A number of Stanford swimmers named to Pan-Pacific Team

On Sept. 16, USA Swimming launched rosters for the 2026 Pan-Pacific Championship Teams (generally known as Pan Pacs), that includes three present Stanford swimmers and two alums. 

Held in Irvine, Calif., from Aug. 12-15, 2026, the Pan Pacs Championships function international locations and federations that border the Pacific Ocean, most notably the United States, Canada, Australia, China and Japan. 

For the United States, rosters for main worldwide meets such because the Olympics and a few World Championships are often decided by a trials meet, going down roughly two months earlier than the occasions. This yr’s Pan Pacs roster, nevertheless, was determined a yr prematurely of the meet and is decided by the quickest occasions posted within the A finals of the 2025 summer time meets: USA Swimming Championships (International Team Trials), World Championships, World Junior Championships, World University Games and the TYR Summer Championships.  

The meet, hosted for the primary time since 2018 as a consequence of COVID-19, serves as an opportunity to compete internationally in an off-year, one with no World Championships or Olympic Games. More importantly, this would be the first main worldwide meet hosted on residence soil since 2010.

“[It] should play a huge role in the lead up to a home Olympics in LA 28,” stated USA Swimming National Team Managing Director and former Stanford ladies’s swimming coach Greg Meehan in a USA Swimming article.

Two Stanford associates, identified for his or her strengths throughout a number of occasions, play a significant position within the U.S. ladies’s depth. Redshirt-Senior Torri Huske (50/100/200 Freestyle, 100 Butterfly) and Katie Ledecky ‘20 (200/400/800/1500 Freestyle) each certified in 4 occasions. 

After her breakout meet at USA Swimming Championships, junior Caroline Bricker certified for the Pan Pacs workforce within the 200 butterfly. Her first place end from that meet locations her third amongst Americans, and he or she’ll compete within the occasion in Irvine following her worldwide debut this previous summer time in Singapore.

Freestyle veteran Simone Manuel ‘18 is one of five swimmers to have appeared on the last Pan Pacs roster from 2018. She’ll function once more in her signature occasion, the 100 freestyle. 

Junior Henry McFadden is the only real male consultant from Stanford to earn a spot on the United States’ workforce, and he’ll compete within the 200 freestyle.

Manuel and McFadden, as qualifiers within the 100 and 200 freestyles, will swim on the 4×100 and 4×200 freestyle relay groups, respectively. 

It is kind of the achievement to earn a roster spot on the Pan Pacs workforce. With a restrict of 26 swimmers per workforce, choice follows a strict precedence system meant to construct each occasion protection and relay depth. First precedence goes to the quickest swimmer in every occasion and the 4 quickest within the 100 and 200 freestyles for relays. Next come the second-fastest swimmers in every occasion (excluding extra 100 and 200 freestylers), adopted by the fifth-fastest within the 100 and 200 freestyles to spherical out relays. Remaining spots then think about the third- and fourth-fastest swimmers in every non-100/200 freestyle occasion till the roster is stuffed. The ladies’s workforce benefited from athletes who certified in a number of occasions, enabling a deeper roster; the lads’s facet was extra constrained by the second-priority alternatives, with many athletes qualifying in just one occasion.

Rosters for the opposite international locations haven’t been finalized but. Swimmers like freshman Ethan Ekk (Canada), sophomore Finn Harland (New Zealand), junior Jonathan Tan and sophomore Levenia Sim (each Singapore) all represented their international locations at the newest World Championships, and can probably be featured upon their respective international locations’ launch of rosters. Seniors Andres Dupont (Mexico) and Hayden Kwan (Hong Kong) additionally represented their international locations at World Championships, however Mexico and Hong Kong haven’t been seen at Pan Pacs since 1997 and 2014, respectively.