The U.S. Will Choose Its Junior Pan Pacs Swim Staff at Subsequent Week’s National Championships

While a lot of the 2026 American worldwide pool swimming groups had been chosen from 2026 meets, there may be nonetheless one main squad left to be chosen at subsequent week’s US National Championships in Irvine.

The 2026 Junior Pan Pacific Championships will probably be held from August 17-20 in Vancouver, Canada, and the U.S. will select their roster very late within the recreation. U.S Nationals run from July 28 to August 1 in California, and swimmers will depart for Vancouver on August 13 for a brief coaching camp earlier than the meet.

The U.S. will ship a most of 20 boys and 20 women to the meet. To take part, athletes have to be between 13-18 years of age as of December 31, 2026, and should not already be on the Pan Pacs roster.

Selections will probably be made within the following order (abstract):

1. Top 2 finishers within the males’s and girls’s 100 and 200 freestyle.
2. Event winners in each different particular person Olympic occasion.
3. 2nd-place finishers in each occasion apart from the 100 and 200 freestyle.
4. Third-place finishers within the 100 freestyle
5. Third-place finishers within the 200 freestyle
6. 4th-place finishers within the 100 freestyle
7. 4th-place finishers within the 200 freestyle
8. Third-place finishers in all remaining occasions.

See the complete detailed choice procedures right here.

If greater than 20 swimmers of 1 gender qualify by these priorities, the ultimate roster spots will probably be awarded based mostly on every swimmer’s efficiency relative to the World Aquatics “A” standard from the 2025 World Aquatics Championships, with the swimmers closest to (or exceeding) the usual incomes the remaining positions.

The final version of Junior Pan Pacs was held in 2024 in Canberra, Australia. There, the U.S. received 21 gold, 44 silver, and 6 bronze medals. They had been adopted by Japan and Australia with 6 and 4 golds, respectable, whereas Canada and South Korea every earned a pair of victories.

The U.S. has led the medals desk in all 10 prior editions of Junior Pan Pacs since launching in 2025. That consists of 135 out of 211 whole gold medals awarded, which is roughly 64%. The subsequent winningest-nation is Japan with 31 gold medals, adopted by Australia with 29.