The place Do the Members of the U.S. 2025 World Championships Pool Swimming Staff Truly Practice?

Word: This evaluation focuses on the American pool swimming roster.

USA Swimming is sending 46 pool swimmers to the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, and as is custom in American swimming, the “golf equipment” that a lot of these swimmers characterize usually are not the golf equipment the place they primarily practice, and in some circumstances, usually are not the golf equipment the place they’ve ever skilled.

An advanced historical past means some swimmers characterize their childhood golf equipment (derived from a recruiting technique for faculty coaches or native funding advantages), others characterize golf equipment affiliated with their school applications, and others characterize golf equipment that they’re paid to characterize.

Whereas all of those representations are helpful in their very own approach, the representations usually are not notably constant in any approach that, in mixture, shares a lot data.

So I took a couple of minutes to reorganize athletes into the applications the place they’re truly coaching to attempt to parse out which coaching teams are getting swimmers onto World Championship groups. Whereas golf equipment that financially assist elite athletes, or age group applications that produce elite athletes, are vital to swimming infrastructure, these are each totally different relationships than the coaching group that truly will get athletes over the hump and onto a crew.

A Few Observations:

• Bob Bowman on the College of Texas will get a variety of warmth for the truth that his coaching teams host among the world’s finest swimmers like Leon Marchand of France and, quickly, Summer time McIntosh of Canada, however that doesn’t imply he has overlooked contributions to the American crew. The College of Texas ecosystem (which incorporates collegiate undergrads and execs, women and men) is liable for extra members of the pool crew on the World Championships than some other.
• The College of Virginia, with seven, is next-most, though solely certainly one of them represented the “College of Virginia” at Trials. The ladies’s group, one of the best within the U.S. proper now, is liable for six of these, however the males bought a breakthrough because of Jack Aikins.
• That Virginia listing doesn’t embody Thomas Heilman. He was coaching completely with Cavalier Aquatics and Conor Hassard till he graduated from highschool on Could 21. On Could 21, he began coaching with the College of Virginia squad a couple of days per week, although he remained with Hassard and Cavalier Aquatics a majority of the time. Now, he’s at Virginia full-time alongside different incoming freshmen Maximus Williamson, Josh Howat, and Madi Mintenko, although Hassard continues to put in writing a few of his exercises. Cavalier Aquatics felt like one of the best illustration of the place he was coaching heading into Trials.
• “It’s Sophisticated” is for Santo Condorelli, who made the crew within the 50 free. He was coaching with Brett Hawke from fall of 2024 till Hawke joined the Enhanced Video games, and is now coaching with Sean Kao‘s Aquatics Sports activities Efficiency professional/elite coaching group in California (extra on that quickly). He swam unattached at Trials.
• Bella Sims skilled at Florida till the NCAA Championships, however has since been primarily with the Sandpipers of Nevada. That’s the place we’ve categorized her for this listing.
• Final 12 months’s Olympic roster breakdown noticed Virginia, Texas, Indiana and Cal all tied for essentially the most swimmers certified with six, although for Indiana, that included Mariah Denigan‘s open water qualification—she made the Worlds crew in open water once more this 12 months, however that’s not factored into the depend right here. So, relative to 2024, Texas elevated by 4 qualifiers, which isn’t any shock given the expertise that has adopted Bowman there within the final 12 months, whereas Virginia elevated by one and Cal dropped one (which may very well be checked out as a rise with Ryan Murphy and Abbey Weitzeil each not competing). For Indiana, they misplaced two—Blake Pieroni didn’t compete, and Matt King missed the crew. Florida dropped from 5 to a few with Caeleb Dressel not within the subject and Kieran Smith lacking the crew.

As all the time, as a result of there is no such thing as a ‘official registry’ of the place athletes are coaching, that is to one of the best of our data and wouldn’t account for anybody who snuck again to their previous membership beneath the quilt of darkness.

2025 World Championships Pool Staff by Coaching Group

The Full Roster Breakdown

Girls

Males