A Look At the United States Team and Coaching Staff for the World Championships

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A Look At the United States Team and Coaching Staff for the World Championships

USA Swimming has officially announced the list of athletes set to compete at the upcoming World Championships as well as the list of coaches who will be leading the U.S. team at the upcoming World Championships. Previously, Carol Capitani (women’s), Bob Bowman (men’s) and Ron Aitken (open water) had been named the head coaches for the squad.

The assistant coaching staff will include Virginia associate head coach Blaire (Bachman) Anderson, NC State head coach Braden Holloway, Indiana head coach Ray Looze, Stanford women’s head coach Greg Meehan, Florida head coach Anthony Nesty and Texas men’s head coach Eddie Reese. Cory Chitwood is the open water assistant coach.

As for the roster of athletes, all swimmers who finished in qualifying spots for Worlds were officially named to the team with the exception of Michael Andrew. Andrew was the winner of the 50 butterfly earlier in the meet, which would normally be enough to qualify for Worlds, but 50-meter stroke winners were behind relay alternates on the priority list. With the cap of 26 men reached, Andrew was not named to the squad.

Meanwhile, after Katie Ledecky opted to skip the 200 free individual event at Worlds, the seventh-place finisher in the 200 free was added to the roster bound for Fukuoka. Anna Peplowski will now be part of the women’s 800 free relay squad. Peplowski was added because the U.S. women had not yet met the roster cap of 26.

Women’s Roster

Katharine Berkoff
Jillian Cox
Mariah Denigan
Kate Douglass
Erin Gemmell
Katie Grimes
Torri Huske
Lydia Jacoby
Lilly King
Katie Ledecky
Lindsay Looney
Maxine Parker
Anna Peplowski
Alex Shackell
Bella Sims
Leah Smith
Regan Smith
Olivia Smoliga
Alex Walsh
Gretchen Walsh
Claire Weinstein
Abbey Weitzeil
Rhyan White

Men’s Roster

Jack Alexy
Hunter Armstrong
Shaine Casas
Charlie Clark
Ross Dant
Matt Fallon
Nic Fink
Bobby Finke
Carson Foster
Brennan Gravley
Dylan Gravley
Chris Guiliano
Thomas Heilman
Ryan Held
Luke Hobson
David Johnston
Chase Kalisz
Drew Kibler
Matt King
Destin Lasco
Josh Matheny
Henry McFadden
Jake Mitchell
Ryan Murphy
Baylor Nelson
Justin Ress
Dare Rose
Kieran Smith
Joey Tepper

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Barbara Feinthel

10 months ago

Can anyone identify the man in the back row with a gray beard, hand on hip and looking back at camera? (Blue sneakers)
He looks exactly like a relative of mine!

עידו עייק

10 months ago

this is yet to be seen , but I believe this is one of the week team USA sent to the world in many many years.

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eric

10 months ago

With five Cal swimmers qualifying for the Championships, why is Dave Durden not on the coaching staff?