USA Swimming released the finalized roster for the 2025 World Aquatics Championships on Sunday, following the conclusion of the 2025 U.S. National Championships in Indianapolis, Ind. Despite some confusion and missing names when the roster was first projected at IU Natatorium at the end of the last finals session, this list of names is similar to our projected version from Saturday night.
That means that 21 women and 26 men will represent the U.S. at the World Championships in Singapore. The women did not have any issues with the roster limit. There was some lineup shuffling on the final evening though, which accounts for the two differences from our projected roster. Claire Weinstein dropped the 1500 freestyle after finishing second from the early heats. Her decision bumped Jillian Cox, who finished third in the event, onto the World Championship roster.
Katie Ledecky passed on her individual slot in the 200 freestyle, which she earned after finishing second to Weinstein. That individual berth has gone to Torri Huske. There is an expectation that Huske will drop this event to ease her loaded schedule. She still has time to do that and if she does, the individual slot would be offered to Erin Gemmell. Gemmell won a swim-off against Anna Peplowski on Saturday to break their tie for fourth and is also on the Worlds team for the 4×100 freestyle relay.
Things got more complicated on the men’s side and the sixth-place 200 freestyle finisher, Kieran Smith, was left off the team for USA Swimming to comply with the maximum 26-athlete roster size. The men’s team was at roster limit heading into the 50 freestyle, the final event of the meet. Santo Condorelli finished second in the event, making a World Championship for his third country. The 50 freestyle second-place finisher is a higher priority in USA Swimming’s selection procedures, so Smith will not make this year’s World Championship roster.
The men’s team has often bumped against the roster cap in the last four years, with the selection priorities deciding which swimmer gets left off the international roster. Ryan Held finished sixth at the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials in the 100 freestyle but was left at home due to roster limits. Michael Andrew missed the 2023 World Championship team as selection procedures prioritized relay-only swimmers over non-Olympic event winners.
The stroke 50s are now Olympic events. Considering that change, USA Swimming updated its selection procedures for the World Championship team, moving the 50s of stroke into Priority #1.
The other wrinkle is that only Bobby Finke was under the World Aquatics ‘A’ cut in the 800 freestyle final. Rex Maurer touched second and no one else has been under the ‘A’ Standard during the qualifying period (which opened in March 2024 after the Doha World Championships). So, Finke will be the only U.S. representative in the men’s 800 freestyle.
The 2025 U.S. National Championship also served as the selection meet for this summer’s World Junior Championship and World University Games. SwimSwam will release our projections for those two teams shortly.
Nothing epitomises the state of world aquatics like Rex Maurer already qualified in the 400m forced to sit & watch the 800m heats from the grandstand while 30 dudes from other countries can’t crack 7:50.
2025 USA Swimming National Championships
Women’s Squad – DOB
Weinstein, C. – 01 Mar 2007
Grimes, K. – 08 Jan 2006
Moesch, A. – 17 Oct 2005
Cox, J. – 18 Jul 2005
Sims, B. – 25 May 2005
Gemmell, E. – 02 Dec 2004
Source: World Aquatics
I don’t want hear complaints about the lack youth on the women’s squad with six swimmers under the age of 21 and data still pending on C. Bricker (class of 2023) and M. Siroky (class of 2023).
Torri husk represents usa in all 50, 100, 200 free ..then 100 fly..chasing a medal in 200 free is a huge ask..but if she has a lane in finale..she ll put out a magic.. could be sneak it to the podium from lane 01.
And not to mention 5 relay finals she is on.
She is on the way grab 9 medals in Singapore.
I can imagine she ll anchor all those 5 relays
I doubt she’ll swim the 200 individually, but still 8 medals is a good haul if she does swim all the relays
3 extra 200s swum will hurt her relay performances by the end of the week.
Finally understand that this is the roster that has been announced, does Tori not still have enough time to drop that event individually but still hold her relay spot just as ledecky does all the time? Either TV coverage with rowdy giving the opinion or an article on this site did mention that I think it was rowdy actually. Mentioning that he couldn’t see Tori swimming it individually which would likely done make the number two spot go to Erin gemmel individually.
Could Casas benefit from taking out his 200 IM slower? I know he has that easy speed but the key with that often is to actively really hold it in early on and reserve energy for later, his freestyle is great
Why does the USA Swimming roster say 30 men are going? I thought the cap was 26?
OW swimmers included.
OW?
open water
So how fast could Finke go in the 400 free? Could he have made the team? His split in the 800 was 3:50, so he would only have had to go about 5 seconds faster. He left both 400 qualifiers in the dust in the 800.
I think he would make the team. What was his split closing the 400 IM? Looked pretty damn fast
whens the last time an american woman contested the 50 / 100 / 200 free internationally? only person who comes to mind whos done it recently globally is sarah sjostrom i think? maybe emma mckeon also but im not sure if she ever came out of trials w all 3.
its probably best torri drop the 200 considering how loaded that field is internationally & how heavy her schedule is already but could also be interesting to see where she can take it. im prob most curious about where she takes the 100 — at this meet shes matched simones pb in the 50 and surpassed it in the 200
I’ve got Olympics in 1992 with Jenny Thompson. Unsure about World Champs
People made a huge deal about this last year with Guiliano but no one seems to care this year with Torri
She’s constantly disrespected so it’s nothing new, but she’ll actually win medals unlike Chris who didn’t make a single final in any of those events
That’s strictly up to Torri Huske. Torri Huske can wait until the last minute to decide which events to swim since it doesn’t affect the roster.
As for the future, Rylee Erisman currently has the greatest potential for the female contingent of USA Swimming to fulfill the W 50 FR, W 100 FR, W 200 FR trifecta.
Torri doing goat things per usual
wtf are with these adds swallowing my screen – are others getting those too?
Can you click the little button in the corner to report them? That’s the easiest way for us to identify and block the offending parties.
I have been getting those ads blocking my view of Swimswam articles for months now, but I thought that was just revenue building for the website and I had to put up with it. Are you saying that those constant pop-up ads are not supposed to be there?
Same
Count me in on seeing ads block stories. Sometimes two ads at once. Not unusual to have to rotate the iPad to move the ads to be able to read an article. Not everyday, and not as bad as some sites that are ridiculous, but some days it’s very frustrating.
the ones that just make a border around the screen for like 10s are annoying
the purple british airways one? ive never seen ads that do that before, it’s SO annoying!!!!! even after you “x” them, they show up after a few seconds. makes it so unusable to use swimswam on the phone.