Swim Poll of the Week: Which Team Will Advance to the ISL Final?

This is the Swim Poll of the Week for Thursday, November 4, 2021, sponsored by Strechcordz Swim Training Products. In our last poll, we wanted to know: Which team is more likely to qualify for the ISL final?

The top three teams this ISL regular season were 2019 league champion Energy Standard, 2020 league champion Cali Condors and London Roar, and it would be a shocker if those are not still the top three when the ISL playoffs, set to begin next week in Eindhoven, come to a conclusion three weeks later. But four teams will qualify for the ISL final, so which one will claim the last spot?

The No. 4 team this season was the Toronto Titans, led by backstroker Kylie Masse, who won two individual silver medals and a relay bronze at the 2021 Olympics, and the team also features fast-rising 15-year-old Summer McIntosh, who was a finalist in the 400 free at the Olympics and claimed three wins in just two appearances this ISL season. Kasia Wasick, Blake Pieroni, Luc Kroon, Julia Hassler, Shane Ryan, Lisa Bratton, Fabien Schwingenschlogl, Marius Kusch, Louise Hansson, Alberto Razzetti and Finlay Knox all claimed individual wins for Toronto during the month-long stretch of racing in Naples.

Meanwhile, the LA Current will get a boost from the return of backstroke star Ryan Murphy, the 2016 gold medalist in the 100 and 200 back and a double medalist again at the Tokyo Games. The Current’s roster also includes American sprint star Abbey Weitzeil and butterflyer extraordinare Tom Shields. Ingrid Wilm, Imogen Clark, Anastasia Gorbenko, Maxime Rooney, Fernando Scheffer and Martin Malyutin were also individual winners during the regular season.a

So which of these teams is more likely to advance?

Swim Poll of the Week: Which team is more likely to qualify for the ISL final?

LA Current — 43%

Toronto Titans — 56%

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