Former USC Swimmer Carsten Vissering Named to Olympic Bobsled Team

Former USC Swimmer Carsten Vissering Named to Olympic Bobsled Team

Carsten Vissering, an NCAA champion at USC within the pool, was named Monday to the U.S. Olympic bobsled group.

Vissering competed his school swimming profession in 2019. He picked up bobsledding as a push athlete, first competing in 2023. He was named to the USA Bobsled roster for the Milano Cortina Olympics in 2026 on Monday, the place he’ll compete within the two-man and four-man bobsled.

Vissering, 28, stands 6-5. The native of Bethesda, Maryland, set the nationwide unbiased highschool file within the boys 100 breaststroke as a member of Georgetown Prep. He additionally held the 15-16 nationwide age-group file within the short-course yards 100 breast and was a member of a pair of medley relay NAGs within the 17-18 division with Nation’s Capital Aquatic Club. He additionally swam for the U.S. on the FINA World Junior Championships in 2013 and the World University Games in 2015.

Vissering loved a profitable profession at USC, with a pair of particular person Pac-12 titles and an NCAA relay crown.

He made the B remaining of the 100 breast at NCAAs as a freshman in 2016, then turned the Pac-12 champion within the occasion in 2017. He was third within the occasion at NCAAs in a time of 51.40 and helped USC’s 400 medley relay end fourth and its 200 medley relay place eleventh.

In 2018, he was a part of USC’s 200 medley relay that received the NCAA title, his 22.58 cut up then the quickest ever. He was third once more within the 100 breast in 51.28 and a part of the third-place 400 medley relay. He had completed second within the 100 breast at Pac12s.

Vissering regained his Pac-12 crown within the 100 breast in 2019, going 50.78. In his remaining NCAAs, he completed second within the 100 breast in 50.30 to defending champion and NCAA file holder Ian Finnerty. USC’s 200 medley relay slipped to eighth, and the 400 medley was sixth. He additionally anchored in 19.36 the 14th-place USC 200 free relay.

At Olympic Trials in 2016, Vissering completed twenty fifth within the 100 breast and thirty sixth within the 200 breast. He was executed with the game by the point Tokyo Olympic Trials rolled round in 2021.

Vissering will be in a 4-man sled with pilot Kris Horn, alongside pushers Hunter Powell and Caleb Furnell. That sled completed within the prime 10 in 4 of seven World Cup races this yr.

Two-man bobsled combos are but to be introduced, however Vissering and Horn completed fourth and seventh in two two-man races this yr earlier than crashing in St. Moritz.

Two-man bobsled competitors begins Feb. 16 on the Cortina Sliding Centre. Four-man competitors begins Feb. 21.