USA Swimming Announces 2026 Pan Pacific Roster

USA Swimming Announces 2026 Pan Pacific Championships Roster

USA Swimming, the National Governing Body of the game of swimming within the United States, as we speak introduced its pool roster for the 2026 Pan Pacific Championships, which takes place August 12-15, 2026, in Irvine, California.

“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.”

Six girls, together with Kate Douglass (Pelham, N.Y./University of Virginia) and Torri Huske (Arlington, Va./Arlington Aquatic Club), qualify for the group in 4 totally different occasions. Leading the lads’s roster is a quartet of swimmers, together with Shaine Casas (McAllen, Texas/Longhorn Aquatics) and Bobby Finke (Clearwater, Fla./Gator Swim Club), who qualify for the group in three occasions.

All however 5 athletes—Katie Ledecky (Bethesda, Md./Gator Swim Club), Simone Manuel (Sugar Land, Texas/Longhorn Aquatics), Regan Smith (Lakeville, Minn./Longhorn Aquatics), Michael Andrew (Encinitas, Calif./Sun Devil Swimming), and Finke—will likely be making their Pan Pacific Championships debut, because the competitors makes its return for the primary time since 2018. The roster choice additionally marks the primary senior-level, worldwide group for Kennedi Dobson (Levittown, Pa./Eastern Express Swim Team), Rylee Erisman (Windermere, Fla./Windermere Laker Aquatics), Van Mathias (Portland, Ore./Indiana Swim Club), and Skyler Smith (San Jose, Calif./North Carolina Aquatic Club).

SEE THE FULL ROSTER HERE

The roster was comprised primarily based 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 group, in addition to 15 athletes age 20 and underneath.

For extra info, go to www.usaswimming.org.

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