When USA Swimming released their 2023 season schedule, there was an unfamiliar name on the summer schedule. In place of the usual late-summer National Championship meet, the schedule saw a July 26-29 date listed as the “TYR Pro Championships.”
USA Swimming has now released details for the event.
While the name is new, though, the meet is, essentially, the usual summer championship meet, just by a different name and with one notable twist.
The 2023 edition will be hosted at the William Woollett Aquatic Center in Irvine, California and has similar, but slightly-slower, cuts to the 2023 US National Championships (aka International Team Trials) that just concluded in Indianapolis).
The meet will follow the traditional National Championship format, with four days of prelims and finals racing, but will award prize money, which is unusual for National Championship meets. The prize money will be the same as it was for the four-meet Pro Swim Series schedule, hence the connection and the “Pro” branding.
Prize Money (for each individual event)
- 1st – $1,500
- 2nd – $1,000
- 3rd – $500
What’s interesting is that because the meet overlaps with swimming at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, this gives the second layer of American swimmers, who didn’t make the World Championship roster, an opportunity to rack up some cash.
With 14 individual events per gender, that means $84,000 in cash up for grabs in total.
Time standards are below, with no bonus standards. Only the Olympic schedule will be swum, meaning no stroke 50s. The qualifying period for the meet is 24 months before the entry deadline, which is July 18.
The week after the Pro Championships, Irvine will host the 2023 Speedo Junior National Championships from July 31-August 4.
Last summer it was Speedo Summer Championships because Nationals was in April. This year is The TYR Pro championships because nationals was in June. Instead of being us open like in years/decades before, my guess is they got TYR to pay a bit more beyond the Pro series for naming rights.
How are you going to release the details of a national level meet less than 3 weeks before it starts? Attendance at this is going to be terrible.
The meet notice has been posted for at least 6 months. They didn’t just release anything (other than the prizes maybe).
I think they have been out for a while: i’ve been able to see the cuts for a few months
It’s been out for ages, I don’t understand why swimswam made this post saying it was just released
Looks like the time standards changed.
TYR should be extremely upset with USA Swimming for dragging this on and on. I wonder how many of the “Big Dogs” will skip this meet and go to Futures. Yes Futures, the meet designed to be a stepping stone to Junior Nationals and a great meet for 19 & overs, who don’t have Senior National cuts. And yes, I am one of those coaches who is taking National Level kids to Futures.
The original meet information was published in January – then an update was published in April. SwimSwam just didn’t post a story about it (until now).
Me too.
Futures meets are filling so quickly. Maybe USAS needs to recognize teams cant afford to keep going to CA every summer.