{"id":604466,"date":"2025-02-07T07:26:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T14:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=604466"},"modified":"2025-02-07T07:26:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T14:26:56","slug":"paris-veterans-lead-2025-u-s-paralympic-national-team-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/paris-veterans-lead-2025-u-s-paralympic-national-team-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Veterans Lead 2025 U.S. Paralympic National Team Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paris Veterans Lead 2025 U.S. Paralympic National Team Roster<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 2025 U.S. Paralympic national team roster was announced on Thursday, featuring 28 athletes who competed at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The roster of 49 athletes \u2013 31 women, 18 men \u2013 comprise the national team as the page turns to the first year of the 2028 Paralympic quad. The first major priority <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usparaswimming.org\/competitions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the schedule<\/a> is the 2025 Para Swimming World Championships in September in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>The national team includes 20 of the 21 women who represented the U.S. in Paris, with double silver medalist <strong>Alexandra Truwit<\/strong> the only one missing. The team is headlined by 31-time Paralympic medalist <strong>Jessica Long,<\/strong> who has pledged a desire to swim onto Los Angeles in what could be her seventh Paralympics. The full national team roster is below.<\/p>\n<p>All of the program\u2019s major names are included, among them Paris Paralympic champions <strong>Leanne Smith, Christie Raleigh Crossley, Morgan Stickney, Gia Pergolini, Olivia Chambers<\/strong> and <strong>Mallory Weggeman,<\/strong> along with a number of the program\u2019s stalwarts.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s side includes more turnover, with four Paralympians not on the national team. That includes <strong>David Abrahams, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delcotimes.com\/2024\/08\/25\/david-abrahams-gets-to-make-his-career-bow-at-paralympics-in-paris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who announced his attention to retire after Paris<\/a>. <strong>Abbas Karimi, Jack O\u2019Neil<\/strong> and <strong>Matthew Torres<\/strong> are among the others missing. Teenager <strong>Koehn Boyd,<\/strong> off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/koehn-boyd-katie-kubiak-emerge-as-stars-at-para-swimming-nationals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a stellar nationals performance in December<\/a>, is included.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited about continuing to build on the success these athletes had in Paris as we start to focus on not just Singapore, but also L.A.,\u201d U.S. Paralympics Swimming director <strong>Amanda Duke Boulet<\/strong> said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usparaswimming.org\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a press release<\/a>. \u201cThe first year of a Paralympic quad sets the tone for the four-year cycle, and we are optimistic about this incredible group of athletes as they lead the way for us in 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Para Swimming World Series begins next week in Melbourne, Australia. It will include seven stops through June, included in Indianapolis on April 24-26.<\/p>\n<h4>2025 U.S. Paralympic National Team<\/h4>\n<h5>Women<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Hannah Aspden (Raleigh, North Carolina)<\/li>\n<li>Chloe Cederholm (Salt Lake City, Utah)<\/li>\n<li>Olivia Chambers (Little Rock, Arkansas)<\/li>\n<li>McKenzie Coan (Clarkesville, Georgia)<\/li>\n<li>Maria Francescotti (Bluffton, South Carolina)<\/li>\n<li>Julia Gaffney (Mayflower, Arkansas)<\/li>\n<li>Megan Gioffreda (Timonium, Maryland)<\/li>\n<li>McClain Hermes (Dacula, Georgia)<\/li>\n<li>Audrey Kim (Salt Lake City, Utah)<\/li>\n<li>Keegan Knott (Lake Villa, Illinois)<\/li>\n<li>Katie Kubiak (Cedarburg, Wisconsin)<\/li>\n<li>Ahalya Lettenberger (Glen Ellyn, Illinois)<\/li>\n<li>Jessica Long (Baltimore, Maryland)<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Marks (Colorado Springs, Colorado)<\/li>\n<li>Grace Nuhfer (Indianapolis, Indiana)<\/li>\n<li>Anastasia Pagonis (Long Island, New York)<\/li>\n<li>Carolyn Pennington (Elkton, 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