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National Junior Team members must be age 18 or under on Sept. 1, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Three swimmers earned National Junior Team status in a team-high four events:\u00a0<strong>Taylor Ault<\/strong>\u00a0(Hacienda Heights, Calif.\/La Mirada Armada),\u00a0<strong>Lucie Nordmann<\/strong>\u00a0(Woodlands, Texas\/Magnolia Aquatic Club) and\u00a0<strong>Trey Freeman<\/strong>\u00a0(Salt Lake City, Utah\/Baylor Swim Club). Eight were honored in three-plus events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2017-18 National Junior Team by the Numbers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>67 swimmers named to the National Junior Team (33 women; 34 men)<\/li>\n<li>24 states represented; Texas tops the list with 12 selections<\/li>\n<li>50-plus USA Swimming clubs represented, including eight clubs with multiple honorees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many of the roster selections played a key role in Team USA winning a meet-best 32 medals at the 2017 FINA World Junior Championships in Indianapolis last month.<\/p>\n<p>New selection procedures for the National Junior Team were unveiled for the 2016-17 roster selection, and those criteria are posted below.\u00a0Open water National Junior Team members qualified by placing among the top six 18-and-under finishers at the 2017 USA Swimming Open Water National Championships.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"276713\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/usa-swimming-announces-national-junior-team-for-2017-2018\/national-junior-team-criteria\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/national-junior-team-criteria.png\" data-orig-size=\"687,738\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"national-junior-team-criteria\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;national-junior-team-criteria&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/national-junior-team-criteria-687x500.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/national-junior-team-criteria.png\" class=\"size-full wp-image-276713 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/national-junior-team-criteria.png\" alt=\"national-junior-team-criteria\" width=\"687\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/national-junior-team-criteria.png 687w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/national-junior-team-criteria-533x573.png 533w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/national-junior-team-criteria-186x200.png 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Swimming today named the 67 members of the 2017-18 USA Swimming National Junior Team, honoring many of the nation\u2019s top rising swimming stars for their performances in 2017. \u201cThis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":275467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[39594,44453,1840,33972],"class_list":["post-276710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-usa","tag-lucie-nordmann","tag-mitch-dalton","tag-national-junior-team","tag-taylor-ault"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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