Grace | Cooper | 4×100 FR-R | ||||
| 4 | Annabel | Crush | 100 BK | 50 BK | |||
| 5 | Claire | Curzan | 100 BK | 100 FL | 50 BK | 50 FL | 4×100 M-R |
| 6 | Kaitlyn | Dobler | 100 BR | 50 BR | 4×100 M-R | ||
| 7 | Erin | Gemmell | 4×200 FR-R | ||||
| 8 | Isabel | Gormley | 400 IM | ||||
| 9 | Charlotte | Hook | 200 FL | ||||
| 10 | Torri | Huske | 100 FR | 100 FL | 50 FL | 4×100 FR-R | 4×100 M-R |
| 11 | Anna | Keating | 200 BR | ||||
| 12 | Justina | Kozan | 200 IM | ||||
| 13 | Natalie | Mannion | 200 BK | ||||
| 14 | Paige | McKenna | 1500 FR | ||||
| 15 | Olivia | McMurray | 4×200 FR-R | 800 FR | |||
| 16 | Lillie | Nordmann | 200 FL | ||||
| 17 | Maxine | Parker | 50 FR | 4×100 FR | |||
| 18 | Grace | Sheble | 400 IM | 200 IM | |||
| 19 | Rachel | Stege | 400 FR | ||||
| 20 | Ashley | Strouse | 200 FR | 4×200 FR-R | |||
| 21 | Amy | Tang | 4×100 FR-R | ||||
| 22 | Chase | Travis | 800 FR | 1500 FR | |||
| 23 | Claire | Tuggle | 200 FR | 400 FR | 4×200 FR-R | ||
| 24 | Rye | Ulett | 200 BK | ||||
| 25 | Gretchen | Walsh | 100 FR | 50 FR | 4×100 FR-R | 4×100 M-R |
Boys:
| First Name | Last Name | Event 1 | Event 2 | Event 3 | Event 4 | Event 5 | Event 6 | |
| 1 | Jack | Alexy | 4×100 FR-R | |||||
| 2 | Jack | Armstrong | 4×100 FR-R | |||||
| 3 | Matt | Brownstead | 4×100 FR-R | |||||
| 4 | Brendan | Burns | 200 FL | |||||
| 5 | Adam | Chaney | 100 FR | 50 FR | 50 BK | 4×100 FR-R | 4×100 M-R | |
| 6 | David | Curtiss | 50 FR | 50 FL | ||||
| 7 | Wyatt | Davis | 100 BK | 200 BK | 50 BK | 4×100 M-R | ||
| 8 | Sean | Faikish | 200 IM | |||||
| 9 | Matt | Fallon | 200 BR | |||||
| 10 | Carson | Foster | 200 FR | 200 BK | 400 IM | 200 IM | 4×200 FR-R | |
| 11 | Will | Grant | 100 BK | |||||
| 12 | Kevin | Houseman | 100 BR | 50 BR | ||||
| 13 | Arik | Katz | 1500 FR | 800 FR | ||||
| 14 | Jason | Louser | 400 IM | |||||
| 15 | Jake | Magahey | 100 FR | 4×100 FR-R | 4×200 FR-R | 400 FR | ||
| 16 | Blake | Manoff | 100 FL | |||||
| 17 | Joshua | Matheny | 200 BR | 100 BR | 50 BR | 4×100 M-R | ||
| 18 | Jake | Mitchell | 1500 FR | 400 FR | 800 FR | |||
| 19 | Dare | Rose | 4×200 FR-R | |||||
| 20 | Luca | Urlando | 200 FL | 200 FR | 100 FL | 50 FL | 4×200 FR-R | 4×100 M-R |
When is this meet?
August 20th-25th.
It would be a dream to make this
Jake Foster would already be 19?
World Juniors are selected based on Year of Birth. Only boys born 2001-04 are eligible and Jake was born in 2000.
Luca needs to start swimming more IM
Day 2 of the meet has the 1 fly, 2 IM, and 2 free. Can’t do it all. Him and Carson both have doubles that day.
Does anyone know why Lasco declined?
I am not sure but read on another article his decision was based around school or school work, again idk for sure
Overheard him saying at Nationals that he wanted to focus on Trials and not have a major meet until then
Isn’t it 10 months away ?
Congratulations and looking forward to some great swims!
Hope all get some rest somehow, so much swimming and no relaxations over the summer at all.