USA Swimming, the Nationwide Governing Physique for the game of swimming, at this time introduced its roster for the 2024 Junior Pan Pacific Championships, to be held August 21-24 in Canberra, Australia. Athletes certified primarily based on outcomes from the 2024 U.S. Olympic Group Trials – Swimming, offered by Lilly.
“With the ability to characterize the U.S. internationally offers an unimaginable alternative to those athletes, coaches, and the pipeline of USA Swimming,” stated USA Swimming Nationwide Group Managing Director Lindsay Mintenko. “These athletes had spectacular performances at Olympic Trials final month, and we stay up for watching them characterize themselves, their golf equipment, and USA Swimming in Australia in August.
Luke Ellis (Las Vegas, Nev./Sandpipers of Nevada) leads the boys’s workforce, having certified in three particular person occasions (800-meter freestyle, 1500m freestyle, 400m IM), whereas Lilla Bognar (Vacationers Relaxation, S.C./Group Greenville) is the lone feminine certified in three particular person occasions with the 200m IM, 400m IM, and 200m backstroke on her schedule. Olympic Trials finalists Audrey Derivaux (Haddonfield, N.J./Jersey Wahoos) and Gregg Enoch (Carmel, Ind./Carmel Swim Membership) may also be making their worldwide debuts.
The roster options quite a few gold medalists from the 2023 World Aquatics Junior Championships, together with Kayla Han (La Mirada, Calif./Carmel Swim Membership), Norvin Clontz (Charlotte, N.C./Mecklenburg Swim Affiliation), Teagan O’Dell (Chino Hills, Calif./Mission Viejo Nadadores), and Leah Shackley (Bedford, Penn./Blair Regional YMCA).
Coaches Mary Korey (Larger Somerset County YMCA Swimming) and Jason Walter (Lakeside Aquatic Membership) will lead the ladies’s and males’s groups, respectively. Assistant coaches for the workforce shall be Logan Redondo (Mission Viejo Nadadores), Mike Laitala (Longhorn Aquatics), Joe Natina (Crow Canyon Sharks), Emilie Hoeper (Mason Manta Rays), Christoper Pfaff (Carmel Swim Membership), and Kyle Goller (Laker Aquatics).
Full Roster
Former USA Swimming opponents at Junior Pan Pacific Championships embrace U.S. Nationwide Group members and Paris Olympians Thomas Heilman and Erin Gemmell (2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships), Carson Foster and Phoebe Bacon (2018 Junior Pan Pacific Championships), and Drew Kibler and Alex Walsh (2016 Junior Pan Pacific Championships).
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