Karrington Hansen Named to USA Swimming National Junior Team – UK Athletics

LEXINGTON, Ky. – As introduced earlier this week, Karrington Hansen is a member of the 2026-27 USA Swimming Women’s Junior National Team. The girls’s group contains 79 of the nation’s most elite swimmers, Hansen being amongst these chosen for her nationwide group debut.

Huge information broke for the brand new, freshman Wildcat, who’s coming off a formidable summer time that features this previous weekend on the World Aquatics Junior Open Water Championships the place she completed for a bronze within the 4x1500m relay and 14^th within the nation within the 10km open distance swim.

The choice course of for the respect is solely primarily based on time. The six athletes with the quickest instances at any USA Swim sanctioned qualifying competitors for every particular person Olympic occasion had been chosen as a part of the group. The full checklist of athletes chosen for the 2026-27 U.S. National Team could be discovered here.

The pleasure surrounding Hensen’s honor is giving the Wildcats a spark of motivation for the 2026-27 collegiate season. As a newcomer, Karrington Hansen is raring to carry a big influence on the group as an entire and to compete on the NCAA stage.

Hansen and the remainder of the swimming and diving Wildcats will soar into motion of their intersquad meet on Sep. 25 earlier than their first twin meet in opposition to Florida on Oct. 2.

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