USA Swimming roster for world championships

By Nick ZaccardiJul 3, 2017, 2:29 PM EDT

The USA Swimming roster for the world championships in Budapest from July 15-30 is headlined by four-time Rio Olympic champion Katie Ledecky, looking to lead the Americans to the top of the medal standings for a 12th straight worlds.

The Olympic Channel, which launches July 15, will air daily coverage of worlds.

Absent are recent U.S. superstars Michael Phelps (retired), Ryan Lochte (suspended) and Missy Franklin (recovering from shoulder surgeries).

Instead, the U.S. team includes Rio Olympians who broke out at the USA Swimming Nationals.

Caeleb Dressel has nine events to choose from in Budapest when including mixed-gender relays. Leah Smith could swim 7,000 meters total, more than any swimmer at one worlds in history.

Then there are individual Rio Olympic champions Lilly King, Simone Manuel and Ryan Murphy, all looking for their first individual world championships medals.

The full roster (all athletes qualified in the 100m and 200m frees are also qualified in those respective relays):

Men

Nathan Adrian, 50 free, 100 free
Zach Apple, 4×100 free relay
Brendan Casey, 10K
Michael Chadwick, 4×100 free relay
Pace Clark, 200 fly
Jack Conger, 200 fly
Kevin Cordes, 50 breast, 100 breast, 200 breast
Abrahm DeVine, 200 IM
Caeleb Dressel, 50 free, 50 fly, 100 fly, 100 free, 4×200 free relay
Conor Dwyer, 4×200 free relay
Nic Fink, 200 breast
Robert Finke, 1500 free
Andrew Gemmell, 5K
Matt Grevers, 50 back, 100 back
Zane Grothe, 400 free, 800 free, 4×200 free relay
Townley Haas, 200 free, 4×100 Free Relay
David Heron, 5K
Chase Kalisz, 200 IM, 400 IM
Simon Lamar, 25K
Jay Litherland, 400 IM
Cody Miller, 50 breast, 100 breast
Ryan Murphy, 100 back, 200 back
Jacob Pebley, 200 back
Chip Peterson, 25K
Tim Phillips, 100 fly
Blake Pieroni, 200 free, 4×100 free relay
Justin Ress, 50 back
Clark Smith, 400 free, 800 free, 4×200 free relay
True Sweetser, 1500 free
Jordan Wilimovsky, 10K

Women

Haley Anderson, 5K, 10K
Kathleen Baker, 50 back, 100 back, 200 back
Elizabeth Beisel, 400 IM
Mallory Comerford, 100 free, 4×200 free relay
Madisyn Cox, 200 IM
Hali Flickinger, 200 fly
Bethany Galat, 200 breast
Sarah Gibson, 100 fly
Lilly King, 50 breast, 100 breast, 200 breast
Katie Ledecky, 200 free, 400 free, 800 free, 1500 free, 4×100 free relay
Dakota Luther, 200 fly
Becca Mann, 25K
Simone Manuel, 50 free, 100 free, 4×200 free relay
Melanie Margalis, 4×200 free relay
Katie Meili, 50 breast, 100 breast
Lia Neal, 4×100 free relay
Cathryn Salladin, 25K
Leah Smith, 200 free, 400 free, 800 free, 1500 free, 400 IM
Regan Smith, 200 back
Olivia Smoliga, 100 back, 4×100 free relay
Hannah Stevens, 50 back
Ashley Twichell, 5K, 10K
Kelsi Worrell, 50 fly, 100 fly, 4×100 free relay
Abbey Weitzeil, 50 free

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Summer McIntosh breaks 400m individual medley world record, extends historic week

By OlympicTalkApr 1, 2023, 7:03 PM EDT

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Canadian swimmer Summer McIntosh broke her second world record this week, lowering the 400m individual medley mark on Saturday.

McIntosh, a 16-year-old who trains in Sarasota, Florida, clocked 4 minutes, 25.87 seconds at the Canadian Championships in Toronto.

