2025 Open Water National/Junior National Championships
- Sarasota, FL
- April 4-6, 2025
- Open Water
- Entry List
- Meet Central
- World Championships Selection Criteria
- National Junior Team Selection
The 2025 Open Water Nationals start on Friday with the men’s and women’s 10k, and there are World Championships spots up for grabs this weekend. The top two swimmers in the overall 10k and the 5k will automatically qualify for the World Championship team, here is the rest of the selection criteria.
There are also National TeamTeam positions available depending on event finishes. You can read the senior team selection criteria here and the junior team selection criteria here.
Spotlighting the women’s events is three-time National Champion in the 10k Katie Grimes, who is fresh off her first ever NCAA Championships a few weeks ago. Grimes had a sort of underwhelming meet, earning her lowest event finish in the women’s 1650, where she added a little over 30 seconds to finish 13th overall.
She will be competing for Cavalier Aquatics/Piedmont Family YMCA at the meet, the club team many UVA swimmers compete for, rather than her home club of Sandpipers of Nevada, and she is entered in both the 5k and the 10k this year.
Former Sandpipers teammate, and last year’s runner-up Claire Weinstein, is also entered in the 10k and the 5k events, and she will also be looking to earn an early World Championships berth.
There are also a host of other NCAA Swimmers entered on the women’s side. Mariah Denigan finished 18th in the 1650 for Indiana and she also appears in both the 10k and the 5k. Cavan Gormsen and Sophia Knapp are other UVA swimmers who are entered in the meet, Gormsen is fresh off her own 12th place finish at NCAAs.
Last year’s Junior 7.5k winner Daisy Collins will also be making her senior Nationals debut in the 10k at this year’s championships.
On the men’s side, the top three American athletes from last year’s Championships are back this year, two of which are current NCAA athletes.
Ivan Puskovitch was the top finishing American last year, coming in just one second behind Frenchman Axel Reymond. Puskovitch also represented the United States at the 2024 Olympic Games in the Open Water 10k where he finished 19th overall.
Dylan Gravely, from ASU, finished 3rd, but as the 2nd American and Trey Dickey, of Texas A&M, was 4th overall. All three men are entered in both the 10k and the 5k events.
Just like on the women’s side, the reigning junior 7.5k champion in the men’s events is making his first senior appearance in the 5k and the 10k.
Order of Events:
- Friday, April 4th
- Men’s and Women’s Senior 10k
- Saturday, April 5th
- Boy’s and Girl’s Junior 5k(15-U)
- Sunday, April 6th
- Men’s and Women’s Senior 5k
- Boy’s and Girl’s Junior 7.5K (16-17)
Still kinda shocked she chose UVA..being a 4imer, open water swimmer, and distance freestyler. Seems Bowman would have been the more obvious choice.
isn’t capitani still the main women’s coach anyway?
Hey, logic isn’t going to stop people on this site from saying every swimmer should transfer and swim for Bowman!
I’d love to see her go to asu. Tired of hearing about bowman lol
Have you ever seen Bob at Open Water. He is not interested in this event.
shes not going
Would like to see more pool distance swimmers try open water. More tactical racing and some crazy finishes
You may get your wish this year with the first and second placed men at Australian Openwater this year being seperated by photo finish and 0.04 seconds after 1hr and 50 minutes of racing, both Aussies are entered in the Men’s 10km race. Both have just come down off an Arizona altitude camp so it will be interesting to see how that effects things also.
The locals won’t have it all their own way I am sure.
Interested to see grimes here, was wondering if she would continue open water this yr so close post NCAA
Also intrigued by the fact that she is not the only UVA swimmer going
Fenwick probably gave them a nudge to go. If you are a real distance swimmer (1650 swimmer), you should try an open water race at least once. It is really cool to compete in at a semi high level.
Tyler Fenwick distance coach reboot.
Tyler is to far from the sport now. Has no idea what Open Water takes now.
UVA has some history with open water swimming.
Not entirely the same, of course, but Fran Crippen was building a lot of success internationally before he sadly passed away.
Becca Mann is also swimming!!! Huge age group star on the distance freestyle/IM scene, and made multiple world championship teams for open water!!!! phenomenal, athlete, and great person! Her books coming out this month. so happy to see her back after a pretty long break.
Becca was just on a podcast with Summer Finke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wiXZc7kPYA