Virginia Swimming | Ten Cavaliers Named to 2026 Pan Pacific Championship Roster

Seven members of the 2025-26 Virginia males’s and ladies’s swimming groups have been chosen together with three alumnae. The 10 Cavaliers certified to compete in 22 occasions.

Gretchen Walsh and Kate Douglass have been two of six girls to qualify for 4 or extra occasions. Also incomes invites are Jack Aikins, Claire Curzan, Katie Grimes, Leah Hayes, Thomas Heilman, Tess Howley, Alex Walsh and Emma Weber. This would be the first time competing on the Pan-Pacs for the entire Cavalier swimmers.

The roster was comprised based mostly on outcomes of the 2025 World Aquatics Championships, World Aquatics Junior Championships, World University Games, Toyota National Championships, and TYR Summer Championships. Thirty-two worldwide medalists from this previous summer season make the Pan Pacific Championships workforce, in addition to 15 athletes age 20 and underneath.

These would be the first Pan-Pacs to be held on US soil since 2010, and the primary to be held because the 2018 Tokyo Championships.

“It was exciting to watch this roster come together across five competitions this summer, and it will be great for these athletes to represent our country on home soil next August,” stated USA Swimming National Team Managing Director Greg Meehan. “Selecting the team from results this summer allows these athletes and their coaches to train and prepare for one primary competition in the summer of ’26. I’m confident in this team as we look ahead to Irvine, which will be the first senior international competition on U.S. soil since 2010. This meet should play a huge role in the lead up to a home Olympics in LA28.”