COLORADO SPRINGS – USA Swimming released the third of three major international team rosters today as it revealed the swimmers selected for the World University Games. In sum, 46 swimmers were named to Team USA for the meet that will take place in Gwangju, South Korea, July 4-11, 2015.<\/p>\n

The meet features swimmers who are 17-23 and are either current college students, recent college graduates or will be enrolled in a college by the time the meet starts in 2015.<\/p>\n

A trio of Olympians, Rachel Bootsma, Lia Neal and Shannon Vreeland will lead Team USA into South Korea next summer with all three already having success at the collegiate level.<\/p>\n

Shannon Vreeland helped the Georgia Bulldogs to the 2013 and 2014 NCAA Team titles, and this will be her second time at the World University Games. \u00a0In 2011, she helped the 400-meter freestyle relay to a silver. This time around, she’ll have a much bigger impact as she’s set for the 100 and 200 free individually, and will likely swim the 400 and 800 free relays.<\/p>\n

Neal, currently a swimmer at Stanford University, already took second at NCAAs in the 100-yard free during her freshman year. \u00a0She also placed ninth in the 200-yard free and 10th in the 50-yard free as a three-time All-American. Neal is set to swim in the 400 free relay for Team USA in South Korea. \u00a0Bootsma, who made the team in the 100 back, has had a strong collegiate career thus far as part of the California Golden Bears. \u00a0The junior already is an individual NCAA champion with a win in the 100-yard back her freshman year, where she also took second in the 100 fly and sixth in the 200 fly.<\/p>\n

California had a strong influence on this team with a total of nine Golden Bear-related swimmers making the squad.<\/p>\n

Swimming World’s<\/em>\u00a0Jeff Commings spoke with USA Swimming National Team Director Frank Busch in Colorado Springs about the selection process and the rosters.<\/p>\n