Observe: This evaluation focuses on the American pool swimming roster.
USA Swimming is sending 46 pool swimmers to the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, and as is custom in American swimming, the “golf equipment” that lots of these swimmers symbolize aren’t the golf equipment the place they primarily prepare, and in some circumstances, aren’t the golf equipment the place they’ve ever skilled.
An advanced historical past means some swimmers symbolize their childhood golf equipment (derived from a recruiting technique for school coaches or native funding advantages), others symbolize golf equipment affiliated with their faculty packages, and others symbolize golf equipment that they’re paid to symbolize.
Whereas all of those representations are worthwhile in their very own manner, the representations aren’t notably constant in any manner that, in mixture, shares a lot info.
So I took a couple of minutes to reorganize athletes into the packages the place they’re really coaching to try to parse out which coaching teams are getting swimmers onto World Championship groups. Whereas golf equipment that financially assist elite athletes, or age group packages that produce elite athletes, are necessary to swimming infrastructure, these are each totally different relationships than the coaching group that really will get athletes over the hump and onto a crew.
A Few Observations:
Bob Bowman on the College of Texas will get plenty of warmth for the truth that his coaching teams host a number of the world’s finest swimmers like Leon Marchand of France and, quickly, Summer season McIntosh of Canada, however that doesn’t imply he has overlooked contributions to the American crew. The College of Texas ecosystem (which incorporates collegiate undergrads and execs, women and men) is accountable for extra members of the pool crew on the World Championships than some other.
The College of Virginia, with seven, is next-most, although solely one among them represented the “College of Virginia” at Trials. The ladies’s group, one of the best within the U.S. proper now, is accountable for six of these, however the males received a breakthrough due to Jack Aikins.
That Virginia checklist doesn’t embody Thomas Heilman. He was coaching completely with Cavalier Aquatics and Conor Hassard till he graduated from highschool on Could 21. On Could 21, he began coaching with the College of Virginia squad just a few days per week, although he remained with Hassard and Cavalier Aquatics a majority of the time. Now, he’s at Virginia full-time alongside different incoming freshmen Maximus Williamson, Josh Howat, and Madi Mintenko, although Hassard continues to jot down a few of his exercises. Cavalier Aquatics felt like one of the best illustration of the place he was coaching heading into Trials.
“It’s Sophisticated” is for Santo Condorelli, who made the crew within the 50 free. He was coaching with Brett Hawke from fall of 2024 till Hawke joined the Enhanced Video games, and is now coaching with Sean Kao‘s Aquatics Sports activities Efficiency professional/elite coaching group in California (extra on that quickly). He swam unattached at Trials.
Bella Sims skilled at Florida till the NCAA Championships, however has since been primarily with the Sandpipers of Nevada. That’s the place we’ve categorized her for this checklist.
Final 12 months’s Olympic roster breakdown noticed Virginia, Texas, Indiana and Cal all tied for essentially the most swimmers certified with six, although for Indiana, that included Mariah Denigan‘s open water qualification—she made the Worlds crew in open water once more this 12 months, however that’s not factored into the depend right here. So, relative to 2024, Texas elevated by 4 qualifiers, which isn’t any shock given the expertise that has adopted Bowman there within the final 12 months, whereas Virginia elevated by one and Cal dropped one (which could possibly be checked out as a rise with Ryan Murphy and Abbey Weitzeil each not competing). For Indiana, they misplaced two—Blake Pieroni didn’t compete, and Matt King missed the crew. Florida dropped from 5 to a few with Caeleb Dressel not within the subject and Kieran Smith lacking the crew.
As at all times, as a result of there is no such thing as a ‘official registry’ of the place athletes are coaching, that is to one of the best of our data and wouldn’t account for anybody who snuck again to their outdated membership beneath the duvet of darkness.
2025 World Championships Pool Crew by Coaching Group
Coaching Group
Qualifiers
1
Texas
10
2
Virginia
7
3
Cal
5
4
Stanford
3
4
Indiana
3
4
Florida
3
4
Arizona State
3
8
NC State
2
8
Sandpipers of Nevada
2
10
Cavalier Aquatics
1
10
Wisconsin
1
10
Tennessee
1
10
It’s Sophisticated
1
10
Notre Dame
1
10
Bend Swim Membership
1
10
Pleasanton Seahawks
1
10
Virginia Tech
1
10
Georgia
1
The Full Roster Breakdown
Ladies
Males
