USA Swimming has closed 2018 Nationals by announcing its official Pan Pacific Championships rosters, led by superstars Katie Ledecky and Caeleb Dressel.
The roster is one of five that will ultimately be determined by this meet; you can see our running projections of the other four teams here. USA Swimming’s announced roster only had one major difference from ours – Gianluca Urlando was listed instead of Austin Katz, though our tallying shows Katz with a higher modified world rank. We’re asking about that discrepancy now.
Update – USA Swimming announced that Katz will be on the team instead of Urlando. Here’s the note from USA Swimming:
There has been one change to the team roster following the initial announcement made at the pool: “Following a review of the selected athletes to the 2018 U.S. Pan Pacific Championships team, it was revealed that an error had been made during the athlete selection process. One Pan Pacific Championships athlete was incorrectly selected to the team using the Junior Pan Pacific Championships Modified World Ranking. After careful recalculations, USA Swimming will add Austin Katz to the roster, replacing Gianluca Urlando who will move to the U.S. Junior Pan Pacific Championships team.”
Any athlete who makes Pan Pacs can swim any event they want to there, regardless of which events they qualified in. In addition, open water swimmers can swim pool events and vice versa.
Here are the rosters as announced by USA Swimming:
Men’s Roster
| Abrahm Devine |
| Andrew Seliskar |
| Andrew Wilson |
| Austin Katz |
| Blake Pieroni |
| Caeleb Dressel |
| Chase Kalisz |
| Conor Dwyer |
| David Heron |
| Grant Shoults |
| Jack Conger |
| Jacob Pebley |
| Jay Litherland |
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Jordan Wilimovsky
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| Josh Prenot |
| Justin Ress |
| Justin Wright |
| Matt Grevers |
| Michael Andrew |
| Michael Brinegar |
| Nathan Adrian |
| Robert Finke |
| Ryan Murphy |
| Sean Grieshop |
| Taylor Abbott |
| Townley Haas |
| Zach Apple |
| Zach Harting |
| Zane Grothe |
Women’s Roster
| Abbey Weitzeil |
| Allison Schmitt |
| Ally McHugh |
| Ashley Twichell |
| Bethany Galat |
| Brooke Forde |
| Chase Travis |
| Ella Eastin |
| Erica Sullivan |
| Gabby Deloof |
| Haley Anderson |
| Hali Flickinger |
| Hannah Moore |
| Kathleen Baker |
| Katie Drabot |
| Katie Ledecky |
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Katie McLaughlin
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| Katie Meili |
| Kelsi Dahlia |
| Leah Smith |
| Lilly King |
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Mallory Comerford
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| Margo Geer |
| Melanie Margalis |
| Micah Sumrall |
| Olivia Smoliga |
| Regan Smith |
| Simone Manuel |
(photo: Mike Lewis)
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Ellaaaaaaaaa
They picked Urlando! So happy they’re giving that kid international experience!
Fiji is international too
He is out of Pan Pacs list.
https://www.usaswimming.org/news-landing-page/2018/07/30/2018-u.s.-pan-pacific-championship-team
I don’t really care about experience it matters on who earned/deserved the spot and if Katz ranks higher than he earned and deserved it
This comment has aged horribly.
Was just pleased to see they originally had a fellow 200 flyer on the list and meant that with no disrespect to a deserving Austin Katz at all! Haha the comment did not age well 😂
Love seeing Ella and Allison S. name on that list! Also, such a great come back from Margo Geer! Hard work, perseverance, focus, and enjoying the sport of swimming always pays off!
Yes, all of that, in addition to being 6’3”. That did not hurt.
Aw mannn, gutted for Licon and Katz. Happy for Grieshop and Ress!
Katz is in https://www.usaswimming.org/news-landing-page/2018/07/30/2018-u.s.-pan-pacific-championship-team
Sure is – the list above in the article was inaccurate before being corrected a while ago, not the USA Swimming article.
It was USA Swimming’s mistake, which they have now corrected.
Ress, Urlando, Eatin, Allison, Grieshop. Can’t be mad with this lineup. Hopefully Licon will step up in 2020 for trials, maybe even Katz–But until then, this seems amazing for pan pacs
Katz is going to Tokyo.
https://www.usaswimming.org/news-landing-page/2018/07/30/2018-u.s.-pan-pacific-championship-team
Well then… Urlando got screwed. At least he’s not left with nothing
Congrats 🍾🎈 to everyone! It’s so good to see Ella Eastin’s name up there. She gets to brush off the string of bad luck and solidify her worlds’ event qualification. Also happy for Brooke Forde. I didn’t think she would make this team.
Why are they ” led by superstars Katy Ledecky and Caeleb Dressel”? Are they the captains?
They haven’t picked captains yet. I’ll go out on a sturdy redwood limb and say Adrian and Grevers for the men. Harder call for the women but I think Schmitt perhaps for one of the captains.
Simone or Katie L maybe?? I think Katie Meili would also be an amazing captain
Katie Meili
If I remember correctly, the female captains for the 2017 FINA World Championships were Meili and Beisel.
swimswam.com/usa-names-4-team-captains-for-2017-world-championships/
It was Grevers and Adrian for the men i think ( nothing need to change on that level right now )
Schmitty for sure. Maybe Meili too?
Did you see Worlds last year? Those 2 were the leaders in the pool.
Are they on a plane yet? Only what…10 days to go?
Canada is already there…
They stay in Cali till next Saturday when they leave for Tokyo