International Swimming League (ISL) Team Energy Standard has already made some significant roster announcements this week. Belarusians Anastasiya Shkurdai and Ilya Shymanovich would among those returning for season two, while former DC Trident star and big-time points contributor Siobhan Haughey would be brought in as a new team member.
Just today, Team Energy Standard revealed another big game-changer that would be added to their powerhouse lineup, to the tune of Danish national record holder the reigning 50m freestyle Olympic champion Pernille Blume.
25-year-old Blume was a member of the New York Breakers for the inaugural ISL season, a team that did not make it to the final team championships in Las Vegas, Nevada. Across just 3 meets, Blume amassed 45 points to become the league’s 104th scorer overall, rendering her the 5th highest New York Breaker scorer and 3rd among NYB females.
Of note, Blume is in a relationship with Energy Standard team member Florent Manaudou, who was the league’s 6th highest scorer in the first season for the Turkey-based squad.
Team Energy Standard is the only squad who has been providing roster updates this week, leaving fans wondering what other moves will be made across the other existing rosters, as well as the additional 2 new teams expected to be added.
Felipe Lima just joined the team
Might suggest Seebohm (who was a marginal contributor at best in season 1) may be an “out” unless she performs some major surprises to nab a 4th Olympic berth).
They have got a lot of female freestylers on that roster. Are they going to lose Sjostrom?
I believe they need to attract more swimmers, who retire after NCAAs to attend the league. Some of the college swimmers are wonderful short course racers and can’t do long course to make WCs or Olympics. I’m naming some individuals for reference- Carsten Vissering, Austin Staab, Ryan Hoffer
Smart move. That Breakers team was crap.
This is just stupid now.
Learn from the NHL or any of the big leagues
Any of the big leagues in America*
ENS roster so far:
New recruits:
Pernille Blume
Zsuzsanna Jakabos
Siobhan Haughey
Returning:
Femke Heemskerk
Kliment Kolesnikov
Maxim Stupin
Anastasia Skurdai
Imogen Clark
Sergey Shevtsov
Mary-Sophie Harvey
Ilya Shymanovich
Evgeny Rylov
We can probably assume that the squad that trains with Energy Standard like Sarah Sjostrom, Chad Le Clos and Florent Manaudou will return to them too.
While I think you’re largely right, I think there’s a chance that the list of people who trains with them after the Olympics will change. Lots of things change after the Olympic Games…
I’m not 100% sure on Sjostrom – Energy seems to have a lot of sprint freestylers already.
All the Canadians…?
Mary-Sophie Harvey already announced as returning to ENS.