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2019 is officially here and that means it is time to preview what is to come in the upcoming calendar year. There will be plenty of exciting meets to watch, including the FINA Long Course World Championships, NCAA Championships and U.S. Nationals. Below are\u00a0Swimming World’s <\/em>top five\u00a0picks for meets every swimming fan should pay attention to in 2019.<\/p>\n

Women’s Division I NCAAs<\/h3>\n
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Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n

Where:\u00a0<\/strong>Austin, Texas<\/p>\n

When:\u00a0<\/strong>March 20-23<\/p>\n

Why watch? <\/strong>Viewers will watch one of the greatest classes of swimmers (Lilly King<\/strong>,\u00a0Mallory Comerford <\/strong>and\u00a0Ella Eastin<\/strong>) swim in their final NCAA meet and get to see if Stanford can win its third straight team title to become the first team to do so since Auburn (2002-04).<\/p>\n

Even without superstars\u00a0Katie Ledecky<\/strong>,\u00a0Simone Manuel\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Kathleen Baker\u00a0<\/strong>in attendance, the women’s field still features must-see names. Out of the thirteen event winners in 2018, seven of them return in 2019.<\/p>\n

World Record holder King will be looking to become the first woman to win eight NCAA breaststroke titles. Comerford will look for her third 200 free title while going up against the number one ranked swimmer in the world in the long course 200 free, freshman\u00a0Taylor Ruck<\/strong>, as well as\u00a0Siobhan Haughey<\/strong>, who already beat her head to head this year.<\/p>\n

Three of the four fastest women ever in the 100 fly will lock horns on Friday night of the meet. American Record holders\u00a0Beata Nelson\u00a0<\/strong>and Abbey Weitzeil\u00a0<\/strong>will go for their first individual national titles, while the distance events will be wide open this year without Ledecky.<\/p>\n

Stanford is not the heavy favorite they have been the last two years going into the meet, since they have a lot of new faces this season. Can Cal’s senior leadership push them to an upset win? How will Texas fare in its home pool? Or will Michigan’s stars lead them to victory?<\/p>\n

The men’s meet is going to be great too, but if you call yourself a swimming fan, you need to tune in to this meet the week before.<\/p>\n

World University Games<\/h3>\n
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Photo Courtesy: Gwangju Summer Universiade Organizing Committee<\/p><\/div>\n

Where:<\/strong>\u00a0Naples, Italy<\/p>\n

When:\u00a0<\/strong>July 4-10<\/p>\n

Team USA Roster<\/a><\/p>\n

Why watch?\u00a0<\/strong>It’s the first major international meet of the summer and will be something to keep up with during your summer taper when you’re getting hyped up for your end-of-season meet.<\/p>\n

In 2015, six women\u00a0(Hali Flickinger<\/strong>,\u00a0Molly Hannis<\/strong>,\u00a0Lilly King<\/strong>,\u00a0Lia Neal<\/strong>,\u00a0Leah Smith<\/strong>,\u00a0Abbey Weitzeil<\/strong>)\u00a0and four men\u00a0(Jack Conger<\/strong>,\u00a0Jay Litherland<\/strong>,\u00a0Jacob Pebley<\/strong>,\u00a0Josh Prenot<\/strong>)\u00a0swam at this meet before making the 2016 Olympic team a year later. Many swimmers for the United States will look to make the same jump to the Olympic Team at the meet this time around. The meet has also seen international swimmers do the same, potentially previewing some races on the world’s biggest stage in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

FINA World Championships<\/h3>\n
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Photo Courtesy: Gwangju Summer Universiade Organizing Committee<\/p><\/div>\n

Where:\u00a0<\/strong>Gwangju, South Korea<\/p>\n

When:\u00a0<\/strong>July 21-28<\/p>\n

Team USA Roster<\/a><\/p>\n

Why watch?\u00a0<\/strong>It’s the appetizer for the big show next summer.<\/p>\n

Every swimmer that wins a medal at this summer’s Worlds will have the target on their back heading in to the Olympic year. It will be the first time the world has come together for a meet since 2017, with everyone splitting off into their “regional” meets this past year.<\/p>\n

