The US World Championship Team is over seas preparing for the meet in Spain. They are in Bilbao, Spain for their training camp right now and head to Barcelona on wednesday. You can follow all of your favorite swimmers on SwimSwam and on Twitter. We made all of their accounts accessible for you!
The London Olympics of 2012 were considered the Games of social media. Yes, facebook (and MySpace – remember that?) were very popular during the 2008 Olympics. But with the rise of Twitter and “Fan Pages” to dominate the scene, fans are able to interact, connect, and track the every move of their favorite athletes like never before. For the professionals, whoever wins Twitter will win the money-list.
With this new level of accessibility, the athletes take much better control over their image and their own message, and whoever can attract the most fans will garner the most sponsor attention. The athletes are already Tweeting a lot of great pictures and updates from their camp in Bilbao, Spain, and will continue to do so in Barcelona. Here are the links to all of their Twitter accounts so that you can follow them.
For ease, we’ve created an easy-to-follow list that you can subscribe to. Heck, you can even follow this list if you don’t have a Twitter! Subscribe to the list here on Twitter by clicking the “Subscribe” button on the left. Check out the feed below, and see a list of Twitter accounts for the whole World Championship Team.
For the latest updates on the World Championship team, follow SwimSwam’s Twitter page here.
Women’s Roster
- Cammile Adams – @CammileAdams
- Haley Anderson – @halswims
- Elizabeth Beisel – @ebeisel34
- Rachel Bootsma – @r_bootsma15
- Chelsea Chenault – @seaCHELchenault
- Natalie Coughlin – @NatalieCoughlin
- Maya Dirado – @MayaDiRado
- Claire Donahue – @clairedonahue
- Eva Fabian – #twiterlessEva
- Missy Franklin – @FranklinMissy
- Jessica Hardy – @swimhardy
- Christine Jennings – @CJennings303
- Breeja Larson - @BreejaLarson
- Katie Ledecky – @katieledecky
- Caitlin Leverenz – @cleverenz
- Micah Lawrence – #twiterlessMicah
- Christine Magnuson – @cmagsflyer
- Becca Mann – #twitterlessBecca
- Simone Manuel – @simone_manuel
- Jordan Mattern – @Jordan_Marie19
- Elizabeth Pelton – @eliZAbethP_1126
- Megan Romano – #twitterlessMegan
- Chloe Sutton – @csutswim
- Dana Vollmer – @danavollmer
- Shannon Vreeland – @s_vreeland
Men’s Roster
- Nathan Adrian – @Nathangadrian
- Ricky Berens – @RickyBerens
- Tyler Clary - @TylerClary
- Kevin Cordes – @KwCordes
- Conor Dwyer – @conorjdwyer
- Anthony Ervin – @AnthonyErvin
- Jimmy Feigen – @JimmyFeigen
- Nic Fink - @Nic_Fink
- Andrew Gemmell – @ADGemmell
- Eugene Godsoe – @EugeneGodsoe
- Matt Grevers – @MattGrevers
- Charlie Houchin – @CharlieHouchin
- Connor Jaeger – @conjaeg
- BJ Johnson – TwitterlessBJ
- Chase Kalisz – @chasekalisz
- Michael Klueh – @mklueh
- Ryan Lochte – @ryanlochte
- Tom Luchsinger – @TomLuchsinger
- Michael McBroom – @mjmcbroom
- Matt McLean - @MattBMcLean6F
- Alex Meyer – @AlexMeyerSwims
- David Plummer – @davideplummer
- Sean Ryan - @seanryan92
- Kevin Steel – @Stainless_Swim
- Jordan Wilimovsky – #twitterlessJordan
Let’s hope that staring at the number of followers, likers or whatever numbers of the social media doesn’t go too far. They are fun and easy but don’t tell the whole truth.
Of course I do like those accounts as it makes it possible to get information on and an inside glance at the interesting aspects more easily. They clearly have a long course outdoor pool, which has no lane ropes. Sooo interesting! 🙂 It means they train every time in an indoor pool and that’s why many prefer lying on those sunloungers all the time.
Anyway, if someone decides to keep himself/herself out of the social media, I hope that sponsors would understand such decisions too. Nonetheless, Megan… Read more »
wow the 1st Megan Romano mention i’ve seen on SwimSwam since WUGs ended haha
at least we know she got to Vitoria safely from Kazan judging by that twitter pix of the gals @ dinner 😉
Megan collects more mentions than anyone else, and even without having a twitter account.