ISL Announces ‘Protected’ Athletes for Cali Condors, Energy Standard Ahead of Draft

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The International Swimming League (ISL) is unveiling the lists of ‘protected’ athletes before the upcoming ISL Draft begins on 29 June 2021.

Starting today, and each day of this week, two of the ten ISL Clubs will be announcing the names of their respective ‘protected’ athletes. ‘Protected’ athletes are the ISL Swimmers who have confirmed their commitment to remain on their current team if selected by the team’s General Manager, or if elected by the fans online, during the ISL Draft.

The first clubs to announce their lists are Cali Condors and Energy Standard. They will be followed by London Roar and LA Current tomorrow, Tuesday 8 June. After that, Team Iron and Tokyo Frog Kings will make their announcements on Wednesday 9 June, with Toronto Titans and NY Breakers on Thursday 10 June, concluding with DC Trident and Aqua Centurions on Friday 11 June.

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Any registered athlete who has not committed to remain on their current team will enter the ISL Draft Pool as an ISL Rookie Swimmer, while any swimmer who has confirmed their commitment to their current ISL Team, but has not been retained, will enter the ISL Draft Pool as an ISL Veteran Swimmer.

ISL Teams will be able to retain up to a maximum of 15 ‘protected’ athletes from their Season 1 and Season 2 rosters, plus an additional ‘protected’ athlete elected via an interactive online fan vote. Teams will then be able to select 11 additional swimmers from the ISL Draft Pool during the ISL Draft, to a maximum total of 27 swimmers.

The ISL Draft is scheduled to take place on 29-30 June 2021. One week prior, on 22 June, each of the 10 ISL Clubs will announce the first 5 swimmers from the 15 that they can ultimately retain.

Once the Draft has concluded, Clubs’ General Managers will finalize their respective teams’ rosters, to a maximum of 36 swimmers each, through direct negotiations with the remaining swimmers from the Draft Pool only.

You can find the full draft rules here.

The ‘protected’ athletes of Cali Condors and Energy Standard are as follows:

CALI CONDORS

Beata Nelson

Bowe Becker

Caeleb Dressel

Coleman Stewart

Eddie Wang

Erika Brown

Hali Flickinger

Justin Ress

Kacper Majchrzak

Kelsi Dahlia

Kevin Cordes

Khader Baqlah

Lilly King

Mallory Comerford

Marcin Cieslak

Mark Szaranek

Mitch Larkin

Molly Hannis

Natalie Hinds

Nic Fink

Olivia Smoliga

Radoslaw Kawecki

Sherridon Dressel

Tomas Peribonio

Townley Haas

ENERGY STANDARD

Anastasiya Shkurdai

Andrei Zhilkin

Andrius Sidlauskas

Ben Proud

Benedetta Pilato

Chad Le Clos

Emily Seebohm

Evgeny Rylov

Felipe Lima

Femke Heemskerk

Florent Manaudou

Georgia Davies

Ilya Shymanovich

Imogen Clark

Ivan Girev

Kliment Kolesnikov

Kregor Zirk

Lucy Hope

Madeline Banic

Mary-Sophie Harvey

Max Litchfield

Maxim Stupin

Sarah Sjostrom

Sergey Shevtsov

Simonas Bilis

Siobhan Haughey

Tamara van Vliet

Viktoriya Gunes

Zsuzsanna Jakabos

— The above press release was posted by Swimming World in conjunction with the ISL. For press releases and advertising inquiries please contact Advertising@SwimmingWorld.com.

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