2018 was a big year for (relative) newcomers\u00a0Taylor Ruck<\/strong>,\u00a0Alys Thomas<\/strong>, Ariarne Titmus<\/strong>,\u00a0Piero Codia\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Michael Andrew<\/b>, plus many others.\u00a0Assuming they all make their respective World Championship teams (Andrew already has), how will they fare on the world stage after their strong 2018 campaigns?<\/p>\n

What will each nation’s team look like a year out? Who looks good and who doesn’t? It’s going to be a fun eight days, and it’s the meet we have all been waiting for.<\/p>\n

Pan American Games<\/h3>\n
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Photo Courtesy: Rob Schumacher\/USA Today Sports Images<\/p><\/div>\n

Where:\u00a0<\/strong>Lima, Peru<\/p>\n

When:\u00a0<\/strong>August 6-10<\/p>\n

Team USA Roster<\/a><\/p>\n

Why watch?\u00a0<\/strong>The meet will be streamed at a decent time since Peru is on Eastern Standard Time, so it will be nice to watch while you’re eating dinner after practice. And because\u00a0Nathan Adrian\u00a0<\/strong>is going to be there.<\/p>\n

The 2015 swim meet was actually a really fun meet to watch, with the Canadian crowd providing a great atmosphere in Toronto. We will see if Peru can produce a similar crowd this time around, but it should be a solid meet regardless. Brazil usually sends a strong team. Argentina and Colombia will also be in the mix while Jamaica’s\u00a0Alia Atkinson\u00a0<\/strong>will probably be in attendance. Trinidad’s\u00a0Dylan Carter<\/strong> might make an appearance as well.<\/p>\n

And who knows, maybe\u00a0Thiago Pereira\u00a0<\/strong>will come out of retirement.<\/p>\n

Six total athletes from USA Swimming’s 2015 roster made the Olympic team in 2016 (Gunnar Bentz<\/strong>,\u00a0Katie Meili<\/strong>,\u00a0Allison Schmitt<\/strong>,\u00a0Olivia Smoliga<\/strong>,\u00a0Kelsi Worrell <\/strong>and\u00a0Amanda Weir<\/strong>), so there will be some breakout swims to keep an eye out for. It will also take place a week after the World Championships, in case those eight days of great racing were not enough.<\/p>\n

With the meet taking place after Worlds, there will be plenty of motivation for the athletes having already seen what the best of the best put up. It will be a similar set-up to the Olympics, with the swimmers staying in a village amongst athletes in other sports.<\/p>\n

Junior World Championships<\/h3>\n
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Photo Courtesy: FINA (Instagram)<\/p><\/div>\n

Where:\u00a0<\/strong>Budapest, Hungary<\/p>\n

When:\u00a0<\/strong>August 20-25<\/p>\n

Why watch?\u00a0<\/strong>So you can sound like the smartest person in the room at your Olympic watch party next year when someone from this meet shocks everyone in Tokyo\u00a0and you mention “I watched them last year at Junior Worlds.”<\/p>\n

There will be a couple of swimmers at this meet that will win Olympic gold medals at some point in the future, whether it will be 2020, 2024, or maybe 2028. But the world’s future stars will be on display in Budapest a week before Labor Day. Kyle Chalmers<\/strong>,\u00a0Penny Oleksiak<\/strong>,\u00a0Anton Chupkov<\/strong>,\u00a0Rikako Ikee\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Taylor Ruck\u00a0<\/strong>are now some of swimming’s biggest stars, and they were all in attendance at the 2015 meet.<\/p>\n

Four members of the 2015 World Juniors team made the World Championships team this summer for Team USA (Brooke Forde<\/strong>,\u00a0Michael Andrew<\/strong>, Zach Harting <\/strong>and\u00a0Grant Shoults<\/strong>), and a few others are knocking on the door for the Olympic team next year (Austin Katz<\/strong>, Grant House<\/strong>,\u00a0Sean Grieshop <\/strong>and\u00a0Beata Nelson<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

USA Swimming will not name the team for the 2019 World Juniors until after the U.S. Nationals (July 31-August 4). Yes it was short course, but the Winter Junior Nationals were very promising with young stars\u00a0Gretchen Walsh<\/strong>,\u00a0Carson Foster\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Gianluca Urlando<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>putting up some great swims. All three of them should be in contention to make the World Junior trip this summer, as well as rising star\u00a0Claire Tuggle<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

All commentaries are the opinion of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Swimming World Magazine nor its staff.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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