She took down Hungarian Katinka Hosszu‘s world record of 4:26.36 from the 2016 Rio Olympics. Before Saturday, McIntosh had the fourth-fastest time in history of 4:28.61.

“It’s always nice to set world records,” McIntosh said.

On Tuesday, McIntosh broke the 400m freestyle world record, becoming the youngest swimmer to break a world record in an individual Olympic event since Katie Ledecky in 2013.

McIntosh also this week became the fourth-fastest woman in history in the 200m individual medley and the eighth-fastest woman in history in the 200m butterfly.

In each of her four races this week, she also broke the world junior record as the fastest woman in history under the age of 19.

She is entered to swim the 200m free on the meet’s final day on Sunday. She is already the eighth-fastest woman in history in that event.

McIntosh, whose mom swam the 1984 Olympic 200m fly and whose sister competed at last week’s world figure skating championships, placed fourth in the Tokyo Olympic 400m free at age 14.

Last summer, she won the 200m fly and 400m IM at the world championships, becoming the youngest individual world champion since 2011.

This summer, she could be at the center of a showdown in the 400m free at the world championships with reigning world champion Ledecky and reigning Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus of Australia. They are the three fastest women in history in the event.

Around age 7, McIntosh transcribed Ledecky quotes and put them on her wall.

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Hilary Knight leads new-look U.S. women’s hockey roster for world championship

By OlympicTalkApr 1, 2023, 9:02 AM EDT

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Hilary Knight headlines a U.S. women’s hockey roster for this month’s world championship that lacks some of the biggest names from last year’s Olympic silver-medal team. Changes have been made as the U.S. looks to end losing streaks to Canada, both overall and in major finals.

The full roster is here. Worlds start Wednesday in Brampton, Ontario, and run through the gold-medal game on April 16.

It was already known that the team would be without stalwart forwards Kendall Coyne Schofield, who plans to return to the national team after having her first child this summer, and Brianna Decker, who announced her retirement last month.

Notable cuts include the No. 1 goalies from the last two Olympics: Alex Cavallini, who returned from Christmas childbirth for the tryout camp this past week, and Maddie Rooney, the breakout of the 2018 Olympic champion team.

Cavallini, 31, was bidding to become the first player to make an Olympic or world team after childbirth since Jenny Potter, who played at the Olympics in 2002, 2006 and 2010 as a mom, plus at several world championships, including less than three months after childbirth in 2007.

Forward Hannah Brandt, who played on the top line at last year’s Olympics with Knight and Coyne Schofield, also didn’t make the team.

In all, 13 of the 25 players on the team are Olympians, including three-time Olympic medalists forward Amanda Kessel and defender Lee Stecklein.

The next generation includes forward Taylor Heise, 23, who led the 2022 World Championship with seven goals and was the 2022 NCAA Player of the Year at Minnesota.

The team includes two teens — 19-year-old defender Haley Winn and 18-year-old forward Tessa Janecke — who were also the only teens at last week’s 46-player tryout camp. Janecke, a Penn State freshman, is set to become the youngest U.S. forward to play at an Olympics or worlds since Brandt in 2012.

Abbey Levy, a 6-foot-1 goalie from Boston College, made her first world team, joining veterans Nicole Hensley and Aerin Frankel.

Last summer, Canada repeated as world champion by beating the U.S. in the final, six months after beating the U.S. in the Olympic final. Canada is on its longest global title streak since winning all five Olympic or world titles between 1999 and 2004.

Also at last summer’s worlds, the 33-year-old Knight broke the career world championship record for points (now up to 89). She also has the most goals in world championship history (53). Knight, already the oldest U.S. Olympic women’s hockey player in history, will become the second-oldest American to play at a worlds after Cammi Granato, who was 34 at her last worlds in 2005.

The Canadians are on a four-game win streak versus the Americans, capping a comeback in their recent seven-game rivalry series from down three games to none. Their 5-0 win in the decider in February was their largest margin of victory over the U.S. since 2005.

Last May, former AHL coach John Wroblewski was named U.S. head coach to succeed Joel Johnson, the Olympic coach.

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