USA Swimming Names Athletes Chosen for Zone Select Camps

USA Swimming Announces Athletes Chosen for Zone Select Camps (Link to Roster)

USA Swimming right this moment introduced the names of the 120 athletes chosen for the 2026 Zone Select Camps. To optimize alternatives for athletes, the 2 camps will every choose athletes from two mixed zones. One camp will host athletes from the Western and Central Zones on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (June 4-7, 2026), whereas the second camp will embody the Eastern and Southern Zones on the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (June 11-14, 2026).

This 12 months, athletes come from 84 totally different golf equipment throughout the nation. Click here for a whole roster of camp individuals, together with employees members.

Each camp hosts 60 athletes in whole, 30 from every zone, with choice robotically decided by particular person swimmers’ performances from the 2025 Long Course season. Featuring the highest accessible feminine (aged 12-13) and male (aged 13-14) swimmers from the qualifying interval, athletes had been chosen from USA Swimming’s SWIMS instances database based mostly on the quickest long-course meters pool swims in every Olympic occasion per zone, alongside choose wildcard alternatives utilizing particular person Rank Scores. For extra info on the complete choice standards, please click on here.

This camp serves because the athletes’ first step in studying about what it means to be part of Team USA. Over the course of the four-day camp, individuals will have interaction in 4 in-water practices, guided facilitations led by USA Swimming National Office employees, and displays from visitor audio system from the world of elite athletics.

The program’s aim is to offer athletes with the ignition, motivation, and data they should proceed setting objectives, work onerous, excel in swimming, and really feel empowered to take possession of their swimming careers.

USA Swimming may also proceed its house coach observe for athlete coaches on the Zone Select Camps. The coach of a specific athlete is invited to attend the camp that their athlete has certified for, the place USA Swimming supplies housing, meals, and native transportation. The attending coaches will take part in a separate observe from the athletes consisting of academic alternatives, connections with USA Swimming employees, and networking with different coaches from throughout the nation.

Additionally, restricted openings can be found for an interactive coach clinic at every location operating alongside the house coach observe to permit coaches throughout the nation to work together and study from each other.

Learn extra concerning the coach clinic and think about the complete description of the camp choice course of here.

Below are the camp employees supporting every of the 2 camps:

Western/Central ZSC: June 4-7 @ the University of Nevada- Las Vegas

• Head Coach– Tara Bolivar, Suburban Seahawks Club
• Assistant Coach– Amy Killpatrick, Rochester Swim Club
• Assistant Coach– Devin Murphy, Kentucky Aquatics
• Assistant Coach– Christine Haslem, Potomac Marlins
• Assistant Coach– Kevin Viliunas, Mission Viejo Nadadores
• Head Manager– Kerry Carleton, Emmaus Aquatic Club
• Assistant Manager– Joselyn Banks, Pikes Peak Athletics

Southern/Eastern ZSC-: June 11-14 @ the University of Maryland- Baltimore County

• Head Coach– Kyle Margheim, Sioux Falls Swim Team
• Assistant Coach– Asher Phipps, Metro Area Life Time
• Assistant Coach– Lauren Waterworth, Legacy Swim Club
• Assistant Coach– Stephen Henderson, Annapolis Swim Club
• Assistant Coach– Sarah Welter, Valparaiso Swim Club
• Head Manager– Mikaela Bagley, Minnetonka Swim Club
• Assistant Manager: Evan Steffy, Indiana Swimming