Nguyen Chosen to USA Swimming 2026-27 National Team Roster

PHILADELPHIA – Watson Nguyen of the University of Pennsylvania swimming and diving workforce was named to USA Swimming’s 2026-27 National Team roster on Tuesday, the group introduced.

The Dallas, Texas native is one among 101 swimmers to earn a spot competing for the United States, and he is the only real consultant of the Ivy League. National Team members have been chosen based mostly on outcomes from the 2025-26 swim season, starting from Sept. 1, 2025, to Aug. 31, 2026.

Nguyen’s choice to the 55-swimmer males’s roster comes following a powerful summer season competing for his membership, Metroplex Aquatics. Back in July, the junior traveled to Irvine, Calif. for the USA Swimming National Championships the place he turned heads. Nguyen competed within the 50-meter breaststroke on July 30 and have become the second Quaker in program historical past to seize a long-course nationwide title with a personal-best mark of 26.65. He additionally completed third within the 100-meter breaststroke, clocking a time of 59.79. Nguyen’s new mark within the 50-meter occasion shaved greater than eight-tenths of a second off his earlier private greatest and he ranks fourth all-time amongst Americans.

He was equally spectacular within the pool throughout his sophomore marketing campaign in University City, incomes first-team All-Ivy laurels within the 100 and 200 breaststroke throughout Ivy League Championships this previous February. Nguyen capped off his second season as a Quaker with a primary profession look at NCAA Championships, inserting twenty sixth within the 200 breaststroke and twenty eighth within the 100 breaststroke.

 

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