USA Swimming Names 8 To 2026 Open Water Pan Pacs Roster

USA Swimming has named eight swimmers, 4 males and 4 girls to the 2026 Open Water Pan Pacs roster for August. They picked the staff primarily based on the complicated math method World Aquatics makes use of for World rankings.

All eight swimmers have been on worldwide groups beforehand, and the rosters are headlined by Mariah Denigan and Ivan Puskovitch, who swept the occasions on the 2026 Open Water National Championships in April

Roster

On the ladies’s aspect, Denigan and Brinkleigh Hansen will each reprise their roles from the 2025 World Championships in Singapore.

Denigan, 22, received all three senior occasions on the 2025 USA Swimming Open Water Nationals final month, and he or she was the best ending American swimmer on the 2026 World Cup in Ibiza within the 10k occasion. Brinkleigh Hansen, who’s simply 16-years-old, completed 2nd at Open Water Nationals within the 10k and was the 2nd highest American in Ibiza.

At final 12 months’s World Championships, Denigan completed 14th and Hansen completed twenty fourth within the 10k.

The different two girls’s swimmers are making their returns to a global Team USA roster after a number of years of absence. Ashley Twichell, who’s 36, final swam on a global staff on the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, the place she swam the 1500 freestyle within the pool on prime of the 2 open water occasions.

Since then, she has had two infants, a son in May of 2022 and a daughter in May of 2025, simply 12 months in the past. At the Open Water Nationals final month, she completed third behind Hansen and Denigan. In Ibiza, she was the sixth ending American.

Mann, 28, final made a global staff in 2017, when she raced the 25k on the World Championships. She completed 4th on the Open Water Nationals final month and was the third ending American within the 10k on the World Cup in Ibiza.

The males’s roster has Puskovitch, Dylan Gravley, and Joey Tepper again from the World Championships staff final 12 months, all of whom swam individually in Singapore. Puskovitch solely raced the 5k, ending twentieth. Gravley swam each the 5k and the 10k, ending twenty second within the 10k and seventeenth within the 5k, and Tepper completed twelfth within the 10k.

Puskovitch, 25, received the 10k at Open Water Nationals and was the 2nd highest ending American within the occasion in Ibiza.

Gravley, 24, was 2nd within the 10k at Open Water Nationals and the best ending American within the 10k on the World Cup in Ibiza, and Tepper, 23, was 4th at Open Water Nationals and third in Ibiza.

The ultimate member of the staff is Joshua Brown, who’s 23. Brown didn’t make the Worlds staff in 2025, however he was a member of the 2024 World Championships staff in Doha, the place he swam the 5k, ending twenty third total. Brown was fifth within the 10k at Open Water Nationals and the 4th highest finisher within the 10k in Ibiza.

At the 2026 Pan Pacific Championships, the athletes will race the 10k as the one occasion on August 10, 2026.