Any time a swimmer from Indiana was announced at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials in Lucas Oil Stadium, they were greeted with a huge cheer from their home state crowd.
The Indiana fans had a lot to cheer about–lots more than just their swimmers stepping up to the blocks. Based on swimmers’ listed hometowns, Indiana put more swimmers than any other state on the U.S. Olympic team. Six swimmers call Indiana home: Drew Kibler, Lilly King, Blake Pieroni, Aaron Shackell, Alex Shackell, and Luke Whitlock.
In all, swimmers from 23 different states will represent the U.S. in Paris. The majority of those states (13) put multiple swimmers on the team, while ten are sending a sole representative.
The map includes both pool and open water swimmers. Katie Grimes would appear on the list either way as she’s qualified for both pool and open water swimming, but adding the open water swimmers gives Kentucky their sole representative this year (Denigan) and Pennsylvania a third representative in Ivan Puskovitch.
Behind Indiana’s six swimmers, Maryland and Florida are tied for second highest number of swimmers on the roster. Both states have four swimmers each. Erin Gemmell is the only first time Olympian from either state. Maryland’s Katie Ledecky, Phoebe Bacon, Chase Kalisz and Florida’s Caeleb Dressel, Bobby Finke, Ryan Murphy, and Emma Weyant have already been to at least one Olympic Games.
2024 U.S. Olympic Roster Hometowns
| Name | Hometown |
| Jack Alexy | Mendham, NJ |
| Hunter Armstrong | Dover, OH |
| Phoebe Bacon | Chevy Chase, MD |
| Katharine Berkoff | Missoula, MT |
| Shaine Casas | McAllen, TX |
| Erika Connolly (neé Brown) | Charlotte, NC |
| Brooks Curry | Dunwoody, GA |
| Mariah Denigan | Walton, KY |
| Kate Douglass | Pelham, NY |
| Caeleb Dressel | Orange Park, FL |
| Matt Fallon | Warren, NJ |
| Nic Fink | Morristown, NJ |
| Bobby Finke | Clearwater, FL |
| Carson Foster | Cincinnati, OH |
| Erin Gemmell | Potomac, MD |
| Katie Grimes | Las Vegas, NV |
| Chris Guiliano | Douglassville, PA |
| Ryan Held | Springfield, IL |
| Thomas Heilman | Crozet, VA |
| Luke Hobson | Reno, NV |
| Torri Huske | Arlington, VA |
| David Johnston | Dallas, TX |
| Keaton Jones | Gilbert, AZ |
| Chase Kalisz | Bel Air, MD |
| Drew Kibler | Carmel, IN |
| Lilly King | Evansville, IN |
| Matt King | Snohomish, WA |
| Katie Ledecky | Bethesda, MD |
| Paige Madden | Mobile, AL |
| Simone Manuel | Sugar Land, TX |
| Josh Matheny | Pittsburgh, PA |
| Ryan Murphy | Ponte Vedra Beach, FL |
| Anna Peplowski | Germantown Hills, IL |
| Blake Pieroni | Chesterton, IN |
| Ivan Puskovitch | West Chester, PA |
| Aaron Shackell | Carmel, IN |
| Alex Shackell | Carmel, IN |
| Kieran Smith | Ridgefield, CT |
| Regan Smith | Lakeville, MN |
| Luca Urlando | Sacramento, CA |
| Alex Walsh | Nashville, TN |
| Gretchen Walsh | Nashville, TN |
| Emma Weber | Boulder, CO |
| Claire Weinstein | White Plains, NY |
| Abbey Weitzeil | Santa Clarita, CA |
| Emma Weyant | Sarasota, FL |
| Luke Whitlock | Noblesville, IN |
Isn’t Carson foster the first male under 6’0 olympic swimmer for US in like 50 years or something?
Dressel is not from Orange Park.
What about states where they live now? Texas? Virginia? Florida?
Caeleb is from green cove springs, not op. Fun fact: he grew up in a county without a single chlorinated public pool.
Wow. Only 2 from California??? That’s crazy
Years ago probably half of the team would have been from CA.
Kibler, the Shackells,& Whitlock are all from the same county in Indiana. So is 2021 Olympian Jake Mitchell. Hamilton County, Indiana is also a place where Olympic Divers train.
Probably the USA if I had to guess
Some of these can be a bit misleading.
Erika Connoly for example. She did graduate HS in NC, but she came there by way of California, swimming mainly with Pleasanton Seahawks, but she spent a short period of time with Ripon Aquatics. Prior to moving to California she was in the Wichita KS area until she was almost 14 years old.
I’m willing to bet there are a few others like that who moved around due to parent’s jobs over the years prior to graduating HS.
For sure. There’s no way to capture swimmers who have moved a lot. Even if we wanted to, it would be impossible to get that data accurately.
But, I presume they get to pick what they define as their “hometown,” so that is as good of a measure as is possible.
I thought she was only at Pleasanton for a year. I thought she was at ripon for longer.
Nvm. Looks like she was Kansas for foundation years. 1-2 with ripon, 1-2 with Pleasanton, and then swimmac.