USA Swimming Releases Selection Criteria for National Team

USA Swimming Releases Selection Criteria for National Team and National Junior Team

USA Swimming has launched its choice standards for athletes to be named to the 2026-27 National Team and National Junior Team. Athletes chosen to the group will maintain National Team standing from Sept. 1, 2026 by means of August 31, 2027. Below is the efficiency standards that’s getting used to find out members of the National Team.

• Athletes will likely be chosen based mostly on Times. A “Time” means the quickest lengthy course meters time swum by that Athlete in every particular person occasion that will likely be swum on the 2028 Olympic Games (“Individual Olympic Event”), from any of the next qualifying competitions: Any USA Swimming sanctioned competitors between December 1, 2025, and August 20, 2026; Any AQUA authorised competitors between December 1, 2025, and August 20, 2026.
• Relay leadoffs, time trials, swim-offs, and intermediate splits is not going to be included. Only Times from preliminary heats, semi-finals, and finals (A, B, C, and D) will likely be used. Only that one Time will likely be used per Athlete, per Individual Olympic Event. Times from USA Swimming “approved meets” or “observed swims” is not going to be thought of.
• The six Athletes with the quickest Times within the 100-meter Freestyle, per competitors class, will likely be chosen to the National Team.
• The six Athletes with the quickest Times within the 200-meter Freestyle, per competitors class, will likely be chosen to the National Team.
• The 5 Athletes with the quickest Times in every Individual Olympic Event besides the 100- and 200-meter Freestyles, per competitors class, will likely be chosen to the National Team.
• If there’s a tie for the final spot for any Individual Olympic Event, all athletes concerned within the tie will likely be chosen to the National Team.
• The National Team will likely be chosen in keeping with the USA Swimming occasions database on www.usaswimming.org as of August 25, 2026, at 8:00 AM Mountain Time. If an Athlete’s Time just isn’t within the USA Swimming Times database, it’s as much as the athlete to contact USA Swimming with proof of their Time previous to August 30, 2026.

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Selection Critera – USA National Team

Selection Criteria – USA National Junior Team