Ledecky, McIntosh, Walsh, Marchand, & Kos Headline Loaded Speedo Fort Lauderdale Open Psych Sheets

2026 Speedo Fort Lauderdale Open

• Wednesday, April 29 – Saturday, May 2, 2026
• Fort Lauderdale, Florida
• Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center
• LCM (50 meters)
• Meet Central
• Psych Sheet

The psych sheet for the 2026 Speedo Fort Lauderdale Open, formerly a stop on USA Swimming’s Pro Swim Series, has dropped, and it’s absolutely loaded with Olympic medalists and world champions.

The 2025 edition of the competition was an absolute crowd-pleaser, drawing global attention and media after two world records were broken in one day. Katie Ledecky shattered her nine-year-old record in the 800m freestyle, and Gretchen Walsh obliterated the 55-second barrier in the 100m butterfly.

Both stars are headed back to the Sunshine State for round two.

Ledecky is slated to take on her typical schedule of the 200, 400, 800, and 1500 free, while Walsh is expanding beyond her usual 50 and 100 fly and 50 and 100 free to also enter the 200 free and 50 back.

Two of the most versatile active female swimmers, Kate Douglass and Summer McIntosh, are also set to compete again this year.

Douglass has entered a whopping eight events, the 50 and 100 free, 50 and 100 fly, 50, 100, and 200 breast, and the 200 IM, but will almost certainly trim that down as the meet progresses.

McIntosh, on the other hand, is entered to take on a more pointed schedule: the 200 and 400 free as well as the 200 breast. The 400 free will bring another head-to-head showdown with Ledecky. While McIntosh’s PB is over two seconds faster and her season best is a second quicker, the event may have been the race of the meet last year, when Ledecky came from behind over the final 75 meters for a slight upset (this was before McIntosh shattered the world record by two seconds at the Canadian Trials a few months later).

Team USA’s premier backstroker for nearly a decade, Regan Smith, will race the 100s and 200s of both fly and back in addition to the 200 free, where she broke 1:57 for the first time at the Westmont stop of the Pro Series last month.

Other names on the psych sheet include UVA standouts Claire Curzan and Anna Moesch, both of whom had major drops in short course yards and will be racing long course for the first time since last summer.

U.S. national team mainstays Alex Walsh, Phoebe Bacon, Erin Gemmell, Emma Weyant, Katharine Berkoff, and Simone Manuel, along with multi-time world junior champions Rylee Erisman and Audrey Derivaux, are also among the top entrants.

On the men’s side, France’s Leon Marchand will take on the same schedule he swept at the Paris Olympics, the two IMs, the 200 fly, and the 200 breast.

Marchand’s training partner, Hungarian Hubert Kos, coming off an electric NCAA Championships, is slated for his usual backstroke events in addition to the 200 IM, along with interesting entries in the 100 breast and 200 free.

American Caeleb Dressel will be back in action, contesting his usual 50 and 100 fly and 50 and 100 free as he continues his comeback journey post-Paris.

Alongside Marchand, Kos, and Dressel, the men’s field features several other Olympic or world championship medalists, including Ilya Kharun, Josh Liendo, Chris Guiliano, Shaine Casas, Bobby Finke, Thomas Heilman, Luke Hobson, Carson Foster, Patrick Sammon, Kieran Smith, as well as rising contenders toward LA 2028 such as Maximus Williamson, Ian Call, and David King.

This is not an exhaustive list, and the names are not in any particular order.

Notable Women’s Entries

• Katie Ledecky – 200/400/800/1500 free
• Katie Grimes – 200/400/1500 free, 200/400 IM, 200 fly, 200 back, 200 breast
• Jillian Cox – 200/400/800 free
• Becca Mann – 400/800/1500 free, 200 fly
• Kate Hurst – 200/400/800 free, 400 IM
• Emma Weyant – 200/400 free, 200/400 IM
• Kate Douglass – 50/100 free, 50/100 fly, 50/100/200 breast, 200 IM
• Summer McIntosh – 200/400 free, 200 breast
• Alex Walsh – 50/100/200 breast, 200/400 IM, 200 free, 200 fly
• Gretchen Walsh – 50/100/200 free, 50/100 fly, 50 back
• Claire Curzan – 50/100/200 free, 50/100/200 back, 100 fly
• Anna Moesch – 50/100/200 free
• Katharine Berkoff – 50/100 free, 50/100/200 back
• Rylee Erisman – 100/200/400 free, 200 back, 200 IM
• Audrey Derivaux – 200/400/800 free, 100 fly, 100 breast, 200 back
• Regan Smith – 100/200 fly, 100/200 back, 200 free
• Mona McSharry – 50/100/200 breast
• Eneli Jefimova – 50/100/200 breast
• Emma Weber – 50/100/200 breast
• Phoebe Bacon – 50/100/200 back, 50 fly, 100 free, 200 IM
• Simone Manuel – 50/100/200 free
• Isabelle Stadden – 50/100/200 back
• Leah Hayes – 100/200/400 free, 100/200 breast, 200/400 IM
• Leah Shackley – 50/100/200 fly, 50/100/200 back
• Kasia Wasick – 50 fly, 50 free
• Nikolett Padar – 50/100/200/400 free
• Erin Gemmell – 100/200/400 free
• Madi Mintenko – 50/100/200/400 free, 100/200 back, 100 fly
• Erika Pelaez – 50/100/200 free, 50/100/200 back, 100 fly
• Tess Howley – 100/200 fly, 100/200 back
• Lindsay Looney – 100/200 fly, 200 free

Notable Men’s Entries

• Caeleb Dressel – 50/100 fly, 50/100 free
• Josh Liendo – 50/100 fly, 50/100/200 free
• Leon Marchand – 200/400 IM, 200 fly, 200 breast
• Chris Guiliano – 50/100/200 free
• Quintin McCarty – 50/100 free, 50/100 back, 50 fly
• Hubert Kos – 50/100/200 back, 200 IM, 200 free, 100 breast
• Jack Aikins – 50/100/200 back, 50/100 free
• Patrick Sammon – 50/100/200 free, 100 fly
• Luke Hobson – 50/100/200/400/800 free
• Ilya Kharun – 50/100 fly, 50/100 free
• Shaine Casas – 50/100 fly, 50 back, 100 free
• Maximus Williamson – 50/100/200 free, 100 breast, 200 back, 200 IM
• Carson Foster – 200/400 IM, 100/200 fly, 100/200 back, 100 free
• Thomas Heilman – 50/100/200 fly, 50/100/200 free
• Daniel Diehl – 50/100/200 back, 100/200 free, 200 IM
• Bobby Finke – 400/800/1500 free, 400 IM
• Kieran Smith – 200/400 free, 200 back, 200 IM
• Mitchell Schott – 200/400 free, 200 fly, 200 back, 200 IM
• Aiden Hayes – 50/100/200 fly, 50 back, 50 free
• Jack Kelly – 50/100/200 breast
• David King – 50/100/200 free, 50/100/200 back
• Ian Call – 50/100/200 breast, 50 free, 200 IM