USA Swimming Broadcasts 2026 Pan Pacific Championships Roster
USA Swimming, the Nationwide Governing Physique of the game of swimming in america, right now introduced its pool roster for the 2026 Pan Pacific Championships, which takes place August 12-15, 2026, in Irvine, California.
“It was thrilling to look at this roster come collectively throughout 5 competitions this summer time, and it is going to be nice for these athletes to signify our nation on house soil subsequent August,” stated USA Swimming Nationwide Staff Managing Director Greg Meehan. “Deciding on the workforce from outcomes this summer time permits these athletes and their coaches to practice and put together for one major competitors in the summertime of ’26. I’m assured on this workforce as we look forward to Irvine, which would be the first senior worldwide competitors on U.S. soil since 2010. This meet ought to play an enormous function within the lead as much as a house Olympics in LA28.”
Six ladies, together with Kate Douglass (Pelham, N.Y./College of Virginia) and Torri Huske (Arlington, Va./Alto Swim Membership), qualify for the workforce in 4 completely different occasions. Main the boys’s roster is a quartet of swimmers, together with Shaine Casas (McAllen, Texas/Longhorn Aquatics) and Bobby Finke (Clearwater, Fla./Gator Swim Membership), who qualify for the workforce in three occasions.
All however 5 athletes—Katie Ledecky (Bethesda, Md./Gator Swim Membership), Simone Manuel (Sugar Land, Texas/Longhorn Aquatics), Regan Smith (Lakeville, Minn./Longhorn Aquatics), Michael Andrew (Encinitas, Calif./Solar Satan Swimming), and Finke—will likely be making their Pan Pacific Championships debut, because the competitors makes its return for the primary time since 2018. The roster choice additionally marks the primary senior-level, worldwide workforce for Kennedi Dobson (Levittown, Pa./Jap Categorical Swim Staff), Rylee Erisman (Windermere, Fla./Windermere Laker Aquatics), Van Mathias (Portland, Ore./Indiana Swim Membership), and Skyler Smith (San Jose, Calif./North Carolina Aquatic Membership).
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The roster was comprised based mostly on outcomes of the 2025 World Aquatics Championships, World Aquatics Junior Championships, World College Video games, Toyota Nationwide Championships, and TYR Summer time Championships. Thirty-two worldwide medalists from this previous summer time make the Pan Pacific Championships workforce, in addition to 15 athletes age 20 and beneath.
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