USA Swimming Announces 2013-2014 Junior National Team

USA Swimming has released their 2013-2014 Junior National Team, and there’s lots of big names on the roster, led by Olympic medalist Lia Neal in the 100 free with her 54.68 from the World Championship Trials.

The selection criteria

Athletes with the top 6 fastest times, in Olympic events only, from the combined results of all USA Swimming or FINA sanctioned meets from 1/1/2013 to 9/2/2013; times from Prelims, Semi-Finals and Finals (A, B and C) only will be used and relay lead-offs, time trials, intermediate splits and swim-offs will not be included. In addition, all 2013 FINA World Junior Championships Team members are selected to this roster.

In addition, all members of the Junior World Championship team automatically qualified for this roster.

Note that swimmers can only be on the Junior or Senior National Teams, with the exception of swimmers who were on the World Junior Championship Team. They can be on both rosters.

Mann is also a special case in that some of her best swims were done, for example, at Grand Prix meets. Her best 800 free would’ve put her on the Senior National Team, but it was done at the Orlando Grand Prix.

Among those pulling double duty on the Junior and Senior National Teams include Kathleen Baker from SwimMAC Carolina, Katie McLaughlin from Mission Viejo, the aforementioned Becca Mann, Gunnar Bentz, and Andrew Seliskar.

Note: as one of our readers pointed out, Faith Johnson and Sean Lehane will both be sophomores next year, and therefore shouldn’t be eligible for the Junior National Team. We have asked USA Swimming for clarification, though as of right now, the below is their official list.

There’s also an error in who was selected in the girls’ 100 backstroke, which we’ve also asked about.

Finally, in some cases, there were simple errors in time. We’ve corrected those where possible, except when surrounding the above.

UPDATE: After confirmation of the errors from USA Swimming, we’ve made updates below. See an explanation of the errors here and here.