The following swimmers and coaches have been chosen to represent Team USA at the upcoming 2015 FINA World Championships. The championships will be in Singapore and take place from Aug 25th to the 30th. The team is currently scheduled to reassemble on August 20th to travel to Singapore for the Championships.
The women’s team is much more spread out, with one five swimmers entered in multiple individual events. Claire Adams, Grace Ariola, Cassidy Bayer, Hannah Cox, and Brooke Forde will lead the team after strong performances in San Antonio this week.
The women’s team will be coached by Chuck Batchelor of Bluefish Swim Club. Elizabeth Beisel trained under Batchelor before she went to college in Florida and started training with Gregg Troy. Batchelor will be assisted by Dorsi Raynolds, Jeff King, and Bill Rose.
On the men’s side, Michael Andrew leads the team with five individual events. He qualified for the 100m back, 100m breast, 100m fly, 50m free, and the 200m IM. Other swimmers with mutilpe individual events in their program include Maxime Rooney and Grant Shoults in the freestyle events, Sean Grieshop in both IM’s, Michael Taylor in both backstrokes, and Reece Whitley in both breaststrokes. Ryan Hoffer will also have two individual swims in the 100 fly and 100 free.
The men’s team will be coached by Tim O’Brien. O’Brien leads the national group at Nitro and has done a ton to build up that program. Three swimmers from his team, Taylor Abbott, Sean Grieshop, and Chris Yeager, all qualified for the team. O’Brien will be assisted by Geoff Brown, Geoff Sheuer, and Brent Arckey.
The full USA Swimming Jr World Championship Team Roster can be found below:
Women
Claire Adams (Carmel Swim Club): 100m back, 200m back
Grace Ariola (Waves Bloomington/Normal): 100m back, 200m back
Margaret Aroesty (Long Island Aquatic Club): 200 breast
Cassidy Bayer (Nation’s Capital Swim Club): 100m fly, 200m fly
Lauren Case (Chattahoochee Gold): 100m fly, 800m free relay
Hannah Cox (Upper Valley Aquatic Club): 200m free, 400m free
Savannah Faulconer (Spartaquatics): 400m IM
Brooke Forde (Lakeside Swim Team): 200m IM, 400M IM
Gabrielle Kopenski (Texas Ford Aquatics): 800m free
Hannah Kukurugya (Crown Point Swim Club): 200m fly
Kenisha Liu (Brea Aquatics): 400m free relay
Kennedy Lohman (Lakeside Swim Team): 100m breast
Ashley McCauley (Marlins of Raleigh): 200m breast
Stanzi Moesley (Roadrunner Aquatic Club): 100m free
Beata Nelson (Madison Aquatic Club): 400m free relay
Melissa Pish (Waves Bloomington/Normal): 200m free
Lauren Pitzer (Lakeside Aquatic Club): 50m free
Nikol Popov (Canyons Aquatic Club): 100m breast
Sierra Schmidt (North Baltimore Aquatic Club): 400m free
Samantha Shelton (Mission Viejo Nadadores): 800m free relay
Ashley Volpenhein (Mason Manta Rays): 50m free
Tatum Wade (Nashville Aquatic Club): 200m IM
Men
Taylor Abbott (Nitro Swimming): 1500m free
Michael Andrew (Indie Swimming): 100m back, 100m breast, 100m fly, 50m free, 200m IM
Chandler Bray (Avon Community Swim Team): 200m breast
Sean Grieshop (Nitro Swimming): 200m IM, 400m IM
Zach Harting (Huntsville Swim Association): 200m fly
Matthew Hirschberger (Nation’s Capital Swim Club): 400m free, 800m free relay
Ryan Hoffer (Scottsdale Aquatics): 100m fly, 100m free
Grant House (Countryside YMCA): 800m free relay
Michael Jensen (Upper Dublin Aquatic Club): 400m free relay
James William Jones (Nation’s Capital Swim Club): 50m free
Austin Katz (Sarasota YMCA Sharks): 200m back
Daniel Krueger (McFarland Spartan Sharks): 400m free relay
Maxime Rooney (Pleasanton Seahawks): 100m free, 200m free
Grant Shoults (Mission Viejo Nadadores): 200m free, 400m free
Charles Swanson (NOVA of Virginia): 400m IM
Michael Taylor (Dynamo Swim Club): 100m back, 200m back
Michael Thomas (Upper Dublin Aquatic Club): 200m fly
Reece Whitley (Penn Charter Aquatic Club): 100m breast, 200m breast
Chris Yeager (Nitro Swimming): 1500m free
Staff
Women’s Head Coach Women: Chuck Batchelor
Women’s Assistant Coaches: Dorsi Raynolds, Jeff King, Bill Rose
Men’s Head Coach: Tim O’Brien
Men’s Assistant Coaches: Geoff Brown, Geoff Sheuer, Brent Arckey
Physician: Tad Kremen
The german team has been announced and obviously we (again) dont take this competition serious. Most of our best swimmers (Hintze, Bermel, Hüther, Öztürk, Wolters, Mrozinski, Kullmann) are missing …
Maybe Ulrich (50/100 back), Riedemann (100 back) or Höpink (100 fly) can win a medal. From now on i will judge this competition by the number of PBs and not by the number of medals, otherwise i could get pretty frustrated while watching this competition …
I think she’s too old
Politics as usual with USA Swimming – what’s the deal leaving Peter Andrew as a coach off the team? Seriously – his kid has the best chance to beat everyone at the meet and bring back a lot of gold – so sure it makes sense to leave his “coach” at home and bring someone with so much experience like a Brent Arckey who only has 1 swimmer.
Just goes to show you – no matter what – USA Swimming has their own way of doing things and if you’re on the “outside” and don’t follow their programs – you’re on the “out”.
So glad you brought this up. I’m curious as to how MA will train with the team since he’s only doing USRPT? Is he going to train alone or will he train separately with his dad still?
It is up to the National Team Coach and would have nothing to do with his program. Is the Dad an American citizen?
The coaches program would have nothing to do with selection.
I thought the coaches were selected before Nationals so not directly influenced by if “their” swimmers made the team.
I would guess that Peter Andrew is a resident but not an American citizen. By clear rule that has been in place forever, he is not allowed to be in the traveling USA Swimming National Team Coach pool, you must be a US citizen. This is a rule many countries have in place.
Don’t know for sure if he is or isn’t but if not, then he would have no chance to be chosen for a team.
But the Junior teams are not like the actual National teams. They don’t marshal the team until right before they leave for the meet, so it’s not like they are going for weeks of training ahead of time.
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I appreciate your answer.
What about Katie drabot? Just curious …
Gonna be a wake up call to watch these kids get smacked around by the real big boys of the world….
Reasoning?? lol
They’ll do fine – as long as they don’t get the Singapore poops!
Three swimmers and head coach from Nitro Swimming! #NitroPride
No shout out to their parents who must have spent countless hours doing special technique sessions with their kids?
Thomas confirming what you said. So Andrew should know where to focus. Whitley is talented too if Andrew try everything won’t Whitley soon surpass him? And comparing to.top guys who will have a bigger chance to get near peaty?
I don’t have answers for this but they are valid questions.
Five events, way to go Gorp!